[WEEDS] ① 推廣----書到用時方恨少，媽媽我錯了。

託連太友人KING之福，前一陣子在聚會中看到的奇劇Weeds，拿來作為編劇功課實在是再適合不過。目前網拍上買得到，TUDOU也看得到，總之一時熱血，發表文章介紹一下，底下有字字血淚的WIKI翻譯，只能說，少小不努力，老大徒傷悲...我的英文真的讓我很傷悲。



（圖為本劇主人公Nancy Bodwin，由Mary-Louise Parker飾演，號稱本世紀最衰小、最沒有主角威能的主角。）


此劇第一季上檔於05年八月，06~07年間在金球與艾美等榮獲17座大小獎項。不過充斥著毒品（廢話）、種族歧視、性別歧視...所有理論上來說碰不得的議題、不該開的玩笑，所以在台播出的機率無限趨近於零。



先貼上WIKI的第一季故事大綱翻譯：

第一季的內容共10集，主要介紹主人公Nancy為了應付丈夫死後的龐大開銷，鋌而走險開始賣大麻、排山倒海而來的慘事向她襲來的劇情，以及算是介紹一下主要角色。事實上2、3季之後出現的新角色也不多。

片頭曲，與歌詞翻譯，只能說非常機歪：



山坡上的小盒子們
粗製濫造的小盒子們
山坡上的小盒子們
他們長得都是一樣的

有綠的、有粉紅色的
有藍的和黃的
他們都是粗製濫造的
他們看起來完全都是一樣的

房子裡的人們
都進到大學去
他們都被放進盒子裡
他們看起來都一樣

有醫生、律師
還有商業菁英們
他們都是粗製濫造的
他們都是一樣的


SEASON 1

The fictional, affluent Los Angeles, California suburb of Agrestic (an English word meaning "characteristic of the fields or country", but having a second meaning as "crude: lacking the qualities associated with sophistication") is home to Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), whose husband Judah (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) recently, and suddenly, died of heart failure while jogging with his son Shane.

在洛杉磯、加州的一個虛構富裕郊區Agrestic中，衰小的主人公----Nancy Botwin的丈夫，不久前，在與兒子Shane玩樂的過程中，因心臟病猝死。

Agrestic： 雙關語。鄉村或牧場的特徵，也另解為crude：缺乏教養。


Nancy begins dealing marijuana to locals in her suburban town in order to support her household while maintaining an upper-class lifestyle.
As depicted in the series, Agrestic has a public school system, which Nancy's children (Hunter Parrish) and SilasShane (Alexander Gould) both attend. She buys from (Tonye Patano), a major distributor in the Agrestic area whom she met through Heylia JamesConrad (Romany Malco), Heylia's nephew. Nancy utilizes her baking skills and concocts pot-laced munchies to sell,

為了維持一家的生計，以及該社區那種上流社會的生活方式，Nancy開始販賣大麻（片名「weeds」原意野草，marijuana則是學名。）給當地居民。

Nancy的兒子，Silas與Shane都在Agrestic的一個公立學校就學。

Nancy的貨源/上游/供應商是Heylia James，在她面臨困境時，她的姪子Conad偷偷傳授Nancy作餅乾蛋糕的秘方，而Nancy也藉參了大麻的「加料點心」，成功的脫離了困境。


and later, with the aid of her accountant, councilman Doug Wilson, she sets up a legitimate bakery as a front for her drug sales. Silas begins dating a deaf girl (Shoshannah Stern) who lives in the area. Shane is a more troubled child, and has the nickname "Strange Botwin" at school. He has been known to act out and, for example, bites the foot of another child in martial arts class.

之後，在她的會計師，地方議員Doug Wilson的幫助下，她成立了一個空頭公司，一家餅乾店，作為販毒生意的掩護。大兒子Silas開始跟一個聾女孩約會（此女在惡毒的高中生口耳相傳中，以可以輕易為人吹喇叭聞名）小兒子Shane則在學校被人當作怪胎，經常惹出麻煩。


Nancy befriends the manic, image-obsessed, manipulative and controlling Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins), president of the Agrestic PTA, who has a number of domestic problems. She does not get along with her cheating husband (Andy Milder). Nor does she get along with her older daughter, Quinn (Silas' previous girlfriend), who Celia sends her off to boarding school in Mexico in the premiere. Her younger daughter is overweight and a lesbian, and Celia berates her cruelly about both issues.

Nancy的鄰居Celia Hodes是一個狂熱、偶像崇拜、有控制欲（…manic, image-obsessed, manipulative and controlling這邊我不知道怎麼翻orz）的中年婦女，是Agrestic的PTA主席（婦聯會之類的）她有一個低能的丈夫，跟華裔網球教練搞外遇、大女兒Quinn是Silas的前女友，因為跟Silas上床就被她送去墨西哥的寄宿學校，而小女兒是一個小胖妹，還是一個女同性戀。時常受到她媽媽為了減重，在精神與肉體上的雙重折磨。


Toward the end of the season, Celia is diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer, and before her surgery she has sex with Conrad (Romany Malco). Conrad is long-time friends with Andy Botwin (Justin Kirk), the younger brother of Nancy's late husband and the black sheep of the family. Andy says he has moved into the Botwin household to help Nancy out, but seems to just be there to free-load. He decides to study to become a rabbi in order to avoid military service in Iraq.

接近第一季尾聲時，Celia發現自己得了乳癌，在接受切除手術之前，為了享受最後一段有奶頭的人生，她跟Conad上床。Conad是Nancy的小叔Andy Botwin的多年酒肉朋友，Andy則是Botwin家族中的敗類，一日突然出現，聲稱要幫助Nancy而自作主張的要長住下來。他也為了逃避徵兵，硬是跑去學猶太教的法律。


Nancy has a brief fling with a rival drug dealer and then starts dating Peter Scottson, the parent of the kid her son bit in karate class. The season closes with Nancy's plan to become a grower. However, this plan hits complications when she sleeps with Peter, only to find out he's an agent with the DEA

這一季結束在，Nancy決心自己種植大麻，但這個計畫卻面臨一個天大的麻煩----她發現她約會的對象Peter（被Shane在空手道課上咬傷的小孩的父親）居然是個緝毒探員！


to be continued......