I am – Hercules!!

If “Weeds” was a new fall show, it would be my favorite new fall show of the coming season. It is smart and funny and has pithy things to say about the way we think and live. I actually find myself craving new installments. I don’t believe there’s ever been a Showtime series that made me say that before.

Mary Louise Parker is no teenager, but her doob-dealing soccer-mom character is the kind of funny/sad heroine-of-the-suburbs who wouldn’t seem too much out of place in Neptune, Sunnydale or Stars Hollow. About a dozen major characters wobble about in her orbit, and I don’t think there’s one I don’t find entertaining.

I’m excited, then, to point out that Showtime is on Saturday colorcasting the series’ first five episodes, starting at 8 p.m.

Veronica Mars: The Complete First Season streets Oct. 11.

Look! Were Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader two different people in the early drafts of “The Empire Strikes Back”? All is revealed in The Annotated Screenplays (Star Wars, Episodes IV-VI)!!

Look! The comic book Joss Whedon wants to see on TV: Global Frequency Vol. 1 and Global Frequency Vol. 2!!

Look! Original casting tapes! Deleted scenes!
Audio commentaries! Clips from March’s “Lost” Paley Event!
Lost: The Complete First Season on DVD!!