Showing posts with label weeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weeds. Show all posts

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Weeds—Cooking With Jesus

One of the fun things about Season Two of Weeds is that each week the title song, Little Boxes, is performed by a different artist. It's worth checking out the different renditions at the Showtime website. For this episode, the song's performed by Death Cab for Cutie.

Nancy continues her quest to become a grower without Conrad. Conrad, in the mean time, tries to find a financer to back his own quest to grow his own strain. He finally returns to Nancy's fold when Nancy assures him she's broken things off with Peter and Peter knows nothing.

Celia continues her quest for City Council election, but her family isn't cooperating.

Megan gets accepted into Princeton. Silas decides, with Andy's encouragement, to drop out of high school and follow her to New Jersey. But Megan shoots him down, and they break up.

Andy continues his quest for Hebrew School by comparing his Judaism to Ghostbusters. He finally makes it into Hebrew School, provisionally, with an essay he writes while high in the girls' bathroom at the marijuana expo.

Peter refuses to accept the breakup, and tells Nancy he knows she's a drug dealer.

This episode seemed a little less funny than previous episodes, with time spent laying down groundwork for plotlines that will undoubtedly be built on later down the road. I'm interested to see how things will pan out with Peter, since that's a major not-good development.

Rolling Stone From Texas—Don Walser
Don Walser - Rolling Stone from Texas - Rolling Stone from Texas


Jah Be For Us—Rocky Dawuni
Rocky Dawuni - Crusade - Jah Be for Us


Jammin Nation—Rocky Dawuni
Rocky Dawuni - Crusade - Jammin Nation

Crazy Dazy—Chris Ligon
Chris Ligon - The Bottle Let Me Down - Songs for Bumpy Wagon Rides - Crazy Daisy


Weeds at iTunes:
Weeds - Weeds, Season 1

Monday, June 11, 2007

Summertime

It must be something about the weather turning warm (finally), but I have all these new TV shows to catch up on and all I want to do it rewatch old things I've seen over and over and, as for instance, over. Maybe it's hardwired into me to watch reruns over the summer, I don't know... In any case, I'll get it out of my system and get back to reviewing things. I hope to finish Season Two of Weeds, and catch up on The Tudors and Rome, at the very least.

Wish me luck!

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Weeds—Corn Snake

When we left Nancy Botwin at the end of last season, she had just found out her new, charming boyfriend is a DEA agent. Which sucks, since she's a suburban drug dealer. Not exactly a match made in heaven. So poor Nancy's got a bit of a conundrum. On the one hand, he's a DEA agent. On the other hand, he's kinda sweet and he likes her big feet. But she's moving ahead with her plans with Conrad to grow their own weed. Except Conrad isn't happy about Nancy sleeping with the DEA agent, and says he's bailing on the deal. And then the bakery catches on fire.

In the meantime, Celia has a car accident and goes on a crusade to get a light installed at the intersection, which leads her to run for City Council against Doug. Andy applies to rabbinical school to keep from having to go to Iraq, and Shane catches Silas in bed with Megan.

They cover a heck of a lot in a half hour on this show. And they do it well. I didn't realize until I started watching Gilmore Girls that Jenji Kohan used to work on that show. It seems like a big jump from Gilmore Girls to Weeds, subject matter-wise, but the shows share a masterful use of quick, clever dialogue. Weeds might even be better with that element, because it sounds less "written" than the dialogue on Gilmore Girls sometimes does (bear in mind I'm only about 2/3 of the way through the first season of GG, so that might not be a fair assessment of the series throughout its run).

F*k Was I--Jenny Owen Youngs
Jenny Owen Youngs - Batten the Hatches - Fuck Was I


Bathtime in Clerkenwell--The Real Tuesday Weld
The Real Tuesday Weld - I, Lucifer - Bathtime in Clerkenwell


Weeds at iTunes:
Weeds - Weeds, Season 1

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Spotted at Best Buy

Best Buy has Season One of The L Word marked down to $28.99. And on the shelf next to it was a free DVD featuring "teaser" episodes of Dexter, Weeds and The Tudors, with a $5 coupon on the back for box sets of Brotherhood, The L Word, BS, Queer as Folk, or Sleeper Cell. I didn't check out the other box sets, but because of the markdown I got The L Word for $23.99 (well, actually I got it for $3.49, but that was because of my frequent shopper coupon...).

Anyway, worth checking out, both for the coupon and the free "teaser" episodes on the DVD.

Friday, April 6, 2007

Weeds Season Two Now Available at iTunes

Season Two of Weeds is now available at
Weeds - Weeds, Season 2
.

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.

Friday, February 16, 2007

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.