Get Your Fix of Weed on TV and Call Girls Online, Courtesy of Showtime

Posted by Kevin Kelly (kevinkelly@filmschoolrejects.com) on June 17, 2008

Yes, sometimes we’re able to peel our eyes away from blogs and movie screen to check out the boob tube, and these days what you’re seeing on television is often better than the travesty you plopped $40 on (including soda, popcorn, and candy) at the multiplex. If you’re lucky, it also sustains over several seasons, giving you more than a movie experience ever could.

Case in point? Showtime. Showtime has been rocking the boat the last few years with Weeds, Dexter, Californication, The Tudors, This American Life, Penn and Teller’s Bullshit! and more. It’s enough to make you say Sopranos-who? Tonight you have a double whammy with the premiere of Weeds season 4, which brings back Nancy Botwin and her family of drug dealing whitebreads, and the season premiere of Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Yes, it’s exactly what you think it’s about and features “adult language, adult content, mild violence, and strong sexual content” oh, and nudity.

So, if you’re itching to get a jump on tonight’s Showtiming, thumb your nose at your TiVo and check out the first two episodes of Secret Diary, right here online. Then you can check out the Weeds premiere later and not have to worry about missing anything. Monday nights finally aren’t boring anymore, and it’ll give us something to do while we wait for new DVD Tuesday and Comic Book Wednesday.


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  • Shane
    Props to Showtime for starting the season in the summer, when there is absolutely nothing else on the major networks. I believe Mad Men and Burn Notice will be premiering soon aswell.
  • I've had a serious crush on Mary Louise Parker since I was ten. It has, somehow, not lost intensity.
  • I've been a fan of Parker's since I first saw her vacant, wide-eyed stare in the underrated Grand Canyon. Not quite a crush though. More of a longing.
  • benbig0007
    did season 2 of californication play on showtime yet or what? anyone know out there...a little help...
  • Benbig, not yet. It comes on sometime later.
  • Benbig, what did you think of the ending of Californication's first season? I loved the entire show, but hated the very last minute!
  • Californication is running promos now for a Fall start. Should be great.

    Rob, you and I are never going to like the same movies. I thought Grand Canyon was boring, way too preachy, too random, and when it came out again years later as Crash, I was equally disgusted. We get it. White people suck.

    And how could you hate the last minute of Californication? It's what they had led up to the entire season. I know you live a carefree bachelor lifestyle, bedding beautiful women left and right, but at some point, you're gonna have to settle down.

    Oh, and Diary of a Call Girl was, erm, pretty boring. Sad to say.
  • Cole, how can you be so frighteningly accurate in your knowledge of me, but so off base when it comes to your taste in movies and tv?

    Californication was building to that conclusion, yes, but it happened way too abruptly. Honestly though, I'd be happier with it if the series ended there like originally planned... but Showtime decided to bring it back for a second season. How will that work exactly? She can't go back to Bill. They're together now. There's no more conflict. The comedy and the pathos all came from the conflict.
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