Weeds, Season 1 - When life seemed so much more simple.
Hard to believe but with Monday night's episode, Weeds reached it's midway point through season 6. I had been wondering just how long a show that used to be about a suddenly-widowed upper-middle class suburban mother of two school-age kids--who turned to dealing pot "temporarily" to save her house, could fare now that she is 2 seasons away from all that. (cont. below.)
Weeds: Win This
The Botwins discover that an RV is the grand prize at the carnival.
Weeds: Old Time's Sake
Nancy tries to convince her family to go to a carnival in Montana.
(cont.) "Nancy" (Mary Louise Parker) is now homeless and both she and her youngest son are fugitives. She, IIRC because her entire neighborhood was torched as part of her need to cover her cannibis-dealing tracks and her son because he killed a high-level Mexican mafia woman who was threatening to kill his whole family. I don't beleive legitimate authorites know of "Shane's" involvement but the Mexican mafia does and that is probably worse.
Just the same, Nancy keeps trucking along, getting in and out of scrapes. Except for the "Botwins" currently using the moniker "Newman," and "Doug" (Kevin Nealon), the cast keeps changing too which would seem to bode ill for a series' longevity--but not here. Weeds was renewed for a seventh season and barring a re-boot, the family is going to have to continue to be fugitives which sounds pretty depressing but then again making a living dealing copious amounts of cannibis proably was not the best long-term situation anyway.
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