Weeds: Season Four
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Actor: Alexander Gould, Hunter Parrish, Justin Kirk, Kevin NealonBrand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 262 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-06-02
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lionsgate
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Box set; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
DVD Reviews of Weeds: Season Four
DVD Review: Many have now noticed how blatantly unintentionally racist this show became & if you are upset by this idea, don't read this!
Summary: 1 Stars
A little note to those who don't want to read this type of critique:
Please don't read it.
Many of you have said that if I don't like racist TV I shouldn't watch the show.
Well, if you don't like anti-racist reviews of light entertainment, then don't read this review.
And to the person who says that I must be the racist, due to my focus and concerns about racial prejudice and stereotyping, please buy a dictionary, or just use a free one online and look up the word "racism". While you are online look up some statistics about race equality or lack thereof in todays society, media, education, criminal justice, pollution, you name it, non-white people still get the short end of the stick in our society. The facts don't lie. Don't take my word for it, do your own research, and that includes hiring patterns in Hollywood, which is much more integrated than many parts of our society but still greatly under-represents minorities and presents them very unrealistically even compared to their unrealistic portrayals of white characters.
As of season two this was certainly true of this show, though I believe unintentionally.
I got sick of the stereotypes so I can't speak to it's current state.
At last, more and more people are finally waking up from their hypnotic state and realizing just how atrociously bad this show is.
The quiet elimination of the always-subservient African American characters after the first season was a sad and transparent effort to end the accusations of racist stereotyping that have plagued this show from the beginning. While it was a relief to see the end of the portrayal of the Elder Black Woman as a classic "Mammy" character plucked directly from Hattie McDaniel's oscar winning pitch perfect minstrel show style performance in Gone With the Wind, firing the actors hardly solves the problem. (My characterization of these minstrel era racist cliches should be taken literally, assuring Nancy repeatedly, "Don't you worry your pretty little white a** about nothin' Mammy'll take care of everything" or something to that effect, it's unbelievable I know, watch it and realize how sadly true this is)
Tragically this effort to hide the unintentional racism of the show's all white creators was entirely unsuccessful, as each season seemed to introduce worse and worse examples of this early 20th century style vintage Hollywood racist stereotyping, this time with a nerdy and cowardly south Asian, and an incessant parade of lazy, violent, stupid, sexually insatiable Mexican characters.
The ongoing and seemingly blindly unintentional implied racism of this show continues unabated.
Every time I turn on the show I am shocked that it continues so nakedly. I have not been able to stomach an entire episode in some years due to the deeply offensive racist stereotypes that seem to plague each and every episode of this show, who's high moral aspirations are betrayed by terrible writing and a vaguely defined premise that seems to continuously deteriorate even in the eyes of it's most ardent fans.
Of interest to those who agree or disagree with my thesis here, is a fascinating and darkly revealing episode of the radio show and podcast "The Treatment" half hour interview with Jenji Cohan, the show's creator, a former writer for the Facts of Life and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
There were two of these, and I am referring to the first one, with Jenji alone. I have not heard the second one in which Jenji is joined by producer Roberto Benabib.
When questioned by the well respected African American film critic Elvis Mitchell as to the "Mammy" character and whether the show is perpetuating outdated and negative stereotypes of African Americans, Jenji replies that the dialog of the African Americans is authentic, because she "knows these people" due to having spent at least one afternoon either playing dominos or watching games of dominos with some elderly "black men" at Venice Beach.
For those who have not been there, Venice beach is far from the heart of Los Angeles' African American community. Her amazing tale of cultural tourism into this world of authentically black people who play dominos on Venice Beach is to say the least unimpressive. The crowds at Venice are somewhat integrated, certainly not usually completely all white, but always mostly all white.
This defense was shamefully ignorant and shallow. Elvis mercifully changed the subject, but I must say, that was one of those moments when I am ashamed to be white. Go and listen for yourself at the KCRW fm internet archives, if you can stomach the ignorant and idiotic unintended racism.
This show had so much potential, great premise, very topical issue, good cast, sufficient budget (it would seem), yet like so many Showtime endeavors, it came out malformed... a true television abomination. Someone should make a good show on this subject some day. I know I would watch it, but I can't stand this racist (and increasingly sexist, but don't get me started on that) expensive garbage.
Description of Weeds: Season Four
Everyone?s favorite pot-selling soccer mom, Nancy Botwin, is back in the complete fourth season of the hit series WEEDS. Last time we saw her, Nancy?s business (and house) was going up in smoke. So the Botwin bunch has relocated near the border for a fresh start with some new buds. Life?s looking green again in this subversive and buzz-worthy comedy.Nancy goes on a long, strange trip as Weeds celebrates its fourth year. After Mary-Louise Parker's drug-dealing mom burns down the Agrestic rental, the Botwin clan flees to Bubbie's beach house, near Tijuana, where they reluctantly join forces with Nancy's cranky father-in-law, Lenny (Albert Brooks). While Celia (Elizabeth Perkins) does time for renting out a grow house, Nancy cozies up to a Mexican drug cartel. With nowhere else to go, Doug (Kevin Nealon) joins Nancy, Andy (Justin Kirk), Silas (Hunter Parrish), and Shane (Alexander Gould) in Ren Mar.
Sometimes change is a good thing, sometimes not. As creator Jenji Kohan explains in her commentary, "The writers were getting kind of restless." Adds writer Roberto Benabib: "We were done with suburbia." Fortunately, the new location adds interest, and Brooks makes for an inspired (albeit brief) addition, but Celia's punishment--humiliation, beating, pistol whipping--for selling out Nancy goes on too long. (The original theme song and opening credits also disappear after the premiere.) When a cigar-chomping politico (Demián Bichir) and an attractive divorcée (Julie Bowen) with an eye for 17-year-old Silas enter the picture, events take a darker, sexier turn. Even 13-year-old Shane, who longs to join the family business, acquires a couple of groupies.
As in previous years, the season ends with a cliffhanger, but in light of the insurmountable scrapes she's got herself into before, Nancy seems likely to emerge unscathed in year five when Jennifer Jason Leigh joins the show. If comedy takes a backseat to drama this time around, Weeds remains compulsively, addictively watchable. Bonus features include seven cast and crew commentaries--Parker and Gould are the only key players missing--and eight featurettes, including a tour of Bubbie's tchotchke-filled abode and a look at the Drug Enforcement Agency, which plays a regular part in the program. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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