What to Watch: June 16 - June 22
MONDAY, JUNE 16
Weeds (Season Premiere) -- 10/9c on Showtime (Re-Airs at 11/10c)
Just when it was starting to seem like our only TV options this summer were intelligence-insulting reality shows (um, Celebrity Circus anyone?) and scripted throwaways (cough cough, Swingtown!), Weeds comes to the rescue. Last we saw Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), she’d just added arson to her list of offenses after torching her house in suburban Agrestic (a.k.a. Majestic). Tonight’s season 4 premiere finds the pot-dealing mom settling near the Mexican border at a house owned by her late husband’s father (guest star Albert Brooks). Of course, the change of setting doesn’t mean the Botwin clan is going to live happily ever after.
ALSO…
Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Series Premiere) -- 10:30/9:30c (Re-Airs at 11:30/10:30c)
Weeds’ new lineup-mate is less salacious than its title may imply, but fear not: Sex will be had. British star Billie Piper (Doctor Who) plays Hannah, a high-class prostitute who leads a very complex life--even outside of, er, work. Call Girl seems like another example of Showtime choosing its adult series wisely, while archrival HBO continues to overthink the TV-MA prospects (i.e., Tell Me You Love Me, John from Cincinnati).
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