Post by frenchfan on Sept 17, 2006 8:16:11 GMT -5
The weeds : My last blow of heart. 
Moved, and funny, sarcastic and touching series.
This show tells the history of Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) a mother from which the husband has succumbed to a heart attack.
To feed these two children, Silas (Hunter Parrish) and Shane (Alexander Gould), Nancy follows the advice of her brother-in-law (Justin Kirk) and starts to sell marijuana in Agrestic, the middle-class residential district where she lives, where reign the conformism and where appearances are queens.
This show attacks in a frontal way the vast hypocrisy about the consumption of the cannabis, while drawing up a lucid portrait on the family unit. Whereas nothing it predestined there, Nancy Botwin chooses deliberately a criminal career, perfectly conscious of her own hypocrisy, with respect to her family and of her friends, her community. The Lie with a large L then takes the reins of her life, with the detriment of the other sides of her existence, that they are her relations with her two sons, or her credibility as a relative of responsible pupil.
Dialogues written with a lot of sharpness, often concise, always effective, for the amateurs of sarcasms.
One of the other points strong of this series to my direction is the dynamics between Nancy and Celia (the neighbor very conformist) which functions with wonder. All opposes them and yet they have a really credible complicity. Celia is also far from the stereotypes. In other series, there would be a wedged character, another land-mark, another sarcastic, another funny and still another manipulator. Celia is all that at the same time.
Weeds is incontestably a series at the same time funny, dramatic and innovating. Mary-Louise Parker and Elizabeth Perkins are two remarkable actresses. The second roles are perfect.
Does nobody look at ?
PS : In France the first season is currently diffused.
Moved, and funny, sarcastic and touching series.
This show tells the history of Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) a mother from which the husband has succumbed to a heart attack.
To feed these two children, Silas (Hunter Parrish) and Shane (Alexander Gould), Nancy follows the advice of her brother-in-law (Justin Kirk) and starts to sell marijuana in Agrestic, the middle-class residential district where she lives, where reign the conformism and where appearances are queens.
This show attacks in a frontal way the vast hypocrisy about the consumption of the cannabis, while drawing up a lucid portrait on the family unit. Whereas nothing it predestined there, Nancy Botwin chooses deliberately a criminal career, perfectly conscious of her own hypocrisy, with respect to her family and of her friends, her community. The Lie with a large L then takes the reins of her life, with the detriment of the other sides of her existence, that they are her relations with her two sons, or her credibility as a relative of responsible pupil.
Dialogues written with a lot of sharpness, often concise, always effective, for the amateurs of sarcasms.
One of the other points strong of this series to my direction is the dynamics between Nancy and Celia (the neighbor very conformist) which functions with wonder. All opposes them and yet they have a really credible complicity. Celia is also far from the stereotypes. In other series, there would be a wedged character, another land-mark, another sarcastic, another funny and still another manipulator. Celia is all that at the same time.
Weeds is incontestably a series at the same time funny, dramatic and innovating. Mary-Louise Parker and Elizabeth Perkins are two remarkable actresses. The second roles are perfect.
Does nobody look at ?
PS : In France the first season is currently diffused.
