Season 4 of Weedspremiered last night and I, for one, couldn’t have been more giddy. As a huge fan of the show, its premise, and in spite of my repressed jealousy for the fair Mary Louise Parker, the show’s start did nothing to sway my belief that this show represents one of the finest half-hour slots in entertainment on TV right now.
Last season ended with Nancy (Mary Louise Parker) torching her house and the entire Agrestic going up in flames. The police go into the basement of Celia’s (Elizabeth Perkin) house and discover Nancy’s booming pot operation and of course come to Celia looking for answers. Without disclosing too much here and potentially spoiling the experience for viewers, Albert Brooks joins the cast as Nancy’s father-in-law and the stereotypical Jewish father who regrets that his son married a goyishe woman. Brooks also doesn’t think much of Nancy’s eldest son, the one with the “goyishe punim” nor the fact that Nancy is eating the German dish, spatzle, and that she smells like gas. References to the Holocaust abound and you start to understand that the Jewish humor jokes are only going to increase exponentially with Brooks’ presence on the show.
The big open-ended question series’ creator Jenji Kohan had us all wondering last night is what’s going to happen with the storyline involving the show’s incredibly talented and witty supporting ensemble (Kevin Nealon, Elizabeth Perkins, etc) who get left behind in Agrestic now that Nancy, her kids, and her brother-in-law have shacked up with Albert Brooks just north of the border. Kohan leaked to E! that a spin-off show might be in the works that would center around the the rest of the cast. Unfortunately for Nancy-Conrad fans, Kohan sees the split has something irrevocable:
“I love those characters; I just think those relationships wore themselves out, and I wanted to be true to where the characters were. Truthfully, Heylia and Nancy had nothing more to say to each other. Conrad and Nancy weren’t going to be the loves of each other’s lives, so it was time to move on.”
On the flipside, a spin-off might be a welcome relief as it will translate to a whole hour of Weeds entertainment back-to-back and that the Call Girl show will have move to another night. Nothing against the show or anything (’twas better than expected and I’ll admit it has more potential than Sex in the City as it lives up to its sexed-up hype and shows actual sex taking place in the city), but as David Hinckley of the NY Daily News said, “Secret Diary of a Call Girl is sexy enough, but ’tis a pity she’s a bore.”
For a sneak peak of Episode 2 of Weeds click here.
Back is Amaldo.com’s video blogger Ilana Donna with a new video documenting the craze that’s managed to sweep the nation, otherwise known as Sex & The City fanaticism and Sarah Jessica Parker idolatry. (The girl gets furious over wearing an old dress? I mean, really?)
While I know I’m in the minority here, can someone tell me why the lives of 4 utterly vacuous women are so intriguing and why women hold these prototypes to be so dear? Do people actually see these women as liberated feminists and mistake their silly little tacky lives - the promiscuity, spending sprees, zero career drive, and total lack of a desire to define themselves as anything but “the other” to be qualities to be admired?
The “Sex & The City” PR machine is working so hard on promoting their film that it almost makes you forget how much of a shitty show it was, especially towards the end. And who has time to watch four middle-age women, strutting around acting like shallow and vacuous teenage girls, chasing 20-year-old dudes? Haven’t we had enough? Why won’t you watch “Indiana Jones” instead? At least Harrison Ford ages with grace…
There’s a new M Night Shyamalan movie coming out mid June called “The Happening,” with Mark Wahlberg. Looks promising, we’ll check it out soon.
Amaldo.com vlogger Ilana Donna steps it up a notch this week with her pop culture round-up, once again giving us All the news that’s fit to capture on video including talk of Spice Girls reunion, Nicole Ritchie’s fertility, and Lindsay Lohan’s latest DUI. And for naysayers proclaiming you read all this in last week’s “US Weekly,” when’s the last time you saw Spice Girls hit single “Wannabe” sung freestyle?
Wait. Did I or did I not use “freestyle” correctly here? Eh. Who cares. Just watch the video, k.
Alec Baldwin is teaming up with Anthony Hopkins, Dan Akroyd, Sex & The City alum Kim Cattrall and everyone’s favorite bobble head w/boobs Jennifer Love Hewitt to star in “Shortcut To Happiness.” In previous iterations, the film’s title was “The Devil & Daniel Webster” with Love Hewitt playing of course, the devil (she dyed her hair fecal red just for the part) and Baldwin, assuming the role of the desperate writer willing to do anything, including bedding Love Hewitt (quelle sacrifice), to have a hit. As you can imagine he gets his wish, but Dan Akroyd must suffer greatly for Baldwin’s happiness. Sound contrived enough for you??
Tsk Tsk Alec. We understand Sir Anthony’s uncanny knack for making poor film choices and since JLH, Kim Cattrall, and Dan Akroyd currently don’t have careers to speak of outside of TBS and PAC, we’re trying to figure out how a man at the top of his professional game could sign on to do such a lame project.
I never really liked “Sex & The City,” but I’ll acknowledge that the show had a dramatic cultural impact on how men and women dish relationship talk and moreover revealing that women are actually capable of talking about sex openly and directly. And dare i say, like men.
Ok, ok. I’ll put the snark factor in this post on the DL for now.
Not too long ago, Shopgirlove and I lived with a man who was more of an estrogen-charged chick than either of us and while Shopgirl and I would stay up watching “South Park” reruns on Comedy Central our former roommate would watch “Sex & The City” reruns on TBS. Don’t ask me why. It’s like watching “The Sopranos” on PAX. So this association of the show and my former roommate did little to my original opinion of the show. Neither did the fact that my former roommates two apartments ago also religiously watch the show. As these things go, I wasn’t too fond of them either.
So how does my rant bear any relevance to this post’s title? I’m getting to that, ok. Turns out that the writer of “Sex & The City” Candace Bushnell is back with another series. “Lipstick Jungle” is geared towards a group of late 30-40 something women and their high-powered jobs. It has already started production in New York with Brooke Shields, Kim Raver, and Lindsay Price (who starred in a Toys R Us commercial when I was a kid so she can’t be more than 30). If the show is anywhere as dramatically charged behind-the-scenes as its catfighting predecessor, it shouldn’t be too surprising that Melissa George, the Aussie who was slated to play a “crazy analyst” commitment phobe (I’m taking creative liberties here) has already opted out of the series.
Oy. I fear the only good thing to come of this series which will debut on NBC’s fall line-up is the return of 80’s brat pack heartthrob Andrew McCarthy. He could be the next Big thing.
Season 4 of Weeds premiered last night and I, for one, couldn’t have been more giddy. As a huge fan of the show, its premise, and in spite of my repressed jealousy for the fair Mary Louise Parker, the show’s start did nothing to sway my belief that this show represents one of the finest half-hour slots in entertainment on TV right now.
Back is 
Alec Baldwin is teaming up with Anthony Hopkins, Dan Akroyd, Sex & The City alum Kim Cattrall and everyone’s favorite bobble head w/boobs Jennifer Love Hewitt to star in “Shortcut To Happiness.” In previous iterations, the film’s title was “The Devil & Daniel Webster” with Love Hewitt playing of course, the devil (she dyed her hair fecal red just for the part) and Baldwin, assuming the role of the desperate writer willing to do anything, including bedding Love Hewitt (quelle sacrifice), to have a hit. As you can imagine he gets his wish, but Dan Akroyd must suffer greatly for Baldwin’s happiness. Sound contrived enough for you??
I never really liked “Sex & The City,” but I’ll acknowledge that the show had a dramatic cultural impact on how men and women dish relationship talk and moreover revealing that women are actually capable of talking about sex openly and directly. And dare i say, like men.