Weeds - Season Three Reviews

• This Weeds needs pulled

  
  By A1NC477I5AHP2H on 2008-06-09
  What a trend lately...shows starting out strong, then completely falling apart after one or two seasons.
  
  I've never thought that the show was written for stoners, because I'm not one and I still enjoyed it, but that seems to be the audience that this season is aimed at. The show's characters have never exactly been fine upstanding citizens, but here they're just blatantly awful and painted in such broad strokes that they become cartoonish stereotypes rather than people. The gangstas are gun-toting, violent rapists, but are "endearing" with their witty dialogue. Kevin Nealon's character is over-the-top obnoxious, but everyone loves him. And worst of all, the military are morally bankrupt, testosterone-dripping murderous homophobes. Now, I'm no red-state war-lover, and I think that they kind of ARE those things, at times, but the show is so juvenile in its stereotyping, that even I am frustrated by it. Same goes for religious zealots. I have major problems with organized religion, but portraying them teaching the sin of abortion to children and speaking in tongues, without admitting any of their good traits, is cliched, one-sided, one-note foolishness. I get that it's all meant to be funny - and I often like comedy that stereotypes groups for a laugh - but much of the humor here is lost on me. This once-witty show now seems like a stoner's poorly constructed view of the world - people involved in drug culture are cool, and "the man" is oppressive and evil.
  
  Weeds hasn't become unwatchable, but the really great scenes are few and far between. I loved the one in which Andy has dinner with the Indian kid and his family...THAT was funny, but unfortunately brief. It's occasionally entertaining but mostly disappointing.
  
  

• A Big Letdown from the Season 2 Finale

  
  By ABKRW3CYC1DI8 on 2008-05-23
  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.
  
  

• Catchy, But Hopefully The Final

  
  By AAKE8Y5280YFB on 2008-05-12
  Weeds Season 3 was a "good while it lasted" type of season. The first season really caught my eye and had me wondering what would happen next week, while the second season continued that want of mine to see what was going to happen next. Unfortunately, after I laughed once or twice per episode in season 3, I realized all good things come to an end and that is what I think now of Weeds. The storyline of selling weed, gangs and the upkeep of the community turned more into a "Days Of Our Lives" venture rather than a good fun-loving comedy/Satire. It MAY be worth renting but other than that, it's done. Even if they continue the show, I no longer have the desire to watch it.
  
  

• Weeds Continues to Grow

  
  By A1NXGXR3RYV0Y6 on 2008-06-13
  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!
  
  

• The Perfect Opportunity to Pretend It's All Over, I'm Done with Weeds

  
  By A1P7D9Q9VBDJIL on 2008-06-11
  I saw that Season 3 of Weeds had come out recently, and was tempted to purchase it as I had thoroughly enjoyed Seasons 1 and 2. However, since I own way too many DVDs that I will never watch again, I opted to be patient and Netflix it instead. I'm so glad I didn't buy this, as it will never get a repeated viewing from me.
  
  There was an excellent cliff-hanger at the end of Season Two, although if the truth be told, even by that point things were getting a little too crazy in the show (but I was still left completely engaged). After the first couple of episodes of Season 3, however, I started to get a sinking feeling. It turned into a show about gangsters and thugs, and was a far cry from the 'soccer Mom who deals pot in suburbia' that the series began as. Sure, there are still some funny parts, and I guess they were enough to make me get through the Season (but just barely), but even Doug and Andy's antics became a little too unbearable and ridiculous to fully enjoy. There are so many plot twists that simply don't make sense, and many subplots that don't go anywhere and have no place in the series (what the heck did Andy's stint in the Army have to do with ANYTHING?). Issues get 'resolved' in the most ludicrous ways; it almost feels like the writers want the show to be dumb. I feel the show 'jumps the shark' a million times and becomes too unrealistic to take seriously. As another reviewer stated, sometimes the show feels almost 'cartoony'.
  
  I was glad after the last episode was done. It was a hard watch, but for some reason I felt I had to see it through until the end. For me the season finale felt like it wrapped the entire series up, and I don't care where Nancy goes now that Agrestic is up in flames. I am done with Weeds, and I will not watch Season 4. It's really a shame to know that a series that started off so strong sunk so low. But this seems to be the trend all too often.
  
  As for the DVD quality itself, of course the picture and sound are excellent. I can't comment on commentaries or other special features, as I had no interest in watching/listening to them.
  
  
  
• Season Three is Dynamite!
  By A1QD4AWVY6X0CJ on 2008-05-18
  Season Three cranks up the action and raises the stakes another notch, piling up the trouble on everyone. Sure it all becomes a little more fantastical this season, but the satire of self-righteous suburbanites gets even more biting and scathing. The dash of extra vinegar is delicious. Nancy's deal with Guillermo (involving the trunk in episode 7) is pure genius. Her second disastrous deal, leading to the season finale, is stupefying.
  I love the way Nancy capitalizes on the way people underestimate her. Her apparent naivete is her ace.
  The kids' involvement in the operation (including Isabel, ultimately) is both charming and disturbing.
  I'm ready for season four! The soundtracks to seasons 1 & 2 also rock.
  
  
• some downtime for nancy
  By A1K1BYC0LPGVRI on 2008-05-17
  at the end of season two, you see things start to unravel, doug wilson's marriage, his affair with celia, and peter scottson getting killed. nancy right now, needs some downtime to regroup and start to cut her losses. i have been watching the video clips on the shotime website and i can't wait to get season 3 on dvd. i don't care what the naysayers say about season three. i will be a loyal weeds watcher until the end of the series no matter when it ends. and also, it would be nice to see heylia get out of the kitchen for once, but i don't like the addition of mary kate olsen.
  
  
• Season 3 Jumps the Shark
  By AASSABMXPM6KM on 2008-06-22
  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.
  
  
• Worse of the 3 seasons
  By A251N8N4ZHKHDT on 2008-05-08
  The story weakened significantly in this 3rd season. The way it ended I really hope this is the end of the series.
  
  
• Your all crazy
  By A29UCNQT3GQCAV on 2008-05-18
  This season is great!!!
  
  Def Check it out!! Season 4 is on its way!!!
  
  
• Scratches...
  By A39W3263A9HCMN on 2008-06-04
  Don't get me wrong, I love WEEDS, and have every season avaliable on DVD. I was very happy when I got this DVD, I had never seen Season 3 and was anxious to watch it. However, I was shocked when I saw the "Green packaging" thing on the back cover... yay, another cheap cardboard package. This is every bit as bad as the "There Will Be Blood" packaging... and that's saying something. It took me about 20 minutes to get disc 1 out alone!!! I am never putting the DVDs back in that case again... I put the DVDs in regular CD cases after getting them out. The discs came out all scratched too when I finally got them out. It's like one of those "expanded" hallmark cards just with DVDs thrown in. I know it's good that they care for the enviroment, but geez, give us a decent DVD package!!
  
  
• my favorite season of weeds so far
  By A2X09CK0OJZIUK on 2008-08-11
  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.
  
  
• Great Show
  By A391YPR0NFTCLK on 2008-06-13
  This is a fantastic show with great acting, great writing and each season is great, including season 3.
  
  Buy these dvds!
  
  
• excelling in the third season
  By A14MJH5TTQXRAA on 2008-07-05
  after reading some negative reviews, i was a bit anxious as to how the third season wld go. well all my anxious feelings were blown out of the water as i watched more and more of season three- the series is continously growing and evolving, and i think this is especially the case with season three. as soon as i watched the last episode i hopped on amazon to c when season four wld be available and i have already signed up to be notified when it is available. excellent show, hopefully it will evolve even more in season four!!!!
  
  
• lacks edge
  By A1XZ2R37RYKZXI on 2008-07-25
  Wait, how can Season 3 be lacking in edge? I mean, she only dealt in pot in the first two seasons - Season 3 has harder drugs, bigger guns, international crime...
  
  Yawn. There's no edge because it's sound and fury signifying nothing. Nancy is now just a drug dealer. Subplots swirl around her, but they don't cohere in any way. She appears to have been lobotomized in Season 3...seriously, how could she POSSIBLY have been surprised to learn the maternity store was a front for running drugs? And once she realized that, why does she persist at digging into the drug smuggling business when she knows full well she's putting herself and her family in jeopardy?
  
  In Seasons 1 & 2, she was struggling to support her family in the only way she could think of. There was quite a bit of humor and warmth, and even characters like U-Turn ("he taught me how to drive-by") were likable and "the heroes of their own story". Now it's unclear what's motivating Nancy, and none of the other characters have much dimension either.
  
  This is the TV equivalent of a pot hangover. They should have stopped with Season 2.
  
  
• Shining Star in a Dark Night of Boring TV
  By A1DQZBHEU98PBT on 2008-09-11
  I see a lot of people did not care for season 3 of Weeds. While I did get the sense that, Nancy will never win and got frustrated at her life/circumstances (won't give anything away)...I still really enjoyed this season and am ready to watch Season 4!
  
  I thought this season showed us a new side of many characters, Celia, Silas, Shane, Andy and Dean. I liked how the cliff hanger from season 2 was dealt with. And in each half hour there was enough drama that at the end of each show you were ready to watch the next one to see what was going to happen.
  
  My only complaint with Weeds is that the plot seems to be repeating with regards to Nancy and nearly getting caught selling, then her being in debt to someone etc. I've finished season 4, and that's what has made me a little dismayed at the fact that it does seem to be the same formula over & over...but I'm waiting till Season 5 to make up my mind on that.
  
  Again, I think Showtime has hit paydirt with an original, fun show. The half hour format is what does it for me, something quick to pop in and sit back and relax to. Even more, the cast and crew makes this show a shining star in a dark night of boring TV.
  
  
• Naive Nancy; Nefarious Nitwits
  By A18758S1PUYIDT on 2008-06-12
  Okay, Nancy Botwin herself might be included in the category of nefarious nitwits; that's only fair. She is so very naive about the world of drug dealing, and finds out just how much she doesn't know in this third season of the series.
  She has experiences with U-Turn and Marvin that are both hilarious and unpleasant, and then along comes Guillermo, a new kind of thug who ends up wreaking havoc on Agrestic/Majestic that Nancy never imagined.
  Celia is by turns sympathetic and hateful, given her behavior towards her former husband and their daughter; yet we can also see how much she wants to love someone and how she drowns her sorrows in alcohol.
  Kevin Nealon, for my money, is the one who really shines. The SNL alum does his best and funniest work here as Nancy's CPA.
  I'm surprised to say this, but Mary-Kate Olsen does a nice job as Silas's religious girlfriend.
  Alexander Gould as Shane gets more screen time, and it is well deserved. It's too bad that he and Celia's kid couldn't have spent more time in the religious school, where they were shaking things up.
  Yes, things change drastically by the end of the season, but there's nothing wrong with that. They couldn't stay in their little boxes forever. Now we will have a long wait to see what transpires in their new location in S. 4.
  
  
  
• is weeds going to pot ?
  By A2B6LR4IRRPYXF on 2008-06-17
  Weeds 1 and 2 have the edge over season 3. They seem to be cutting corners a little, not quite as creative, and are they shortening the episodes ? It seemed so to me. The plot lost linearity I felt.
  
  Still fun but I bet I won't want season 4 when it comes along if they keep this up.
  
  
• Weeds season 3
  By A1HYAA326Q4XU4 on 2008-07-14
  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.
  
  
• Season 3 is bad
  By A1P3DKC0XBC6UG on 2008-07-26
  I loved seasons 1 and 2. Only one thing to say about season 3. It was terrible.
  
  
• Misred
  By A3RRSFZ4SQAF2I on 2008-09-03
  I thought I was buying a three seasons set. It wasn't until I had paid that I realised it was only season 3. Should be clearer during the initial search page. Product excellent- advert unclear
  
  
• Uneven season
  By A2C81JRX169XHY on 2008-09-08
  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.
  
  
• Above average season/doubtful future
  By A3JIRNGM7OG51S on 2008-06-12
  This third season of Weeds was one that I laughed at more than the others. It is not better than the first two but I would still recommend it. ***SPOILERS AHEAD*** I think this could be the last season of Weeds for some(possibly myself) as it kind of leaves you with an ending where you feel the characters will be fine. I don't feel as though it would need to continue. I have also heard that Conrad and Heylia are not going to be a part of the main cast this next season which is really disappointing! Weeds just won't be the same without them and I think this will disappoint some viewers.
  
  
• Lighten up, this is a comedy
  By A1J2EGMZ62RR4V on 2008-06-22
  I have been a Weeds fan from Season 1. This is a comedy about a family that sells drugs. The criticisms I have read about Season 3 are a bit odd, considering the premise of the show. Yes the 6 episode resolution to the Season 2 cliffhanger might have been a bit overdone, but a lot of it was funny. I think that Season 3, by the time it got to Episode 11, may represent the best Weeds season yet. I hope that Season 4 continues to carry on this odd cycle.
  
  
• Hilarious
  By A1CSE6VD1B0KVH on 2008-06-23
  I'm amazed at all the negative reviews given for Season 3 of this brilliant, addictive funny show. When I bought the first series of Weeds, it took me a few episodes to really get into it, after which I was totally hooked. Season 2 was equally brilliant and season three certainly didn't disappoint. All the characters have fully expanded into the extreme of their type - which is exactly what I would expect of an entertaining show. This is not reality - this is an extremely funny parody of stereotype characters. For viewers to suddenly get moralistic about various aspects of the comedy, such as not showing religious fundamentalists in their positive light, completely misses the point. I, for one, am very grateful that the writers have not degenerated into the mire of political correctness that has completely ruined many a good comedy in the past. (Not to mention life in general)
  
  Some of the scenes in Season three had me laughing to the point of tears. Couldn't stop myself watching the whole thing in two nights. Love the quirky music. Roll on Sesaon 4!!
  
  
• It Just Gets Better and Better!
  By A3TQ2XB8UISLE6 on 2008-07-03
  Weeds - Season Three
  What could be more American than Mom, apple pie, and weed in the grow house?! I started watching this gem of a show because of Mary Louise-Parker. I've continued watching because of the fine ensemble acting, stellar writing, and general shock and awe fun of it all. What more can happen to 'Lacy LaPlante'? If ever there was a living, breathing example of Murphy's Law in action, it is Weeds.
  Season One, episode one got me hooked....um....addicted....um....made me a fan. Season Two just strengthened my addiction....my love/hate affair with Agresstic and all the characters who stream on and off camera. Season Three got me fired up and anxiously awaiting the buzz of season four.
  Whether or not you have ever been in that life or known anyone in that life or even like people in that life, the superb direction, the phenomenal scripts, and the amazing cast make this a character study for even the most straight-laced right-wingers. The look gets better, the stories get better, and if season three is any indication of where this is going, I plan to be onboard.
  
  
• Weeds Season 3
  By A2L6PVVG2GFLI9 on 2008-07-05
  Another great season with the drug dealers from Agrestic. The final episode in the series leaves you waiting and wondering what will happen next. Any past lovers of the strange but funny series will not be disappointed with the latest season. I look forward to seeing the 4th!
  
  
• Get your Nug Thug on!
  By A2GFEJ7PQBUF7X on 2008-07-09
  In wonderful continuance of the WEEDS story this years shows are much more polished but still twisted with the unanticipated. The main characters have really evolved and thankfully even though we fall in love with all the newbies as they depart it makes spacey room for even dishier friends, lovers, and competitors.Fearless is a good word for both the writers and actors.
  
  
• Excellent!
  By ALYQE7T1SI0OE on 2008-07-12
  Season Three of Weeds is by far the craziest of the three. It's fun, surprising & completely insane!
  
  
• Another Knockout Season
  By A13240FQRP4WVM on 2008-07-14
  Season 3 is unreal. Matthew Modine is an amazing addition to the show, and the writing this season is top notch
  
  

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