Weeds is an American comedy-drama television program developed for the Showtime network by Lionsgate Television. The woman responsible for the creation of the series is Jenji Kohan.
The plot of Weeds involves your typical American housewife whose life is fairly simple until her husband dies suddenly while jogging. In order to continue her suburban lifestyle, she needs to find a way to make ends meet which results in her entering the marijuana trade.
Weeds, the television series' name refers both to the plant that the protagonist sells (marijuana or cannabis) as well as to an old term for the type of clothing that widow's wear when their husbands have died (widow's weeds). Many others also point out the fact that weeds are a good metaphor for the suburban neighborhoods that spring up which often grown quickly like weeds and involve houses and people who are not very differentiable.
The theme for the series which begins at the opening of each show is "Little Boxes", a song that stresses the sameness of suburban life and is a very nice song to be used for this series that involves that aspect of suburban culture.
Weeds currently has five seasons and began to play in 2005. It was the highest rated series for Showtime in its first year and has been considered a definite success for the channel. On average, the season has attracted 962,000 viewers.
A total of 1.7 million viewers which is made up of 1.2 million viewers for the beginning and an additional .5 million viewers later for the rerun later that night mean that Showtime was quite happy with the success bringing in 1.7 million people to watch Weeds.
Much of the scenery and exterior shots on the show are shot in California in places like Santa Clarita Valley and Calabasas, California.
Nancy Botwin is the protagonist who is the housewife whose husband dies. She lives the typical affluent suburban life style in a very nice neighborhood where one wouldn't think much about drugs or other seedy type activity. However, after her husband's quick death while out jogging, she must find a way to make ends meet which leads her to begin selling marijuana to her neighbors and friends. Later on, she must continue to expand her customer base which brings on more challenges and obstacles.
Celia is Nancy's best friend who also seems to be at times her best enemy. She is stuck in an unhappy marriage and is a character taken to various vices including alcohol. She also is mean and takes actions against various people to teach them lessons.
To give you a taste of what the seasons comprise of, season 1 involves the death of Nancy's husband as he is jogging. He dies suddenly of a heart attack and leaves Nancy a widow thus setting off the plot for her marijuana dealing.
Nancy's children, both of them, attend public school but it is necessary for Nancy to earn money by selling marijuana to her friends and neighbors in order to earn enough to keep their upper middle class lifestyle going.
Later on, some of Nancy's customers begin to go to a medical marijuana dispensary because its quality of weed is far superior to that of Nancy's. Nancy is forced to employ her cooking skills to make baked goods and thus find a way to continue to sell her inferior weed to her customers. She later opens a bakery in order to cover this baking up while putting Costco products on her shelves to further her cover.
Weeds is a very good television show and if the plot and characters seems like something that you might like, you should definitely check out Showtime and see the show for yourself. If you cannot watch it right now, you can at least look at the clips and other videos online about the show by searching for "Weeds" in any search engine.
The plot of Weeds involves your typical American housewife whose life is fairly simple until her husband dies suddenly while jogging. In order to continue her suburban lifestyle, she needs to find a way to make ends meet which results in her entering the marijuana trade.
Weeds, the television series' name refers both to the plant that the protagonist sells (marijuana or cannabis) as well as to an old term for the type of clothing that widow's wear when their husbands have died (widow's weeds). Many others also point out the fact that weeds are a good metaphor for the suburban neighborhoods that spring up which often grown quickly like weeds and involve houses and people who are not very differentiable.
The theme for the series which begins at the opening of each show is "Little Boxes", a song that stresses the sameness of suburban life and is a very nice song to be used for this series that involves that aspect of suburban culture.
Weeds currently has five seasons and began to play in 2005. It was the highest rated series for Showtime in its first year and has been considered a definite success for the channel. On average, the season has attracted 962,000 viewers.
A total of 1.7 million viewers which is made up of 1.2 million viewers for the beginning and an additional .5 million viewers later for the rerun later that night mean that Showtime was quite happy with the success bringing in 1.7 million people to watch Weeds.
Much of the scenery and exterior shots on the show are shot in California in places like Santa Clarita Valley and Calabasas, California.
Nancy Botwin is the protagonist who is the housewife whose husband dies. She lives the typical affluent suburban life style in a very nice neighborhood where one wouldn't think much about drugs or other seedy type activity. However, after her husband's quick death while out jogging, she must find a way to make ends meet which leads her to begin selling marijuana to her neighbors and friends. Later on, she must continue to expand her customer base which brings on more challenges and obstacles.
Celia is Nancy's best friend who also seems to be at times her best enemy. She is stuck in an unhappy marriage and is a character taken to various vices including alcohol. She also is mean and takes actions against various people to teach them lessons.
To give you a taste of what the seasons comprise of, season 1 involves the death of Nancy's husband as he is jogging. He dies suddenly of a heart attack and leaves Nancy a widow thus setting off the plot for her marijuana dealing.
Nancy's children, both of them, attend public school but it is necessary for Nancy to earn money by selling marijuana to her friends and neighbors in order to earn enough to keep their upper middle class lifestyle going.
Later on, some of Nancy's customers begin to go to a medical marijuana dispensary because its quality of weed is far superior to that of Nancy's. Nancy is forced to employ her cooking skills to make baked goods and thus find a way to continue to sell her inferior weed to her customers. She later opens a bakery in order to cover this baking up while putting Costco products on her shelves to further her cover.
Weeds is a very good television show and if the plot and characters seems like something that you might like, you should definitely check out Showtime and see the show for yourself. If you cannot watch it right now, you can at least look at the clips and other videos online about the show by searching for "Weeds" in any search engine.
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