单身毒妈 第一季

It started with Sam Fuller's "Naked Kiss", circa 1964. But it is not until after "American Beauty" that a sardonic view of suburan life has become mainstream. Then screens big an small have been flooded with cliched attacks on middle-class respectability. If "Weeds" has been built on this premise alone, the jokes would have got tiresome pretty quickly. But noooo-nooo-nooo-no!

The best jokes in "Weeds", in fact, have little to do with suburbia per se. As good jokes should be, they are more whimsical to fit into any easy social category. For example, where does the battery-for-dildo bit belong in the grand themes of contemporary American sociology? Or the situational joke of having Celia sitting down with the "Tennis Pro" for endless rounds of drinks, while the pendulum of her anger sways between her husband and his mistress?

Sometimes the writers let the same joke run a bit tired, like Celia's several fond farewells to her breasts. Then some of the actions ascribed to a character are not well thought out enough to be plausible; example: Nancy smashing the DV with her husband's memory. Sure, someone can do that and it wouldn't invalidate their emotions; but in the case of Nancy, we feel that the nice middle-class upbringing a=that we spot in her temperament wouldn't have allowed this particular outburst.

In fact, the greatest thing about Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy is her convincing middle-calss soccer-mom-ness. None of the high-baroqueness of the absurd characters in "Desperate Housewives", or the tropical-bird exotica of Annette Bening in ""American Beauty" or Frances Conroy (Ruth) in "Six Feet Under". Nancy is creditable and desirable as a mother and wife; one easily subscribes to her merits as a Longtime Companion (pun on her ground-breaking 1990 movie confronting AIDS).

Well, Parker has sure walked far since her "Fried Green Tomatoes" days. Bravo!

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今天在FT看到這篇評論，覺得挺有意思，一下就聯想到weeds了哈哈哈。

Showtime is awesome! I have been watching <Weeds> these days, got so involved in it. You know life is not easy, it is like up and down sometime, but it should be continued in your own way.

Nancy, a single mother, drug dealer, got remarried with a DEA, everything came to her in a just second after her ex-husband died. Her teenage son made one girl pregnant and is banned to see her anymore. The other little son is suffering from puberty. Well, Nancy the beautiful white lady is still getting help from her admirer who is helping her growing weeds. And on the other hand her DEA husband arrested the other drug deals to give her a peaceful neighborhood.

That is it, sounding like a horrible family. But it is life. Showtime always show you the fancy side of life in a fabulous way.

这个片子还限制级啊。。。几乎就没有露点的场面啊

和SHO的其他片子比起来，这片子很健康的啊

主要是剧中的Nancy虽然40+了，但还是这么可爱，让人不得不爱，看美剧除了The inside里面的Rachael Nichols之外，都喜欢年纪大的女星，例如CSI的Sophia Curtis

       抑郁、无聊、痛苦、崩溃。。。。。。。看这部剧，每天崩溃一点点，一开始游刃有余的买毒品，到第五季，每一天都都是苟延残喘，小儿子问nancy，“你想回到爸爸刚死的时间么 ”nancy什么也没说，其实我们都知道，关于如果到什么时间，怎么怎么样，都是废话。。。。
    生活就是一个黑洞，终于剧里那些人都离开了中产阶级生活，告别little boxes，粉饰的安宁和真实的绝望你要选择什么？每天崩溃一点点，反正就是那么一回事，心情不爽时对自己说，再苦再累就当自己是二百五，再难再险就当自己是二皮脸，看着他们一片狼藉，其实不过如此，每天堕落多一点，无力感累积到一定程度，就无敌了

最近补课看完了四季《单身毒妈》（第四季还没有结束），以前曾经试看过一集，没看出什么妙处来，这回耐心的看下去了，越到后来越觉得有意思。这也是稍微有点慢热型的短剧，就像我第一次看《老友记》，第一次看《威尔和格雷斯》，都是只看了一集没有继续下去，到后来放了点耐心多看了几集，就一发不可收拾了。从第一集开始就牢牢抓住人的迷你短剧还真不太多，美剧里我印象只有《好汉两个半》和《天才理论传传》，笑点要又多又密集，太考验编剧的功力了。

无论是WEEDS还是《单身毒妈》，这一中一英两个名字都极妙，weeds在英文中不但有“大麻”的意思，也有“寡妇”的意思，用在这里住在洛杉矶郊区死了老公不得不卖大麻维生的漂亮寡妇身上，真是太合适不过了。从小打小闹的卖小包的大麻，到开种植屋自己培植，到开车越境去墨西哥运毒，甚至后来还挖了个隧道直通墨西哥，毒品枪支人口无一不贩……NANCY在身不由己中把贩毒事业越闹腾越大发了。这部剧的有趣之处还在于，即使是凶残狠毒的坏人，也坏的很有喜感，那个唠唠叨叨爱八卦的胖子MARVIN，那个一心要把NANCY培养成自己接班人的U-TURN，谆谆教诲她“流氓是不需要道歉的”；还有那个到了第四季突然胖起来的GUILLERMO……配角们也都很有意思，每天HIGH的八丈高的DOUG居然还是个会计师，不晓得他是怎么把账算清的；被狗狗一口吃掉两个脚趾头的倒霉蛋ANDY；CELIA，可厌又可怜的CONTROL FREAK；还有NANCY的俩少爷，每次谈恋爱都全情投入的SILAS，总是瞪着一双“精光暴射大圆眼”的SHANE……

第四季大概也快结束了，不知道下一季，NANCY又该面临什么样的危局。不过不要紧，她总是有贵人相助，每次都能涉险过关的。