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