- Network: SHOWTIME
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 7, 2005
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"Weeds" is colossally great... a series far better than its premise and utterly essential for devotees of smart, entertaining television.
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Happily, "Weeds" hasn't dropped a petal or missed even a beat this season.
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This is damn fertile soil for a comedy, and creator Jenji Kohan and the writers of "Weeds" farm it for all it's worth in the show's second season, cultivating vivid, surprising stories that naturally transcend the typical limitations of the half-hour format.
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[It] sometimes tries a bit too hard. Mellow out, dudes--we're addicted already. [18 Aug 2006, p.128]
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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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It makes mincemeat of conventional TV taboos and has, in Parker, a star whom the camera adores.
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There's a depth, a richness to the series now that was only suggested [in the first season].
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A comedy anchored in the flawed, deeply genuine humanity of its characters often delivers the rollicking natural high of laughter.
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Parker turns in a performance bubbling over with vitality and believability, even when the script itself strains credulity or when individual lines of dialogue slip too much into sitcom punch lines and rhythms.
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The best thing from Season 1 remains the same: Mary-Louise Parker. [21 Aug 2006, p.37]
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There's enough to enjoy in Weeds that you could get a contact high just by tuning in.
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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.
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"Weeds' " executive producers, headed by creator Jenji Kohan, get kudos for keeping the show's balance of heartfelt drama and screwy comedy intact.
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"Weeds" still isn't quite funny or startling enough to become a compulsion but delivers enough tantalizing hits to merit the TiVo "season pass" treatment.
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“Weeds” is still an outstanding show, but it would be better if it didn’t push so hard to stand out.
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In better moments, "Weeds" proves small kerflops can be made interesting and fun to watch. In lesser moments, not so.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 142 out of 165
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Mixed: 8 out of 165
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Negative: 15 out of 165
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