Tonight’s episode, “Dinner With Friends,” had the chaos that hooked us on for seven seasons of Californication. It returned Rob Lowe to play the corky Eddie Nero for the final time. It had an indecent proposal from Stu and another hooker to ride Levon’s junk once more. With all the chaos we love, comes the wavering we loathe. Dinner between Hank and Karen turns into dinner with friends, but it’s the final minutes that again having us wondering if goodbye is ever really goodbye. There’s no reason to believe Karen is for real this time in saying she can’t be with him. We can’t justify Hank’s actions with Julia or Levon but we’d be lying to ourselves if we said this season housed some of Hank’s worst transgressions. It will take some sweeping romantic gesture for Hank to win Karen back even though it doesn’t need to and it will probably happen because that’s how these things go. If ties aren’t cut for good, there’s always a chance that feelings will flare up. It’s not going to take a miracle to get them back together because they were never really apart. Not Bill, nor Bates, nor New York nor California could get in the way of ending this story how Hank envisioned it. So Californication fans, how do you think it should end?
