TV: Weeds

With season 3 just around the corner (in the US at least we in the UK don't get it till January) and the first 3 episodes already available via BT i thought id start a thread for this series.

For those that don't know what this is about, its about a women (Nancy Botwin - Mary-Louise Parker) forced to start selling marijuana i order to support her family after her husband dies leaving her with bill to pay and a family to support.

Andy Botwin (the hapless uncle played by Justin Kirk) helps as best he can with the marijuana business and the raising of her 2 children.....much to Nancys distress.



I love this series and have been waiting for season 3 for months

Disclaimer: I do not condone the use of marijuana (or any other narcotic) as a recreational substance :rolleyes:

First 3 are already out?! I love the internet.

Weeds - 3-03
Weeds - 3-02
Weeds - 3-01

Nancy was in pretty deep shit last season finale, I wonder how she's going to get out.

Nice, been waiting for the third season. Will DL asap.

Edit: Watched all three. Damn I love this show.

Episode 4s out

Weeds 3-04

I have been very interested in watching this series, of course right after it comes on my parents decide to ditch Showtime and go for HBO, which has ZERO good series. I am going to have to download it and catch up on the first two seasons in hopes of watching the third one.

Well, season 4 started this monday i believe, one ep out so far. Its look promising. Nancy's moving up the ladder in the drug business.

I'm one full season behind with this series, better catch up.

It's pretty frickin awesome. Cecilia is like my favorite character.

Lol, her stint in prison should be pretty entertaining. Also it looks like she's gained a good bit of weight, I wonder what that's about.

Season 3 was lackluster, and frankly, kinda sucked. I only finished the last three episodes recently through OnDemand. It felt played out and lacked originality. There were some good moments, but it didn't have feel the first two seasons did. Shane was really pissing me off, a lot of the other characters just got boring.

That said, the first two episodes of Season 4 have been a complete turnaround. Everyone has just gotten really sarcastic, and the dialogue (which made the series in the first place) is back up to standards. Albert Brooks has been a great addition, and everything seems fresh again.

Example:

"Why are you such a jerk to me?"
"I'm not sure you're mine, I like to keep an emotional distance."

That was hilarious to me. Also, Cecilia really got pwned, but making her look like a mamasita? Wow. I feel bad for her. :( I liked season three though, but yeah this new season is kicking off great as well.

For me it was Nancy responding to Lenny while eating the food from the german deli that Andy got her and still smelling like gasoline.

Lenny: “My mother was at Auschwitz, for Christ’s sake. What kind of a monster are you?”
Nancy: "I’m a terrible shiksa monster here to terrorize your clan."

That had me going for a while, even more than all the terrible things they were saying to Celia.

How about, I forget the kids names but:

Kid 1: "That's because he's gay!"
Kid 2: "Yeah I'm gay, so suck my dick!!"
Nancy: "Wowww.. soo beyond gross.. "

That was probably the funniest "I just heard my kid telling his bro to suck his dick" response ever.

ya, i loved nancy's reaction to that....its almost like bad acting, except it plays so well with her character....like all this drug business has just fucked her up so much, she's drifiting thru life, not being phased by the little stuff.

Just got around to watching the first couple eps of season 4. It's been a while since I saw season 3, but wasn't Shane having delusions of his father at the end? I figured they'd expand on that and juxtapose it with Nancy being a shitty mother.

I kind of don't like that, "let's introduce something kind-of-supernatural-but-not-really to make the audience think!" bit that a lot of good realistic shows have. House does it all the time, Grey's Anatomy, Nip/Tuck and some others.

what supernatural thing are you talking about

I think Sapphi thinks that Shane's stress induced delusions qualify as kind-of-supernatural-but-not-really. However I would assernt that something kind-of-supernatural-but-not-really would at least be difficult to explain as opposed to the easily an explained case of "I miss my dad and get neglected by my moralyl questionable family members so I'm going to retreat into my own world where I'm happy and appreciated" syndrome not particularly unheard of in young people who lose a close family member and get neglected.

Just wanted to stop in at this thread having watched seasons 1-3 and up to episode 5 of season 4 in the last week. I'm in love with this show.

That is all!

I've decided I'm not liking this new season too much. Their attempts to insert funny, quirky dialogue into the show has multiplied ten fold. Nancy seems a little bored, rather than her probably attempted 'laid back getting out of trouble and exasperated' tone she seems to be attempting constantly. The uncle, I forget his name, seems awkward when he says his lines, which are usually 100% packed with something attempting at quirky and humorous.

Okay this season has taken thigns to a new level of envelope pushing.

#1 would be Silas and the MILF. While the MILF is definately a MILF and definitely wanted Silas I was under the impression that the depiction of a minor engaged in sexual activities with an adult was legally definable as child pornography. Silas clearly states that he is under 18 and then they proceed to show him performing sexual acts on a woman who is quite clearly above that age. (Having a 10 year old son puts a reasonable lower limit for her age at around 25 though she looks at least 35+).

Next we have the completely disgusting Shane masturbating to hot pics of his own mother, I can't say I wouldn't have if I was 14 and I had those pics, however if that was my mother I think I'd be a little too busy vomiting to work up any excitement.

And then there was the absolutely creepy gay Federal agent liason. Did we really need to see him put the lube up there an start making out with the guy? Wouldn't just showing him in bed closing his book and turning to a guy in his bed have sufficed?

And finally there was the spanking scene, not particularly offensive to me, but still, not the sort of thing I'm used to seeing and somewhat surprising. It wasn't amazingly well done either, but it wasn't terrible.

All in all though, this season just got a lot more interesting.

lol, ya a LOT of things really surprised me this episode. I think now they're just doing things for the shock value cuz they know they can.....like yuki said, they could've skipped over alot of those scenes and just left it as implied with the same effect.

But nancy's reaction to being spanked was pretty hot lol. I also felt kinda bad for Guillermo when he was delivering that weed.

funniest part of this ep was the brown guy and his baby mama, haha. "fuck your miata with a strap-on bitch, we gettin an escalade"

Nancy seemed sort of like a biatch when she said, "it's just business".

They totally crossed the threshold this ep. I thought Yuki was just exaggerating. That politician guy was hot. This was the best ep of the season, I really didn't like all the other eps, and I agree with you guys when you say they really are just trying to shock the audience as much as possible in thirty minutes.

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Originally Posted by Yukimura

#1 would be Silas and the MILF. While the MILF is definately a MILF and definitely wanted Silas I was under the impression that the depiction of a minor engaged in sexual activities with an adult was legally definable as child pornography. Silas clearly states that he is under 18 and then they proceed to show him performing sexual acts on a woman who is quite clearly above that age. (Having a 10 year old son puts a reasonable lower limit for her age at around 25 though she looks at least 35+).

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Except the actor that plays Silas is older than 18?

Honestly Yuki, I am surprised the kid isn't raping Isabelle with all the crap he has gone through. We already know he isn't mentally stable from season 1.

God damn I love Nancy's ass.

According to law passing off something that isn't child pornography (depictions of minors engaged in sexual activities) as child pornography is dubious at best and a crime as or nearly as serious as distributing child pornography at worst.

Part of the package of laws that was enacted to protect children were statutes that made it illegal not just to create child pornogrophy but also to distribute or even advertise it. Even if something is not actually CP if you advertise it as CP to people you're supposedly committing a crime (based on my interpretation of the law as written). Even though the actor is of age his character advertises the that he is a minor right before engaging in sexual activity with someone who's character is advertised as an adult. While I don't think there's anything that wrong with it the law says what it says. I think it was meant more to punish people who put up links on websites that advertise "Little kids making love to hairy old men" and such. But they way they wrote it was too broad.

If you create a link that says "See cute 9 year old girls making love to dolphins" and put it out there for people to see, according to the letter of the law it wouldn't matter if the link actually went to Disney.com you'd be guilty of trying to disseminate CP.

In other news, Nancy shows major boobage in the latest ep. I find it humorous that she is capable of making just about any male in this series want her, either for sex, for business, or both without really doing anything but acting like a doe eyed idiot with an adrenaline addiction.

Loved Shane's prison style dominance establishing though.

rofl, ya shanes scene was awesome. "dont fuck with me"....its funnier cuz he probably could've been friends with the guy if he hadn't beat him with a tray.

also nancy's boobs = :-D

So have anyone watched the season premiere yet? I thought it was good.


I don't really like the whole "baby as a get out of jail free card" situation but i do like the problem it causes at home and i can see alot of funny and interesting situations rise from it at home. Andy is so awesome going haywire over this whole deal.

Sooooo anyone watched it?

OMG I haven't seen it yet. Actually I better get on finishing the last season!

New season is kicking it up another notch, as usual. Even though a lots changed in the first episode Im counting the minutes till monday night. Silas and Doug have always been two of my favorites so them isolated out in the forest should prove to be great stuff.

I've just started season five and it's hilarrious!

Man, Celia is being topped by her pretty, evil daughter? Awesomee

Fucking boomerang....it really is.

anyone still following this show? shit is officially hitting the fan

I dropped somewhere with Nancy being pregnant by a druglord and someone smuggling stuff back and forth from Mexico or something. I'll pick it back up if I find a stream.

Yea, talk about everything going wrong at the same time. How will Nancy get out of this one? Both Andy and Doug where hilarious this episode.