That’s basically the premise of Disjointed, yet another Netflix original that you will maybe scroll past on your way to your fifth viewing of Moana. Via Deadline, Kathy Bates plays Ruth, a “lifelong advocate for legalization” who moves to Los Angeles to fulfill a long-held dream by opening her very own dispensary. Because we couldn’t just have a TV show about Kathy Bates selling weed while wearing caftans and such, there are other characters, too: “three charismatic ‘budtenders’ (Dougie Baldwin, Elizabeth Ho and Elizabeth Alderfer), her entrepreneurial twentysomething son (Aaron Moten) and a very troubled security guard who served in Afghanistan (Tone Bell).”
The description sounds enjoyable enough but is soured a little by this fun fact: one of the show’s creators is Chuck Lorre, the man responsible for shows like Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory. Like any other sitcom, Disjointed will be 22 episodes long and will feature a laugh track, which will either be just fine or feel very hokey. There are a lot of hack-y stoner jokes, including various shots of people choking on bong rips. Cool.
I have high hopes for this because I love Kathy Bates and marijuana in equal measure, but there’s a Yoda joke crammed in at the end of the trailer that made me feel deep waves of second-hand embarrassment from which I am still recovering.
Disjointed will premiere on Netflix August 25.
