Weeds, Showtime’s hit serial dramady created by female writer and director Jenji Kohan, now on its 5th season, is bold in its negations of race, class, and gender related issues by firmly reinforcing painfully familiar stereotypes related to both race and class, while determinedly challenging hegemonic discourse in relation to female gender and sexuality as it tells about the life of a widowed, upper-middle class, mother who turns to selling pot as a means of maintaining the cookie cutter suburbanite lifestyle she was left upon her husband’s premature death.
No comments:
Post a Comment