Weeds: Serie

In the pantheon of "anti-hero" television, we usually talk about Tony Soprano, Walter White, or Don Draper. But let’s not forget the woman who started the car: Nancy Botwin .

A brilliant B+. Watch for the satire, stay for the chaos, and don’t ask questions about the logic of the final season. Have you watched Weeds ? Did you tap out after they left Agrestic, or did you ride it out to the end? Let me know in the comments. serie weeds

I recently finished a re-watch, and honestly? The show is a fever dream that goes completely off the rails, but the first few seasons remain some of the best dark comedy TV ever written. The early seasons are a perfect time capsule of the mid-2000s. Mary-Louise Parker is mesmerizing as Nancy. She isn't a hardened criminal; she’s a soccer mom in Juicy Couture track suits who uses her suburban invisibility as a superpower. In the pantheon of "anti-hero" television, we usually

The show stops being a satire of suburbia and turns into a cartel road-trip dramedy. They move to a seaside town, then to the Mexican border, then to Copenhagen, then back to New York. Watch for the satire, stay for the chaos,

When Weeds premiered on Showtime in 2005, it was a culture shock. Before the opulent despair of Desperate Housewives fully set in, there was Nancy—a recently widowed mother of two in the fictional, sun-scorched suburb of Agrestic (pronounced "a-GREST-ic"), trying to keep her family in their nice house by becoming the neighborhood pot dealer.