Weeds (2005)★ 7.9/10

TV-MA · US · 30 min · August 7, 2005 · 8 seasons

Comedy
Crime
Drama

Directed by: Craig Zisk, Michael Trim, Scott Ellis, Julie Anne Robinson, Eric Jewett

Written by: Jenji Kohan, Victoria Morrow, Ron Fitzgerald, Dave Holstein, Brendan Kelly

When a suburban mother turns to dealing marijuana in order to maintain her privileged lifestyle after her husband dies, she finds out just how addicted her entire neighborhood already is.

Original title

Weeds

Storyline

Creator/showrunner Jenji Kohan's hit Showtime satirical dramedy series told of Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), a widowed mother of two boys - Silas (Hunter Parish) and Shane (Alexander Gould) - who begins selling marijuana to support her family in Agrestic, Southern California. Other main characters include Nancy's lax brother-in-law Andy (Justin Kirk) moving in to help raise her children; foolish acquaintance Doug Wilson (Kevin Nealon); narcissistic neighbor Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins) living unhappily with her husband Dean (Andy Milder) and their daughter Isabelle (Allie Grant); as well as Nancy's wholesalers Heylia James (Tonye Patano) and her nephew Conrad (Romany Malco). During the fifth season, Nancy has a third child-Stevie (Mateus Ward and replaced by Ethan and Gavin Ken in season 8)-with Esteban Reyes (Demián Bichir), the mayor of Tijuana, Mexico and leader of a drug cartel. Over the course of the show, the Botwin family become increasingly entangled in illegal activity.

Rating

7.9 / 10 · 123,743

Companies

Lions Gate Television, Tilted Productions, Weeds Productions, Showtime Networks, Amazon Freevee, Amazon Instant Video, Comedy Central Extra, Comedy Central, Comedy Max, Dizimax Comedy, FilmNet, Fox Life HD, Google Play, HBO Hungary, HBO Polska, LK-TEL, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, MGM+, MagentaTV, Maxdome Store, Maxdome, Nelonen, ORF 1, ORF Eins, ProSieben Fun, ProSieben, RTL Entertainment, Sat.1 Comedy, Showtime 2, Sixx

Release dates