WEEDS (the TV show) (suburban pot-dealing mom, etc.)

Aside: I can't watch SHOWTIME! now without shouting SHOWTIME! a la Dizzee everytime I see that SHOWTIME! logo.

JUST ADD WEED AND BLACK PEOPLE/CORNBREAD.

Oh shit, I forgot that cornbread line. That was a bit cringworthy.

"Even on premium cable, setting up a privileged dope-dealing suburban matron as a sympathetic heroine is tricky." Is it? Beyond the legal issues, I find it very hard to attach any kind of moral taint to pot - is the "pothead accountant" any different from an oenophile, really?

Now I suppose I'll have to get Showtime and check it out...

Yep, especially since she goes heavy on the "no kids" thing to the other dealer. And the upper hand she gets on him at the end of the episode was a little too convenient for me.

cutty is completely right about the black people dialogue, wtf! I keep hoping it's a parody of the way white suburbanites people think black people speak, but I am getting the suspicion it's not parody. The whole streetwise matron character thing almost saps my will to live.

Um, all that said, it's one of the few things I've been watching on tv since it gives me an excuse to hang out at my friend's place.

I suspect that at some point during the show's development the writers got as far as "hey, let's make the black family the non-dysfunctional one" and then used that as an after-the-fact excuse for their dialogue.

Seriously though wtf, a cable show with Mtn Goats music? This crosses some bridge not ready for yet

if there one problem with the show, the formulaic 'end the show with MLP crying' thing grated a bit.

The "black" dialogue has gotten better. I don't really approve though of all of the re-does of "Ticky Tacky" either. And come on Showtime, you are SHOWTIME, show some BOOB.

I liked the Elvis Costello one for the season opener.

Parker completely saves the show, she even gives the post-abortion interaction some soul.

I will gladly get all Bimbled on this bitch and proclaim this show to be the best thing on TV right now. (I just saw the big black dildo / dressed like a beekeeper / Thursday's DEA kush summit ep.)

Oh yes, it's quite brilliant. Can't wait for the new season.

This show is appalling. The "me-so-horny" masseuse in the episode where the uncle takes the very young child to get a handjob was unfuckingbelievable. There's not a single ludicrous "black character" stereotype that hasn't been employed, completely straight-faced, yet.

The fact that this shit attracts talented actors like Martin Donovan and Zooey Deschanel is depressing.

Heavy accent does not a stereotype make. & shit, you forgot all the white folk stereotypes, too!

First two episodes leaky leaky!!!!!!!!!!!

haha i'm 9 minutes to go with e01

Zooey Deschanel is pure magic.

this show has finally completely crossed into fucked up dark territory, but it seems really uncomfortable there and still wants to be funny every once in a while, and it seems....I don't know. Like it needs to end after this season?

my guess? She goes to the fed for witness protection, gets sent to some crazy suburbia for said witness protection, and it's like the show can start over again, but now with feds funnies.

and Jennifer Jason Leigh is hot.

Yeah, this is still my favorite show ever, I'm very very impressed with these two episodes. That last scene really shook me up.

Good ep last night imo

damn, what a frustrating ending

The first 3 episodes of this season have been such garbage that I've forgotten to watch the last two. Remember when this show used to be quirky, humorous, and interesting? Now it's just boring and lacks anything worthwhile. Has any other show actually changed from a straight-up comedy to a straight-up drama?

Looking back, Weeds declined very swiftly after Agrestic met its fiery fate. I wish I'd stopped watching it then, but something about the show - and it may quite possibly be MLP's wanton displays of legs and boobies all over the place - keeps me a little engrossed.

I wish she'd make me pie.

Her thank-you note to men is so sweet it may give me a toothache even before the pie.

Liked this week

more Ignacio imo

nealon deserves an emmy for this shit.

we still watch it, but the show's just really stupid now. Still trying to be shocking, not as funny as it used to be.

feel the same way but hey it's only half hour show.

the half hour format is its saving grace at this point, methinks. how the fuck did the girl scout know that celia is selling pot on the side of her makeup business!?!?! so stupid. yet still, we watch.

Last scene was kinda great.

saved the episode

saved the season. The Celia/Dean/Nealon etc portion of the show is stupider then ever...and unlike occasionally in the past, mostly not really funny.

But what's going on with Nancy and the kids and that last scene make me want to watch for another season.

agreed, that is the best season cliffhanger in a long while. shane's gotten dark!

celia dressing up like nancy was sort of funny as a one-off gag, but as a story arc for next season it's definitely retarded.

I liked her Nancy-huge-eyes impersonation though

love shane!

so all seasons were added to Netflix streaming so I caught up - think I watched season 1 and a few eps of season 2 years ago. Was glad that Silas became much more tolerable, and even likable, as the show progressed. Did not miss Heylia (sp) or her daughter (?)...note to writers, just because they are black doesn't mean we will automatically write off their obnoxious personalities as "sassy".

Andy and Doug are the best part of the show IMO, I don't find Nancy and her immobile forehead interesting in the slightest. I really hope they drop this Andy/Nancy thing too because that just seems wrong to me on many different levels. And what happened with Nancy and Esteban re: ratting out his crew to the DEA? She just handed him a sonogram and they dropped it?

UGH Doug needs to be killed off stat. He has been pretty intolerable since the Olsen/Matthew Modine season. I wish this show was still a comedy.

this show

yeah, over it.

When was the last time Nancy even sold a drug? I ask you, people.

Andy = the only reason to watch this show anymore.

this season is much improved over the past two, I think.

^^ enjoying this season

really? i have no idea what this show is about anymore. or why linda hamilton's in it

i I am pretty surprised it's coming back for another year though.

The first few episodes were by and far the worst of the entire series but it's starting to shape up I think.

Doug needs to die though. I really hope they just shoot him in the head.

i didn't watch last season ... i was beginning to get bored with this show as it grew less funny. is it worthwhile to watch this again?!?

JEEZ I HATE DOUG SO MUCH GAH

Like he's not even lolstupid anymore, he's just infuriating.

I wish this show really went all the way w/ the whole nihilism thing and just left Nancy with a fucking bullet in her head and everyone else sort of at rock bottom. I can't see how this show could possibly reach any sort of eventual closure that is A) pleasant B) doesn't seem completely contrived.

well she's going to prison probably, so that is kind of interesting.

stoned watching weeds and hearing mountain goatse song was trippy man.

i didn't watch last season ... i was beginning to get bored with this show as it grew less funny. is it worthwhile to watch this again?!?

answer: no, it isn't. got sucked into season 6 mostly b/c i was curious about what was gonna happen to creepy psycho-killer son. otherwise, andy is the only reason i gave a shit about this show at all at this point. i would give a shit about silas if he wasn't such a wishy-washy twit. the show wasted jennifer jason leigh and linda hamilton, and the only semi-plausible reason that i can think of as to why the totally useless-at-this-point kevin neilan is still around is b/c the producers have taken pity on him. even the pruriert interest in seeing naked mary-louise parker get into soft-porn scenarios has lost any flavor.

nancy: "how about a farewell fuck?"
estaban: "that's crass, and it won't save you."
nancy: "what will?"
estaban: "nothing."

they might as well be talking about the show itself, and it might've been capable of that sort of meta-cleverness the first three seasons. i suspect not at this point, though.

i don't even expect this show to be good, only mildly amusing at this point. it succeeds there i guess. I enjoy seeing the world's worst parent get herself into increasingly terrible situations. still like the brother in law. wouldn't really miss this show if it were gone though; nurse jackie is hundreds and hundreds of times better as far as showtime dramadies go.

tonight marks the season-seven premiere of Weeds (10 p.m.), which opens three years after Nancy took the fall for a murder committed by her son Shane. Andy, Doug, and the kids have embarked on a new life in Denmark, while Nancy is about to be sprung from jail in New York and moved to a Washington Heights halfway house.

huh. well. ok. haven't seen this in a few years.

even the pruriert interest in seeing naked mary-louise parker get into soft-porn scenarios has lost any flavor.

sounds crazy but i guess it's true

anyone know of a reliable site i can watch this for free? it's not up on my usual website, and i can't find a non-shady link anywhere.

Wait the new season's on ALREADY?? I thought it was usually much later than this!

God, that opening sounds like SUCH A COP-OUT

“getting baked, eating italian subs, banging bridge and tunnel chicks.”

does anyone still care?

does anyone still care?

yeah, i wonder about that too ... this show has sucked for so long now, i dunno why it's even still on.

this show is so fucked up in 2023. everything about it. kinda want to keep watching it though. if you watch the first season your eyebrows will be permanently raised. just the kid sex stuff alone. but then the race stuff. just everything.

I wish my weedman looked like MLP!

― nickalicious (nickalicious)

posts that come across different in 2023

gonna get me some dank nugs from pinkie pie, bbl

"Showtime passed on this, as they had already started broadcasting Weeds, a show with similarities to the premise of Breaking Bad. While his producers convinced him that the show was different enough to still be successful, Gilligan later stated that he would not have gone forward with the idea had he known about Weeds earlier."

thought of BB what with the early cancer sub-plot in Weeds as well as Martin Donovan's government agent character getting a little TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT to the illegal activities.