Showtime's 'Weeds' to end this year

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This year, Showtime?s ground-breaking TV series Weeds will come to a close.

The premium network will conclude series creator Jenji Kohan?s acclaimed pot comedy after eight seasons. Weeds helped pave the way for other daring cable shows and made Showtime a competitive force in the original series game.

?There were two shows, Weeds and Dexter, that really got Showtime taken seriously for cutting-edge original programming,? says Showtime entertainment president David Nevins. ?How they get brought home is really important. In this case, both for the sake of the two women behind the show [Kohan and Golden Globe-winning star Mary-Louise Parker] and an audience that?s really invested in the show. TV fans love nothing better to complain about how shows end and we really want to end this one the right way.?

Kohan admits she?s ?sad? about the news, noting ?sometimes ignorance is bliss,? but the writer does appreciate the rare opportunity to creatively wrap up a show. ?I?m so proud of what we do here and that it?s about a strong woman lead who?s really flawed,? she says of her protagonist, Nancy Botwin (Parker). ?We get to do comedy right up against drama, which a lot of shows don?t get the opportunity to do.?

The final season will quickly resolve this year?s assassination attempt cliffhanger, and fans can expect a time jump and a return to the suburbs. Beyond that, Kohan hasn?t yet decided how to conclude Nancy?s tale. ?We wrack our brains every year for crazy cliffhangers and we?re trying to figure out how to top ourselves,? she says.

Showtime and Weeds? studio Lionsgate Television Group have full faith that Kohan will deliver a stellar final batch of episodes. ?No matter how close she?s gone to the edge of everything falling apart, she reels the story back in, grounds it, and brings you back,? says Lionsgate TV Group president Kevin Beggs. ?It?s an art form.?

Weeds premiered in 2005 and, along with other titles, pioneered an edgy adult-cable programming renaissance that led not only boosted Showtime, but helped inspired similar risk-taking content on networks. Weeds particularly broke ground with Parker?s Golden Globe-winning portrayal of suburban pot-dealing matriarch, a performance that was later followed by other female anti-hero programs like Showtime?s Nurse Jackie and FX?s Damages.

?From a creative standpoint, the show broke a bunch of barriers,? Beggs says. ?It became one of the most talked about cable comedies and ushered in a new era. Jenji?s unique voice skewed hypocrisy; whether attitudes towards drug use, racism, sexism or suburbia.?

The final season of Weeds premieres Sunday, July 1 at 10 p.m. on Showtime.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/06/13/weeds-final-season/

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Good. The show got stale a long time ago.

The thing that made me dislike the show is it lost itself. It was supposed to be a show about a suburban mum who sold weed. The past few seasons she didn't do any weed selling and the show went way off base in my opinion. It became more like a poor crime drama with emphasis on the drama. I totally lost interest at that point.

They should of had her get bigger and bigger in the weed game, perhaps she moves up to owning a warehouse full of marijuana plants etc

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Okay, missed this thread the first time around, searched and found it, so I just have to say, WTF is wrong with the creators of the show?

I swore last year was supposed to be the last season, and I really thought they ended it all really damn good.

Then all of a sudden checking to see what was on my DVR, there was Weeds. I had it setup as a series and never took it off, but only set to record new shows. I thought maybe it was some behind the scenes, and sure enough, new season.

So just watched it with my wife, and seriously, what where they thinking.

As already stated in this thread, the show was already getting stale, and they are truly beating a dead horse at this point.

Sad, was a good show at one point in time, but the inability to let go is going to IMO tarnish it even further now. Truly unfortunate.

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Okay, missed this thread the first time around, searched and found it, so I just have to say, WTF is wrong with the creators of the show?

I swore last year was supposed to be the last season, and I really thought they ended it all really damn good.

Then all of a sudden checking to see what was on my DVR, there was Weeds. I had it setup as a series and never took it off, but only set to record new shows. I thought maybe it was some behind the scenes, and sure enough, new season.

So just watched it with my wife, and seriously, what where they thinking.

As already stated in this thread, the show was already getting stale, and they are truly beating a dead horse at this point.

Sad, was a good show at one point in time, but the inability to let go is going to IMO tarnish it even further now. Truly unfortunate.

Agreed.

The past week I've had to stay at a family member's house (no power for 5 days in temps near or above 100 degrees), and one of my cousin's was watching the first three seasons of Weeds and it really reenforced how great the first three seasons were and how the show took a nose dive into crapville after they left Agrestic. The show should have ended with Nancy riding off on the Segway.

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