Weeds

So I finished Season 1 this weekend. For the folks who have not seen it Weeds is a dark comedy/drama about a chick who lives in an upscale suburban neighborhood. She was a stay at home mom and her husband died and she decides to sell pot to maintain her lifestyle. Yeah, she's crazy, and more then a little bit. It's a well written show with lots of cinimatic tricks and nods (the final episode is a great riff on the end of The Godfather for instance). There are certainly some laugh-out-loud moments but this is not a light weight comedy, everything from underage sex to addiction to the simple problem of fitting in with your peer group is scrutinized on this show.

It's amusing to me to see the depiction of suburban life in this show, maybe because it's reasonably accurate. I have friends who live there so to speak. Maybe they should start selling pot. The last rather interesting thing about this show is that although it's a Showtime produced series there is not a whole lot of sex on the show, more then you'd get on CBS but not anywhere near the Soprando's level...but there is a TON of drug porn. Seriously, someone there has a hard on for pot because it's shown and shown frequently in the show. I don't really have a problem with that except it's kind of funny to have so much screen time devoted to dried plants.