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Showtime Lights Up Its Second Season Of WEEDS!!
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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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Little Boxes on the Hillside
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Just something about her
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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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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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Is that it inspires insipid lines such as "to say it's moderately addictive isn't just blowing smoke"
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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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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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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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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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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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I get it now. HAHAHAHAHA cough cough
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Oh, and the show's great too.
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The rest of the actresses and their topsy-turvy performances are just bonus.
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I want to smoke a fatty and get Mary-Louise Parker pregant.
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...between the dick and the asshole?"
"The coffee table."
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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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Thanks, iontyre.
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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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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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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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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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This Sunday's episode of Deadwood was great. That whole scene in Al's office was brutal.
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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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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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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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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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