 "Pleasantly suprised" | 2008-09-22 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1R3VM07705OQP |
| This is a good show, it packs a lot of stuff into each 25 minute episode. Four stars and not five because I think we're all growing a bit weary of these "look how cool and irreverent we are living our crazy lives in LA" shows that HBO and Showtime keep churning out whether we want them or not. |
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 "Little Boxes, on the hillside, Little Boxes made of ticky-tacky..." | 2008-09-11 |
| - Reviewed By starlight29341 |
Weeds was another show recommended to me by friends. Dubiously I began watching, not sure what I was getting into. Comedy? I was expecting drama. What you get is a mix of both and much more.....
The CAST is what really makes this show work. While at times, at least in season 1, the writing/story may be lacking, you can't help but laugh at Doug (Kevin Nealon), scoff at Andy and shake your head at Nancy and Celia! What's more, is that even the cast that has a slightly more supporting role, is truly talented and gives the show it's life. Happily, the pace picks up through out the season, as does the drama & the laughs. It will have you running to the store to see what is going to happen in season 2, and let me say, it only gets better!!
Way to go Showtime! |
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| "Amazing!" | 2008-09-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A187KIUN4IB2OZ |
| I bought this DVD on a whim and I LOVED IT! I went through both discs in 2-days and I have been going back to watch them again. I have yet to see seasons 2 and 3 but I can't wait to see what happens next! Very edgy and keeps you laughing... Mary Louise Parker's character is amazing as well. |
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| "Addicting" | 2008-07-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2ULR2LFBH03BX |
| This series came highly recommended by co-workers...I was not dissappointed. Days after finishing this I purchased the 2nd Season..which I have heard is even better!! cant' wait to watch. |
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| "Won me over" | 2008-06-10 |
| - Reviewed By grammasweater |
My initial reaction to Weeds was that it stunk. Quite frankly, the pilot episode isn't good. The characters spoke unnaturally, the scenes dragged on, and it was utterly charmless. Overall, it felt like everyone was trying too hard to be super edgy and shocking. On the advice of a friend, though, I gave the show another chance, and I had to admit that the second episode had me a little curious to see what would happen next. By the third episode, I was hooked.
It's difficult to characterize this show, in that its episodes are a half-hour each, but there's as much, if not more, drama than "comedy" here - though in the post-Sopranos world, the distinction has become blurred, which is great for a show like this. There are definitely some big laughs along the way, but once the show settles in and finds its rhythm, Weeds starts building real conflicts and character-driven stories, whether they have comedic aspects or not. And the main story arcs have some really strong momentum: it's not often that the final scene of a "sitcom" gets you rushing out to see the next season.
To me, Weeds is at its best when Mary Louise-Parker is taught the various ways in which her industry works: the business model, the economics, the dangers, etc. It's important that a show based mainly on one central character has an actress that can pull off the ranges of emotion required, and I think Parker does this well.
Like all Showtime shows that I've seen (except It's Garry Shandling's Show - thank goodness), Weeds indulges in too much graphic sex, though it's not on the level of something like The Tudors. Sometimes it works for the plot; sometimes it's just gratuitous.
Reflecting back, my only wish for this season was that it had had the pilot it deserved, but of course it's better to start poorly and then get better than to start off well and get worse. So kudos to Weeds for a strong first season. I think anyone who's enjoyed other uncompromising cable-based shows will find a lot to enjoy here. |
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| "No weed killer required" | 2008-06-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3TOSRR1AHYFVI |
Amazing show!
All I can say is thank GOD for Pay TV in America so the boundaries of what is correct can be pushed.
Good to see good old American capitalism at work.
Great cast, very funny, Americans starting to revel in quirky characters. |
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| "Weeds - Love it!!!" | 2008-06-02 |
| - Reviewed By ruano |
What a great show. Just watched Season 2. Season 3 has just shipped.
Reminds me of the great shows HBO USED TO HAVE! |
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| "Weeds - I Just Found Out" | 2008-05-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1NU04EVTLLJBL |
Ok, so I'm almost FOUR YEARS LATE with this - but I've only recently discovered the show "Weeds" and am now hopelessly addicted. The ensemble cast is terrific, the writing is clever, even the music selection for the shows stands out.
Weeds is a 30 minute sitcom that airs only on Showtime (which is partially why I'd never seen it - I don't watch Showtime). But the good news for you Netflix subscribers out there is that seasons 1 & 2 are available to watch instantly on your PC - this is a very good thing - as I watched the entire first season in two days and don't know what I'll do when I get to the end of season two (oh, yes I do - I'll go out and buy Season three).
The story centers around the life of Nancy Botwin (played by Mary-Louise Parker), who loses her young husband to a heart attack, and has to go from a stay at home soccer mom to the person responsible for paying the bills. Since she has no prior career path, she takes up selling pot to the people she knows in her L.A. suburb, Agrestic. Among her customers are the head of the city council - and her financial adviser, and a lawyer whose head is shaved bald while he's asleep after his wife sees a video of him having sex with the tennis pro.
Her connection for pot is the African American family of Heylia James (Tonye Patano), and some of the funniest scenes come when she is on the camera. The cast also includes Elizabeth Perkins, and Kevin Nealon - both brilliant in their roles.
This is just one of the funniest, most clever shows I've seen in years, and I can't recommend it highly (no pun intended) enough. As an added bonus, you can go here and stream all of the music used in the show - it makes for a great listen! |
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| "in the beginning" | 2008-05-18 |
| - Reviewed By spoothead |
i first read about the weeds in a review in people magazine, and they didn't give it a really good review and i thumbed my nose at the series. then i finally broke down and ordered the dvd, i was immediately hooked on the series weeds. i am and will be a loyal weeds fan until the end.
i would really wish they would come up with a prequel to show how nancy's husband died and how she got into the pot deal dealing business. more power to shotime |
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 "Just Replace Every Line of Dialogue with" | 2008-05-17 |
| - Reviewed By jsh1138 |
"I'm so jaded. Does that offend your sensibilities, middle America?"
because that's pretty much all this series is about. A mom confronts her teen aged son about him having sex in her house, and he's basically like "sure mom, whatever". The mom is confronted by her friends about being a drug dealer and she's like "whatever, i do what I want". Her friend finds out that her husband is cheating on her, the husband finds out the wife is cheating on him, both react with a hearty "meh"
No one on this show feels anything, the entire thing is a cast of cardboard cut out characters behaving in a way that would have been shocking 25 years ago but isn't now, and the show's only redeeming value then would have been the constant shocks
In the modern day, there is nothing to recommend this failed attempt at alt-suburbia, unless you really enjoy the hell out of watching mindless situations that you've seen a million times before. Black guy is a thug and talks tough on the street, but is scared of his loud, slang-talking mom who he still lives with. A bunch of soccer moms who appear to have the perfect lives on the outside really are bubbling cauldrons of sexual energy on the inside. Some of them even cheat on their husbands and don't feel bad about it! Kids get mad and curse their parents, the parents are baffled
Etc etc, every episode. Any tired cliche you can think of eventually makes its way into season 1, and from what i've seen by catching the occasional episode, the show hasn't gotten any better since then.
If you've never seen a TV show before, or if your idea of "being bad" is staying up past 10pm, then you might give this a try. If not do yourself a favor and skip it |
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