Weeds: Season One is now being made available for the first time on DVD. With an all-star cast including Golden GlobeÒ winner Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, and Kevin Nealon, Weeds: Season One examines family life in the suburban neighborhood of Agrestic, California, where recently widowed Nancy Botwin (Parker) is finding it hard to make ends meet while raising her two sons. Left with more family debt than expected, Nancy embarks on a new career as a pot dealer to pay the bills. As her business continues to grow, she has to hide her new career from her family and her best friend, PTA president Celia Hodes (Perkins). In the neighborhood of Agrestic, nothing is what it seems. Weeds: Season One includes all ten episodes of the groundbreaking first season. The DVD set is loaded with special features including “Smoke & Mirrors,” an original marijuana mockumentary, Agrestic “herbal” recipes, audio commentaries from the cast and show creator plus much more. Subversive, satirical and hilarious, the Weeds: Season One DVD is guaranteed to spark laughter!
With three Golden GlobeÒ nominations in 2006, one leading to a win for Parker for Best Performance by An Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, “Weeds” has found great success during its first season, which originally aired in the summer/fall of 2005. The second season of this groundbreaking TV series begins airing in August 2006.
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES
§ “Smoke & Mirrors” - original marijuana mockumentary narrated by Romany Malco
§ Agrestic “herbal” recipes
§ Smokey Snippits – humorous “extras” from cast interviews
§ “Suburban Shakedown” featurette
§ Six individual episode audio commentaries with show writer/creator Jenji Kohan, actors Kevin Nealon, Romany
§ Malco, Tonye Patano and Craig X.
§ Showtime Original Series Shorts 1& 2 – individual Q & A’s with the cast
§ Showtime Original “Weeds” Special
§ “More than a Friend” by All Too Much music video
CAST
Mary-Louise Parker HBO’s Angels in America, Saved!, TV’s “The West Wing”
Elizabeth Perkins Big, Must Love Dogs, The Ring Two, Finding Nemo
Tonye Patano Little Manhattan, The Thing About My Folks
Romany Malco The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Chateau
Justin Kirk Ask the Dust, HBO’s Angels in America, Love! Valour! Compassion!
Hunter Parrish upcoming RV, Sleepover
Alexander Gould Finding Nemo, Bambi II, Curious George, upcoming How to Eat Fried Worms
Kevin Nealon TV’s “Saturday Night Live,” Anger Management, Daddy Day Care