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For people who deal: Weeds: Season Six

Weeds will make for one of the more interesting television case studies if and when it goes off the air. The show has undergone a total reboot - putting everything I just said about Nurse Jackie to shame - and, among other things, has moved through an ensemble’s worth of new and old faces. It’s no longer set in the fictional Agrestic, no longer lampoons posh neighborhoods and gossipy busybodies and nearly all its major characters have been reduced to one-dimensional nothings. What was once a tremendously funny comedy transmogrified into bland soap. It is, I guess, what happens when writers go about texturing a show with blinders on.

I didn’t watch any of season six, but I can’t imagine it touches its season one through three heyday. Trouble kicked in midway through season four. At that time, the show was still adjusting to its new digs in Ren Mar, an entire family got left up north in the show’s old setting and the series’ tone and what it was seeking to do had altered considerably. I took it all in stride, though - try, as I might, not to be a cynic - and assumed Weeds would auto-correct at some point.

And then, it didn’t. Weeds remained inane and immature and a far cry from its humble beginnings through the end of season five. I’ve grown callous toward what has become of The Office, but compared to Weeds’ great fall, you’d think The Office was still the best show on television.

Disc includes: Audio commentary, Kevin Nealon and Justin Kirk: What Do We Have Left to Say? featurette, Fandamonium: Weeds Creators Tells All featurette, Bye Bye Botwins featurette, gag reel

For people who write on themselves: Memento (10th Anniversary Edition)

Next month is the 10-year anniversary of Memento, a total sleeper hit and the movie that first got the world talking about Chris Nolan. I actually saw the thing for the first time a few months ago, and its twists (and major twists) are still fresh in memory. It isn’t a movie you toss aside right away.

Disc includes: N/A

February 22, 2011

Blu-ray
48 Hrs.
Alien vs. Ninja
All-Star Superman
Birdemic: Shock and Terror
Due Date
The Embodiment of Evil
Fish Tank Criterion Collection
FLCL: Season Set Classic
Garei Zero: The Complete Series
Get Low
Ghost Month
How The Earth Was Made: The Complete Season Two
Ice Road Truckers: The Complete Season Four
Jeff Beck: Rock N Roll Party Honoring Les Paul
Killshot
The Last Unicorn
Les Miserables: 25th Anniversary
Luke And Lucy: The Texas Rangers
Memento (10th Anniversary Edition)
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Nature: Elsa's Legacy Born Free Story
Nurse Jackie: Season Two
Psych:9
Senso Criterion Collection
Stieg Larsson's Dragon Tattoo Trilogy
Sweet Smell Of Success (Criterion Collection)
Weeds: Season Six
WWE: Bragging Rights 2010
Megamind

DVD
2011 Cotton Bowl: LSU vs. Texas A&M
2011 National Championship: Oregon vs. Auburn
2011 Orange Bowl: VT vs. Stanford
2011 Rose Bowl: Wisconsin vs. TCU
2011 Sugar Bowl: OSU vs. Arkansas
2011 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: OU vs. UConn
Alien vs. Ninja
All-Star Superman (Special Edition)
Dennis Miller: Big Speech
Due Date
Fish Tank (Criterion Collection)
FLCL: Season Set Classic
Get Low
Ghost Month
How The Earth Was Made: The Complete Season Two
Huge: The Complete Series
Ice Road Truckers: The Complete Season Four
Johnny Cash: The Man in Black (Limited Edition)
Killshot
Les Miserables: 25th Anniversary
Luke And Lucy: The Texas Rangers
Megamind
Memento (10th Anniversary Edition)
Nurse Jackie: Season Two
Psych:9
Senso (Criterion Collection)
Stieg Larsson's Dragon Tattoo Trilogy
Sweet Smell Of Success (Criterion Collection)
Weeds: Season Six

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