Mary-Louise Parker thinks that Weeds reboot might fall apart
Showtime can't really work on it while the writers are on strike anyway
Aux News Weeds
Back in May, when the WGA strike had more or less just started, we heard that Showtime was working on a plan to immediately launch reboots/revivals of both Weeds and Nurse Jackie the instant the strike was over—an idea that seemed both like one of the few things Showtime could come up with without writers and an extension of its existing attempt to reboot/relive the old glory days when it had a bunch of hit shows instead of just Yellowjackets and… whatever else it has. Something, surely.
But Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker isn’t convinced that the reboot will ever actually happen. Speaking with The Guardian about ex-husband Billy Crudup (that’s not actually what she’s talking about, but that’s what The Guardian wanted to talk about), Parker said that every time she asks about the Weeds reboot “it seems to be closer,” but it’s all up in the air now with the strike going on and she says it could “fall apart any time.” Even beyond that, though, she doesn’t seem too sure about it: “It’s just… I’m so much older now. It’s like it doesn’t have the same currency, you know, for a woman of my age, so I don’t know.” She says if they “actually use that” it “could be interesting,” but the fact that she’s saying that says a lot.
At the same time, though, Showtime can’t figure out if it would “use that” because the writers are on strike, which is why this project is on shaky ground to begin with. So maybe it will all work out when the studios finally cave and give the writers what they deserve, who knows—certainly not Mary-Louise Parker, even though she’s the star of Weeds.
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The original series fell apart after a couple seasons so she’s almost certainly correct.
That show started out great, and then cratered spectacularly. Can’t understand why they’d want to reboot it.
You could say the exact same thing about Dexter. At least they got Clancy Brown for the revival and we got to see Dexter’s hilarious deer hunting technique, but otherwise woof what a failure.
I say we just have a show where MLP fucks her way out of shitty situations she got herself in, which was the main point of the original show anyway.“WHAT THE FUCK LADY YOU BACKED RIGHT INTO MY FUCKING LEXUS WHAT THE SHIT IS WRONG WITH YOU?”“Ok, how about I back into you flesh Lexus and clear this all up? C’mon. Park that pork SUV in my tuna garage.”
Right? It’s crazy how fast it spun out of control into something you couldn’t just look away from.
I never watched much of this show but given the legality of weed in a large portion of the US now what would be the point? Does she pivot to selling crack?
Psssh what is this, 1980. Gotta up the game she’s gonna be selling meth… wait been done, ok fentanyl.
Maybe go exotic and sell Krokodil?
That’s season 2 of the reboot. Kills all her customers during season 1 so she pivots to the new hotness.
Jenkum
It’s less of a pivot and more of a Nae Nae.
The twist is she opens a lawn-care business
Mary-Louise Parker thinks
That Weeds reboot might fall apart
Showtime can’t really work on it while the writers are on strike anyway
-This sounds like a poem by G. Gavin Gunhold.
If it’s a ‘reboot’ = no Mary-Louise anyway.Done *with* Mary-Louise = ‘revival’Either way = reviled
I’m one of the few who actually really enjoyed the later seasons. The Mexico plot did seem to drag on. But I rather liked to whole living off the grid thing, etc.
This show was great before they left Agrestic. The Mexico stuff was great at first but led to the jumping of many sharks.