Weeds Summary
Genres: Comedy Drama
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Produced for cable's Showtime service, the half-hour Weeds starred Mary-Louise Parker as suburban housewife Nancy Botwin, whose comfy, affluent existence was shattered by the unexpected death of her husband. With no other readily available source of income, Nancy decided to service an ever-growing consumer demand -- by selling marijuana to other white-bread suburbanites. Purchasing her pot from streetwise dealer Conrad Shepard (Romany_Malco) and his aunt, supplier Heylia James (Tonye_Patano), Nancy set up her new business enterprise using a bakery as a front, with the assistance of city councilman Doug Wilson (Kevin_Nealon) -- all the while keeping her activities a secret from her snooty, traditionalist best friend, PTA president Celia Hodes (Elizabeth_Perkins). Also in the cast were Alexander_Gould and Hunter_Parrish as Nancy's sons, Shane and Silas; Justin_Kirk as her overgrown-slacker brother-in-law, Andy; Andy_Milder as Celia's feeble husband, Dean Hodes; Allie_Grant as the Hodes' overweight daughter, Isabelle; and Martin_Donovan as Peter, a single dad whom Nancy fell for -- and who turned out to be a DEA agent. The series' ironic theme music was the Womenfolk's "Little Boxes," a satiric paean to split-level conformity. One of those series invariably described as "smart and sexy" by in-the-know critics, the Golden Globe-winning Weeds debuted August 7, 2005. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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