Initially, she pitched the idea of a “suburban widowed pot-dealing mom” to HBO, but they said no. Kohan had come from the writers’ room of the network sitcom world-including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Friends-but wanted to create a show for cable. Mainly, though, it refers to hardy plants struggling to survive.” 3. “There is also the expression ‘widow’s weeds,’ referring to a time when widows wore hats made of weeds. “Weeds are hardy plants that pop up everywhere and survive despite desperate climate and inhospitable environments,” she said. In a 2005 interview with the Toledo Blade, Kohan explained what the title meant. How do you convince yourself that you are still a moral person if you are doing something illegal?,” she said. In 20015, she told the Toledo Blade that those shows dealt with “people who are functioning outside of society’s moral code. Inspired by The Sopranos and The Shield, Kohan wanted to explore gray areas.
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Plus there’s a pot smoker in every family-it crosses all social, religious, economic, political, racial lines. “It was the perfect vehicle because while it’s illegal, no one takes it that seriously," Kohan said. “From there I needed to find an outlaw and a crime.” She picked pot because it was a hot topic with the passing of Proposition 215, which decriminalized medical marijuana in California. “I wanted to do an outlaw show,” Kohan told LAist.
JENJI KOHAN WAS INTERESTED IN WRITING AN “OUTLAW SHOW.” Here are 10 blunt facts about the Golden Globe Award-winning series. A year later, Kohan created another female-fronted show, Orange Is the New Black. In September 2012 the show finally concluded, with the family remaining intact. Of course a lot of weed was smoked on the show, which Bichir revealed to GQ was actually lettuce. Her brother-in-law Andy (Justin Kirk) comes along for the ride, as do accountant friend Doug Wilson (Kevin Nealon), critical neighbor Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins), weed grower Conrad Shepard (Romany Malco), and guest stars Albert Brooks, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Alanis Morissette. For eight seasons and 102 episodes, viewers followed the exploits of the Botwins, from Nancy being a suburban dealer to her marrying a drug lord/mayor of Tijuana, Esteban Reyes (Oscar nominee Demián Bichir). She’s raising two sons and needs to find a way to make money, so she starts dealing weed. Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) lives in an affluent gated community in Southern California, but her husband, Judah (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), suddenly passes away from a heart attack. But the network took a risk when they bought writer Jenji Kohan’s concept for Weeds, a comedy-drama that goes to some dark places. In 2005, Showtime was an up-and-coming network with not many major hits, especially ones that captured the zeitgeist of the time.
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