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Weeds: Season 4
  • Network: Showtime
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 7, 2005
  • Season #: 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 7 , 8
Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    100
    Kohan and her writers deserve perhaps more credit than they're getting for forcing change and making it artistically compelling.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    80
    It remains one of the best.
  3. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    80
    Even as the show deals with serious issues--immigration, euthanasia--Weeds feels lighter and funnier in the new season.
  4. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Sal Cinquemani
    75
    Season four curiously picks up exactly where last season left off, providing little explanation for Shane's sudden growth spurt and the body mass indexes of several other characters, and the hurried pace of the season premiere, "Mother Thinks the Birds Are After Her," is a little disorienting, but the show finds its footing by the next episode.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Missy Schwartz
    75
    Ditching the tired suburban backdrop might prove to be just the creative shake-up Weeds needs after an overly wacked-out season 3. [20 June 2008, p.60]
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  6. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    70
    The wonderful Weeds is back for its fourth season at 10 p.m. Monday, as our deliriously delightful dope dealers decamp to a beach town by the Mexican border. As illicit activities go, they prove definitively that, on Showtime at least, a little wacky tobbacky is way more fun than the things they do in Diary that can't be described here.
  7. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Cynthia Fuchs
    60
    Celia is facing some judgment of her own this season. Her not-entirely separate saga makes up the other half of Weeds' new start, such that the show is cleaved down its center, cutting awkwardly back and forth between Celia now imprisoned and Nancy fancy-free.
  8. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    50
    I think I comprise a third type--a wary Weeds fan who's happy it's back but hardly ecstatic.
  9. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    40
    Though it's not a bad idea to shake up a show heading into its fourth year, the first few episodes of the new season feel joyless and off.
  10. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Ginia Bellafante
    40
    Weeds no longer seems propelled by the will to subvert all of our cultural images of maternal perfection; it seems insistent on celebrating Nancy's parental fecklessness and narcissism, asking us to refrain from judgments when all we want to do now is throw stones.
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User Score
7.4 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 42 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. mecbirdhouse
    8
    Starts off a little dull as the show struggles to find it's feet again after last season's conclusive finale, but picks up substantially mid-way through and builds towards an excellent finale. Yes, there are some subplots that didn't interest me, but the same could be said for season 3, and that which was good was REALLY good.… Full Review »
  2. TheChaser1985
    8
    This season got a bit boring and predictable. Not at all as entertaining as season 2 and 3. I wish I could give it an 8.5, but it doesn't deserve a 9. :(… Full Review »
  3. Sabrinna
    6
    Also, seems to be ripping off Outrageous Fortune which if it was on this database would be a 10 rating every season! All five of them. That was/is a show that hasn't had to overhaul to get the viewers. Made in New Zealand and thus not noticed by this website. Very unfortunate.… Full Review »
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