Do we need a life?

I don’t know what this says about us (the wife and I) but last night we watched the concluding episode, number 102 of “Weeds,” the Showtime serial about an urban wife and mother, Nancy Botwin, who, when her husband dies prematurely, turns to selling marijuana to maintain the family’s comfortable lifestyle. The show ran eight seasons, 13 shows per season, for approximately 50 hours of TV. We watched it all commercial free from Netflix via Roku and we did all this watching over five or six weeks, usually four episodes a night. The same time it would take to watch a two hour movie.

   The series created by Los Angeles born Jenji Kohan was never boring. A great cast of captivating regular characters supplemented periodically with fresh faces introduced and hanging around for a few episodes all contributed humor and suspense. Many of the half-hour situations were seriously over the top but this made the series as addictive as its title.  One thing we especially enjoyed was watching the youthful actors playing the Botwin children age as the show went on over eight years. The basic cast was kept together throughout the run of the show.

   Some people, who have seen this series, or parts of it, may consider it nothing more than trashy fantasy and I don’t disagree with that assessment, but for adult laughs it is hard to beat.

   Only things is it worries me that we watched it all. We could be brain-dead. AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaH.

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