Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0031398188056
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Lionsgate
Manufacturer: Lionsgate
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Lionsgate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-07-11
Running Time: 283
Studio: Lionsgate
Theatrical Release Date: 2005-08-07

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Spotlight customer reviews:

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Summary: Great story line
Comment: It's a great sitcom to watch.
The story are unique and fun to share.

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Summary: I'm NO CokeHEAD and I love this show!!!!
Comment: I like everything about Weeds. The Jokes/The Characters, everything!!!!
I'm definately buying season 2/3/4.....

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Summary: Great DVD!
Comment: Best show on television, hands-down, and this is the best season of it. Compelling and fascinating characters, interesting storyline, and dang hilarious overall. I think I watched all of Season 1 in about 2 days. In response to someone's complaint about not being to find a "Chris died for your sins" shirt (as featured in Season 2), if you google gentlepony they actually have one that looks like that in the show. It's the only one I've found that does!

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Summary: Should be called "Resin"
Comment: After hearing about its rave reviews and recommendations from critics and coworkers alike, I decided to watch this show. Which appeared at first to be a smart stoner comedy.
There are plenty of reasons to not like this show. The language for starters is carelessy littered with f bombs that only dillute the dialogue between the uncompelling characters. There is not one character on this show that sparks my interest whatsoever. All of the characters engage in random sex affairs, coarse language, and drugs which I might not agree with but what's compelling about this? Just because something is "ground-breaking' doesn't mean that justifies having one-dimmensional stereotypes that covort around on camera.
The main character, Nancy Botwin, has no moral compass or rules to her personality. She's unpredictable and forgettable. Her brother-in-law is a typical slacker drug addict that's as flat as his sense of humor. The rest of the characters follow suit.
On the flip side, the directing is good and the soundtrack is fantastic.
As much as I wanted to stop watching this show, I had to keep watching hoping I'd uncover the "greatness" of this show. Never found it. Where's the humor?

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Summary: Addictive Comedy
Comment: Addictive Comedy
Weeds is about Nancy Botwin a working mum and housewife who gets into the darkest situations when her husband unexpectedly drops dead and she is left to raise two kids, a brother-in-law and rustic area's secret addiction to home-grown weed. Using this; as a way of dealing with her emotional collapse, in return for providing for the family by dealing marijuana to neighbours and spacey school-kids. Nancy is played with perfect pokerfaced-untelling-drug-seller mum by Mary-Louise Parker, ex-West Wing star who talks on a less political and more social tasks of day to day life. She is groomed for any social eventuality. Alongside the mum of two is youngest Shane (Alexander Gould) who played the voice of Nemo in `Finding Nemo' who is less stutter and more into the wild flights of fancy. Older bro Silas (Hunter Parrish) who is eager to get his school life on the OC-type list by doing anything or anyone possible.

Yes, selling drugs makes good TV? Weeds outshines the morally ambiguous judgement on drugs. Some of the people who do drugs are good, some are bad. But it's the person we judge, not the substance.
While it seems a bit Desperate Housewives, it's got a lot more going for it. With bitchy neighbour Elizabeth Perkins who makes the typical rich mum attitude take a leap forward.
With its entwined spontaneity, this is addictive and yet bizarrely enjoyable. Like most TV shows trying today: firmly planted in reality.

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Editorial Reviews:

With its fantastic comedy series Weeds, cable network Showtime finally gave up its also-ran status to HBO and found itself with a controversial, buzz-worthy show that was as hilarious as it was dark, one about a truly desperate housewife. A recent widow with two growing sons, Nancy Botwin (Golden Globe winner Mary-Louise Parker) looks like a typical resident of the affluent Southern California suburb of Agrestic. She keeps a clean, upscale house (with the help of a live-in maid), attends PTA meetings, goes to her kids' soccer games, makes frequent stops at the local coffee franchise.... and sells marijuana in order to make it all possible. Left with no way to support herself after her beloved husband's fatal heart attack, Nancy turns herself into the "suburban baroness of bud," dealing to her neighbors in the area, with the help of her supplier Heylia (Tonye Patano) and point man Conrad (Romany Malco). Nancy's clients run from the local councilman (Kevin Nealon) to the just-barely-legal students at the local community college, but many in Agrestic are still in the dark as to how she keeps her family afloat, including her best friend, the sardonic Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), a wife and mother whose blistering, withering put-downs could make Dorothy Parker cringe in fear. But like many small-business owners, Nancy yearns for more success and cash, and like her workaholic neighbors, finds keeping a balance between work life and home life to be extremely precarious at best.

While Desperate Housewives yearned to be a suburban satire with bite, Weeds was the real deal, skewering upper-middle class mores with a sharp eye, a keen wit, and a mostly forgiving heart. In episode after episode, the show's creative team (led by creator Jenji Kohan) pulled back the layers of Agrestic's superficiality to show what lies beneath the squeaky-clean exteriors and smiling faces; it turns out that hunger, fear, desire, and, yes, desperation aren't that far down. However, Weeds forsakes pulpiness and florid drama for biting yet affectionate humor--its heroine is a woman with sliding morals, but one you'll root for to the very end. The effervescent Parker, the only actress who can mix perkiness with morbidity in just the right amounts, anchored the show with her amazing turn as Nancy, who by the end of the first season had become a kind of soccer-mom version of Michael Corleone, entering a corrupt world with both trepidation and fascination--and totally enamored of the power it brought her. Also perfectly cast, Perkins found the role of a lifetime as the bitterly hilarious Celia, and entering the show in its fourth episode, Justin Kirk (Parker's co-star in Angels in America) proved to be a potent secret weapon as Nancy's brother-in-law Andy, a slacker who wasn't above peddling t-shirts to elementary school kids. As icky as these characters might appear on the surface, Weeds made them all immensely appealing and great company to be around. Don't say we didn't warn you: one hit and you'll be hooked on this show. The DVDs feature six episode commentaries with cast and crew, outtakes, original featurettes, a music video, and most enjoyably, Agrestic Herbal Recipes (for entertainment value only, we assume) and the "Smoke and Mirrors" marijuana mockumentary. --Mark Englehart