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Weeds has recently proceeded with such scattershot abandon — Celia in custody, then not; Nancy training to smuggle, then being deployed in a front; Albert Brooks nailing the absurd pathos his castmates all aspire to, then disappearing — that we hardly believe the unfolding allegory that dominated this episode was even planned by the writers. [...]

The little boxes went away in a tidal wave of flames.  Agrestic is no longer the location for Mary Louise Parker’s pot-dealing widowed mom character, Nancy Botwin. She has moved down south to “Ren Mar” where the border beckons ever so seductively. 
 
Showrunner Jenji Kohan revealed her plans at the TCA (Television Critics’ Association) press tour today in [...]

Last week I wondered why we had to meet Bubbie at all given her short stay and lack of audible lines, but this week I learned that we met her so that Nancy could kill her so that Lenny could extort money from Nancy putting Nancy in even more dramatic jeopardy. Cool, now we are [...]

With a fresh start in a new town, showrunner Jenji Kohan and the creative team behind Showtime’s “Weeds” have completely reinvigorated the show in its fourth season. What started as a suburban satire has grown to become so much more, at once a hilarious comedy and a fascinating character study with one of the best [...]

In the many roles Nancy Botwin has taken on these last few TV years on Weeds — widow, housewife, mom, drug dealer, God — it’s nice to know she can still play the respectful granddaughter-in-law in times of deep family crisis. And so she came through for Bubbie by sitting shiva and honoring ”a courageous [...]

The literal red and blue coolers were the first of the two in the episode’s title and dead grandma Bubbie was the third. This week’s episode saw the result of Bubbie being smothered by an orthopedic pillow at Nancy’s hand and the seven day shiva to follow was one of the funniest sequences done on [...]

(S04E04) Nobody mourns like the Botwins. I can’t decide whose behavior was the least appropriate; there certainly were a lot of contenders. Lenny’s countdown was extremely insensitive, and his actions throughout the episode didn’t do him any favors, either. I’ll save the specifics for after the jump, but he made Nancy’s Andy-ditching look like an [...]

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, [...]

 
(S04E03) What a relief! Now that we’ve ditched the dead weight (sorry, Bubbie) Weeds can finally get down to business. The Agrestic and Ren Mar worlds are slowly coming together, which should please the Doug fans. Some familiar faces are making their way to Nancy’s new home, and that could mean trouble for her.
A few [...]

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 [...]