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'Weeds' Season Finale Review: "It's Time"

Britt Hayes — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:26:44 +0000

'Weeds' takes its biggest leap yet -- in faith and time -- in the series finale, "It's Time." We're 10 years in the future, eliminating the need to tie up loose ends because the show can just create new ones. But is it a clever way to wrap up seven seasons or a cop-out?

'Weeds' Review: "God Willing and the Creek Don't Rise"

Britt Hayes — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:30:02 +0000

Sometimes to move forward, we must revisit the past. Such is the case when Nancy, Silas and Andy pack up and head back home to Agrestic — also known as Majestic, and now known as the reborn town of Regrestic — to see some very familiar faces in this week’s ‘Weeds.’ If the show’s middle [...]

'Weeds' Review: "Saplings"

Britt Hayes — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:55:45 +0000

“Convenience” is a word we fear in television shows — a word that indicates an avoidance of effort for the sake of tidying up a narrative. This week ‘Weeds‘ embraced convenience by evaporating Jill and sending Andy off on his next relationship adventure. “Abrupt” is also a word that comes to mind. It wasn’t that [...]

'Weeds' Review: "Five Miles From Yetzer Hara"

Britt Hayes — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:45:50 +0000

"How far is it from beginning to end," Stevie asks Nancy near the end of this week's 'Weeds' as she stares existentially at a map of New England, where her job is sending her for two weeks out of every month. And even though Nancy left her drug business behind, she's still traveling down the same path -- it's up to her where it ends.

'Weeds' Review: "Unfreeze"

Britt Hayes — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:44:18 +0000

What’s the old saying? Take one step forward, take two steps back? Everyone on ‘Weeds‘ is just trying to do the right thing, but maybe they’re not wired that way — and maybe it’s time they (and more importantly, we) accept that. Nancy and Silas have joined the Big Pharma corporation, with Nancy becoming a [...]

'Weeds' Review: "Allosaurus Crush Castle"

Britt Hayes — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:00:03 +0000

This season of ‘Weeds‘ seems bound and determined to keep Nancy, well, bound and determined to stick with what her family knows best — even if that means just finding more legal and socially acceptable means of doing so. It looks like I was wrong — Nancy didn’t demolish Silas’ pot; it was his banana-pants [...]

'Weeds' Season 8 Plucks 'American Pie' Star for Series Finale

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 02:00:24 +0000

You wouldn't think a suburban drama about a widow taking up marijuana sales would prove chock-full of mystery, but here we are after eight seasons of 'Weeds' cliffhangers. So with the series finale in sight, what future mysteries does Showtime hold for the Botwin clan? At least one piece of the pie is yet to be filled in as 'American Pie' and 'American Reunion' star Natasha Lyonne will appear in the two-part series finale in a mysterious new role. Who is she, and why all the secrecy?

'Weeds' Review: "Red in Tooth and Claw"

Britt Hayes — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:55:02 +0000

Nancy continues to try and dig her and her family out of the massive hole she's dug over seven seasons in this week's episode of 'Weeds,' titled "Red in Tooth and Claw." This week is a marked improvement over the first four episodes, exploring how easily it is to tear down something we've worked so hard to build.

'Weeds' Review: "Only Judy Can Judge"

Britt Hayes — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:52:35 +0000

In this week’s episode of ‘Weeds,’ Nancy continues to maintain her more empathetic demeanor as we trudge down to the series finale. Unfortunately, Nancy’s new laid back attitude mirrors the lifelessness in “Only Judy Can Judge.” The episode takes its title from a tattoo on the arm of a hash dealer who Kiku, Silas’ girlfriend, [...]

'Weeds' Review: "See Blue and Smell Cheese and Die"

Britt Hayes — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:30:58 +0000

The final season of ‘Weeds‘ is almost making a sprint to the finish line, but it seems more concerned with wrapping things up than doing so gracefully, as we’re now glossing over plot points that would have been much larger in seasons past. Nancy has returned home from the hospital and is being coddled by [...]

'Weeds' Review: "A Beam of Sunshine"

Britt Hayes — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:30:41 +0000

‘Weeds‘ continues to re-shape Nancy, using the bullet in her head as a soft reset button, allowing the Botwin family to change course. But after 77 days in the hospital, is Nancy really ready to change? And will her family go along with her? The episode opens with a list scrawl documenting the over $400,o00 [...]

'Weeds' Season Premiere Review: "Messy"

Britt Hayes — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:38:26 +0000

When last we left the troubled Botwin family of ‘Weeds,’ Nancy and her family (including sister Jill) were celebrating their new home in Connecticut, but someone had a rifle scope pointed at Nancy, and as the episode ended a single shot was fired… The season opens with a nostalgic return to the delightful “Little Boxes” [...]

'Weeds' Season 8 Smokes Out First Episode Descriptions

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:21:32 +0000

Who got smoked? It's the question we're seeing plastered all around town, and the one we've been asking ourselves ever since 'Weeds' seventh season finale "Do Her/Don't Do Her" put Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) in the crosshairs, before cutting ominously to black with a bang. So, how would you like a fresh crop of spoilers in advance of 'Weeds' eighth, and final season?

'Weeds' Season 8 Confirmed To Be the Show's Last

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:19:33 +0000

Looks like the ‘Weeds’ bag is empty, folks. Shut off your growth lights, pack up your bongs, and sift through the haze for more marijuana metaphors, because Showtime has decided to pass on any additional seasons of long-running Mary-Louise Parker comedy ‘Weeds.’ After seven years and an upcoming eighth season, ‘Weeds’ will call it quits, [...]

'Weeds' Season 8 Posters Are Full of Holes

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Mon, 28 May 2012 20:28:13 +0000

Whether or not you think that 'Weeds' has grown a bit wild during its run and should probably be pruned before the quality really dips, there's no arguing that the show makes some impressive art and promotional poster campaigns. How could you not, when you've still got the beautiful (and almost-50!) Mary Louise-Parker as your lead? As we get ready to light up season 8, take a look at the latest promotional posters!

'Weeds' and 'Episodes' Grow New Summer Teasers

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:30:02 +0000

One might not find it so easy to connect Matt LeBlanc to marijuana (okay, we're ignoring a REALLY obvious joke there), but leave it to Showtime to do the work for us! With both hit comedies 'Episodes' and 'Weeds' set to roll up their brand new seasons on the pay cable network this summer, it's high time we got down to business with some actual footage!

'Weeds' Wishes You A Happy 4/20 with New Teaser

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:10:28 +0000

Ah, 4/20. That noblest of holidays where we gather with our closest friends, prepare the traditional feast of junk food, gather around the fire and...you know something? We're hungry. Wait, what were we talking about again? Oh, of course! Our friends at Showtime and 'Weeds' have a special message for us today!

'Weeds' Clears Up Season 7 Finale, Gives First Season 8 Scoop

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:51:39 +0000

While it's unlikely that anything will ever top the "huh?" moment that followed 'The Sopranos' cutting to black at the end of its series finale, the final moments of 'Weeds' Season 7 left more than a few viewers uncertain as to the fate of Nancy Botwin, or the rest of her family. So with details on Season 8 light thus far, who was at the other end of 'Weeds'' smoking gun?

'Weeds' Grows a "Wicked" New Season 8 Teaser

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:46:51 +0000

There are still quite a a few questions to be answered when Showtime's long-running pot comedy 'Weeds' returns for an eighth, and potentially final season on July 8, and details are being kept tight, but a fresh offering from the garden might be just what we need to get back in the high spirits.

'Weeds' and 'Episodes' Return Dates to Light Up Showtime's Summer

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:02:54 +0000

Well, we already know when our favorite serial killer 'Dexter' is set to make his season 7 return, along with the CIA drama of 'Homeland' but what exactly are we supposed to do until the end of September? Watch brand new seasons of drug-dealing comedy 'Weeds' and meta British adaptation humor 'Episodes?' Don't mind if we do!