Justin Kirk Helps Weeds Get Good Again

When Chandra Wilson and Jim Parsons announce the Emmy nominations next Thursday, we’re not expecting to hear Justin Kirk’s named called. And, frankly, his exclusion will be warranted: Not even Mr. Kirk was able to withstand the shoddy fourth season of Weeds, which coated every actor on the show, no matter how talented, Read More

Hung Proves Size Isn’t Everything

Since Breaking Bad went all dramatic and biblical during its second season, the closest thing we’re going to get to a male version of Weeds might be Hung (premiering Sunday at 10 p.m.). The new HBO series from executive producers Dmitry Lipkin and Colette Burson (FX’s The Riches) takes the core tenet Read More

It’s Time to Blow Up Weeds

Poor Mary-Louise Parker. Our favorite straw-chewing, iced coffee-drinking actress is officially wasting her time on Weeds. The fifth season premiere of the once-great Showtime series aired last night, and, for those of you hoping it would be a return to form, we’ve got some bad news: It wasn’t. Alternatively both unfunny and non-dramatic, Weeds is Read More

Mary-Louise Parker Will Return to Broadway in Hedda Gabler

Seems like Showtime’s Weeds stars have caught the stage bug recently. First, Hunter Parrish makes his Broadway debut in Spring Awakening on Aug. 18. Now Mary-Louise Parker, the MILF who plays his drug-dealer mom on Showtime’s Weeds, will trot back onto Broadway too. She’ll star in a revival of Henrik Ibsen’s classic Hedda Gabler in Read More

It's Showtime for Edie Falco and Weeds

Showtime gave the greenlight to their new comedy Nurse Jackie, starring Sopranos First Lady Edie Falco. They’re also giving the First Lady of MILFs, Mary-Louise Parker, two more seasons of Weeds.

Ms. Falco’s series will begin production in New York in the fall. Episodes will air in the spring or early summer 2009, Read More