8.2/1018 votesLoading...#1 - Turn the Page
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/22/2007
Charlie and Dani represent Mia after she wrote a book that seems to have come out of Hank's feather. Becca decides to move out of Bill and Karen's home to live with her dad Hank.
Director: David Von Ancken
Writer: Gina Fattore, Eric Weinberg
8.2/1019 votesLoading...#2 - The Raw & the Cooked
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2008
Hank proposes to Karen right before a dinner party, to which Mia, Charlie, Marcy, Lew Ashby, Sonja and Julian are invited. Drugs and special circumstances turn the evening in an unexpected direction.
Director: David Von Ancken
Writer: Tom Kapinos
8.1/1016 votesLoading...#3 - Blues from Laurel Canyon
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/2008
Ashby hosts a party to celebrate the publication of Mia's book. Becca is devastated to catch Damien cheating on her.
Director: Michael Lehmann
Writer: Gina Fattore
8.1/1017 votesLoading...#4 - La Petite Mort
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/2008
Hank completes his biography of Ashby. Charlie is reduced to working at a car dealership. Sonja gives birth. Karen accepts a job offer back home in New York, forcing Hank and Becca to make painful choices.
Director: Bart Freundlich
Writer: Tom Kapinos
8.0/1022 votesLoading...#5 - California Son
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/1/2007
Hank's father dies. Despite the memories of his father floating to the surface, he doesn't want to go to the funeral. To ease his pain, he goes to bed with a hooker named Trixie, despite the fact he doesn't have enough money to pay her. Meanwhile, Karen does her best to help him overcome the pain.
Director: Scott Winant
Writer: Tom Kapinos
8.0/1020 votesLoading...#6 - Filthy Lucre
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/8/2007
After the funeral of Hank's father Al, Hank comes back to L.A. with a new manuscript, that he wants Karen to read. After receiving a bonus paycheck, he buys a new car for himself and a new guitar for Becca.
Director: Scott Z. Burns
Writer: Ildy Modrovich
8.0/1018 votesLoading...#7 - The Last Waltz
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/29/2007
As Karen's wedding to Bill nears, Hank struggles with accepting what appears to be inevitable. Bill informs Mia that he will not allow her book to be published and Hank has a unique solution to dealing with Becca's surprise visitor.
Director: Scott Winant
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.9/1028 votesLoading...#8 - Hell-A Woman
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/20/2007
Hank begins his blogging job at Hell-A-Magazine. Karen is able to set Hank up with her friend Sonja by disguising the get together as a family dinner. At dinner, Becca reveals how Hank met Karen.
Director: Scott Winant
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.9/1020 votesLoading...#9 - The Apartment
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/2009
Hank's in for a hedonistic night to remember when Jackie and two stripper friends arrive at his doorstep, unannounced. The next morning, before Hank can escort his new friends from the apartment, Charlie shows up with a verbally abusive Rick Springfield. Hank’s forced to hide the hung-over party girls all over the house after Jill and Felicia pay surprise visits. The charade reaches its boiling point when Dean Koons arrives on the scene, resulting in a messy catharsis by fire.
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.9/1018 votesLoading...#10 - Mia Culpa
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/2009
As the Moodys at last prepare to move to New York, Becca tells Hank about an intimate coming of age experience she had. Hank’s stunned when Mia shows up at the house unannounced, in town with her slimy boyfriend / manager PAUL for a book signing. Hank fails to prevent Mia and Paul from hatching a devious publicity stunt, forcing Hank to finally share the long-buried heartbreaking secret with Karen. gives Charlie a career opportunity of a lifetime, but Charlie must confront the fact that he might be losing Marcy for good.
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.8/1021 votesLoading...#11 - Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/17/2007
Hank spends the night with a sexy surfer girl and in return she robs him. Mia wants more of Hank's writing to pass her class, instead he offers her to help her with her own writing. Charlie wants to spice up the sex life with his wife, but she is not as fond of spanking as Dani is.
Director: Ken Whittingham
Writer: Tom Kapinos, Eric Weinberg
7.7/1032 votesLoading...#12 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/13/2007
A transplanted author suffers from writer's block and is disappointed that his novel has been turned into a romantic comedy for the big screen. He also learns his ex is engaged and that their 12-year-old daughter is acting on her “emerging sexuality.”
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.7/1024 votesLoading...#13 - Fear and Loathing at the Fundraiser
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/3/2007
Meredith convinces Hank to escort her to an environmental fundraiser. Coincidentally Bill and Karen are at the same event, where Karen makes a scene. Also, Hank runs into Dani and Charlie while they are in his office.
Director: Michael Lembeck
Writer: Daisy Gardner
7.7/1023 votesLoading...#14 - LOL
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/10/2007
Bill asks Hank to step in as a guest speaker at Mia's creative writing class. During a radio interview, Hank talks about his writing and motivations. Meanwhile, Becca develops a crush on her guitar teacher Dave, but he ends up with Mia.
Director: Bart Freundlich
Writer: Susan McMartin
7.7/1018 votesLoading...#15 - No Way to Treat a Lady
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2008
Charlie wants to help Daisy with her porn career, while Hanks starts writing Lew Ashby's biography. Becca has her first day at a private school, while Karen meets Sonja and Julian again.
Director: John Dahl
Writer: Gina Fattore
7.6/1021 votesLoading...#16 - Girls, Interrupted
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/24/2007
Hank is disturbed by Becca's negative reaction towards the concept of happy endings, even more so when he finds out that it is partially his fault. Marcy comes up with the idea of a threesome with Charlie and Dani, but it ends unexpectedly.
Director: Tucker Gates
Writer: Gina Fattore
7.6/1021 votesLoading...#17 - The Devil's Threesome
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/15/2007
A new threesome including Hank and Charlie evolves from a meeting at the gym, while Karen and Marcy have a girl's night out at which they decide to surprise Hank and Charlie.
Director: John Dahl
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.6/1016 votesLoading...#18 - Coke Dick & the First Kick
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/2008
Hank decides to seek out Lew Ashby’s long lost love, Janie Jones. Hank accidentally walks in on Julian going at it with a rocker chick he’s “mentoring”. Mia spends the day trailed by Rolling Stone reporter Annika Staley. The Runkle residence is transformed into the set of Vaginatown.
Director: Michael Lehmann
Writer: Gina Fattore, Gabriel Roth
7.6/1017 votesLoading...#19 - In Utero
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/2008
Hank awaits test results and reflects on his early days with Karen; Charlie begs Daisy to move out.
Director: David Von Ancken
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.5/1017 votesLoading...#20 - In a Lonely Place
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2008
Hank attempts to find a love interest for Becca's teacher. Charlie uncovers Marcy's secret which could have fatal effects on their finances.
Director: Jake Kasdan
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.5/1017 votesLoading...#21 - Going Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2008
Hank tries to get the truth about Ashby; Karen confronts the record producer; Marcy detoxes at her mother's house; Charlie succumbs to temptation.
Director: Daniel Ducovny
Writer: Daisy Gardner
7.5/1016 votesLoading...#22 - The Trial
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 3/13/2011
A nervous Hank discovers that he's got good reason to panic when his trial turns into an all-out character assassination, with even friendly witnesses Charlie and Karen unable to portray him as anything other than a drunken, oversexed lout.
Director: Seith Mann
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.4/1025 votesLoading...#23 - The Whore of Babylon
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/27/2007
At a book signing, Hank gets into a scrap with the disgruntled director of the film based on his novel, and later runs into a woman whom he embarrassed and insulted on a blind date. Mia attempts to steal some of Hank's work to use for her high-school creative-writing class.
Director: Scott Winant
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.4/1017 votesLoading...#24 - The Great Ashby
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2008
Hank finds himself in jail after assaulting a mouthy police officer. Karen, still upset at Hank for his accident at the party, refuses to bail him out. Meanwhile, Charlie gets fired after his former assistant, Dani, plays the agency president a montage of Charlie’s self-pleasuring office sessions.
Director: David Von Ancken
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.4/1018 votesLoading...#25 - Wish You Were Here
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2009
With Karen gone, Hank has to deal with a more and more rebellious Becca. Meanwhile, Charlie and Marcy move back together though they still plan to divorce each other.
Director: David Duchovny
Writer: Tom Kapinos
The Best Episodes of Californication
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A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and...
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Network:Showtime
Best Episodes Summary
"Turn the Page" is the best rated episode of "Californication". It scored 8.2/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by David Von Ancken and written by Gina Fattore, Eric Weinberg, it aired on 10/22/2007. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Raw & the Cooked".