If your name is Hank Moody, you really just can’t win. At the end of season 1, sure he got the girl, but he also lost his new manuscript to the minor he “mistakenly” had sex with.
Statutory rape isn’t Hank’s only mistake. In the season 2 premiere “Slip of the Tongue,” Hank literally tongues the wrong woman. Oh, and not in the mouth either. Yes, you guessed it. After leaving Karen on a bed to check on his newly stitched up vasectomy, Hank wanders into the wrong room. Sure it was dark. But Hank being Hank, just dived right in tongue first. No questions asked.
Needless to say, Karen wasn’t the least bit pleased with Hank having oral sex with another woman, even if it was just a one-second act. While driving away from the scene of Hank’s oral crime, the arguing couple get pulled over by LAPD. And Hank’s foul mouth, marijuana infested lungs and belligerence gets him a nightstick right to the groin.
Ouch.
If you’re Hank Moody, you’re just bound for failure. Oh well at least you had the girl… even if it was for a moment shorter than a tongue slip.
This is too forward thinking but I really wonder where this story is heading. I feel it is too locked into Hank and Karen’s relationship.
Before you bash my brains in, look at my quandary from this perspective. If the first season was the search for Karen, then season 2 is keeping Karen. The only things that can be next for a season 3 is Karen completely out of the picture, which I would hate, or Karen and Hank getting married. In the case of the latter, the main story line continues to be Hank holding onto Karen.
I would just like to see the story progress further than Hank’s relationship with Karen. Sure we explored his writing from a cursory stance. But I think his career needs to be more expansive in order to really grow this story.
That is one thing I respected about season 4 of Weeds. It was a total change in direction and showed that Nancy Botwin’s character has longevity/staying power.