“Everything that I write is either for her or about her,” Hank tells Atticus in season six. A line I’ve come back to a few times in reviewing the series for me solidified Hank’s emotional connection to Karen through his writing. When Hank had little to grip on to, he found Karen in other places. Through Becca, Hank kept a connection to Karen even when in some seasons it felt as though it was slipping away for good. Throughout the years, Hank, while genuinely missing New York and struggling to keep a job in LA, stayed on the left coast because of Becca. Hank was alone in a physical and mental state he never wanted to be in, and the only word he could punch into his keyboard was “Fuck.” Hank wished to stay in New York but he moved to LA, a city he loves to loathe, for Karen, Becca, and to further his own career. Hank could miss his former life and make passive–aggressive attempts to win it back, but the reality was Hank was adrift in the city of angels. There was a young Becca sitting on the floor coloring with the woman who was and still is his everything but he never asked to marry. After Hank realizes he’s lost the love of his life to another man and he happened to sleep with that man’s underage daughter, his solace is in memory only. The acoustic cover of “Rocket Man” that ends the pilot episode of Californication plays over Hank’s flashback of a life he terribly misses.
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