Showtime renews Weeds for Season 8
Created by Emmy Award winner Jenji Kohan and produced by Lionsgate, Weeds has been honored with multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations and wins over the course of its seven seasons on air. Viewers have watched and marveled as Nancy Botwin (series star Mary-Louise Parker in her Golden Globe Award-winning performance) has progressed from a suburban widow who turns to selling nickel bags to make ends meet for her family to a full-fledged marijuana queenpin.
Last season jumped ahead three years and picked up with Nancy finishing a stint in federal prison. Her brother-in-law Andy (Justin Kirk) and sons, Silas (Hunter Parrish) and Shane (Alexander Gould) - with Doug (Kevin Nealon) in tow - were camped out in Copenhagen during her incarceration. They were all reunited in New York City where Nancy re-launched her pot business, worked at a hedge fund, fought off competition, and fought for custody of her son, little Stevie, from her sister Jill (special guest star Jennifer Jason Leigh). The season finale, which aired in September, showed the family dining together, happily residing at a Connecticut estate. But when a lone gunman fired a fateful bullet, viewers were left to wonder which of our beloved Botwins was the target, setting the stage for another audacious season.
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ROFLitschristian
@thrashnasty190 Yes. "The Big C" is grand. Didn't really like the second season as much until like the 5th or 6th episode though.
But actually both these shows make for a funny story. I went to school so pumped because both these show were gonna have extraordinary finales. But then I came home and my mom said she cancelled Showtime... on the day of these shows, one week before "Dexter." Go figure. So after the "Weeds'" finale I went and watched it online like an hour after it came on and I was screaming and shaking. How many shows make you do that!!?!
But it was late so I skipped "The Big C" finale. And a week later when I watched it I was like, "Well thank God I didn't watch it with 'Weeds'." I probably would've broken something in my house over it. I never really liked Paul until Season 2 and then that!!!
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ROFLitschristian
@thrashnasty190 I KNOW!!!! My mom was sleeping and I was trying so hard not to make her mad. But holy-f*cking-sh*t! It was so intense! I was shaking and praying no even AFTER the laser pointer because I knew it was still true!
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thrashnasty190
@ROFLitschristian Do you like The Big C? I love it and it had me screaming as well lol
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thrashnasty190
@ROFLitschristian I was, then after the shot fired and the screen went blank I was yelling at the screen going WHAT THE F*CK!!!!! lol I threw a fit lol
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ROFLitschristian
@thrashnasty190 AHHHHHHH me too! Were you shaking at the finale? I was going through a panic attack!
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ROFLitschristian
@ghostman Oddly enough I literally Googled Weeds Season 8 the day before this news broke! I knew my susp*cions were true. Last year they renewed both Weeds and The Big C at the same time so this year when they only renewed The Big C, especially with all the talk of Weeds ending, I started flipping out!!! I'm so happy now!!
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thrashnasty190
SWEEEEEEEEEETTTTTT!!!!!!! My favorite show is back!!!! I've been waiting for this since the finale!!!
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Lord McLovin of MovieWeb
I reas some headline about it and it made me think @ROFLitschristian would love to hear this, so i digged through the threads, and couldn't find it, so I wrote it on your wall hoping you'd see it and 3 hours later a story is written :/ haha..at least you got the news friend :)
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ROFLitschristian
@shuabert That's what I love about Kohan. She has no care about people posting it online. I think she said something like, "I'm not looking to be the next biggest hit. I just want people to enjoy the show and if they have to see it online, then so be it."
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ROFLitschristian
@ghostman LoL my B, brah. I much appreciate the fact that you know enough about me to do that though!
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red_ruddy
OOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMFFFFFFFFGGGGG
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Lord McLovin of MovieWeb
@ROFLitschristian THIS was what I wrote on ur wall like 3 hrs ago before MW published it :P
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Josh
@ROFLitschristian Heh. That's a bit of a trek for some DVDs. If it comes time to watch it and they still don't have all of them, I'll just torrent from season 4 onward.
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ROFLitschristian
@shuabert Come to Florida and borrow my set! :)
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Josh
Great. Now they just need to get more than the first three seasons on Netflix Canada. :(
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ROFLitschristian
Okay, now I'm sweaty.
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ROFLitschristian
I can't stop smiling! How many times can I like this page!!!!
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ROFLitschristian
OOHHHHHHHH MY GODDDD!!!!!! I'M JUMPING AND SCREAMING SO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LITERALLY HAVE BEEN LOOKING THIS UP SINCE THE FINALE!
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