I don't have HBO or Showtime on my TV at home. In fact I have the smallest package I can get from Charter and still get TV. I probably get something like 12 channels. Now I used to get the whole package, all the channels and more. But I realized that I wasn't watching most of those channels but I sure was paying for them. If I could guarantee good reception on my TV without Cable I would seriously think of dropping it completely. And the fact that I have to get my high speed internet connection from them. I've looked in alternatives, but nothing I find comes any cheaper, if not a lot more expensive.
This is all a preamble to the fact that I have not seen an episode of Weeds yet. I've seen the first two seasons collected on DVD and on sale at the store many a time and at a reasonable price. In fact many a time I've had the set in hand and was seriously thinking of buying a season, but for one reason or another never did.
Well, I have a little time on my hand right now. A couple weeks of being able to do not much of anything is going to give me a lot of time to catch up on TV shows, reading and hopefully posting on my blogs. So I decided to give Weeds a look. I know some of you have been praising the greatness of this show for awhile, the all knowing Starlight being one of you, and I've just been ignoring your cries.
I should have known better. This is a wonderful show. I ended up watching the first two seasons in two days. It's a show fulled of humor and sometimes you think it's so stupid type of humor than it rears back and slaps you across the face to make sure you remember this show isn't just a comedy. It takes a very humorous look at pot dealing, but it doesn't ignore the dangers involved either. And laughing can be pretty dangerous, try laughing so hard your stomach hurts when you've got a eight inch gash held together by staples across it.
And to make me feel even worse for waiting so long to pick it up. It stars Mary Louise Parker, who I think is one of the sexiest women alive. She is so sexy and that voice is to die for.
I ended the final episode of Season Two a little while ago and want to see what happens next. The good news is that the third season of the show goes on sale next week. I have a feeling that I won't be waiting to pick up this one.
And thank you to Starlight for recommending this show in the first place.
2 comments:
You are so very welcome! I pretty much kidnapped my mom and made her watch the first two episodes. After that I couldn't get her off of my couch. Even my dad loves it.
Now your MUST get Dexter. Dexter is, in my mind, the best show on television at this moment. Better even than Weeds. And please for the love of all that is Holy and Creative, don't watch the editted version on regular TV. It totally butchers it. No pun intended =)
I am psyched cause season 3 starts soon for Weeds.
Check out Californication too. David Duchovny is so NOT Fox Mulder in it!
Yea, once I started watching Weeds I knew how the rest of my day and night was going to go. One thing about being stuck home recupurating, it at least gives me time to watch something like this.
Dexter and Californication are both two shows I'm looking forward to trying. The first I know is out on DVD, I don't know if I've seen Californaction on DVD yet. And I never liked his show when he was Fox Mulder in it.
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