Recent Posts Tagged With 'weeds'

• Mad Men 3.3: Gibbon, Blackface, and Eliot

  Posted on Sunday August 30th, 2009 at 22:58 in television, weeds, mad men, john slattery, christina hendricks, vincent kartheiser, alison brie, kiernan shipka

  An even edgier than usual episode 3.3 of Mad Men tonight, delving into -Racism -1. Don and Betty's daughter Sally (wonderfully played by Kiernan Shipka) finishes reading from Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to Grandpa. She leaves, come...

• Baby Boy Botwin and the "Bimah" in Weeds

  Posted on Friday July 31st, 2009 at 22:29 in television, weeds, jewish culture

  It was good to see Andy agree to be Baby Botwin's father on Weeds 5.8 last Monday. He's morphed from a sage, hilarious nut to a sage, hilarious nut who also has deep sense of responsibility and Jewish tradition. Andy was always a good uncle. Now ...

• Weeds 5: Sneak Preview Review

  Posted on Saturday June 6th, 2009 at 11:04 in television, weeds, jennifer jason leigh

  Well, Weeds Season Five starts up this Monday on Showtime - which was good enough to give me a screener for the first three episodes - so I thought I'd report back to you here with a generally spoiler-free preview (meaning, I'll let you know about ge...

• Levinson News Clips podcast reviews of Lost, 24, Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, Big Love, Weeds, more

  Posted on Saturday May 16th, 2009 at 15:29 in podcast, lost, Battlestar Galactica, television, 24, fringe, weeds, big love, californication, true blood

  I thought you might enjoy this Levinson News Clips podcast player, where you can hear my 5-10 minute reviews and analyses of Lost, 24, Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, Big Love, Weeds, Californication, and more ... including, starting next month, True B...

• Obama's Missed Opportunity at Online Townhall

  Posted on Friday March 27th, 2009 at 15:25 in Barack Obama, tea, weeds, new new media

  I enjoyed Barack Obama's online townhall meeting yesterday - the first ever, and a good thing for democracy, as have been so many other innovations in new media communication initiated in the Obama campaign and continuing now in his governance. (See...