CSeason 8Weeds: “It’s Time”Myles McNutt9/17/12 12:05amEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkA series finale is designed to rewrite history. No matter how many messy seasons or uneven episodes come between the…
A-Season 8Weeds: “God Willing And The Creek Don’t Rise”Myles McNutt9/09/12 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAs Nancy realizes that Silas has come to Conrad’s wedding with Megan, the girl he impregnated back in the show’s first…
C+Season 8Weeds: “Threshold”Myles McNutt9/02/12 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAt the end of “Threshold,” Nancy chooses her path for the future. After realizing that she wasn’t ready to be Dave’s…
CSeason 8Weeds: “Saplings”Myles McNutt8/26/12 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhile the strongest material in Weeds’ eighth season has focused on Nancy, “Saplings” is a reminder that the show is…
CSeason 8Weeds: “Five Miles From Yetzer Hara”Myles McNutt8/19/12 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhen you’re just watching along at home, twists in a serial television show can be exciting. The rug being pulled out…
B+Season 8Weeds: “Unfreeze”Myles McNutt8/12/12 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhen it began, Weeds consisted of a constellation of households. While characters’ storylines filtered through their…
C+Season 8Weeds: “Allosaurus Crush Castle”Myles McNutt8/05/12 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe idea of “television logic” is a tricky one, critically speaking. Without writing an entire essay on the subject,…
B-Season 8Weeds: “Red In Tooth And Claw”Myles McNutt7/29/12 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt is a function of Weeds’ premise that it is a show about marijuana. However, I feel as though people sometimes…
BSeason 8Weeds: “Only Judy Can Judge”Myles McNutt7/22/12 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAfter three episodes in which Weeds explored the direct ramifications of Nancy’s shooting, “Only Judy Can Judge”…
BSeason 8Weeds: “See Blue And Smell Cheese And Die”Myles McNutt7/15/12 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhen it was revealed that Tim Scottson was the person who shot Nancy, logic suggested a season-long arc as the…
B-Season 8Weeds: “A Beam Of Sunshine”Myles McNutt7/08/12 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAfter putting their lead character into a coma for the entirety of last week’s “Messy,” Weeds’ writers effectively…
CSeason 8Weeds: “Messy”Myles McNutt7/01/12 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIn the cultural zeitgeist, Weeds ended when its story was only half over.
C-Season 7Weeds: “Do Her/Don't Do Her”Myles McNutt9/26/11 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkShowtime hasn’t officially picked up Weeds for an eighth season, but during summer press tour the network suggested…
A-Season 7Weeds: “Qualitative Spatial Reasoning”Myles McNutt9/19/11 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkLast week, I proposed that the momentum gained toward the end of the seventh season of Weeds is more inertia than any…
BSeason 7Weeds: “Une Mére Que J’aimerais Baiser”Myles McNutt9/12/11 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhile I have been frustrated with many parts of the seventh season of Weeds, what I consider to be the season’s central…
BSeason 7Weeds: “System Overhead”Myles McNutt8/29/11 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“System Overhead” is an improvement over the last few episodes of Weeds’ seventh season, but I don’t think it’s…
CSeason 7Weeds: “Cats! Cats! Cats!”Myles McNutt8/22/11 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIn “Cats! Cats! Cats!”, both of Nancy’s children make some idiotic decisions that reflect poorly on their ability to…
BSeason 7Weeds: “Synthetics”Myles McNutt8/15/11 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAs “Synthetics” comes to a conclusion, Nancy is certainly in a difficult position. She brings her date—who is also her…
C+Season 7Weeds: "Vehement v. Vigorous"Myles McNutt8/08/11 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOn Thursday, Showtime held its portion of the Television Critics’ Association Summer Press Tour, and David Nevins (its…
B-Season 7Weeds: "Object Impermanence"Myles McNutt8/01/11 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhen Heylia James walked out of that house at the end of last week’s episode of Weeds, I was kind of excited.
