Last night, Weeds, my favorite TV comedy, returned for it's 4th season on Showtime, and it did not disappoint. I rushed home from work to catch the 7pm showing so I wouldn't have to wait until 10pm. I nuked a Lean Cuisine pizza and settled on the sofa with dinner and the cats and soaked in every bit of this quirky, irreverent, and beautifully written show.This season the show made a drastic change by taking Nancy Botwin and crew out of the suburbs to a fictional beach town situated near San Diego. Most of the 30 minutes of the first episode involved the set-up for the change and left me wanting MORE and NOW.
Also this season, several favorite characters are gone, but the legendary Albert Brooks has joined the cast as Nancy's father-in-law. As always, he was brilliant.
As I've blogged before, I love the shows on the cable channels, but this is my absolute fav. It's my Cherry Garcia in a world of vanilla. It's so well written and the humor so cutting edge that I come away from the tube humbled, and not just a little like a hack with regard to my own writing.
Geez, it's a long time until next Monday!
1 comment:
OMG, I love this show. We just changed out cable package and no longer get showtime. :(
A couple times a year they make showtime free then I watch all the Weeds in one day. And I buy them when they come out on video.
I'm so jealous!
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