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Weeds: season 5, episode 13
"All About My Mom"
September 1, 2009 - 01:09a.m.
So, Weeds, what do you want to leave us with this season? Last season, you felt like leaving us with the idea that Nancy ruins everything she touches (actually, you left us with that in season three too). This season ...
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Weeds: season 5, episode 12
"Glue"
August 25, 2009 - 01:08a.m.
From the first, Andy Botwin has been one of the more problematic characters on Weeds. Back in the days when the show was a suburban satire, he was the slacker brother who kept trying to come up with plans to ...
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Weeds: season 5, episode 11
"Ducks and Tigers"
August 18, 2009 - 01:08a.m.
At this point, I’m almost completely uncertain of what to make of Weeds’ fifth season. The stuff I like and the stuff I hate about it is so closely bound together that I just don’t know what to ...
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Weeds: season 5, episode 10
"Perro Insano"
August 10, 2009 - 06:08p.m.
I actually enjoyed quite a bit of “Perro Insano,” which ended a long streak of middling Weeds episodes with a funny half hour that also pushed the story forward quite a bit. Hell, I laughed out loud once or twice ...
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Weeds: season 5, episode 9
"Suck 'n' Spit"
August 4, 2009 - 01:08a.m.
My wife has never been exposed to Weeds before this season. I think she’s seen an episode here and there, but whatever she saw didn’t impress her enough to continue, I guess. She’s been following this season ...
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Weeds: season 5, episode 8
"A Distinctive Horn"
July 28, 2009 - 02:07a.m.
It’s taken a couple of weeks, but Weeds is finally creeping forward again. Some of you have been calling me out for saying that nothing’s happening on the show when that’s not strictly true. And, obviously, things ...
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Weeds: season 5, episode 7
"Where the Sidewalk Ends"
July 21, 2009 - 03:07a.m.
For the second week in a row, Weeds jaunted merrily ahead of the timeline, skipping up to the very end of Nancy’s pregnancy, and for the second week in a row, pretty much nothing happened outside of the episode ...
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Weeds: season 5, episode 6
"A Modest Proposal"
July 14, 2009 - 01:07a.m.
I said a couple of weeks ago that I thought the producers of Weeds were more cynical about the Nancy/Andy pairing than Andy seemed to be, but the show seems to be proving me wrong in last week’s ...
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Weeds: season 5, episode 5
"Van Nuys"
July 6, 2009 - 10:07p.m.
Hey all: do not adjust your TV Club computer screens--Todd is off this week and I'm picking up for him on Weeds, a show I follow dedicatedly although am still unsure about after all these seasons.
So, if you ...
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Weeds: season 5, episode 4
"Super Happy Lucky"
June 30, 2009 - 01:06a.m.
Weeds has apparently just decided to completely turn itself over to Justin Kirk and hope for the best. I’m not entirely sure this is such a bad plan either. On his own, Andy Botwin isn’t the world’s ...
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Weeds: season 5, episode 3
"Su-Su-Sucio"
June 22, 2009 - 11:06p.m.
“Su-Su-Sucio” is probably the best Weeds yet in this young season, if not the best Weeds in a while. It’s sharply funny in quite a few spots, it offers up some good plot development, and none of the characters ...
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Weeds: season 5, episode 2
"Machetes Up Top"
June 15, 2009 - 10:06p.m.
If ever there were an actress made for the quirky, off-center rhythms of Weeds, it’s probably the quirky, off-center Jennifer Jason Leigh, an actress who, like series star Mary-Louise Parker, seems perpetually underrated despite turning in great performance after ...
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Weeds: season 5, episode 1
"Wonderful, Wonderful"
June 8, 2009 - 09:06p.m.
Hey, Weeds-keteers and welcome to recaps for the pitch-black comedy’s fifth season. I’m taking over for Genevieve Koski, whose shoes will be hard to fill, but we’ll do what we can, won’t we?
Anyway! Weeds ...
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Weeds: season 4, episode 13
"If You Work For a Living, Then Why Do You Kill Yourself Working?"
September 15, 2008 - 09:09p.m.
One thing you have to give Weeds, even as what could be its weakest season so far comes to a close, is that the writers do know their way around a cliffhanger. Before tonight, I was pretty sure that I ...
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Weeds
"Till We Meet Again"
September 8, 2008 - 11:09p.m.
And so after a season of meandering starts and stops, we're barreling toward next week's Weeds finale, seemingly with little thought for the "comedy" aspect of this dark comedy. When's the last time Weeds has made as ...
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Weeds: season 4, episode 11
"Head Cheese"
August 25, 2008 - 11:08p.m.
The quality that made Nancy a good dealer in small-time Agrestic is the same quality that's landed her in over her head since moving on to the big-time border games: A single-minded belief that she can handle whatever might ...
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Weeds: season 4, episode 10
"The Love Circle Overlap"
August 18, 2008 - 11:08p.m.
Nancy's storyline during this season of Weeds has been much more addled than in previous seasons. She's fumbled her way through a rapid-fire series of developments, any of which could have probably sustained a season had it been ...
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Weeds: season 4, episode 9
"Little Boats"
August 11, 2008 - 10:08p.m.
Looks like I fell right into the trap that the writers of Weeds have been laying out for the past few episodes. After being treated to weeks of Nancy's selfish, stupid behavior, I was ready to write her off ...
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Weeds: season 4, episode 8
"I Am The Table"
August 4, 2008 - 10:08p.m.
You know that things are going to shit in Weeds when Andy and Doug seem like the sanest, most pulled-together guys in the bunch. Sure, their coyote operation may have hit a snag during its maiden voyage–Andy forgot to ...
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Weeds
"Yes I Can"
July 28, 2008 - 11:07p.m.
Perhaps it's because things have been so chaotic the past few weeks in Ren Mar, but tonight's was the first episode this season that really had that old Weeds feel, a nice balance between the family comedy/drama ...
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Weeds: season 4, episode 6
"Excellent Treasure"
July 21, 2008 - 11:07p.m.
The problem with a jam-packed, game-changing episode like last week's Weeds is that it's tough to rebound from while maintaining momentum. It's like soda pop: After you shake it up, it needs to settle, but when it ...
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Weeds: season 4, episode 5
"No Man Is Pudding"
July 14, 2008 - 10:07p.m.
Nancy's reaction to adversity over the past season or so has been mostly in the deer-in-headlights vein, with her shuffling in wide-eyed panic through her scrapes, seemingly guided by a weird combination of luck and pure insanity. So it ...
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Weeds: season 4, episode 4
The Three Coolers
July 7, 2008 - 10:07p.m.
Extortion seemed to be the name of the game in tonight's episode of Weeds, with Nancy, Silas, and Celia all being forced to cough up something in order to save their own ass. Len requiring 10 thousand a month ...
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Weeds: season 4, episode 3
"The Whole Blah Damn Thing"
June 30, 2008 - 09:06p.m.
Well, looks like I wasn't the only one unimpressed by Nancy's border-run last week; apparently Guillermo didn't take to her "Technicolor slut suit" antics either. This week, after a quick lesson in how to not draw so ...
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Weeds: season 4, episode 2
"Lady's A Charm"
June 23, 2008 - 09:06p.m.
Here's a question: Was Nancy always sort of a moron, or has she just been hypnotized by the sound of the ocean? It's been a couple of years since I saw the first season of Weeds, but I ...
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Weeds: season 4, episode 1
"Mother Thinks The Birds Are After Her"
June 16, 2008 - 10:06p.m.
Weeds fans likely felt a little apprehensive as last season's finale drew to a close with the town of Agrestic–a cookie-cutter community whose non-personality was a formative element of the show–destroyed by a wildfire and suburban dealer ...
