Fall Guide to Good TV: Californication

Sundays at 10 p.m. on Showtime

Creator Tom Kapinos’ brilliantly written Californication is hilarious, poignant, sexy, insightful, and as rock ’n’ roll as a show about a novelist can be. David Duchovny has never been better than he is as author Hank Moody—a complex bundle of id, heart and best intentions that’ll have you wondering, “So who’s Fox Mulder again?”