Californication: Season 3

2009 · 12 episodes · ★ 7.3

What Season 3 of Californication

The season opens with Hank Moody in Los Angeles, with Karen far away and Becca, increasingly rebellious, in his care. Hank starts teaching at a high school, a job that soon brings him trouble, and his affairs with women on campus further complicate his personal life. Charlie, meanwhile, is back with Marcy and works hard to get his agency off the ground, where client Rick Springfield makes ever-growing demands. Hank also fights to get his latest book published while trying to be a responsible father and dodge the excesses of a city that never puts the brakes on him.

12episodes

Sep 27, 2009premiered

Dec 13, 2009final episode

5.6 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Wish You Were Here
Sep 27, 2009 · 28 min · ★ 7.5
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.
Directed by: David Duchovny · Written by: Tom Kapinos · Starring: Luenell, Embeth Davidtz, Kathleen Turner, Peter Gallagher
3x02 The Land of Rape and Honey
Oct 4, 2009 · 28 min · ★ 7.1
Hank starts working as college professor and soon gets into trouble while Charlie interferes with Marcie's romantic life.
Directed by: David Von Ancken, Bart Freundlich · Written by: Tom Kapinos · Starring: Eva Amurri, Ed Westwick, Embeth Davidtz, Kathleen Turner
3x03 Verities & Balderdash
Oct 11, 2009 · 28 min · ★ 6.9
Hank attends a university mixer and consoles his jilted assistant; Charlie celebrates his first talent signing.
Directing: David Von Ancken · Writing: Gina Fattore · Starring: Eva Amurri, Embeth Davidtz, Kathleen Turner, Peter Gallagher
3x04 Zoso
Oct 18, 2009 · 28 min · ★ 6.9
Hank objects to Becca's adult fashion sense; Hank and Charlie visit a strip club to discover the secret life of a talented student; Charlie and Marcy's house sale goes awry.
Directing: Bart Freundlich · Writing: Tom Kapinos · Starring: Eva Amurri, Embeth Davidtz, Kathleen Turner, Diane Farr
3x05 Slow Happy Boys
Oct 25, 2009 · 28 min · ★ 7.2
Hank has the apartment all to his bad self when Becca visits Karen in New York. Hank's old buddy from Long Island pays a visit. Hank shows him an epic time. Hank and his talented pupil Jackie take their student / teacher relationship to the next level. Charlie and Marcy are finally hitting the sheets again.
Directed by: David Von Ancken · Written by: Tom Kapinos · Starring: Eva Amurri, Carla Gallo, Kathleen Turner, Stephen Root
3x06 Glass Houses
Nov 1, 2009 · 28 min · ★ 7.5
Karen hatches a plan to move the family back to New York for good. Hank's mighty pleased, but Becca's crestfallen about leaving her new best friend, Chelsea. After inviting herself to Hank's class, Karen meets the comely ladies of the university: T.A. Jill Robinson and sexpot student Jackie. Later on, tempers flare when Becca and Chelsea get into some serious trouble and Hank and Karen are forced to pay a tense visit to Chelsea's parents, Felicia and Stacy Koons.Charlie is crushed when Marcy loudly consummates her girlhood-crush on Rick Springfield. But Sue Collini thinks up a creative way to restore Charlie's confidence.
Directed by: Michael Lehmann · Written by: Gina Fattore · Starring: Eva Amurri, Embeth Davidtz, Kathleen Turner, Peter Gallagher
3x07 So Here's the Thing...
Nov 8, 2009 · 28 min · ★ 7.3
Hank's attempts to set things right with Karen lead to even deeper entanglements with the campus ladies. In the meantime, Charlie tries to prevent Sue's top client from leaving the agency and Becca scolds Hank for being a terrible role model for her.
Directed by: John Dahl · Written by: Daisy Gardner · Starring: Eva Amurri, Luenell, Embeth Davidtz, Ken Marino
3x08 The Apartment
Nov 15, 2009 · 28 min · ★ 7.7
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.
Directed by: Adam Bernstein · Written by: Tom Kapinos · Starring: Eva Amurri, Luenell, Embeth Davidtz, Peter Gallagher
3x09 Mr. Bad Example
Nov 22, 2009 · 28 min · ★ 7.3
When Becca and her friend Chelsea get into a brawl on campus, it leads to the revelation of one of Hank's affairs. In the meantime, Charlie risks his job trying to hold Marcy off drug addict Rick Springfield.
Directed by: John Dahl · Written by: Gina Fattore, Matt Patterson · Starring: Embeth Davidtz, Kathleen Turner, Peter Gallagher, Rick Springfield
3x10 Dogtown
Nov 29, 2009 · 28 min · ★ 7.2
Hank takes Charlie out on the town to drown his sorrows after Sue Collini fires him for causing client Rick Springfield to leave the agency. Meanwhile, Karen, still miffed by Hank's dalliance with Felicia, organizes a girls' night out with Becca and Marcy.
Directed by: Seith Mann · Written by: Tom Kapinos, Gina Fattore · Starring: Kathleen Turner, Joe Bucaro III, Mario Orozco, Jonah Wharton
3x11 Comings & Goings
Dec 6, 2009 · 28 min · ★ 7.2
Karen drags Hank to an end of the semester goodbye luncheon at Felicia’s. Hank realizes he’s walked into a hornet’s nest as Felicia, Jackie and Jill all gang up on him. The Hank bashing is interrupted when Richard Bates, the novelist / professor Hank replaced at the college, pays a surprise visit.
Directed by: David Von Ancken · Written by: Daisy Gardner, Gina Fattore · Starring: Eva Amurri, Luenell, Embeth Davidtz, Peter Gallagher
3x12 Mia Culpa Season Finale
Dec 13, 2009 · 28 min · ★ 7.9
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.
Directing: Stephen Hopkins · Writing: Tom Kapinos · Starring: Madeline Zima, Eva Amurri, Embeth Davidtz, Kathleen Turner