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