Californication (TV Series) Blind Faith (2013) User Reviews

One of the Best Episodes of Season Six

[jayraskin1 · 10/10 · 20 December 2014]

This is one of the slowest and calmest episodes in the series. It is a wonderful change of pace. It is one of the few episodes where Hank isn't shown taking drugs, getting into fights and drinking himself silly.

It is about Faith taking Hank to meet her parents. We find all about Faith's religious background and upbringing. It starts to give her character more depth.

The show several times references the amazing first scene in the first episode where Hank goes into a church to seek salvation and meets a nun with a very strange way of giving forgiveness.

What is nice is that we get the Hank Moody of the first episode, a guy who is much sweeter and nicer than the brawling and thoughtless (-)hole who often appears in later episodes.

This was the first episode where Faith really becomes an interesting and serious character. I kept thinking "where have I seen her" before, but I wasn't really interested enough to look up the actress. It turns out that Maggie Glass (Faith) played the daughter in "Taken". That is where I remember her from.

Also it was great to see Mary Kay Place. I always liked her from the time of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," the soap opera spoof and "The Big Chill". She plays Faith's uber-Catholic mother. She stills looks the same cute and pretty way she did back in the 70's.

It was also great to have an episode without the cartoonish antics of Charlie, Stew and Marcy. They're funny, but they've been way overused the last two seasons.

the grace of Maggie

[RavenGlamDVDCollector · 10/10 · 9 January 2016]

Beautifully done! I'm about to attempt writing the synopsis, and I'm going to have to keep my personal feelings to myself, and that's going to be difficult. I have just now learned Showtime dropped the chance to film a spin-off FAITH with Maggie, and, oh gee, guys, what were you thinking? You should have gone ahead! If this particular episode is anything to go by, of course you'd have gotten ill winds from the Religious Right as far as from Croatia (referring to the offended bummed-out Other Reviewer), but you'd have delivered a TV- series fit to rival CALIFORNICATION, and that, in this current day and age more than two years later, is going to take some doing!

If Maggie Grace's character Faith was a real person, I'd have been honored to know her (no innuendo meant), she is class and cool personified. I keep hearing that song, She's got style, she's got grace, she's got long, long legs, she's got savoir faire! (which, translated from French, means 'knowing what to do under any social circumstance' That's Faith to me. I haven't seen much of Faith, she's a recent addition to the CALIFORNICATION lineup, appearing in most of the past Season 6 episodes. I have a host of film heroines, some of them from long-running shows, but Faith was an instant hit, from the moment she appeared on the screen. She is beautiful, total eye-candy, but besides that, she is super-cool. She hasn't got one mean bone in her body. I'd fall down and worship her any day.

I pity the kind of parent who wouldn't accept her. I could understand worrying about her. But the way her mother put a sickly love for an imagined deity above her real live flesh and blood daughter... No wonder she ran out.

Of course the much-deluded reviewer from Croatia would just spew forth the usual expected indignation, this person too would condemn 'a sinner like that' to the fires of hell. But Faith is the purest Earth's child I've had the pleasure to witness on film.

Horror, horror

[Igor_Husak · 3/10 · 7 April 2014]

I remember first season of Californication as one of the best surprises ever with great characters, humor and romantic, and yet not soapy story between Hank and Karen that made sense.

When I see a quality drop between that and season 6, it makes my stomach hurt.

Many religious people found Californication offensive. I disagreed until this episode. It's all about smart and witty humor that makes people think, not insulting somebody or his beliefs, if you don't believe me ask Monty Python.

Being provocative as self purpose, and not result of humor is a cheap way around. On top of it, writers added black and white characters with poor, undereducated redneck Christians driving cheap cars, and enlightened rock muse Faith coming home in big style in Porshe. This and horrible cliché dialog made this episode look like bad liberal propaganda. I wrote bad, because liberal is supposed to have something with liberty and equality, not prejudice. This propaganda is nothing better then religious one.

One should also mention support cast that looks like it's been borrowed from some 3rd class soap opera filming near by to that degree that looks like actors playing Faith's mother and father are mocking with themselves. Maggie Grace playing Faith looks like she's having trouble with having faith in dialog written for her. David Duchovny is trying to hold things together, and partially succeeds because of his sense of humor and due to fact that he doesn't speak so much, but again - it's a short way around.

Problem with this episode and general problem with season 6 is little but important thing called story - there is not one in here. Karen holding distance between her and Hank is here for one purpose only - to create space for situations that are supposed to be funny but feel kind of forced. When writers don't now what to do they put Charlie Runkle on stage, but jokes he throws have been worn out. Tim Minchin as Atticus is often overacting and looks like poor substitute for Lew Ashby played by Callum Keith Rennie in season 2.

I'm trying to find something positive in this episode and season in general but failed to do so.

Crew should do some praying for season 7, it's about only thing left after this season.

3/10 (just because of sentimental feelings for first 3 seasons)