Weeds - Brave moves, superb acting

[powerofnature]

No matter where I read online, somehow there seems to be a huge backlash towards "Weeds" going on. A lot of people complain about the show being not what it used to be. Honestly, I get rather annoyed by all the backlash comments. While some shows really start to get bad rather quickly (Hello, "desperate housewives"! another "prison break" with our

Comments

[palmolive5]

I'm one of those complainers and I've told you why I feel that Weeds sucks when you look at it as a show. The episodes themselves are always quite good, though. I think they should have ended it after the second season. Now it's too late, I guess. Well ... I still enjoy it, but for different reasons than I used to.

[powerofnature]

I'm quite happy that the show did not end after the second season. I especially enjoy the new direction with CELIA and NANCY this season, though Nancy really is a one hell of a bitch now. Season two definitely was the end of Nancy as a likeable character.

Unlikeable characters

[lord_phattengay]

While I can understand the importance of playing 'flawed' characters, there is nothing I would like to see more at this point than Nancy Botwin get the world's biggest dose of schadenfreude and just be made to pay for all the self-centered, money-coveting, family-dismissing, emotional and psychological apathy she puts herself through all in the name of making 'quick money

Re: Unlikeable characters

[powerofnature]

I think it's interesting to watch and I like that she is flawed, but I agree that she needs to go down at some point. She does not deserve it any different. At some point I would also like her to realize what she did to her children, currently she really seems not to notice in what kind of situation she brought them and how she robbed them of having a harmless and normal life.