Weeds: A New TV Series Favourite

You live in a middle-class suburban house, along with normal-looking god-fearing neighbors, a housewife, with two teenage children, a proverbial happy ever after. Things are perfect until one day your husband had a heart attack and died. You are devastated and didn't know what to do. It could go all downhill from here, unless you take the riskiest venture of your life; pot trading.

That's the premise of this not-gonna-be-shown-in-Malaysia tv series, half-an-hour of drama about the life of the housewife and the people around her. Stars Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin, a strong smart lady who has to resort to Marijuana trading to support her high-flying affluent lifestyle. Her two sons Silas and Shane are two disturbed and obviously jaded kids, are the cute and boyish Hunter Parrish and Alexander Gould respectively.

Tv series by Showtime, a subsription-based tv brand which gave us Queer As Folk; a no-holds barred type of production group, which defies conservative views and delivers totally controversial subjects, like homosexuality and marijuana-trading. One could remember the lesbian softcore acts in almost all episodes of QUeer as FOlk not to mention the perennial gay sex demonstrated by the main actors in the 5-season trailblazing gay-topic tv series, QAF. 

Weeds, however, unlike QAF shows more twist and better storyline, no cliche love story and mother-son soapy conversation, managed to remain very contemporary in line with the current trend of innovative and most importantly edgy, defying and at the same time affirming realism in the life and style of American 21st century generation. This over- the-top type of drama, originated from shows like Six Feet Under, owes it success more to its ability to lasso its exaggeration factors than jumping too far into magical realm. 

In addition to that Weeds manages to captivate the fans, for its 4th year already owing not only from the strength of the main actors, also from its comical scripts and putting many dimensions to most of the actors. Silas was a disturbed kid but turned out to be  a cute and hot young man who had sex with an older lady before he even turned 18. Shane is a young 12-year-old  kid who wants to become adult to win the love of his mother. And other characters which I need to find out more later coz for now I only watched two episodes out of 4 seasons available, plus I am more interested in the kid Silas which has the perfect figure and shape for my ogling and entertainment, apart from the story of course. 

He is said to appear shirtless most of the time in season 4, and has buffed up significantly, shows very pleasantly from those two episodes; 6 and 7. This would discourage me from watching the earlier season coz apart from him more shirted airtime then, he was rather twinky by the look of google images i searched. Never the less I will try to find episodes 1-5 of season 4 as a start of my journey towards my current boy toy.