About Callum Keith Rennie in "Californication"
Searching for another article I stumbled accidently over this one today. It's a review about the show "Californication", mostly about the main character Hank Moody but Callum is mentionned too (spoilerish, so don't read it if you wanna see "Californication" Season 2 for the first time).
(...) After quickly tuning out for the remainder of the first season I tuned back in for part of season two because I’d seen that Callum Rennie was going to be on it, and that guy’s just plain entertaining, even when starring in the worst show ever. After a few episodes I realized that even though Californication was the second worst show ever, at least Rennie made it somewhat bearable with his magnetic performance in an utterly cliched role as a burnt-out record producer who needs Hank’s help to write an autobiography. Naturally the character was killed off, lest someone notice that Rennie was more interesting than their lead, but despite the fact that I should have been warned off by this terrible decision (as if the season-long subplot about one of the characters producing a pornographic version of the film Chinatown hadn’t been enough of a tip-off), I elected to tune in to the first couple of episodes, morbidly curious about just how low the show could sink. (...)
The whole article can be find here.
(...) After quickly tuning out for the remainder of the first season I tuned back in for part of season two because I’d seen that Callum Rennie was going to be on it, and that guy’s just plain entertaining, even when starring in the worst show ever. After a few episodes I realized that even though Californication was the second worst show ever, at least Rennie made it somewhat bearable with his magnetic performance in an utterly cliched role as a burnt-out record producer who needs Hank’s help to write an autobiography. Naturally the character was killed off, lest someone notice that Rennie was more interesting than their lead, but despite the fact that I should have been warned off by this terrible decision (as if the season-long subplot about one of the characters producing a pornographic version of the film Chinatown hadn’t been enough of a tip-off), I elected to tune in to the first couple of episodes, morbidly curious about just how low the show could sink. (...)
The whole article can be find here.