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Weeds: Season Three

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3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(15)
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I'm disappointed to see many negative reviews of the 3rd Season. I got mine from Amazon last week and have already watched the whole season and it was great! I was nervous going in because I had heard from various people that season three wasn't as good, but after I got watching I was not at all sure what the fuss was about, the show is pushing itself and growing in new directions like it needs to if it's going to survive. The show challenges you to think about "drugs," what's right and wrong, and examines the inter-workings of suburbia with such cleverness that I am always pleasantly surprised.

Nancy Botwin is the perfect character, you love her, but sometimes want to slap her. Parker is an amazing actress and makes this show work from beginning to end. I also love her youngest Shane, he's excellent this season and glad to see him getting more and more airtime. This show is both funny and heartbreaking and blows most shows on TV right now out of the water.

I'm really excited to see how season 4 plays out. I think it's a great sign that they are breaking out of the "little boxes."

Don't listen to the negative reviews. If you liked season 1 and 2 you will love season 3!

Still entertaining, although not as believable. Everything seems really over-the-top. Weeds is still my favorite show though! *a note on the packaging. The discs weren't clicked in and they were rubbing around during shipping. I thought they were used at first since there were scratches on the them right out of the package.

I loved the first 2 seasons of Weeds. 3--not so much.

For starters none of the characters are very likable. The characters have always been different shades of gray (which is what has always made them so interesting), but with season 3 several of the characters just become too unlikable to make me care about them. I always found Nancy likable enough, and her story interesting enough, that her story was enjoyable to follow. Not so with season 3. Nancy is annoying, overly-promiscuous, arrogant, a bad parent, and nearly void of any and all morals. She just doesn't have enough redeeming qualities for her to remain a good protagonist. In fact, I can't think of any redeeming qualities the character has this season. Maybe persistence? That still isn't anywhere close enough to make up for scene after scene of Nancy constantly, and uncaringly, hurting the people around her. (Also, she usually follows up by throwing a temper tantrum and trying to blame the other person, and even though the other characters sometimes buy her blame-reversing rants, her logic just never seems to work as well from this side of the screen.)

Writing-wise season 3 is also much more inferior to the first 2 seasons. Several of the stories end up going nowhere and serving no purpose other than to be cute; the way new characters are introduced is always sudden, stupid, and contrived; and several characters throughout the season behave in such unbelievable and absurd ways that it makes it hard to go along for the ride.

I thought the first two season were really clever, with season 3, however, it seems they've turned it all in for cheap laughs.

The one redeeming thing about the show is the ending. The ending is really good--especially if you're someone like me who isn't planning on returning for season 4. The ending makes it really easy to walk away from the show, which is what I'm doing. "Kooky Nancy" and her "wacky troubles" have just become too stupid for me to care about.

I hate to say it because I absolutely loved the first 2 seasons, but Weeds REALLY jumped the shark with season 3.

At least they gave us an easy way to say goodbye to the show.

If you liked the first two seasons for their creative story lines, originality, and the pushing-of-the-envelope characterization then you would be disappointed with season three. The story lines don't go anywhere... it's as though the writers stopped caring. And I don't particularly care for the various characters as I had in the previous two seasons. Don't buy, borrow season three and hope that the fourth is an improvement. I am not sure I want to continue with the fourth season, myself.

I thought this season was just a perfect mix of drama and comedy. The whole Nancy turning gangsta thing was hilarious, and the show somehow makes the criminals Nancy hangs out with funny and relatable.
Celia is an especially amazing character, because she can be extremely mean and shallow (and sometimes even cruel) but still maintains a strange lovability that makes it easy to sympathize for her.

Great season of a great show, and the season finale opens up many new possibilities for season 4.

I'm assuming anyone reading this already has a grasp on what the series is about and the basic characters around this. To recap, the show surrounds the life of Nancy Botwin and her attempts to acquire enough money to keep up with her rich lifestyle. Her occupation: pot dealer. Naturally Season's 1 and 2 capitalized on the obvious plotline here which is how to get a business going, keeping the secret from the right people, and still being a Mom at the same time.

One would think that Season's 2 finale gave them plenty to work with. Nancy is caught up in a Mexican Standoff with drug dealers on a deal going poorly because Cilas stole the pot she was about to sell. To make things worse, Cilas is on the verge of getting busted by Ceila and the cops for possession of the motherload of all pot, while Shane is with some crazy loon on a trip to Mexico.

I won't go into too many specific details of the series, because doing so would ruin the cliffhanger that those who don't have showtime haven't seen. But the biggest complaint is that the character storylines are completely changed and abandoned throughout the season. You see Andy for instance have a brief run-in with the army again and try out a porn career none of which has anything to do with Nancy or her secret. Shane's purpose in the series, along with Ashley Olsen, who is seen in 3 episodes for 10 minutes each (tops) seem largely irrelevant to everything. Perhaps my biggest problem with this season is that the series might have jumped the shark. Nancy's secret for (while keeping details out to the greatest extent possible) becomes "too public;" too many people know she deals and grows, so the tension that existed in Season's 1 or 2 completely dissipates.

With all this said, there are some highlights are Season 3. Doug Wilson and the drug dealers Nancy encounter are hilarious and definitely provide some good comic relief. And the new town Majestic, an even richer and "better" Agrestic (and more Christian) provides some good ridicule of the ultra-religious right (even though it does get a little repetative). Even Andy's various storylines, if pointless, do make great comedy.

All-in-all, Weeds is still funny but the the episodes and characters in them lack any sort of direction or unity, which significantly hampers its enjoyability. Weeds this season seems more like a cartoon comedy like Family Guy; Weeds wants to have a new funny skit to put on each episode, but keeps running into the problem that it must continue from past episodes, and keep a story going.

The third season of Weeds is extremely uneven in its execution. The stories seem to start at one place, begin to progress in a particular direction and then end abruptly with no real resolution.
We begin the season with our protagonist, Nancy, being held at gunpoint in a standoff between two drug gangs, a tense situation that is resolved in a fairly lame fashion. She then becomes the pupil of a violent gangster who treats her like his little sister, after suggesting to another character that he intends to rape her, but this plot line too is just dropped.
A ridiculous subplot about Nancy Botwin's brother-in-law being accepted into the army, with a wound that would clearly exempt him from service (missing most of the toes from one foot), again goes nowhere, being dropped almost immediately.
I love this show and even found some humor in the antics of the characters in the third season, but the story telling in this season could have been so much stronger.
One hopes that the fourth season will turn out better.

While season I and II were nothing short of extraordinary and riveting, season III amounts, IMO, to a massive crash-and-burn of epic proportions. While the writing in the first two season was deep, consistent, mature and kept the story line, this third season has pretty much decimated any good the first two seasons had. The series took on a bad, bad puerile collegiate-preachy tone that's pretty disheartening at times. Characters have become flat, insipid and inane. Situations tend to solve themselves rather trivially and almost in a sit-com fashion. I truly think this was originally a 2-season show that has been artificially drawn out due to the immense popularity the show enjoyed in its first two season. Nothing short of an atrocity. A true shame.

I was addicted to season 1 & 2 but Season 3 is kind of boring compared to the first two. The storylines go all over the place and it's just not that interesting. I am currently watching episode 6 of Season 3.

THE CONTENT: I'll put it this way. This is the longest season of Weeds so far, and I watched it ten times faster than any season before it. In two days, I'd muscled through all fifteen episodes, which make have contributed in small part to how COMPLETE the thing just felt. Like no season of the show before it, it tests all the characters and takes the story to the next level. While all of the other seasons were almost sinfully entertaining, this one is so excellent in all levels, from character development to the intricate plot that picks up on the cliffhanger that ended Season Two and produces the most cohesive story so far. This brings everything from the first two seasons together for such an incredible climax that it makes me want to watch the whole Weeds catalogue all over again. While it's not pitch perfect (as funny as the Andy military stuff was, it was a bit too much for me to buy), it's the best season so far. Superbly acted (I mean... Mary-Louise Parker... c'mon Emmys), humbly but excellently written, and visually stunning, Weeds is one of the best shows out there.

THE PACKAGE: I get the whole going green thing. I even think the fact that Weeds went green is a bit funny. However, I stopped getting it and I certainly stopped laughing when I realized that this flimsy, recycled packaging causes the DVDs to fall about and get scratched. As sympathetic as I am to the cause... I don't want to keep buying the third season of Weeds over and over because the box can't hold a DVD. A show this superb deserves packaging that will support it, and Weeds was not given that. They should re-release this in the same format as the first and second seasons, because this is truly a disservice to the loyal fans. The packaging is obviously rated a negative... let's just say fifteen, but that has no impact on how many stars I give this. Just let this passage serve as a warning that the packaging is awful... the worst I've ever seen.

9/10