Summary
The pot-dealer comedy Weeds brings humor, drama and detail to a genre -- the sitcom -- in need of weeding. Jenji Kohan (Gilmore Girls, Sex and the City, Will & Grace), its creator and executive producer, talks about keeping it alive.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment. |
| 0:13.9 | Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear the show at KCRW.com. |
| 0:18.4 | You're tuned to Showtime to catch weedseds. It's created and executive producer. |
| 0:22.1 | Genji Cohen is back. |
| 0:23.5 | It's in the third season of the show. |
| 0:24.7 | It's gotten off to a pretty scabrous start, hasn't it, Jenji? |
| 0:28.7 | It's been exciting. |
| 0:30.4 | But what you seem to want to do with the show is to really confound people's expectations. |
| 0:36.4 | And I wonder how much you do that consciously with this show |
| 0:39.7 | and how much it kind of happens organically. |
| 0:42.1 | Well, consciously, we want to make a different show every year. |
| 0:45.7 | That's something we've always discussed. |
| 0:48.0 | We didn't want to create a show and then make the same show over and over and over again. |
| 0:52.5 | So each season should have a life of its own, and the finale for the previous season should |
| 0:58.6 | serve as the pilot for the next season. |
| 1:01.9 | You know, all of us are there as a labor of love. |
| 1:04.9 | We love the show. |
| 1:05.8 | We're really committed to it, and we want to stay engaged and we want to stay interested. |
| 1:10.6 | So to do that, you know, we change it up a lot every stay engaged and we want to stay interested. |
| 1:16.1 | So to do that, you know, we change it up a lot every year and we're growing this character and we're growing these people and these relationships and we're watching her get in deeper |
| 1:20.9 | and deeper. |
| 1:22.7 | I should have you to sort of tell people the shows about for those who haven't seen that. |
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