DVD : Weeds - The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]

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DVD : Weeds - The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]

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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0031398213345
Format: Color, Widescreen
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Lions Gate
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
MPN: LGEBR21334
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Running Time: 283 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/29/2007 Run time: 144 minutes Rating: Pg13

Amazon.com:
With its fantastic comedy series Weeds, cable network Showtime finally gave up its also-ran status to HBO and found itself with a controversial, buzz-worthy show that was as hilarious as it was dark, one about a truly desperate housewife. A recent widow with two growing sons, Nancy Botwin (Golden Globe winner Mary-Louise Parker) looks like a typical resident of the affluent Southern California suburb of Agrestic. She keeps a clean, upscale house (with the help of a live-in maid), attends PTA meetings, goes to her kids’ soccer games, makes frequent stops at the local coffee franchise…. and sells marijuana in order to make it all possible. Left with no way to support herself after her beloved husband’s fatal heart attack, Nancy turns herself into the “suburban baroness of bud,” dealing to her neighbors in the area, with the help of her supplier Heylia (Tonye Patano) and point man Conrad (Romany Malco). Nancy’s clients run from the local councilman (Kevin Nealon) to the just-barely-legal students at the local community college, but many in Agrestic are still in the dark as to how she keeps her family afloat, including her best friend, the sardonic Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), a wife and mother whose blistering, withering put-downs could make Dorothy Parker cringe in fear. But like many small-business owners, Nancy yearns for more success and cash, and like her workaholic neighbors, finds keeping a balance between work life and home life to be extremely precarious at best.

While Desperate Housewives yearned to be a suburban satire with bite, Weeds was the real deal, skewering upper-middle class mores with a sharp eye, a keen wit, and a mostly forgiving heart. In episode after episode, the show’s creative team (led by creator Jenji Kohan) pulled back the layers of Agrestic’s superficiality to show what lies beneath the squeaky-clean exteriors and smiling faces; it turns out that hunger, fear, desire, and, yes, desperation aren’t that far down. However, Weeds forsakes pulpiness and florid drama for biting yet affectionate humor–its heroine is a woman with sliding morals, but one you’ll root for to the very end. The effervescent Parker, the only actress who can mix perkiness with morbidity in just the right amounts, anchored the show with her amazing turn as Nancy, who by the end of the first season had become a kind of soccer-mom version of Michael Corleone, entering a corrupt world with both trepidation and fascination–and totally enamored of the power it brought her. Also perfectly cast, Perkins found the role of a lifetime as the bitterly hilarious Celia, and entering the show in its fourth episode, Justin Kirk (Parker’s co-star in Angels in America) proved to be a potent secret weapon as Nancy’s brother-in-law Andy, a slacker who wasn’t above peddling t-shirts to elementary school kids. As icky as these characters might appear on the surface, Weeds made them all immensely appealing and great company to be around. Don’t say we didn’t warn you: one hit and you’ll be hooked on this show. The DVDs feature six episode commentaries with cast and crew, outtakes, original featurettes, a music video, and most enjoyably, Agrestic Herbal Recipes (for entertainment value only, we assume) and the “Smoke and Mirrors” marijuana mockumentary. –Mark Englehart

Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Grass Really IS Greener!
I had heard about the show recently from some friends who, uh, knew about a previous business I’d been involved in many years ago… I figured what the heck and from the pilot episode to the end of the first season, I simply could not stop watching- I stayed up all night! The show reveals what veils suburban America hides behind, and to a certain extent, what it’s hiding. More insightful- and more fun- than Desperate Housewives, this is what Kevin Spacey might well have done with American Beauty … Read More

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Good stuff
I’m sure you all know that Weeds is funny as hell, probably one of the funniest shows in the last decade.

The picture quality on this Blu-ray release is solid, but something seems to be lacking. The image is sharp but the colours are slightly faded. Compared to for example Blu-ray releases of Heroes, this Weeds release could be better.

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Good show; too much foul language
Good plot; too much bad language though. Picture quality is pretty weak for blu-ray; not the crisp picture I was expecting.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great show, and a bargain price on Blu-ray
On the surface, Weeds is a satire on suburban life (this is evident from the opening credits, which show identical people leaving their identical houses in identical SUVs). On this level, the show works pretty well most of the time, but really, how hard is it to satirize suburbia? Tim Burton played most of the same cards as Weeds way back in Edward Scissorhands. There are some new complications here, and even if it is familiar territory, it’s still pretty fun.

But what makes Weeds truly … Read More

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - My first scratched BD disc (Weeds S1)
This review is about the product itself, not the Weeds TV show because I still have not seen it due to the reasons mentioned next:

I’m usually satisfied when I order dvds/blu-rays or pretty much anything else from here. But when I tried getting Weeds S1 to work, my PS3 couldn’t read it, I popped in all my other BD discs and it read each and every one. I got suspicious so I checked under the disc. There I found scratches unlike any I had ever seen before, you could feel them running your … Read More

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