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One American comedy-drama that has been making a hit recently is the popularly known show “Weeds”. This show is created by Lionsgate television under the supervision of a woman called “Jenji Kohan”.
The plot of Weeds mainly involves a housewife who has been widowed and thus must find a way to make money. She lives in an affluent California suburb and basically becomes the neighborhood drug dealer selling marijuana in order to earn her income.
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.
Weeds’ opening theme song is called “Little Boxes” which is played along with images of many small houses in a typical American suburban neighborhood. This is to further enforce the weed like mentality that was spoken about in the preceding paragraph.
Weeds is now in its fifth season and made its start in 2005. It was Showtime’s series that received its highest rating during its first year playing and is a definite success for the channel. This season attracted about 962,000 viewers on average.
The Season 5 premier brought in 1.2 million viewers with an additional 500,000 viewers for the rerun later that night bringing the total viewership to 1.7 million. Not bad for the Showtime channel.
The exteriors for the show are shot mainly in California in the Santa Clarita Valley region. Some other shots are taken in 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 enemy and friend. She is in a marriage that is particularly unhappy which may explain why she is so attracted to various vices like alcohol and trying to take others down in order to “teach them a lesson”. However, her friend/enemy status is interesting in contrast to Nancy.
Weeds’ Season 1 begins with Nancy’s husband dying which is the catalyst for the basis of the show which involves Nancy entering the marijuana dealings to keep her affluent suburban life alive.
Her children both attend the public school system but in order for Nancy to continue to support their upper middle class lifestyle in the suburbs, she must sell marijuana to her neighbors and friends.
At one point, some of Nancy’s customers begin to go to the medical marijuana shop because its quality is much higher than the quality of Nancy’s marijuana. For this reason, Nancy is forced to make baked goods using her cooking skills to find a new way to sell her inferior quality weed. She does a good job of this and covers up her sales by actually making her own bakery and putting Costco’s products on her shelves as her own.
Weeds is an excellent television show and has had a long standing viewership. If this sort of topic and protagonist sounds interesting to you, you should definitely check out the show on Showtime. You may also find clips and other previews if you search on the internet for the television show, Weeds.
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