[gilaskan]

Because I just watched the first 8 episodes and it's probably the worst TV I've seen in a long time. Worse than my rewatch of Heroes season 01. Absolute dregs. It's Desperate Housewives with extra profanity and even more hateful, spoiled characters. Does it get better, or am I just not connecting with it?

[Sinizine]

Probably best to bounce now. Season 1 and 2ish are the higher points of the show so you're not likely going to warm up to it.

[Neon Noodle]

I have the same question but for Portlandia. The pilot episode was great but it quickly became insufferable. Is season 2 worth it?

[gilaskan]

Originally Posted by Neon Noodle

I have the same question but for Portlandia. The pilot episode was great but it quickly became insufferable. Is season 2 worth it?

If you're not digging it, don't stick with it. It's fairly funny if you spend a lot of time around those kinds of people, as I have, but the show is also sort of one joke over and over. 10-minute skits could really be pruned down to 2-5 minutes, and the entire first season could probably be pruned into a single one-hour skit show. But I wouldn't recommend sticking with it if you're not digging it yet.

[Morphy]

Originally Posted by gilaskan

It's Desperate Housewives with extra profanity

Haha.

Yeah, I couldn't get past the second season. Not incredibly entertaining.

[ashvirtually]

First and second seasons were great for me; I agree with Gil who stated that it's sort of an inside joke, that you have to really know people like that to "get it".

If you ain't diggin' it now, bail. I was really into it until season 3 when it went to ****.

[bacon]

I really liked season one, but gave up somewhere in season one. From what I hear, it gets much worse after that.

[UltimateHigh]

Don't bother going any further.

[Viraus]

Originally Posted by gilaskan

If you're not digging it, don't stick with it. It's fairly funny if you spend a lot of time around those kinds of people, as I have, but the show is also sort of one joke over and over. 10-minute skits could really be pruned down to 2-5 minutes, and the entire first season could probably be pruned into a single one-hour skit show. But I wouldn't recommend sticking with it if you're not digging it yet.

Is this implying that the next seasons are better? Because I watched S1 and totally agree that it's great material too often spread over too much runtime. If the rest is a bit more concise, I need to get back on it.

[Steveland. The Danger]

I really like the first two seasons of Weeds but after that it gets pretty lame. It`s worth watching to see MLP`s tits, though.

[Takoma1]

I went into the show pretty excited because it was the "it" show at the time. I was soured on it by the end of the first episode. Crude, but without the right tone to make the crudity funny. Plus I don't think I laughed once the entire time.

I felt a little left out that I wasn't watching what everyone else was, but I really had no interest in spending any more time with those characters.

[Fresh Onions]

Originally Posted by Takoma1

I felt a little left out that I wasn't watching what everyone else was, but I really had no interest in spending any more time with those characters.

I watched the whole first season and became convinced the only people who liked it were potheads because the show had to do with weed.

I can't think of a successful element from that show at all.

[dreiser]

Originally Posted by Steveland. Danger.

I really like the first two seasons of Weeds but after that it gets pretty lame. It`s worth watching to see MLP`s tits, though.

Pretty much.

[Chinaski]

My main problem with Weeds is that she should have been dead by the end of the first season. The whole "suburban white mom decides to become a big-time drug dealer" premise is pretty stupid.

[Sinizine]

As opposed to that show about the suburban white dad.

[Flying Sword]

Personally I don't watch TV anymore. When it supposedly started getting good, I stopped. I don't know why. I'd rather watch movies anytime. Even the worst ones.

I loved weeds. But then I'm a stoner and how often do you get a television show about the inside and outs of growing and selling weed? They are spot on.and Martin Donovan was terrific.

Now that you have universities in California that teach you how to grow weed for a living the show is even more precious. It almost predated all of that.

[Flying Sword]

Originally Posted by Chinaski

My main problem with Weeds is that she should have been dead by the end of the first season. The whole "suburban white mom decides to become a big-time drug dealer" premise is pretty stupid.

People can easily buy the concept of a "white teacher" becoming a drug kingpin, but not a "white suburban mom"?

Especially now that weed is legal in 16 states and a lot of people are supporting themselves growing/selling it to dispensaries. There are 'universities' that teach you how to do this. By the way, Weeds aired during the time medical marijuana was a big issue. If you live in California it's pretty easy to buy that concept.

[Viraus]

Originally Posted by Flying Sword

People can easily buy the concept of a "white teacher" becoming a drug kingpin, but not a "white suburban mom"?

Context and execution is everything.

[arcadefire325]

if you don't like the first season, then just stop watching. the show gets worse after the first two seasons.

[King Elessar 8]

Originally Posted by Sinizine

As opposed to that show about the suburban white dad.

Never seen "Weeds" but this was my thought too.

[Sinizine]

Originally Posted by Viraus

Context and execution is everything.

Context matters but this is a broad comedy, and while it became increasingly dramatic down the road, one of the key reasons the show went off the rails, it is a generally silly and lighthearted show in the first couple seasons. This is a show that has Kevin Nealon and dudes getting ****ed by strap-on jokes.

[Johnny Five]

Well, the writing on Breaking Bad is far superior to Weeds. The premise isn't innately any more believable, but it usually manages to make you suspend disbelief a lot more smoothly.

In any case, I somewhat enjoyed the first couple of seasons of Weeds, and I don't hate the later seasons, but the show certainly isn't close to being among the greats of modern TV.

I freely admit to really, really enjoying watching Mary Louise Parker in even lackluster fare, though.

[Flying Sword]

Originally Posted by Viraus

Context and execution is everything.

Like I said, medical marijuana is an industry. If you see the people that run medical marijuana establishments, they are all stoners and act that way. If you don't like the show that's one thing. Debating its accuracy about stoner life and the marijuana sales is just ridiculous this day and age. If you're part of that whole lifestyle/industry it's a pretty funny show, although it ran out of steam after the 2nd season. I'll agree with that.

My "white suburban" neighbor was a big time cocaine dealer for years before he got caught. He looked like a big dork that should have been teaching kindergarten. Yet, for years he got with it even though every one in the building knew what he was up to. Now he lives in Florida on probation working in the 'traveling' industry. Yeah, right.

No one seems to remember the famous "Grandma Marijuana" who was one of the biggest dealers in Los Angeles. She was a nice old black lady. Pretty much got away with it for most of her life. Suprised a lot of people when she finally went down.

There are much more stranger and unbelievable things in real life than on TV.

[Johnny Five]

Originally Posted by Flying Sword

There are much more stranger and unbelievable things in real life than on TV.

For the most part, this is actually true.

[doofy d.]

weeds sucks but weed is good

[Viraus]

^What I'm saying is is that if people find Weeds less believable than BrBa, it probably has more to do with the way the show presents it than "a woman couldn't do that!". I haven't seen Weeds, so I can't speak for it, but Breaking Bad developed it's scenario very effectively by offering us a charasmatically-delivered character who's been so beaten down by life and now cancer that the audience is very keen to believe him making one last outlaw push.

[Flying Sword]

Originally Posted by Viraus

^What I'm saying is is that if people find Weeds less believable than BrBa, it probably has more to do with the way the show presents it than "a woman couldn't do that!". I haven't seen Weeds, so I can't speak for it, but Breaking Bad developed it's scenario very effectively by offering us a charasmatically-delivered character who's been so beaten down by life and now cancer that the audience is very keen to believe him making one last outlaw push.

After all that you admit you haven't seen Weeds. That's funny. Weeds was one of the most talked about shows in marijuana dispensaries. It's very much like that especially if you consider the people selling it. A bunch of Venice Beach street kids with not a whole lot of sophistication.

Unless it's a big time marijuana operation smuggling from Columbian drug cartels then you can't talk about getting serious. Her operation wasn't that large considering the sheer amount of marijuana coming out of Humboldt County every year. Most of the people running those operations are stoners or hippy types. You know, the kinds of people associated with weed and that whole lifestyle. I wouldn't be surprised if the show was written by a bunch of stoners it's so true to life.

Selling and manufacturing methamphetamines is highly deadly and a lot more serious than the marijuana industry unless you live in some States where you can go to jail for 2 years for possessing a joint. Especially on the West Coast where marijuana and legal prostitution in Clark County, Nevada make up a lot of suburban white mom's income.

[Viraus]

Originally Posted by Flying Sword

After all that you admit you haven't seen Weeds. That's funny.

Yeah, a whole two sentences. The nerve!

[Sinizine]

Suspension of disbelief should really be barely coming into this. Unless you're the type of knob that talks about Community and complains that most community college students attend for only two years so the cast should be gone by now and they most certainly should not get turned into 8 bit video game characters.

[moronicfables]

I actually watched this show until its fourth season. It veers off a great distance from its original premise and ends up going in many different directions. When the family moved out of the suburbs at the start of Season 4, that's when the show got some of its spark back for a little while because at least the show knew that its core story of a mom dealing drugs to support her family is already at its stretching point.

After Season 4 I never had the desire to continue since it just wasn't worth it. One or two great episodes are scattered in a sea of mediocrity, which is a shame because if handled properly I can easily imagine the show achieving greatness.