One of our favorite shows is back! Weeds' season premiere was last night on Showtime and boy was it a hoot and a half! For those of you that have never seen it, it's about a suburban LA widow (Mary-Louise Parker) who needs to find a way to support herself and her two kids following her husband's sudden death. So to support herself, she turns her side job selling, well, weed, into her full time gig. With her mooching brother in law, her accountant (Kevin Nealon) and her freinemy Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), it is just one of our very favorite shows.
When we last left our heroine Nancy (Parker), she was staring down about half a dozen guns (and not small ones at that), her FBI Agent "husband of convenience" had just been killed by a bunch of angry Armenians, her eldest was on the verge of being arrested and her youngest had run off with Uncle Andy's girlfriend. But she was still able to hold on to her cell phone and Diet Coke.
I won't go into a plot summary (you can find a good one on TVGuide.com this morning), but we'll see as the various plot elements from last season are coming together we'll see how they effect the direction of this season.
We also watched the premiere of Californication. David Duchovny in his first series-starring gig post-X-Files. We are going to reserve judgment on this one. His character is a little too morally depraved for Keds' taste I think. He's clearing trying to replace his ex-girlfriend with a series of clearly loose women in Hollywood. I'll give it four episodes before deciding if it stays on DVR or not.
But seriously, check out Weeds. It's good stuff (pun intended).
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I have heard good things about Weeds, the other show doesn't really interest me at all.
For some reason, I've avoided paying for "movie channels" although now they have some of the better shows out there. I like to think that I divert the money to my NFL Superfan package. Tivo has been quite full due to lack of time. Might have to get rid of some season passes.
Don't know about Duchovny (sp?) Used to like X-Files and Red Shoe Diaries. Hope it does well, though. Anything to keep him from agreeing to Beverly Hillbillies 2: Jethro Finds The Checkbook.
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