Maybe I'm shallow...

But I really don't think that anyone who's auditioning for a major role in an edgy, pay-cable television series should be even allowed in the door without agreeing to do nude scenes.

This post is, ostensibly, about the first season of Showtime's Weeds. In which we have a major character who spends an episode or two exposing her breasts to, well, everyone except the audience.

At the time I was just assuming the Weeds wasn't going for the full-on edgy pay cable series thing, just a sitcom with four-letter words thing. But then, a couple of episodes later, a bit part character is brought in for a few sex scenes and she does do the nudity thing. So it's not that, just pure Dream On Syndrome.

(Named for the first edgy, pay-cable television series, in which the unwillingness of the major recurring characters to show their all, so to speak, contrasted most wildly with the enthusiasm that the one-off guest stars shed their clothing...)

Directors and Showrunners at HBO and Showtime, make your stand! No more implying that couples spend so little time on foreplay that the tops remain on! No more bedsheets so strategically placed that it looks like someone made the bed around them after the act! Make 'em sign on the dotted line up front. (And I should note that this goes for male prima donnas as well...)

(Other than that, the show was fairly enjoyable, if lightweight...)