The TGIF Movie Review: Weeds, Season 2
August 24th, 2007 by Matt
I’ve reviewed the television show Weeds once before (click here to check the review, yo), but Season 2 of this appropriately raved show just came out on DVD, and this seemed like just the right time to urge you all to live a look-see to the best show, hands up and down, on the idiot box.
Here’s a refresher:
Weeds is a Showtime original series centered around the Botwin family. As is revealed during Season Numero Uno, Jonah Botwin, the father of the clan, has kicked ye ole bucket, and this proves to be an immeasurable conflict for the rest of the family. Nancy Botwin, played innocently and wryly by Mary-Louise Parker, has a choice to make: either continue living in Agrestic, an upper-class, SoCal, suburban neighborhood, and maintain the lifestyle she and her two boys, Silas and Shane, have come to expect and appreciate, or not. For now, she chooses the former. And how, pray tell, does she plan to pull this off? Not by selling dandelions. No, a different weed — flower tops, mary jane, meggie, gong, blaze, chronic, kaff, sweet lucy, and my personal favorite bit o’ marijuana nomenclature, zambi.
So, sell pot she does — to the denizens of Agrestic, to college students, to friends of friends. She battles her own concerns about her safety, the safety of her children, and how to hide the money from the tax-man. Of course, she battles the law, but this problem intensifies in Season 2 because she starts dating someone she eventually learns is a DEA agent. He discovers her secret, and they concoct a plan to cover both of their posteriors.
This show is so good — hilarious, heartbreaking, oh-my-gosh-ing, and tender — I can hardly stand it. I’m telling you, unlike marijuana, this show is addictive my High-Timers and teetotalers. Season 2 focuses more on the business end of breaking the law, teenage love and learning, race, and the constant threat of the government even when we’re playing by the rules.
Take a toke of it…. (Be forewarned — these clips seriously ain’t safe for work or your wee ones. I honestly can’t believe the second one — God, I love cable. And the third one? Well, it features my favorite word several, several times.)
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