The Mo and The Ro

*Spoiler Alert*

If any of you cats have yet to get yourselves caught up with the goings on of Hank Moody and his family and friends, and you also hate having the story told to you before seeing it – get out while you can.

Otherwise if you wish to continue, lets…

I was torn watching the last few episodes this season about whether or not I really wanted the happy endings to occur. I mean, are they not entitled to some luck? Seems as if everyone in this sordid story gets the shaft so to speak. Although fiction or not, I always subscribe to the fact that most terrible events come about usually not by choice, but inevitably they are a result of the life lived and the choices made.

In other words, you can be a good person inside, but you reap what you sow.

Thankfully, I think the writers took the proper turn in the story. No one wanted the happy ending. Not even a bittersweet ending like the previous season. Hank Moody’s life is still a sh*tshow and the consequences needed to be recognized. Also, he is the troubled writer with addiction issues he may deny and be able to control for brief periods of time, but he will always fall back into the pattern of abuse – usually resulting in a string of affairs, and some waking up hungover from too much booze and maybe some substances.

Karen may be his muse (although really it was Mia who got the last book of “fiction” written) but maybe, just putting it out there, we let her go and we let Hank do what he does best next season and maybe we allow things to get to a point where he really does hit rock bottom and goes to get Karen back.

Yes, I said that. I believe he can go lower. Sorry, but he totally can.

And no, he won’t drown in the pool as the last scene tries to get you to imagine. Season 4 was green lighted. Besides, that’s been done.

So let’s just get it out there – this episode was fantastic. Having all Hank’s ladies in the same episode last week was OK, but that was just it…OK. This was episode was absolutely over-the-top great. All the ladies not only in the same episode, but the same room? Perfect in it’s ridiculousness.

With all these affairs taking place in the same basic social circle, this had to be coming – the finding out that is. That it occurs with each coming over to Hank’s home in succession one after the other – well I guess it gives us a good idea of how many rooms Hank has in the house, as he hides a new body (or group of bodies) in each. Throw in a mouthy/horny Rick Springfield, Dean Koons finding out about Hank and Felicia, a possibly comatose stripper, and a fire started by an orgy….and you sir have the makings of a damn entertaining bit of television. It is what it is, and in this case,  it was pretty good.

Also I really enjoyed what seemed to be a real (if TV can be labelled real) moment between Hank and Becca as he explains really what it is that motivates him to become involved in these situations. This season needed some real moments like that, especially with Becca, as bitchy Becca is getting boring – although I guess that could be considered “real” as well, as I remember being a pretty big dick at that age myself.

The more I watch this show, the more i begin to realize which writer I prefer to see an episode from more. This was not one of them. To be fair though, we definitely got to go back to “Hank Classic” – dealing with the ladies.

And wouldn’t you know it, the poor guy has to break it off with not one, but three women he is in various stages of dating/friends with benefits/hey, we’re drunk you know. Rough stuff. I feel for him. I disappoint not one, but two cats on a regular basis by not bringing home wet cat food. Sometimes, you just have to be the bad guy.

I miss Hank classic though. There were no great revelations here – and honestly the whole thing with Becca allowing her friends to use her bedroom to explore their blossoming sexuality and the like – yawn. Fairly certain I did that too and never batted an eye. But what there were not as well, was another Marcy and Charlie drama. Boring. Hoping Rick Springfield takes her away to his surely palatial manor, because at this point she works better as an occasional story player, and Charlie really needs to be Hank’s reluctant wingman more often.

Jumping right in here to episode six of the season, we find we now have a Kathleen Turner who scares even me with her sex mouth, and now Rick Springfield! Good to see the guy getting work.

Really though, this must be an awesome role to play, imagine David Duchovny must have a blast with this role. Averaging about 2.5 sex scenes per episode, being able to be a disgusting smartass who because he is well-meaning in the end, he gets away with being essentially an eternal 18 year, with brief flashes of wisdom.

Of course being a self- destructive writer, we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Glad to see the Karen storyline getting back on track. Seems like when she went to New York, and Hank and Becca stayed in L.A., it was not a break-up, but really it was. At least in terms that allowed our protagonist to bang his way across the strip.

Not sure how stoked I am on this Becca as a bitch thing, but hey I was a teenager too so I know they do this – plus we do need to have the old L.A.-ness (making up words now) that had Hank on edge for two seasons return, or else where will the conflict come from?

Note: Charlie getting VD potentially from a porn star does not count as conflict, that’s the comic relief. Also, I propose Marcy banging Rick Springfield falls into this category – sorry guys, really don’t care if your marriage goes to crap, at least not yet.