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by Laura Burrows
June 24, 2008 - Weeds is not a stereotypical show. Actually, it is in a genre all of its own and other production companies could not reproduce it if they tried, but when the Botwin family moved down south this season it was as if they were forced to play into every [...]

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 [...]

By BRENDAN BERNHARD
WHEN IN MEXICO Mary-Louise Parker, Rigo Sanchez, and Alejandro Patino in the Showtime series ‘Weeds.’
It’s as if Jenji Kohan, the show’s creator, were performing an experiment on America’s high-end cable audience: “How vicious and sick can I make this series and still win approving notices from the critics and an audience sizable enough [...]