It can sometimes take a bit to settle into a new Weeds season - the family is in Agrestic, wait, now it's Mexico! Nancy is married to a politician/drug-dealer... oh, no, now she's a maid selling hash! But, through it all, the characters have remained as e more

This is not the “Weeds” we used to know. Sure, there’s the rundown of why drug-dealer / gang member / FBI informant Nancy Botwin (Mary Louise Parker) took the fall for a murder her son Shane committed. And yes, we’re given a time stamp. This is three year more

"She's been rehabilitated," claims   Shane Botwin   of his mom, Nancy , near the end of " Bags ". Of course he's wrong. But would we have it any other way?   I continue to get a kick out of Weeds. I know that some fans have been less than t more

WEEDS   “Bags” Season 7  Episode 1 – This is the first Showtime original series to make it to season 7. It was the first in the line of subversive dark comedies that defied the genre. It was the first of  a series of female a more

I never like it when a show takes a major time jump between seasons. It always feels like a storytelling crutch, like a lazy way to start fresh and quickly tie up loose ends up. Such was the case on "Bags," the seventh season opener for Weeds and an episo more

"Weeds" is back for its seventh season on Showtime and in the usual fashion, the Botwin family members are up to most unusual things. It's three years later and Nancy is out of prison and serving the remainder of her manslaughter sentence in a New York Ci more

When a network promises that a season finale will be "one you did not see coming," it's a hard statement to back up. Especially for fans of 'Weeds' who have slogged through a season that felt more like Showtime's version of a sordid 'Partridge Family.'
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Esteban and Guillermo have Nancy, leaving Andy to try and get the Botwins–and Warren–onto the plane in the “Theoretical Love is Not Dead” season finale of WEEDS. I was lucky enough to preview the tense, emotional episode and I think it’s the best of t more