
Even given the bizarre identification angle—the protagonist is an alcoholic blogger (!)—Showtime's David Duchovny vehicle
Californication was a pretty godawful show, unless you were so hard up for softcore that you needed to suffer through 20 minute jags of undercooked family drama. But we assumed, like the rest of Americans moderately familiar with turn of the millennium alt-rock, that the show had either cleared the punny name with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who slapped it on one of their weakest singles in 1999, or that
Californication was a commonly used West Coast reference. Apparently neither, because Anthony Keidis' TiVo (and attorneys) finally caught up with Showtime this week.
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