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WEEDS
July 1, 2012  | By David Bianculli

Showtime, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the eighth and final season for this Mary Louise Parker dark comedy, and it certainly opens on the darker side. Parker’s Nancy has assembled her extended and eccentric family to start yet another new life – this time in a communal residence back in suburbia, where the series began – when a laser dot appears on her forehead (pictured) just as she’s giving a toast to their new fortune.  That turns out to be a false alarm – a dot from a laser pen – but a real sniper indeed is in the bushes, gunning for someone. In this opener, you’ll find out the identities of the target, and, eventually, the person holding the gun. But not before a lot of wild hospital scenes in between…

 
 
 
 
 
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