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I guess we can now add “killer” to Nancy’s growing criminal resume. Drug dealer, arsonist, smuggler … it’s obvious Nancy’s given up entirely on being mother of the year. Last night, Weeds dealt head-on with the dying Bubbie storyline, though the euthanasia debate was hardly riveting. Airhead Silas stood in for the opposing view, and [...]

A home ventilator would require constant monitoring and deep family pockets. Len’s not up to either.
June 30, 2008
“Weeds”: “Mother Thinks the Birds Are After Her” episode; Showtime, June 16.
The premise: Having burned down her house, Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and her family travel to the Mexican border town of Ren Mar, Calif., where they visit [...]

By Shirley Halperin

To be perfectly honest, as season 4 kicked off, I hadn’t given much thought to Weeds‘ secondary characters, like Conrad and Heylia or Doug and Dean. I knew they wouldn’t be around much (or, in some cases, at all), since the focus was shifting to a family on the run, and God [...]