Weeds - Season One

Product Details

• Released on: 2006-07-11
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 283 minutes

Editorial Reviews

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

No weed killer required
Amazing show!
All I can say is thank GOD for Pay TV in America so the boundaries of what is correct can be pushed.
Good to see good old American capitalism at work.
Great cast, very funny, Americans starting to revel in quirky characters.

Weeds - Love it!!!
What a great show. Just watched Season 2. Season 3 has just shipped.

Reminds me of the great shows HBO USED TO HAVE!

Weeds - I Just Found Out
Ok, so I'm almost FOUR YEARS LATE with this - but I've only recently discovered the show "Weeds" and am now hopelessly addicted. The ensemble cast is terrific, the writing is clever, even the music selection for the shows stands out.

Weeds is a 30 minute sitcom that airs only on Showtime (which is partially why I'd never seen it - I don't watch Showtime). But the good news for you Netflix subscribers out there is that seasons 1 & 2 are available to watch instantly on your PC - this is a very good thing - as I watched the entire first season in two days and don't know what I'll do when I get to the end of season two (oh, yes I do - I'll go out and buy Season three).

The story centers around the life of Nancy Botwin (played by Mary-Louise Parker), who loses her young husband to a heart attack, and has to go from a stay at home soccer mom to the person responsible for paying the bills. Since she has no prior career path, she takes up selling pot to the people she knows in her L.A. suburb, Agrestic. Among her customers are the head of the city council - and her financial adviser, and a lawyer whose head is shaved bald while he's asleep after his wife sees a video of him having sex with the tennis pro.

Her connection for pot is the African American family of Heylia James (Tonye Patano), and some of the funniest scenes come when she is on the camera. The cast also includes Elizabeth Perkins, and Kevin Nealon - both brilliant in their roles.

This is just one of the funniest, most clever shows I've seen in years, and I can't recommend it highly (no pun intended) enough. As an added bonus, you can go here and stream all of the music used in the show - it makes for a great listen!

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John Adams (HBO Miniseries)

Product Description

John Adams is a sprawling HBO miniseries event that depicts the extraordinary life and times of one of Americas least understood and most underestimated founding fathers: the second President of the United States John Adams. Starring Paul Giamatti (Sideways Cinderella Man HBOs American Spendor) in the title role and Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me Kinsey) as Adams devoted wife Abigail John Adams chronicles the extraordinary life journey of one of the primary shapers of our independence and government whose legacy has often been eclipsed by more flamboyant contemporaries like George Washington Thomas Jefferson Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin. Set against the backdrop of a nations stormy birth this sweeping miniseries is a moving love story a gripping narrative and a fascinating study of human nature. Above all at a time when the nation is increasingly polarized politically this story celebrates the shared values of liberty and freedom upon which this country was built.Running Time: 501 min.Format: DVD MOVIE

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Based on David McCullough's best-selling biograpy, the HBO miniseries John Adams is the furthest thing from a starry-eyed look at America's founding fathers and the brutal path to independence. Adams (Paul Giamatti), second president of the United States, is portrayed as a skilled orator and principled attorney whose preference for justice over anti-English passions earns enemies. But he also gains the esteem of the first national government of the United States, i.e., the Continental Congress, which seeks non-firebrands capable of making a reasoned if powerful case for America's break from England's monarchy. The first thing one notices about John Adams' dramatizations of congress' proceedings, and the fervent pro-independence violence in the streets of Boston and elsewhere, is that America's roots don't look pretty or idealized here. Some horrendous things happen in the name of protest, driving Adams to push the cause of independence in a legitimate effort to get on with a revolutionary war under the command of George Washington. But the process isn't easy: not every one of the 13 colonies-turned-states is ready to incur the wrath of England, and behind-the-scenes negotiations prove as much a part of 18th century congressional sessions as they do today.

Besides this peek into a less-romanticized version of the past, John Adams is also a story of the man himself. Adams' frustration at being forgotten or overlooked at critical junctures of America's early development--sent abroad for years instead of helping to draft the U.S. constitution--is detailed. So is his dismay that the truth of what actually transpired leading to the signing of the Declaration of Independence has been slowly forgotten and replaced by a rosier myth. But above all, John Adams is the story of two key ties: Adams' 54-year marriage to Abigail Adams (Laura Linney), every bit her husband's intellectual equal and anchor, and his difficult, almost symbiotic relationship with Thomas Jefferson (Stephen Dillane) over decades. Giamatti, of course, has to carry much of the drama, and if he doesn't always seem quite believable in the series' first half, he becomes increasingly excellent at the point where an aging Adams becomes bitter over his place in history. Linney is marvelous, as is Dillane, Sarah Polley as daughter Nabby, Danny Huston as cousin Samuel Adams, and above all Tom Wilkinson as a complex but indispensable Ben Franklin. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Simply Fantastic
I am so impressed with this series. If anyone like American history in the slightest, they will enjoy this series.
The acting is outstanding. The protrayal of characters, including the costuming, make-up and dialects, is extremely good. I particularly enjoyed (in addition to John and Abigail Adams) George Washington and John Quincy Adams.
Parts 2 and 4 are exceptional -- The series gets a little slow in 5 and 6 but are paramount in supporting the remarkable concluding part 7.
Is this a perfect series? No, but it is the best portrayal of John Adams that I have ever seen.

Poignant and educational
Everyone should be made to watch this in school. John Adams introduces us to the fundamental conflict underneath the Amercian reality; are we revolutionaries, or monarchists? The course that America took during George Washington's presidency is the reason why we are where we are today. John Adams is the man portrayed as the Founder caught in between Jefferson and Hamilton, the two poles of thinking as to who America should side with and invest in. Ultimately we sided with the monarchists, and it should surprise no one that we have ended up with a unitary executive like George Bush, a monarch in all but title.

Had Jefferson not left America and taken over from Washington, we could have supported the French, because they were our true ideological allies. Plus, we owed them. But America has a knack for siding with the morally wrong side of politics, and this trait has persisted thru the centuries. Looking at our present thru the lens of the past is crucial, and this mini series spells it out. A masterpiece and a triumph. Recently I heard a political scientist say that they will never be able to think of John Adams without thinking of Paul Giamatti. It's that good.

History can be Interesting!
I loved this HBO Miniseries. I am already a great history buff and
a lover of the US Constitution and our founding fathers wisdom.
So many people don't care about history which I find disturbing because
there is so much too learn from it. These men and women were all
too human and desired then what most of us take for granted now.
I am buying the DVD set to share with family and friends who dont have HBO.

What a fantastic way to spend an afternoon
Maybe I cheated, but I stored all episodes of John Adams on my DVR and watched them together Saturday afternoon.The photography,the acting,and the writing were all exceptional. I love to watch both Giamatti and Lineey in anything they do, but this was worthy of their talents. Because of Giamatti's extraordinary acting abilities you can see the complexities of John Adams. Giamatti is brilliant in showing the internal struggle and the effect of outside pressures with/on our 2nd President. I must admit, I had only rudimentary knowledge of John and Abrigal Adams...(you know, History 101). The story line not only kept my interest, but spurred my desire to learn more more these two incredible people. I was entralled with the portrayal on the events leading to Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. Needless to say I have pre-ordered this DVD and I went out an bought McCullough's book.
Two thumbs up! (I'd give it 3 thumbs up, but that would be weird.)

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How I Met Your Mother - Season Two

Review by : mountaindude07

if you've missed one episode it's worth it, to find this set, it's a premature classic, like three's company, a little risque but they keep it classy enough to watch with mostly anybody partly because of the hilarious enuendos


Review by : yoderivan

My Grandson wanted a video called "How I Met Your Mother" for Christmas season 2.
I searched through the local video stores with no luck, so I went to the internet and found this site. The price was good, the shipping rate was very reasonable. The product was brand new and in original package.
Although I haven't seen the DVD, it made my grandson very happy.
Service couldn't have been better.
I highly recommend this business to my friends.

Review by : Kaia22

Disreguard the stupid title of How I Met Your Mother - stupid name, but seriously the FUNNIEST show on tv. The writing is hilarious and the actors really deliver. It is almost Seinfeld-like how the phrases from the show can now be used in daily life (slap bet, the yips, Swarley). If you have never seen this show, you are missing out. I highly recommend it.


Review by : Thrice 915

dary!! How I Met Your Mother is probably the funniest show on tv and is extremely under-rated. After realizing how bad Dancing with the Stars was, come relive the story of Ted, Marshall, Lily, Robin, and the hilarious Barney. It's out generation's verson of the show Friends.





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Dexter - The Complete Second Season

Customer Reviews

dexter
Dexter is one of the best series ever! watched all of 1st season and now ready two watch the 2nd season but cant find it.

Simply the Best
The first 12 episodes are fantastic. The acting and story line are phenominal. I could not stop watching once I started. I watched all 12 episodes in 2 days.

Every once in a while
Who likes the cable companies? NO ONE. They over charge and under deliver all the time. And yet many people, myself included pay extra for Showtime, because of shows like Dexter. Now that you can get the show on iTunes or unbox, you can ditch the cable or at least reduce the damage each month.
Oh yeah, this show. Why would anyone like a show about a killer of killers? I can’t explain it. BUT I can’t stop watching it. I want to meet and be friends with this guy, although knowing his charactor he wouldn’t let that happen. You have to see this. Try just one and you will be hooked.

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