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Showtime Lights Up Its Second Season Of WEEDS!!

Published at:  Aug 14, 2006 1:15:26 AM CDT

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Showtime on Monday night launches the second season of “Weeds,” last year’s best sitcom. It’s about a hot suburban hausfrau (Mary-Louise Parker) who make ends meet by dealing the doob after her uninsured husband gets smooshed to death. Now that her first-season “fakery’ (or fake bakery) has burned, she’s moved into production as well as distribution.



Entertainment Weekly gives it a “B-plus” and says:



… the second season adds the layers – the juicy unpredictabilities of behavior and subplots – that enrich the spicy sauciness. …

TV Guide says:



… While the higher-profile Desperate Housewives stumbled creatively, its thematic sibling on pay cable has become a sharper, darker, funnier satire in its sophomore go-round. …

The San Francisco Chronicle says:



… Not only is "Weeds" the best series on "Showtime" -- run out immediately and get the first-season DVD, and do not delay in that quest -- but it's also one of the best shows on television, end of story. … First, it's important not to think of "Weeds" as a comedy (some might say dramedy) about marijuana and, specifically, a suburban widow who turns to dealing to maintain her lifestyle. That's merely the jumping-off point, the neat trick that sets up a series with a much bigger, less easily categorized agenda. …

The Los Angeles Times says:



… I like "Weeds" quite a bit, even granting that it often does not make sense. … It's perhaps appropriate to the subject matter that the show's main appeal is sensual rather than cerebral, grounded in a host of superb performances. (One of its five Emmy nominations is for casting, and it's well deserved.) Kevin Nealon, who never struck me as particularly amusing on "Saturday Night Live" or anywhere else, is consistently good as Nancy's accountant-customer-business partner and especially funny in his scenes with the excellent Justin Kirk as her wooly brained, id-driven brother-in-law, who this year has become a rabbinical student to escape being sent to fight in Iraq — they make a kind of upper-middle-class, very white Cheech & Chong. Tonye Patano continues fine as Nancy's connection, and Shoshanna Stern is wonderfully deep in her short scenes as Nancy's older son's girlfriend. And there is Donovan, long beloved of Hal Hartley, and a nice match for Parker: The two simmer at the same low boil. I could go on: Everyone's good. But Parker, who won a Golden Globe this year, is the heart of it all: Her performance largely defines how you read the others, and she plays it like Alice in Wonderland, her eyes growing large with wonder or excitement or disappearing protectively under half-lowered lids. (She has the sexiest squint since Clint Eastwood.) She has the ability to make all around her seem like a dream and to walk her character untouched through strange and unsanitary places. It makes her good to know.

Variety says:



… still isn't quite funny or startling enough to become a compulsion but delivers enough tantalizing hits to merit the TiVo "season pass" treatment. Much of that has to do with [Justin] Kirk, who, as Andy, has become the equivalent of the Ari character on "Entourage" -- someone who bursts onto the screen and delivers laugh-out-loud moments on a program that otherwise generates little more than wry smiles. Even saddled with a subpar plot line -- he's desperate to get into rabbinical school to avoid being shipped off to Iraq -- Kirk's performance shines. … And if "Weeds" doesn't deliver belly laughs, to say it's moderately addictive isn't just blowing smoke.

The Hollywood Reporter says:



…Showtime's deliciously politically incorrect comedy returns for a second season in wickedly wonderful style, supplying further evidence from the outset just how much … Mary-Louise Parker got jobbed for failing to land an Emmy nomination for lead comedy actress. … As the season's first three episodes underscore, producer and chief writer Kohan weaves a charmingly dysfunctional tapestry that's rarely forced. It makes mincemeat of conventional TV taboos and has, in Parker, a star whom the camera adores. She's an actress whose right-on-the-surface neuroses make her somehow more attractive and believable, not less.


10 p.m. Monday. Showtime.
















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    Readers Talkback

  • Aug 14, 2006 1:22:58 AM CDT

    Little Boxes

    by mrtwig48

    Little Boxes on the Hillside

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  • Aug 14, 2006 1:23:37 AM CDT

    Mary Louise Parker is hot

    by mrtwig48

    Just something about her

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  • Aug 14, 2006 3:54:43 AM CDT

    Justin Kirk is fucking solid

    by industrykiller

    That guy needs to work alot more. His turn in ANgels in AMerica was absolutely sublime, he should have taken the Golden Globe over Pacino. There is a star here, or at least an awards season mainstay. Hollywood make it so.

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  • Aug 14, 2006 4:30:46 AM CDT

    Agree w/LA Times & Variety...

    by deep cover

    WEEDS has made me like Kevin Nealon for the very first time, and Justin Kirk is fantastic. And is it sexist of me to say I like Mary-Louise Parker a lot more since she had a baby and got tits? Probably.

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  • Aug 14, 2006 6:51:13 AM CDT

    The problem with this show ...

    by chrth

    Is that it inspires insipid lines such as "to say it's moderately addictive isn't just blowing smoke"

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  • Aug 14, 2006 8:34:35 AM CDT

    The real problem here is the length of the show...

    by mr. profit

    They sure do cram a whole lot into 30 minutes. It's still an awesome show. And MLP DID deserve a nomination. I can't understand a nomination for Stockard Channing and her cancelled show and not one for MLP.

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  • Aug 14, 2006 9:03:38 AM CDT

    If it weren't for Mary Louise Parker, I'd never watch

    by big bad clone

    It's smug and Kirk bugs the shit out of me. But now, I'm hooked and I have to keep watching. Just like Showtime's other awful series, The L Word, that I must watch.

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  • Aug 14, 2006 9:20:13 AM CDT

    Love this show, glad it's back

    by mortsleam

    Gonna have to fire up a bowl tonight and watch. Variety sucks. It's not laugh-out-loud funny and wasn't designed to be. Unless you fire up a bowl of course, then everything's laugh-out-loud funny.

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  • Aug 14, 2006 10:43:15 AM CDT

    The REALLY big TV news today is Jerry Springer on

    by paulh

    Dancing with the Z-List Stars beginning 9/12 on ABC. http://tinyurl.com/hkfey for all the gruesome info. An OMSTAIN! (One More Sign The Apocalypse Is Nigh) if ever there was one.

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  • Aug 14, 2006 10:47:39 AM CDT

    And in advance of Herc's DVD on TV column tomorrow...

    by paulh

    If you try to buy Alias: The Complete Series on Amazon.com, you're unfortunately SOL. As of now, the item has been de-listed, a 404 not found where the set was last week. I think they sold out their supply of them. I got mine pre-ordered at Amazon for $139 (better than DVDEmpire's $160 or Deep Discount DVD's $163), so timing is everything, once more. But DDDVD does have the West Wing's magnum opus at $205, a $95 savings off the complete series retail price.

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  • Aug 14, 2006 10:56:26 AM CDT

    Oh, Showtime "lights up" its 2nd season of Weeds

    by oceansized

    I get it now. HAHAHAHAHA cough cough

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  • Aug 14, 2006 11:18:40 AM CDT

    MLP = Yummy. She's ...wait for it...Smoking!

    by r.c. the "wise"

    Oh, and the show's great too.

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  • Aug 14, 2006 11:20:53 AM CDT

    Sarah Shahi is reason enough to watch L-Word

    by r.c. the "wise"

    The rest of the actresses and their topsy-turvy performances are just bonus.

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  • Aug 14, 2006 11:37:29 AM CDT

    such a good show

    by reckni

    I want to smoke a fatty and get Mary-Louise Parker pregant.

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  • Aug 14, 2006 11:38:33 AM CDT

    "Hey, Lupita, what do you call the thing...

    by zakchase

    ...between the dick and the asshole?"

    "The coffee table."

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  • Aug 14, 2006 12:27:17 PM CDT

    Love the show, but not Parker

    by iontyre

    She is one of those psycho uber feminists who think morality is equivalent to anti-feminine rights. I find her scary. Still, the show is quite good. Just glad I don't have to see her character on West Wing anymore.

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  • Aug 14, 2006 1:11:00 PM CDT

    lol, conservative nut

    by deep cover

    Thanks, iontyre.

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  • Aug 14, 2006 4:52:35 PM CDT

    Already seen this episode...

    by alonzo mosely

    And it is OK, but it spends an awful long time recapping last season and then setting up all the different arcs that will run through this season. Not that I am complaining, it had to be done, but this probably isn't the place for a weeds virgin to start as it feels very labored...

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  • Aug 14, 2006 5:25:58 PM CDT

    TOO SHORT!!

    by nemesisdarkside

    30 mins flies by so quickly! Every time I watch Weeds and the ending credits start rolling I'm like "What The Frakk, NOOOOOOOOOO, I want more!!" It's quite a tease to say the least. Plus last season flew by so quick I only remember little bits. Only 10 eps doesn't help either!! I want a longer season at least. "Little boxes....."

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  • Aug 14, 2006 6:56:21 PM CDT

    Shoshannah Stern!

    by cybervishnu

    I'll bet she can hear after I blast a gallon of my man custard in her ear! That bitch is sickly fine. Like a younger hotter Shawnee Smith!

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  • Aug 14, 2006 6:57:35 PM CDT

    Shawnee is HAWTER!

    by cumlauncher

    Chew a cock Vishnu! Shawnee Smith looks much hotter with cum fuck me makeup on and 24 needles sticking out of her in Saw II than this ridiculous teen Marlee Matlin running around screamin CHEWEE CHOMP!! URRR!!

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  • Aug 15, 2006 12:38:29 AM CDT

    Dead

    by alientoast

    This Sunday's episode of Deadwood was great. That whole scene in Al's office was brutal.

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  • Aug 15, 2006 9:03:13 AM CDT

    Definitely needed to be longer

    by mrboinfoint

    They have the time. They reran the damn thing right after the premiere. Just give it the full hour it deserves.

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  • Aug 15, 2006 4:24:49 PM CDT

    Just finished episodes 1-4...

    by ageoffroyi

    and they're even better than season 1. Also, I'd like to express my agreement with mrtwig48's appraisal of Mary Louise Parker's hotness.

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  • Aug 15, 2006 9:19:53 PM CDT

    This show is stupid

    by gay jesus christ

    They cram in all that indie movie shit. Yes! we get it. Suburbia is FUCKED! So fucking unoriginal. It's like American Beauty to the nth degree. All they need is for someone to have an abortion or raped and the indie cliches will be complete.

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  • Aug 16, 2006 1:51:59 PM CDT

    Stupid show......nothing like the REAL world of drugs.

    by fugazi32

    Weed isn't even a drug - it's a fucking plant that does little harm. Wait 'til you've tried Ketamine or Crack, the real deal bros!

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  • Jun 28, 2009 3:51:10 AM CDT

    asd

    by zenmarc

    السكربتات الخاصه بلقيت روحي ..
    يتم تركيب الشكل الجديد لها والشكل عند عصام . خليه يسلمه احمد ربيع واحمد ربيع يعدل الثيمات للسكربتات

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