Weeds!

I'm quite excited by the start of the new season of one of the best shows on TV -- Showtime's Weeds (with Mary Louise Parker as a suburban soccer mom/pot dealer). Unfortunately, I don't have Showtime and have relied on the iTunes Store for my fix, and I'm hoping that the new season makes it to iTunes sooner than later. However, for those with a Windows machine (not me) and a broadband connection, TVSquad notes that the first episode of season 2 is being streamed from MSN for free for the next week.

Speaking of TV via iTunes, the store is still offering a free download of the first episode of the second season of Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days reality series from Fox, which brings together an anti-immigran activist (Frank, a Cuban immigrant who immigrated legally when he was a child but now a staunch defender of the borders -- so much so that he's a member of the Minute Men) and an illegal immigrant family. While the set-up certainly sounds ripe for standard fare reality series sparks (of which there are certainly a few), it never becomes histrionic and shows the emotional growth and understanding of all the issues related to illegal immigration. Mrs. F and I were impressed enough to plunk down our $1.99 for the second (equally excellent) episode, which brings a down-sized New York computer programmer to Bangalore, India to live with a family full of outsourced telemarketers.