Reviews by Jen Chapin-Smith
Warning: this show is about illegal drug use. It contains a lot of explicit, promiscuous sex and violence. The characters also use a lot of curse words and pejorative terms for people of color, women and gays.
The show is about a suddenly widowed suburban mother who must quickly find a job. Without a college degree, the only thing she can find is selling marijuana. This illegal work draws her family into the criminal underground with all the problems, including being the victims of violence and eventually losing their house, that come with it. That said, it is a fascinating soap opera that portrays the "haves" and "have nots" of southern California and the racial diversity of the area. It even has a few gay characters.
SPOILER ALERT: In season 3, Nancy's illegal work is finally catching up to her as she finds herself in debt to a drug lord. Mary-Kate Olson (one of the twins) joins the show as a pot-smoking evangelical Christian and the show begins to mock conservatives' holier-than-thou attitudes and attempts to merge church and state.
The show is about a suddenly widowed suburban mother who must quickly find a job. Without a college degree, the only thing she can find is selling marijuana. This illegal work draws her family into the criminal underground with all the problems, including being the victims of violence and eventually losing their house, that come with it. That said, it is a fascinating soap opera that portrays the "haves" and "have nots" of southern California and the racial diversity of the area. It even has a few gay characters.
SPOILER ALERT: In season 3, Nancy's illegal work is finally catching up to her as she finds herself in debt to a drug lord. Mary-Kate Olson (one of the twins) joins the show as a pot-smoking evangelical Christian and the show begins to mock conservatives' holier-than-thou attitudes and attempts to merge church and state.
Warning: this show is about illegal drug use. It contains a lot of explicit, promiscuous sex and violence.
The show is about a suddenly widowed suburban mother who must quickly find a job. Without a college degree, the only thing she can find is selling marijuana. This illegal work draws her family into the criminal underground with all the problems, including being the victims of violence and eventually losing their house, that come with it. That said, it is a fascinating soap opera that portrays the "haves" and "have nots" of southern California and the racial diversity of the area. It even has a few gay characters.
SPOILER ALERT: In season 3, Nancy's illegal work is finally catching up to her as she finds herself in debt to a drug lord. Mary-Kate Olson (one of the twins) joins the show as a pot-smoking evangelical Christian and the show begins to mock conservatives' holier-than-thou attitudes and attempts to merge church and state.
The show is about a suddenly widowed suburban mother who must quickly find a job. Without a college degree, the only thing she can find is selling marijuana. This illegal work draws her family into the criminal underground with all the problems, including being the victims of violence and eventually losing their house, that come with it. That said, it is a fascinating soap opera that portrays the "haves" and "have nots" of southern California and the racial diversity of the area. It even has a few gay characters.
SPOILER ALERT: In season 3, Nancy's illegal work is finally catching up to her as she finds herself in debt to a drug lord. Mary-Kate Olson (one of the twins) joins the show as a pot-smoking evangelical Christian and the show begins to mock conservatives' holier-than-thou attitudes and attempts to merge church and state.
Warning: this show is about illegal drug use. It contains a lot of explicit, promiscuous sex and violence.
The show is about a suddenly widowed suburban mother who must quickly find a job. Without a college degree, the only thing she can find is selling marijuana. This illegal work draws her family into the criminal underground with all the problems, including being the victims of violence and eventually losing their house, that come with it. That said, I find myself strangely addicted to this soap opera that portrays the "haves" and "have nots" of southern California and the racial diversity of the area. It even has a few gay characters.
The show is about a suddenly widowed suburban mother who must quickly find a job. Without a college degree, the only thing she can find is selling marijuana. This illegal work draws her family into the criminal underground with all the problems, including being the victims of violence and eventually losing their house, that come with it. That said, I find myself strangely addicted to this soap opera that portrays the "haves" and "have nots" of southern California and the racial diversity of the area. It even has a few gay characters.
Warning: this show is about illegal drug use. It contains a lot of explicit, promiscuous sex and violence.
The show is about a suddenly widowed suburban mother who must quickly find a job. Without a college degree, the only thing she can find is selling marijuana. This illegal work draws her family into the criminal underground with all the problems, including being the victims of violence and eventually losing their house, that come with it. That said, it is a fascinating soap opera that portrays the "haves" and "have nots" of southern California and the racial diversity of the area. It even has a few gay characters.
The show is about a suddenly widowed suburban mother who must quickly find a job. Without a college degree, the only thing she can find is selling marijuana. This illegal work draws her family into the criminal underground with all the problems, including being the victims of violence and eventually losing their house, that come with it. That said, it is a fascinating soap opera that portrays the "haves" and "have nots" of southern California and the racial diversity of the area. It even has a few gay characters.
Fast forward through the first few minutes of this movie that just show monkeys for some reason that is probably artistic but really has little to do with the plot. Then, we get to the good part, about a human doctor who figures out that her patient's "wife" is actually a vampire sucking him dry. Soon enough Susan Sarandon's character gets involved with this vampire.
Interestingly, Catherine Deneuve did not want to be in the love scene with Susan Sarandon, so you actually see the former's body double in that scene.
For a movie made in the early 1980s, it's actually not a bad portrayal of gays and stars opens bisexual David Bowie.
Interestingly, Catherine Deneuve did not want to be in the love scene with Susan Sarandon, so you actually see the former's body double in that scene.
For a movie made in the early 1980s, it's actually not a bad portrayal of gays and stars opens bisexual David Bowie.
