This week's SoTW is the theme from our new obsession, Showtime's series Weeds. The show is of a young widow with two children who turns to selling drugs in her suburb to support her family after her husband dies. The show is funny and comments on tough issues directly (race, drugs, love) and the lighter issues less directly (sprawl, materialism, work).
I love this opening sequence and find it brilliant. We weren't sure what the definition of ticky-tacky is, and neither did the lyricist either since she is credited with coining the term in the OED. Still, the opening sequence is wonderful and we thought, perhaps Agrestic was a new subdivision in West Chester or Mason.
We watch the show as part of our Netflix subscription, which is the greatest thing ever. When we got back from Germany, because of our disgust of Time Warner, we never hooked cable back up, and just use Netflix for all our movies and TV. We highly recommend both Netflix and Weeds.
Special thanks to Showtime for their generous sponsorship of this week's song of the week.
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2 comments:
Thanks for posting this, because I never heard of the show, and it looks interesting.
I never liked the Little Boxes song because I like boxy architecture (as long as it is urban), and the "looking all the same" doesn't get to the crux of the innanity of suburban developement.
My parents have sung that song ever since I can remember.
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