Weeds - Season One

Weeds - Season One
by Burr Steers, Lee Rose

Weeds - Season One

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Actor: Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Burr Steers, Lee Rose
Brand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 283 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lionsgate

DVD Reviews of Weeds - Season One

DVD Review: Awesome Series
Summary: 5 Stars

Not something I would expect to like, I picked this up due to the low price on blu ray. The show has me addicted now! Great comedy and each episode makes you want to watch the next one. A must have.

DVD Review: a stupid waste of time - who cares about watching jerks living life?
Summary: 1 Stars

if it were the last day of your life, would you spend it watching Weeds? no.

Californication was great [enough already with the sex and drugs - we've seen enough to last a lifetime] - and dexter -

but this? if you have time to watch this, do you have any kind of good life at all?

love mary louise parker, always have - but redeeming quality in a show is not a bad thing -

woud rather watch the Road movies with Bing and Bob, the Thin Man series, the classics, find good people and hang out with them -

this is the decadence the ends societies with inane Bread and Circuses -

DVD Review: Ahhh, Nature's way of saying High
Summary: 5 Stars

I love this series. I never saw it before i bought it so i was going in blind. But this series is hilarious. The video quality was hit or miss but for the price i wasn't expecting much out of the video/audio department. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a new fresh comedy that puts a spin on suburban life.

DVD Review: Show is great, but PQ on Blu Ray is not the best
Summary: 4 Stars

The show is awesome, no issues there. But like others have said, the video quality is not the best. Dark scenes are very grainy, but at least it's wide screen. If they had just decided to use two blu-ray discs instead of one the picture quality would have been a lot better. The quality of the shows on Showtime HD were very good, too bad they couldn't keep them on the discs.

With that said, this is the best way to own the show right now since there are no better options. If you like the show or you are curious go ahead and get it. Got each season for $17 on Blu-ray. You can't beat that with other shows that usually sell for that or more on regular DVD.

DVD Review: A favorite!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is one of my favorite shows of all time. It is an instant classic! Its edgy and innovative. I always think the show cannot possibly find its way out of the latest predicament, and it always does! Totally unpredictable. Set your TIVO's for this one, and then buy the DVDs for you and everyone you know. Enjoy!

Description of Weeds - Season One

Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/06/2007 Run time: 283 minutes Rating: Nr

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

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