Nice. Sweet. Loving. Not profound, not brilliant, not any of that intellectual stuff, just sweet.
And that's enough. --- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > One can make a convincing argument that great TV series such as "Dexter" > and "Breaking Bad" would never have existed without Showtime's > groundbreaking series "Weeds." It raised the bar for antiheroes, those > lawbreakers and outlaws we know we should dislike, but just can't bring > ourselves *to* dislike. In other words, "Weeds" was one of the first > American TV series to attempt the high dharma of making compassion > popular. > > The episode I'm watching tonight is the series' last, but I don't know > this yet. I do notice that it's a two-parter that starts up (for those > of us who saw the previous episode, and the rest of this year's shows) > as shockingly as the first episode of the final season of "Breaking > Bad." That previous episode of "Weeds" ended with A Return To Agrestic, > and a set of New Starts and New Directions for almost all characters. > "Cool," said I, watching it last week. "I can't wait to see where they > all are next week." I did not know at the time that I was watching one > of the last episodes of "Weeds" ever. > > Still not knowing this, I fired up the latest episode. The credit > sequence fades and the show starts and Bam!, we're not in Kansas any > more, Toto. We're not in next week but some years in the future. No > mention of this is made, however; we in the audience are supposed to > figure out the timeline from hints dropped in conversation, all during > the first five minutes. Successful (and now legal, because marijuana is > now legal) businesses have been founded, and prospered. Marriages have > come and gone. New babies have been born. The most recent "new baby" we > remember from the previous episode is being Bar Mitzvahed. Computers and > iPhones are now as thin as playing cards. > > And all of this in the first five minutes, without a word of > boring-assed exposition. I am SO hooked already. I pause the show, > partly because I am curious about the two-parter thing but also because > I'll have to go to dinner before finishing the episode and this > mini-review, and I do some Googling. I immediately notice headlines that > announce reviews of the Last Episodes Ever Of Weeds. I stop Googling > immediately, and read none of them, because I want no spoilers to this > experience. > > I'm off to dinner now. More later... :-) >
