About the Show

When we last saw our favorite seductive scribe Hank Moody (series star and executive producer David Duchovny, in his Golden Globe® Award winning role), he had just left the set of his novel-turned-film Fu**ing & Punching and was driving his black Porsche down the coast, off into the sunset to parts unknown. A few years have passed and fresh off a stint in New York, Moody's back in LA and in deep with mega-rich rap mogul Samurai "Sam" Apocalypse (guest star RZA). The extreme-living music icon hires Hank -- still riding the success of Fu**ing & Punching -- to write the screenplay for his hot, new film property, Santa Monica Cop. Hank may be the ex-college professor, but he's getting schooled on the ways of the street by new buddy Sam -- 'Hanksta' has gone Gangsta. Their ebony/ivory bromance is tested by silky siren Kali (guest star Meagan Good), a singer who is Sam's personal protégé, but sparks Hank's flame.

Meanwhile, the now-divorced Charlie (Evan Handler) and Marcy (Pamela Adlon) are co-parenting their toddler son, along with Marcy's now-husband Stu Beggs (guest star Stephen Tobolowsky). But their sexy, English nanny Lizzie (guest star Camilla Luddington) will come between the happy trio in a wholly unexpected way.

On the family front, Karen (Natascha McElhone) is finally living the suburban fairytale, happily married -- just not to Hank. Much to his general annoyance, she's now wed to her former professor, Richard Bates (guest star Jason Beghe). And daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin) has found love with boyfriend Tyler (guest star Scott Michael Foster), who is eerily reminiscent, for better and far worse, of a younger (slightly greasier) Hank Moody.