I am – Hercules!!
The frustrated Herc’s been hopelessly in love with Mary Louise Parker since “Grand Canyon.’ Do you believe I’d turn my back on this “West Wing” vixen now that she’s packing quality doob?
“Weeds” is about a housewife who, unable to makes ends meet following the sudden death of her husband, enters a new career as a marijuana retailer servicing her suburban neighborhood. It’s on Showtime, so with any luck we’ll see Parker cavort as nakedly as she did in “Angels in America.”
The Hollywood Reporter says:
… "Weeds" is a blast, a wry, well-written look at the life of the pot dealer next door in small-screen suburbia. … Star Mary-Louise Parker is surely due for some laudatory ink …
Variety says:
… interesting but not especially funny … doesn't really take root, pardon the expression, until the fourth of five episodes made available, when Parker's "Angels in America" co-star Justin Kirk arrives as her ne'er-do-well brother-in-law, injecting a welcome dose of vitality and fun into the proceedings. … These various stories are told well enough, but few of the threads are truly distinctive …These various stories are told well enough, but few of the threads are truly distinctive …
Entertainment Weekly gives it a “B-plus” and says:
… While she can be a bit too WASP-fabulous — torturing her pudgy daughter into dieting, avenging her husband's infidelity with an electric razor, and spouting lines like ''I don't like dealing with things, I much prefer to pretend they don't exist'' — [Elizabeth] Perkins is so perfectly, nastily desperate that she gets away with it. … Adding just the right amount of mischief (and testosterone) is Nancy's debauched brother-in-law, Andy (Parker's Angels in America co-star Justin Kirk), who floats into episode 4 wanting a wedge of the new family business. … Emmy winner Parker always has a nice, pointy delivery — here she has de-staccatoed just enough to seem like a suddenly single, slightly sheltered suburbanite who's actually got brains and a dose of gumption. …
The Houston Chronicle says:
… good enough to merit your attention even without [its] titillating title … Weeds only gets better as it goes along, and it takes a darker turn around Episode 4 — enough so that the show is as much drama as it is comedy. …
The San Francisco Chronicle says:
… Ambiguity is at the comic and intellectual heart of "Weeds," and that's one of the reasons the show works so well. … some of the most intelligent writing this side of "Arrested Development." As out-there as many of the above-entioned plot and character points may seem, they are all presented within a subtly drawn and very realistic context. …
The Boston Herald says:
“Weeds” goes to pot pretty quickly. … Blow away the smoke and you find a treacly sitcom … In the best example of ``Weeds' '' gross heavy-handness, Nancy's suppliers are an African-American family, a mother and her three grown children. All their dialogue is written in Sass, a language cribbed by writers who apparently grew up believing the '70s sitcom ``Good Times'' was a documentary. These characters jive so much they wouldn't make it on a UPN sitcom. …
11.m. Sunday. Showtime.
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