It conspicuously tries to distance itself from the revenge film’s propensity toward florid excess.
Roxanne Roxanne’s actors allow writer-director Michael Larnell’s familiar material to sing.
The failure to adapt the source play to a new medium in interesting ways is what’s most disappointing about Ponies.
If Weeds hopes to survive, it needs to fix its one-note performances.
Weeds works best when it focuses on the first two syllables of its designated genre: “dramedy.”
There’s a sense that the writers of Weeds are as lazy as their main character, that they understand her as little as she seems to understand herself.