Update: You can watch the Season Four premiere in edited fashion at Variety.
Over the past three weeks I’ve devoured the first three seasons of Showtime’s darkly funny Weeds. For those who watch the show and I’d assume love it dearly, please skip ahead and know that the shows returns tonight at 10 p.m. on Showtime for the start of Season Four. We’re all terribly excited around these parts.
Like the best television shows, Weeds works on a level beyond its mere premise. Sure, it’s “about” a suburban mother who sells pot, but it’s also “about” the gray area people will live in and justify to survive. It’s about trying to take the American Dream and keep it from slipping from your fingers.
Nancy Botwin is a single mother (twice widowed), who’s slowly moving up the drug food chain to provide a better life for her two children, Shane and Silas. Except that, you know, dealing drugs leads to all sorts of problems and rather than make her children’s lives better Nancy just about ruins them.
Played by Mary-Louise Parker with a dose of intelligence, survival instinct, recklessness, ingenuity and coquettish charm, Botwin finds herself in one pickle after another like inadvertently becoming the driver for a drive-by-shooting, becoming romantically involved with a Drug Enforcement Agent, and so on and so on.
She keeps it together by the friendship of Doug Wilson (Kevin Nealon), her wacky CPA; her rivalry with frenemy Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins), perhaps the most loathsome character on the show but I root like hell for her to find redemption or at the very least stop being such a bitch; the irrepressible brother-in-law Andy Botwin (Justin Kirk), who has nothing but good intentions but fails miserably as a porn star, rabbi, Army recruit, Uncle, business partner, well pretty much everything he does except for sleeping with crazy women; and of course, Conrad, the best damn grower of marijuana and Botwin’s love interest.
The cast of characters on this show keeps things breezy and funny, but the darkness of the material and the constant valleys for all involved elevate the material to something more meaty than your average sitcom.
Mary-Louise Parker of “Weeds” fame (insert “toke”n joke here) has adopted a baby girl from Africa, her rep tells People, to join her 3-year-old son, Will, by actor Billy Crudup (remember him? He left her after seven years together for Claire Danes? And remember the movie Crudup and Danes were in together? Thought not). Way to expand the fam, girlfriend!
Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds premiered their love–where else but the airport! The two, who have been dating since April, have been coy about romance rumors but now this holding hands business seals the deal. According to A Socialite’s Life, Reynolds, who had a long engagement with Alanis Morissette, “is a big fan of moving forward” with Johansson, but the latter would prefer to move slowly. Here’s a tip in moving slowly: don’t match your accessories until at least eight months into the relationship.
Dave Grohl can say some pretty funny things (I mean, who better to make fun of Mentos than Dave Grohl?), but this takes the cake. Via I Don’t Like You In That Way, Grohl comments on why Paris Hilton rules. PSYCH! More like why she sucks: “Paris is fucking lame. She’s more offensive to me than anything. She’s a total, raging, disgusting, rich, lazy party slut. I pray that my daughter will not turn out like her.” And millions of fathers share your prayer…Paris, in retaliation, will have her publicist come out with a statement like, “Paris has never met Mr. Grohl, and doesn’t know why he would spend so much time thinking about her. She has always been a big fan of his music and she wishes him the best in future endeavors.”
Despite Lindsay Lohan’s rehab stay now nearing two months, sources at Cirque Lodge are reporting that she is being treated for sex addiction, in addition to her dependencies on drugs and alcohol. Reports Metro UK: “A source told US Star magazine: ‘She’s been having erotic dreams about her former lovers, like Calum Best, Wilmer Valderrama, and Jared Leto.’ ‘Her counsellors are trying to get her to understand that she’s substituting one addiction for another.’ The insider added: ‘Besides the obvious dangers of STDs, having indiscriminate sex can lead to emotional heartbreak, and that can lead to drug and alcohol abuse. If she doesn’t come to grips with this, Lindsay is going to find herself back in rehab-sex addiction.’” Just like rehab to be so judgmental and slap you with another label when they find you having sex in a bathroom stall with a fellow patient.
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