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Critic Reviews
Jul 11, 2013
Season 3 Review:
Every character bursts with life here, in what may be the most fully realized show on TV. [13 Aug 2007]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The best new show this season. [5 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 3 Review:
While Botwin's crime world is the engine that drives "Weeds," there is much more to the show than that. At its core, it's a subtle satire of suburban life, politics, social mores and race. [13 Aug 2007]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 3 Review:
One of the best things about “Weeds” is how efficiently it moves forward; it’s an incredibly well-paced half-hour that always leaves you wanting more. [13 Aug 2007]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A first-rate show with a wonderful cast... and a delicious satirical streak. [1 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
"Weeds" is a blast, a wry, well-written look at the life of the pot dealer next door in small-screen suburbia. [1 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 3 Review:
The humor is more subversive than ever. [13 Aug 2007]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Smarter and more creative than ABC's "Desperate Housewives," that other show about superficial suburbia, "Weeds" has edgier and wittier writing. [6 Aug 2005]
Season 2 Review:
[It] sometimes tries a bit too hard. Mellow out, dudes--we're addicted already. [18 Aug 2006, p.128]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The triumph of Parker's performance - just like that of James Gandolfini's depiction of Tony Soprano - is that she makes one care about Botwin in spite of all her flaws. [7 Aug 2005]
Jun 27, 2011
Season 2 Review:
Thankfully, "Weeds" avoids the strained farce of "Desperate Housewives," and despite being billed as a comedy, the perceptively written show is actually a credible look at lives stuck in neutral and people almost trapped by their addiction to a certain level of upper-middle class comfort.
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Jul 11, 2013
Season 3 Review:
The new episodes find the upper-middle-class mother of two evolving into a gangster. This is a good move for the show. [13 Aug 2007]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 3 Review:
This isn't the best role TV can give Parker, but it'll do for now. [13 Aug 2007]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A deliciously witty comedy with stark dramatic touches. [6 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Comparisons will be made to ABC's "Desperate Housewives," but "Weeds" is meaner and sharper, eschewing the chirpy attitude that blunts the sting of most plot turns in "Housewives." [5 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
"Weeds" comes from a Hollywood la-la land that is too crammed with trauma and wit to be real. But it's just entertaining enough to be watchable, despite the fact that it doesn't seem to be going anywhere dramatically deep. [4 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Because it is wisely anchored in the marvelous performances of Parker and Perkins, "Weeds" packs a merrily subversive comic energy. [5 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
[Parker] may be the best actress in all of television. Certainly, she's the most natural, and one of the most irresistibly lovable. [4 Aug 2005]
Aug 3, 2012
Season 8 Review:
This air of finality throws the many small, fine details of Parker's performance, the main reason for the show's existence, into sharp relief. [13 Aug 2012, p.42]
Season 2 Review:
The best thing from Season 1 remains the same: Mary-Louise Parker. [21 Aug 2006, p.37]
Season 4 Review:
Season four curiously picks up exactly where last season left off, providing little explanation for Shane's sudden growth spurt and the body mass indexes of several other characters, and the hurried pace of the season premiere, "Mother Thinks the Birds Are After Her," is a little disorienting, but the show finds its footing by the next episode.
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Season 4 Review:
Ditching the tired suburban backdrop might prove to be just the creative shake-up Weeds needs after an overly wacked-out season 3. [20 June 2008, p.60]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
'Weeds' stumbles at times during its first few episodes. It makes some of its points with too little humor and subtlety. But for the most part, this is a nuanced comedy with interesting characters performed by a first-rate cast. [5 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
It's a good show waiting to happen, television cliches and all. [5 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Weeds is still trying a little too hard—trying, by turns, to be edgy and HBO-ish or campy and ABC-ish. But if it hasn't yet quite achieved the self-confident swagger of HBO flagships like The Wire or The Sopranos, it's certainly a lot more fun to watch than Desperate Housewives.
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Season 4 Review:
The wonderful Weeds is back for its fourth season at 10 p.m. Monday, as our deliriously delightful dope dealers decamp to a beach town by the Mexican border. As illicit activities go, they prove definitively that, on Showtime at least, a little wacky tobbacky is way more fun than the things they do in Diary that can't be described here.
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Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Weeds may make you chuckle, but it wants you to gasp, and unless your name is June and you call your youngest son Beaver, it's not likely to happen. [7 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Interesting but not especially funny. [1 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
There's an uneven quality to the humor, and the snide putdown of "Leave It to Beaver"-land is starting to get old. [5 Aug 2005]
Jun 27, 2011
Season 7 Review:
Tonight's episode feels like a reset, a fresh start for the characters but if they just lapse back into their old ways, I'm not sure what the point of another season of this show will be. And yet, if they do not return to selling drugs, some viewers may be disappointed.
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Season 5 Review:
It's still a reasonably funny show, thanks to first-rate performances from Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin, a woman who deals drugs, and Elizabeth Perkins as Celia Hodes, a woman who uses them. [But] It's getting harder to maintain a sharp seriocomic edge when Botwin keeps slipping further into a world where there just aren't a lot of inherent laughs.
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Season 6 Review:
When I tell you that Weeds is off to a good start with Monday (Aug. 16) night's sixth season premiere, you have to know that what I'm saying is that it's pushing the story forward in interesting ways, not that Weeds has gone back to being the show it was in Season Two.
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Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Darker than "Desperate Housewives," and even less nuanced. [11 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
"Weeds" tries unsuccessfully to balance a lot of stories that are too disparate in tone. [7 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 3 Review:
It has so much going for it on paper -- notably Mary-Louise Parker as a pot-dealing soccer mom -- but the series' creators remain so pleased with themselves that they're rarely as funny as they obviously think they are. [13 Aug 2007]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Despite its unique premise, the show delivers little more than network sitcom material tarted up with cable raciness. [5 Aug 2005]
Season 6 Review:
Season 6 staggers from incident to incident as Nancy and family run from their enemies--and the authorities. [13 Sep 2010, p.50]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The result is another finely acted cable drama with great production values and the germ of an interesting idea behind it but no coherent tone or character development or story, even -- just a series of attempts to pass off creatively exaggerated behavior, the more desperate the better, as some kind of social commentary.
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Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
"Weeds" isn't nearly as shocking or hilarious as it clearly thinks it is. [5 Aug 2005]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Wouldn't be funny even if you were stoned. [7 Aug 2005]
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