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Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0031398213345
Format: Color, Widescreen
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Running Time: 283 minutes
Sales Rank: 2447
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: August 07, 2005
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Is the grass really greener on the other side? Yes and it smells better too! So when Nancy Botwin (Golden Globe winner Mary-Louise Parker) faces both sudden widowhood and poverty she's determined to do anything to keep her kids in suburbia including taking a job as the neighborhood pot dealer. Subversive satirical and hilarious the first season of this groundbreaking Showtime hit is guaranteed to spark laughter!System Requirements:Running Time: 283 Mins. Format: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 031398213345 Manufacturer No: 21334
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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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great show, and a bargain price on Blu-ray
On the surface, Weeds is a satire on suburban life (this is evident from the opening credits, which show identical people leaving their identical houses in identical SUVs). On this level, the show works pretty well most of the time, but really, how hard is it to satirize suburbia? Tim Burton played most of the same cards as Weeds way back in Edward Scissorhands. There are some new complications here, and even if it is familiar territory, it's still pretty fun.
But what makes Weeds truly great TV is its cast of characters, who all go beyond the easy suburbanite stereotypes and become people you truly care about (with the exception of the oldest son, Silas, who is pretty one-note). The writing is sharp and funny, and the acting is superb across the board.
However, it should be said that if you are steadfastly opposed to drug use, you probably will not like this show. It's pretty blasé about marijuana use, and the only real dangers the show associates with dealing pot are getting caught with it and being targeted by other dealers. That being said, the show is definitely not simpleminded pothead humor (sorry "Half Baked" fans). I only mention this because I know people who are not willing to give the show a chance because of their own anti-drug position. If you don't have the same hang-up (I don't), then there is a lot of enjoyment to be had here.
Rating:  - My first scratched BD disc (Weeds S1)
This review is about the product itself, not the Weeds TV show because I still have not seen it due to the reasons mentioned next:
I'm usually satisfied when I order dvds/blu-rays or pretty much anything else from here. But when I tried getting Weeds S1 to work, my PS3 couldn't read it, I popped in all my other BD discs and it read each and every one. I got suspicious so I checked under the disc. There I found scratches unlike any I had ever seen before, you could feel them running your fingers on them. they were really bad and deep. My guess is this is a factory flaw, because this disc came super sealed (sideways and up and down) and the disc was in it's place safe and secure. Little good that did since apparently it was damaged (defective) from the start.
I just hope no one else had the same experience I did. Especially since I live in Kuwait and it's cheaper for me to buy another one than ship it back.
Rating:  - 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.
Rating:  - Just a little slow for me
I really thought this series would be a little more exciting. It all and all was not bad, but it was really boring and slow in the beginning. Once they set up characters and story line it starts to get more interesting. By the time the series is over you indeed want to see the second season.
Rating: - Excellent Series, Poor Video Quality
The series is tremendously funny and interestingly original. If you like dark comedy, you'll love this!
I took off a star simply because the video quality of this Blu-ray release was considerably poor. Most episodes are pretty fuzzy and I kept having a problem with the color... I had to adjust my TV several times to get it to look normal and I've had this TV for a while and only had to adjust it once for any Blu-ray movie, video game, or HD-TV. If you're expecting top-notch quality... don't!
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