Monday night is usually time for the Super-Exciting Season Box Vault, but we’ll all be out at the AICN 10th Anniversary Screenings of “Monster House,” so we stick this up a day early.
Weeds was the best live-action sitcom of 2005 and the best original series Showtime ever cablecast. It tells the tale of a thirtysomething suburban housewife who, after her husband gets killed without a paid-up life insurance policy, maintains her upper-middle-class lifestyle by selling doob to all her marijuana-loving neighbors. The one big minus is horny Nancy Botwin (Mary Louise Parker) does eventually have some hot spontaneous sex, but has it with her clothes on; this Showtime series indulges no exciting “Angels In America”-like Mary Louise nudity for us to enjoy. Still and all, whether she’s trying to make a go of her “fakery” (the fake bakery she uses as a front) or beating on the gay kid who deals to youngsters, Parker is never less than adorable. Perhaps the strangest thing about “Weeds” is that it was created by Jenji Kohan, whose brother David created the supershitty NBC sitcoms “Will & Grace” and “Four Kings.”
was the best live-action sitcom of 2005 and the best original series Showtime ever cablecast. It tells the tale of a thirtysomething suburban housewife who, after her husband gets killed without a paid-up life insurance policy, maintains her upper-middle-class lifestyle by selling doob to all her marijuana-loving neighbors. The one big minus is horny Nancy Botwin (Mary Louise Parker) does eventually have some hot spontaneous sex, but has it with her clothes on; this Showtime series indulges no exciting “Angels In America”-like Mary Louise nudity for us to enjoy. Still and all, whether she’s trying to make a go of her “fakery” (the fake bakery she uses as a front) or beating on the gay kid who deals to youngsters, Parker is never less than adorable. Perhaps the strangest thing about “Weeds” is that it was created by Jenji Kohan, whose brother David created the supershitty NBC sitcoms “Will & Grace” and “Four Kings.” 
