Weeds the complete season

Showtime’s “Weeds” has been picked up for a sixth season, and a seventh is expected.

Weeds has a history of episodes leaking to the Internet. Creator Jenji Kohan has stated that she does not mind episodes being distributed on the internet in this way, saying, “Revenue aside, I don’t expect to get rich on Weeds. I’m excited it’s out there. Showtime is great, but it does have a limited audience.”

Weeds is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan, produced by Lionsgate Television for the Showtime network.

The show revolves around a newly widowed housewife (Mary-Louise Parker) from an affluent California suburb who becomes her neighborhood’s marijuana dealer to make ends meet. The title is a play on words, referring to both the slang term for marijuana and widow’s weeds. It also plays on the tendency of American suburbs to grow quickly and pervasively, with the dwellings and their residents being almost as indistinguishable as weeds. This is mirrored in the show’s theme song “Little Boxes” and opening credits, and is a recurring theme of the show. The theme song changes in the second season with a different version every week.

Weeds currently comprises five seasons that began airing in August 2005. It was the highest rated series for Showtime in its first year; its fourth-season premiere attracted 1.3 million viewers to Showtime, the channel’s highest-ever viewership; the season as a whole averaged 962,000 viewers. Showtime renewed the show on July 18, 2008 for two more seasons of thirteen episodes each. Season 5 premiered to 1.2 million viewers, with a rerun on the same night adding another 500,000 viewers for a cumulative 1.7 million.

Mary-Louise Parker won a Golden Globe for her performance on the show, and Jenji Kohan won a WGA award for her screenplay for the pilot episode. The show was nominated for a notable 19 Emmy Awards and 10 Golden Globes.

A version of this Wikipedia page served as the opening for episode 57 (season 5 show 7) “Where the Sidewalk Ends”.

The final episode of the show’s fifth season aired on August 31, 2009 and attracted 1.3 million viewers, up from last year’s numbers which averaged 1 million.

The sixth season will premiere in 2010, according to Showtime.

Weeds The Complete Season 1-4 DVD Boxset

Shows changing locales can be a mistake, and it took a few episodes for Weeds to find its footing with the change, just as the characters did. However, the gamble worked and the show finds a renewed energy that should provide the series a few more seasons at least.

Being in Canada means that we don’t get all the great TV shows that Americans get.  We usually will receive the feeds a few years after all the hype of a great show is already into it’s 3rd or 4th season.  That’s what makes DVD series so intriguing (especially for us Canadians), we can catch all the latest shows, and be just one season behind.  The other great thing about DVD sets is being able to watch the episodes on our own time – not dictated by what cable tells us. One such show that I have heard about is Weeds, which is in it’s 4 season (and still not in Canada). But Canadians, you too can now know what all the buzz is about, because it is out on a DVD and Blu-ray box set.

Since its debut, ”Weeds” has been nominated for 18 Emmy Awards and ten Golden Globes and won the Golden Globe® for Best Performance by An Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy – for Parker’s brilliant performance. The show has continued to garner enormous critical acclaim. At the start of its fifth season debut People Magazine exclaimed Weeds is a rare example of a show that has reinvented itself and actually come out better” The Chicago Sun-Times proclaimed it ”the funniest thing you’ll see all summer.” The San Francisco Chronicle hailed it ”dramatically challenging and risky.” Hilarious and subversive, ”Weeds” is the hit that put the herb in suburb!