Posts with tag jenji kohan
Posted Jul 19th 2008 12:28PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Dexter, TCA Press Tour, Weeds, Reality-Free
When I posted
the news items that came out of Showtime's portion of the CBS tour, the one question I got was "When will
Dexter be back?" Well, network president Robert Greenblatt mentioned that the third season would debut in September. No word beyond that. Didn't seem like news to me. But there you are,
Dexter fans; that's all I've got on that.
The executive session was introduced by a semi-funny clip from one of the network's stars, Tracey Ullman. Really, it wasn't that good, so I won't talk much about it here. Greenblatt also showed clips of
The United States of Tara and
Nurse Jackie during his opening remarks. Other than that? Well, isn't that enough?
Continue reading Showtime wrap-up: executive session and four shows talk at once - TCA Report
Posted Jun 18th 2008 6:43PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Weeds, Reality-Free
Weeds began it's fourth season Monday night on Showtime and showrunner
Jenji Kohan told E! Online that she's thinking about doing a Weeds spin-off. The possible spin-off would focus on Conrad's story and take place in a pot club. Kohan explains that it was time to split up Nancy and Conrad but she still felt like Conrad's story was compelling: "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."
As for the style of the spin-off, Jenji Kohan has a good idea of what she wants the show to look like. "I'd shoot it sort of fake reality-show style. It could be pretty like
The Hills!," she says. While
The Hills is indeed a "pretty" show, I think comparing the
Weeds spin-off to
The Hills is a downgrade for me. I'm just going to pretend it didn't happen.
Posted Sep 25th 2007 12:44AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Weeds
(S03E07) Weeds apparently took a note from
Californication's extraneous nudity, plentiful sex playbook. This episode was all about the humping as one arc ended and another began. As Conrad and Nancy's debt is laid to rest, Peter's body rises from the muck.
Continue reading Weeds: He Taught Me How To Drive By
Posted Sep 11th 2007 11:07AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Weeds
(S01E05) I bet you guys think critical thinking is whack. Well, it is. Why think when you could just watch
The Secret? Some of Agrestic's residents must be watching
The Secret. Celia got a brand new house. Doug got a golf membership. Sullivan got his way. Silas got a a new calling. And, Andy (aka Bill Sussman) got let off the hook. The only person not exercising the
"laws of attraction" seems to be Nancy. All Nancy got was a great big pile of smack to sit on.
Continue reading Weeds: Bill Sussman
Posted Aug 7th 2007 2:21PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Web
Well, here's a rarity: a TV producer who wants you to watch a show illegally!
At least she's the only one who is admitting in public, that is. Weeds creator Jenji Kohan actually loves the fact that episodes of the new season are available online. In fact, she wishes that the entire season was online already:
"Revenue aside, I don't expect to get rich on 'Weeds.' I'm excited it's out there. Showtime is great, but it's a limited audience...if I had my druthers, the whole thing would be available right now."
Continue reading Weeds creator loves illegal downloads of show
Posted Nov 2nd 2006 7:35PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Showtime, OpEd, Commercials, Watercooler Talk
Largely a retread of August's
New York Times piece on black women in advertising, today's
Detroit News has published a feature on the use of Aunt Jemima imagery on TV today. The piece sticks mainly to commercials, but this type of criticism has also come down on
Weeds' creator Jenji Kohan for giving us the kitchen-bound, dope-dealing Heylia who proclaims herself a member of the original NPR - "Negroes Preachin' Right."
The article asks if Aunt Jemima is back. They probably should be asking if she ever went away.
Continue reading Is Aunt Jemima back?
Posted Oct 31st 2006 8:39PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Showtime, OpEd
(S02E12) Weeds went the way of Tarantino last night with an old-school Mexican stand-off by way of Armenia. The slowly crumbling wall between Nancy's home and work life came down with a mighty thud in a finale that left us with a quasi-kidnapped Shane, a busted Silas and a very dead Peter. There are, to quote Shane's genius commencement speech, "motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane" that is Agrestic.
Before beginning this review in earnest, let us take a moment to mourn the passing of Peter. No one really cared about Peter. It was never clear if Nancy really did or not, and frankly, it seems like the writers had backed themselves into a corner so they off-ed him. This is all well and good in that it shows us just how far Heylia is willing to go in her wheeling and dealing, but the TV landscape is now without Hal Hartley regular Martin Donovan. Sigh.
Alright, moment over. On with the review.
Continue reading Weeds: Pittsburgh (season finale)
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