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08-19-2005, 09:55 AM
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Weeds
I watched the series premier of this show last night on demand and found it to be fantastic. Weeds is a satirical look at contemporary upper-middle class suburbia and it features Kevin Nealon as a weed head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously though, Showtime finally figures out an original series that can hold its own against any series on HBO, and if you read my oot posts, you know I'm a huge fan of the HBO original series. I'm not quite ready to put Weeds in a pantheon with Curb Your Enthusiasm, but next to that, this is the funniest show out there, IMO. Check it out. 
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#2
08-19-2005, 09:57 AM
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Re: Weeds
Isn't it alot like Desperate Housewives?
And Dead Like Me was an excellent show.
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08-19-2005, 10:16 AM
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Re: Weeds
I thought it was a pretty decent/funny show, I saw the making of it as well. The creator lady is extremely ugly, but thats besides the point.
I fear that it is trying to model desperate housewives a little much though, as in some of the characters seem to be carbon copies. But we will have to keep watching and see how original it really is.
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#6
08-19-2005, 11:19 AM
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Re: Weeds
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I find this show moderately funny. But I see no future for this show. There will be one season only. I am super fan of HBO original series, and this is not even close to that quality! [/ QUOTE ] I agree with most of what is said above (except the one season only - not sure about that). The show isn't bad as a concept but really lacks in the "reality" department (and it IS trying to be realistic). I kind of got the same feeling watching this that I got after I (mistakenly) watched an episode of "The OC"... Dialog and situations were not very believable. That said, Kevin was GREAT - his lines were funny and well delivered. If they got rid of her kids (or at least gave them less to say) as well as the "rival" gay (WTF???) weed dealer while adding more of Kevin and the black people (they were funny as well). It would prolly be a better show. Mind you all I watched was the season premierre, so it is very possible that they will "smooth" out the rough areas in subsequent shows. I give this show a solid 7 (nines and tens are reserved for Entourage, Lost, Sopranos caliber shows) with the potential to move to a solid 8 (but never match the 9's and 10's with the current writers).
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#8
08-19-2005, 11:26 AM
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Re: Weeds
Weeds is a good show but it deals too much with the main character's family problems and doesn't really show enough about dealing weed. I wanna see her in the act of crime and see what the world of drug dealing is about. I'm not so interested in her personal issues and her missing the hubby.
Indy
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08-19-2005, 11:47 AM
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Re: Weeds
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I wanna see her in the act of crime and see what the world of drug dealing is about. [/ QUOTE ] That is excatly what is missing form this show. There are plenty of shows out there depicting drug dealing (hard drugs) in ghettos and or very affluent areas. This was supposed to show that regular joe-schmoes both deal and use the ganja (soccer dads toking up in the parking lot is a good example, soccer moms doing the dealing is even better). But it does not depict these events in a realistic way. What happens on the show is not (mostly) how it "goes down". Maybe that is what people (who neither deal nor smoke the weed) perceive it to be like, but from my experience - it is quite a bit different.
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