Weeds Season Two Now Available at iTunes

Season Two of Weeds is now available at
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I enjoyed Season One, and am looking forward to watching Season Two now that it's available. Unfortunately, I don't think the delectable Jeffrey Dean Morgan will be showing up this time. This makes me sad.

Taye Diggs in Grey's Spinoff

Just ran across this post on TV Squad. (I am so behind--I had over 200 posts sitting on Bloglines waiting for me to read them.) Apparently there's a Grey's Anatomy spinoff in the works, and Taye Diggs is slated to be involved.

This annoys me. I have no desire to watch Grey's Anatomy (although I might cave and Netflix some DVDs for Jeffrey Dean Morgan), nor do I want to watch a Grey's spinoff. But they put a super-hot guy like Taye Diggs in, and now I might have to reconsider (see above reference to Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Pout.

I guess it'll all depend on the timeslot. My major beef with Grey's is not so much that it's not a good show (I have no idea, having never watched it), but that it's on opposite Supernatural and kicks my lovely Winchester boys' asses every week. Rather rudely. And I think they've even tried rubbing rock salt on Patrick Dempsey, to no avail. I would have thought their daddy could have taken care of that while he was hanging out over there (see above reference to Jeffrey Dean Morgan).

Weeds—Season One

Weeds is a Showtime comedy series, the second season of which aired last fall. Season One is available on DVD. It's about a suburban mom, Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) whose husband suddenly drops dead of a heart attack, leaving her to support their two sons and maintain their comfortable suburban California life. In order to maintain the lifestyle to which she is accustomed, she turns to selling marijuana, which, as it turns out, is a pretty lucrative venture in the not-so-sleepy suburb of Agrestic. It's a whole new world in many ways, and Nancy's journey is by turns funny, painful, touching, and downright absurd.

Okay, I admit it. I'm shallow. I grabbed this box set because Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Supernatural) is in this show. Of course, after the little teaser picture of him on the back of the box, it turns out he's only in two episodes. But I can forgive that, because he burns up the screen, especially in his second appearance in "Dead in the Nethers".

Plus overall I found this to be a pretty enjoyable show. It got a lot of belly laughs out of me, and I enjoyed the characters. Mary-Louise Parker is wonderful as Nancy (I think I kinda have a little girl-crush on her now), and Elizabeth Perkins is equally good, managing to make Celia likeable by the end of the first ten episodes. The show could wander into some pretty dark territory, but every time it looks like it's going to, it veers into something completely absurd to undercut itself. (And sometimes vice-versa--Celia's painful revelation immediately after a plane drops a load of Coke bottles into her bedroom is classic.) My only real quibble, aside from the underuse of Mr. Morgan, is that we're never told exactly why Nancy decided to turn to dope dealing to support herself after her husband's death. One has to wonder if she tried other jobs. Maybe that last stint behind the counter at McDonald's just did her in.

I haven't seen the second season, and I hope it's as good as the first. I'll be keeping an eye out for those DVDs.