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Date: 2008-06-16 Author: Ginia Bellafante Article Mentions
Author, Ginia BellafanteMentioned, Albert Brooks Mentioned, Mary-Louise Parker Mentioned, Mary Louise Parker Mentioned, Doug Wilson Mentioned, Justin Kirk Mentioned, Hunter Parrish Mentioned, Kevin Nealon Mentioned, Roberto Benabib Mentioned, Elizabeth Perkins Mentioned, Alexander Gould Mentioned, Brandon Jay Mentioned, The New York Times
@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/article/screen/print.css); Television Review - 'Weeds' - Weeds - Review - Television - NYTimes.com var google_hints = "Television,Showtime"; var google_ad_channel = "ar_arts"; June 16, 2008 Television Review | 'Weeds' Pot Dealers Washed Up in an Unchic Beach Town By GINIA BELLAFANTE For a long time it has been hard to know what Weeds, the Showtime series starring Mary Louise Parker as a widowed suburban drug dealer, actually stands for but too easy to see what it is against. Weeds has never had the radical gumption to advocate for lighting up its interest in drug culture doesnt extend beyond giddy fascination but it has opposed the broad threats to free-thinking that could keep such a culture ...(read more)
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... as a Jewish chauvinist with a gambling problem and a comatose mother he tends to but cant stand. The inclusion of a seemingly unloved old woman in a hospital bed in Lennys living room feels arbitrary when it should stand as an omen. Nancys children a ...
... (Nancy Botwin), Elizabeth Perkins (Celia Hodes), Hunter Parrish (Silas Botwin), Alexander Gould (Shane Botwin), Justin Kirk (Andy Botwin), Kevin Nealon (Doug Wilson), Lenny Botwin (Albert Brooks) and Jo Farkas (Bubbie). Home World U.S. N.Y. / Regio ...
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