Weeds

The Weeds open sequence and song are an excellent example of semiotics. The signs shown in the clip, like the houses being just the same, everyone driving the same cars, and the people even being identical, are commenting on what suburbia is. Basically, the intro to the show is saying that suburban life is boring and undisturbed. Then when you actually watch the show you see what the creators were trying to get across. The characters of the show are living in the perfect suburban area, but their lives are filled with things that are less than what people believe suburbia to be. For example, Nancy. Nancy is a drug dealer and no one would suspect her to be because of where she comes from. On top of that, she is selling drugs to those who also live in suburbia, and you wouldn’t think that they would be buying drugs. One episode Nancy had to leave her car with her African American supplier in exchange for drugs. When she pulled up with their car, which was beat up and out of place, her neighbors were disturbed by her car not fitting in so to speak. So the perfect exterior they are creating in the introduction is a sarcastic look at what suburban life is, because the show goes on to contradict the opening sequence.