单身毒妈第一季

It started with Sam Fuller's "Naked Kiss", circa 1964. But it is not until after "American Beauty" that a sardonic view of suburan life has become mainstream. Then screens big an small have been flooded with cliched attacks on middle-class respectability. If "Weeds" has been built on this premise alone, the jokes would have got tiresome pretty quickly. But noooo-nooo-nooo-no!

The best jokes in "Weeds", in fact, have little to do with suburbia per se. As good jokes should be, they are more whimsical to fit into any easy social category. For example, where does the battery-for-dildo bit belong in the grand themes of contemporary American sociology? Or the situational joke of having Celia sitting down with the "Tennis Pro" for endless rounds of drinks, while the pendulum of her anger sways between her husband and his mistress?

Sometimes the writers let the same joke run a bit tired, like Celia's several fond farewells to her breasts. Then some of the actions ascribed to a character are not well thought out enough to be plausible; example: Nancy smashing the DV with her husband's memory. Sure, someone can do that and it wouldn't invalidate their emotions; but in the case of Nancy, we feel that the nice middle-class upbringing a=that we spot in her temperament wouldn't have allowed this particular outburst.

In fact, the greatest thing about Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy is her convincing middle-calss soccer-mom-ness. None of the high-baroqueness of the absurd characters in "Desperate Housewives", or the tropical-bird exotica of Annette Bening in ""American Beauty" or Frances Conroy (Ruth) in "Six Feet Under". Nancy is creditable and desirable as a mother and wife; one easily subscribes to her merits as a Longtime Companion (pun on her ground-breaking 1990 movie confronting AIDS).

Well, Parker has sure walked far since her "Fried Green Tomatoes" days. Bravo!

題材本身已經觸及限制級了(販毒行業)，
劇情畫面竟又常常超出我所能想像之外的尺度(還是我太保守了?)。

這被我歸類在[超深夜劇]，兒童不宜啊！

第一個經典，是 女主角在第一季某集裏找電池，簡直笑翻我了，光這個劇情，就值得期待後續發展。

How marijuana keeps on growing
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今天在FT看到這篇評論，覺得挺有意思，一下就聯想到weeds了哈哈哈。

很喜欢这样风格的美剧，HOT MAMA.
太喜欢这个妈妈了，2个儿子也太特色了，小儿子的眼睛太逗了。。。。。

两年以后，以为早都甩掉了的头痛闪亮回归，轰隆隆大闹几个日夜，闹得我已经不好意思和主管说因为头痛才请假。当然，离开埃塞，变得也不止脑部血管这一项

看了几集[weeds]，断定这是黑色幽默励志片

毒妈以前不是毒妈，生活幸福育有二子，大儿子金毛儿，后成长为万人迷，小儿子棕发大眼儿，以后是个精明能干的小鬼。结果她男人和大儿子出去跑步的时候莫名其妙挂了，毒妈没钱没工作，开始卖大麻，不卖摇头丸，不卖海洛因，只卖大麻。毒妈有种小迷糊大清醒的魅力，没多久生意就大爆发，进而租了个空房开始种大麻。毒妈小儿子参加跆拳道比赛，哨声一起，小儿子就把对手踢过来的脚抱住一顿神啃。结果被啃的小孩他爸很cute，毒妈就开始和cute男约会，没想竟是缉毒大队长。为了被逮着的时候男人不能作证，索性和男人在猫王祝福下结了婚，男人扫荡了威胁毒妈的亚美尼亚毒贩友邻，留下毒妈社区一家毒大。一会儿缉毒大队长发现辣妈不爱她，就开始监听加威胁，也不想辣妈被两个帮派同时打劫，火拼过程中帮派顺手就结果了缉毒男

一次又一次，毒妈被现实推搡向前陷入各种绝境，被迫做起更大生意，被迫自己点着了几次房子，被迫离开家园搬到美墨边境上百磅地贩麻。虽然它让人对辗转流窜的贩卖事业充满好奇，可是这个片子也轻易就告诉你，生活都一样，sucks，但要继续走

还有啊，那些个啥啥不费力的清纯道理，无需讲给我听。深圳也能下清凉雨，我也能脱离文青区，意思就是，永远不再相信不存在的东西

所以，世界太好笑，别再叫我乐

即便再写你侬我侬现世爱，都是毒剂，解解寂寞，随脚踹开

《weeds》（单身毒妈）是从第二季开始看的。开头几集结构比较散，要不是黑色幽默吸引着差点看不下去。幸好每集不到半小时，越往后越精彩。特别是结束的第十二集，线索瞬间爆发撞在一起，像《两杆老烟枪》。期待它第三季的表现。

特别要赞的是这个剧集的配乐，两季的原声碟都值得一听。推荐片头主题曲《Little Boxes》。这首Pete Seeger在60年代唱红的讽刺中产阶级近郊社区的民谣，在《weeds》第一季由作者Malvina Reynolds演绎成了香草版,而到了第二季，每集都请来不同乐风的著名艺人重新诠释。Elvis Costello的蓝调民谣版 、Death Cab For Cutie的摇滚版、Engelbert Humperdinck的怀旧民谣版 ，十几个版本合起来听，格外有意思。

下面详细介绍一下

weeds 片头曲 Little Boxes

作者MALVINA REYNOLDS(1900－1978)生于旧金山，就读于伯克利加州大学，在该校获学士、硕士和博士学位。她因积极参加左翼政治活动，被列入黑名单，就业遇到困难。在创作政治歌曲的同时，她先后当过裁缝、社会福利工作人员、教员和钢铁厂工人。她写了五百多首歌曲，而且在国内外成为颇有造诣的表演家。她的几首歌是流行歌曲，包括琼．比斯1962年灌制的《你们对雨干了什么?》以及1963年皮特．西格灌制的《小盒子》。后者批评了由遍布市郊的“用廉价材料造的房子”所象征的整齐划一、用户至上主义和政治冷漠。这首歌深受大学生和其它一些人的喜爱，这些人在“用廉价材料造的房子”里长大，他们想要表明：他们并非“结果完全相同”。

中英歌词
LITTLE BOXES

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same,
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same
And there's doctors and lawyers
And business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.

And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same,
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

山坡上的小盒子，用廉价材料做的小盒子。
山坡上的小盒子，一模一样的小盒子，
有绿，有红，有蓝，有黄，
它们全都用廉价材料制成，
看上去一个样子。

这些房子里的人，
全都读大学，
在大学他们住在盒子里，
结果完全相同。
有的当医生，有的当律师，
有的当董事，
他们都用廉价材料制成，
看上去一个样子。

他们都打高尔夫球，
喝无果味马丁尼酒。
他们都有可爱的孩子，
孩子们上学，
孩子们去夏令营，
然后进大学，
在大学他们住在盒子里，结果完全相同。

小伙子跨入商界，
结婚成家立业，
住在用廉价材料制成的盒子里，
看上去一个样子。
http://www.gogohuihui.com/sounds/lb32k.mp3