Oh Hank Moody, the troubled, tortured artist who's going through a mental block. He's painfully in love with his ex-non-wife yet can't keep his dick out of a woman for longer than two hours.

Californication is all about love, lust, dysfunction, family, friends, drugs, and of course -fornication. Hank Moody is the God of all women, or so it seems – all women except the one he loves, his former partner and mother of his child, Karen. It's fitting that the show opens with Hank dreaming he's in a church asking God for help, only to find himself getting some south-of-the-border reverent "treatment" from a nun. The writers are setting up Hank's persona – Hank as the sex God, the smart, witty man who can't get his life together.

Watching this premiere episode made for a great opportunity to wonder if David Duchovny took this role because he identified with the character so deeply. I mean, was he a sex addict the whole time? Was he a sex addict as Fox Mulder, too? The implications are too troubling to explore. 

So let's talk a bit about the shockers – Madeline Zima!! Hello? Does anyone remember her from The Nanny? She played Grace, the adorable youngest child of Mr. Sheffield. I watched her growing up and was absolutely shocked and a little disturbed to find her playing the 16-year-old Mia Lewis that seduces Hank Moody. Seeing her naked on top of Hank in the throes of passionate sex just felt… wrong. I know she's an actress and has moved on from her days as a child quasi-star, but it'd be like watching the Olson twins on screen naked – wrong, wrong, wrong.

That aside, I did continue to watch. There is, of course, lots of sex and nakedness to keep viewers interested, but David Duchovny is brilliant as Hank. This is a character who makes you want to keep watching, if only to see what he could possibly screw up next. In terms of sex in this episode, I counted two sets of breasts in the first 10 minutes, rounded out by another two before the end of the episode. That's a lot of chest in 45 minutes.

Also, Hank managed to have sex three times. Line of the night, from Karen to Hank: “Wash the pussy off.”

I'm excited to see more from his agent, Charlie Runkle (love the name) – played by Evan Handler whom I loved on Sex and the City! I also think Madeleine Martin who plays Becca Moody is so lovable. I love when Becca asks Hank if the naked woman in his bedroom is okay because her vagina has no hair. Dysfunctional, shocking yet funny – that's Californication.

See you next week!