Weeds from Showtime is funny, subversive and odd. We just watched season 1 (2005), and loved the show. Starring Mary Louise-Parker as Nancy,a recently widowed suburban mom, with 2 kids to support. To get by, she starts dealing weed...maryjane...dope...pot...marijuana!
And Nancy is good at it. With her supplier and suburban network of smokers, she is at once appalled at her new occupation, and yet oddly happy that she is doing so well at it.
With Kevin Nealon as her accountant, laundering her money, and one of her best customers, who also happens to be on the city council, and Elizabeth Perkins as her love her-hate her neighbor, Nancy is an on-the-go soccer mom, with a nice business on the side.
This is a great juxtaposition, and lends itself to downright funny situations, as well as insight into the dark side of suburban living.
The funniest scene so far---Nancy's older maid, Lupita walks in on Nealon and Nancy's brother in law toking up and watching porn. They have gotten into a conversation about what the part of the body is between the scrotum and the anus. Taint is one, and i forget the other. But they are sitting in the living room, one on the sofa, the other on the love seat, their feet on the table, baked. "Lupita, what do you call the thing between the dick and the asshole?"
"The coffee table," she disgustedly replies! I was rolling.
Good good show. Went right back and ordered season 2.
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