Weeds
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MovieSphere+After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.
MovieSphere+After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.
Weeds is a hilarious comedy, following other trend-setting shows like The Sopranos and Six Feet Under that deal with real life issues (using real life language). Sometimes wonderfully dark, and sometimes very blunt, the humour seems to suit each episode's general mood. The quickly progressing story lines provide plenty of interest and we quickly develop a sympathy for the main characters ...
That's the question explored by Weeds, a moreish series starring Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin, a widowed soccer mom who decides to deal with her unexpectedly reduced circumstances by selling marijuana to her neighbours. It debuted in 2005, so in some ways Nancy is a credit-crunch pioneer, albeit an unconventional one. Through the four seasons available on box set in the UK (the fifth has yet to be shown on TV here), we follow Nancy's journey beyond her white-picket-fence life into a world of grow-houses, creative accounting and drive-by shootings.
