Just got SHOWTIME tonight to see what the fuss was all about and caught the tail end of marathon reruns of Season 1. Well, "Weeds" is wonderful, witty, wacky and wise, affecting and annoying all at once. Great showcase for the underappreciated talents of Mary-Louise Parker and Elizabeth Perkins (who look so alike they could be sisters). Looking forward to more of "Weeds"! Showtime sure is giving HBO a run for its money.

My TVs aren't even plugged in, but, along with Arrested Development and Deadwood, here is another show that I have to wait on for when the DVDs are released so I can watch them. :P

Having been fortunate enough to see a pre-air of Season 2 episode 1, hell YES am I looking forward to the rest of this season. Not that last season did not leaving me completely jonesing for more. FINALLY! It is August 14th and tonight -everyone- should be watching Showtime!

She supports that giant house, pays a full time housekeeper, and pays for the kids selling dimebags? Yeah, right.

Weeds is back. Now we're going to see thousands upon thousands of newspaper and magazine column inches devoted to a TV show about pot.

Meanwhile, scientists are uncovering absolutely amazing things about cannabinoids and their powers to detect and kill cancerous cells without harming non-cancerous cells.

But not one single newspaper or magazine has even one single column inch available for THAT story.

Because, after all, TV is real, and cancer is just something written into the human drama to introduce conflict and suspense.

Baudrillard would be proud to see his theories put into practice with such dedication.

I read about this show when it first came out and am waiting for it to come to DVD format so I can take a phat hit and watch it in a realistic manner.

Yay!

I love Mary Louise Parker. She could read the phone book and I'd pay to see it. I also love Elisabeth Perkins, I wish she'd do more movies. BUT...what I can't stand is the writing for this show. Some of it is o.k. I saw the first and a bit of the second season. The suburban moms came out on top for the most part.

The cast on the flip side of that coin did not. I just want to announce to everyone that might not know, "Black people don't act that way, not even in fictional realms!!!" The black people on that show are so poorly written; I had to stop watching all together. It grates on me to no end, that a show so well done in other aspects can suck so hard on this particular point.

The writers try to make the black people 'ghetto', which is justified. They live in the ghetto for the most part. But they are written as having a lot of common sense, but then act as if they don't. Or, they make them seem ignorant, then put words like, 'hubris' in their mouths. I don't get it. The writers haven't found a pitch for these characters. I doubt they ever will. Unless you have known people like them, you can't and shouldn't try to write them. Somebody, please hire a black writer that knows how to write for these particular people.

I've enjoyed the show by and large, agree with the take of the author of this article....but have one major gripe with the show's writers: they make the grown-up pot smokers out to be merely silly goofs with escapism at the core. They act like 16 year olds. It's refreshing that they still show them as functioning professionals, but no glimmer that there might be a way that intelligent adults might use pot in a concious way. I guess the desire to establish a

desperate regular customer base is handy, but again, silly for these professionals. Highly unlikely they'd either be buying dime bags or getting stoned all the time. This slip undermines the realistic premise and tone of the show that the author expresses so well, and makes it almost impossible to really enjoy this show. A real missed opportunity for deflating the drug war madness.

This is a good show with a loyal following, which means Showtime will be cancelling it at the end of the season.

i watched for ten minutes and gave up. a total waste of time. watching the exploitation of the black family as a foil for the me-too attitude of the smug little white lady filled me with rage. this is funny? what a retro bucket of crap...

And let's not forget that besides being well written, well acted and possessing the catchiest damn theme song ever, Weeds also stars Mary Louise Parker - who just might be the cutest woman alive.

damn she's adorable.

...is stunning and sexy and smart.

Something this article didn't mention is that under all of Nancy's preoccupation and inattentiveness is a big, gaping hole in her heart where her husband used to be. The word shock was mentioned, but it seems to go beyond that. It's almost like something in her says, "I had the perfect life, and now it's gone, so fuck it. This is all a walking dream." I sometimes wonder if that's why she always has that Frappacino, because she's trying to wake up from this nightmare that has become her life. I think that's what makes her character so rich and developed, MLP really nails that awful walking-dead feeling. And yet, she doesn't give up entirely, just keeps putting one foot in front of the other trying to stay afloat. She knows that she has to get it together but just can't seem to. For some of us, this is very familiar, and great to see on screen.

I don't know why so many people are saying that it's not, but it is. Heck, I bought it at the mall in August At $40, it was a little steep, but well worth it!