Weeds

Weeds has always mixed some harrowing experience into its hilarity, and now it has set up next week's finale to deal with a catastrophe pretty close to home in Southern California ... the wild fires ... I think Showtime deserves credit for going ahead with these last two shows, which were filmed i...

By Eric Correction: Justin Kirk did not play Mary-Louise Parker’s husband in “Angels in America.” Patrick Wilson did. Kirk played — and was nominated for an Emmy for — Prior Walter/Leatherman in the Park. The fact that she thinks “Angels” is dated and overrated does not excuse or explain Brill’s er...

By Brill We review what may turn out to be our favorite series of the summer, AMC’s “Mad Men” (premiering Thursday, July 19), about early 1960s American society against the backdrop of a New York ad agency (photo, left). Finally, we consider the implications of a BET lunch accompanied by a gospel ch...