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Mary-Louise Parker has built a cult following for her quirky Showtime hit “Weeds.” The show is about a single mom, living a nameless, look-a-like California suburb, who turns to selling pot to help make ends meet. Parker’s character Nancy Botwin’s life is far from bland.
She faces off tough drug dealers, Latin American drug lords, the [...]

Celia is back and Nancy completely turns into the female Tony Soprano. Plus, what is with the Fall Guy belt buckle?
Welcome to the McGuffin Review of Weeds, Season 4, Episode 5 “No Man is Pudding”. I’m Cory, your host, here to recap and review what is easily the wackiest show on TV today Weeds.
Previously on [...]

With Showtime’s breakthrough show peaking at an all-time high (ratings have almost tripled), Weeds showrunner Jenji Kohan took a tip from Talking Heads. At the end of last season, she had Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker), the pot-dealing widow, burn down her suburban house to thwart DEA sleuths.
Gone is the great but grating “Little Boxes” theme song, [...]

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 [...]