WEEDS SEASON 1 - 3  starring MARY-LOUISE PARKER

LANGUAGE: English    SUBTITLES: English, Spanish listed on Season 3 (All are sealed together)

A comedy series about dealing in the suburbs...

SEASON 1: A recent widow with two growing sons, Nancy Botwin (Golden Globe Winner Mary-Louise Parker) looks like a typical resident of the affluent Southern California suburb of Agrestic. She keeps a clean upscale house (with the help of a live-in maid), attends PTA meetings, goes to her kids' soccer games, makes frequent stops at the local coffee franchise...and sells marijuana in order to make it all possible.  

Left with no way to support herself after her husband's fatal heart attack, Nancy turns herself into the "suburban baroness of bud," dealing to her neighbors in the area, with the help of her supplier (Tonye Patano) and point man Conrad (Romany Malco). Nancy's clients run from the local councilman (Kevin Nealon) to the just-barely-legal students at the local community college, but many in Agrestic are still in the dark as to how she keeps her family afloat, including her best friend, the sardonic Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), a wife and mother whose blistering, withering put-downs could make Dorothy Parker cringe in fear.

SEASON 2: The first season ended with a shocker: Nancy found a dreamy new boyfriend, but he turned out to be a DEA agent (Martin Donovan). Luckily, she manages to find some pretty creative ways to "deal" with it. Despite that new obstacle, she decides it's also time to "grow" the business to higher levels and all these risky moves lead up to another fabulous season finale cliff-hanger. Elsewhere in suburban Utopia, comic relieving brother-in-law Andy (Justin Kirk) tries to dodge his army commitments by joining Rabbi School, while the hilarious Doug (Kevin Nealon) battles it out with Celia to maintain power over the Agrestic City Council.

The characters and the story have grown into their own skins, and they offer something more authentic and convincing. The second season also starts a great new tradition: Malvina Reynold's "Little Boxes" is still the opening theme song, but it is performed by a different artist for each episode (from Elvis Costello to The Shins). Just one more thing to keep us "addicted."

SEASON 3:  The story picks up exactly where it left off, with Nancy Botwin faced with a half-dozen guns pointing at her in her own kitchen, while an Armenian gang and Nancy's buyer, U-Turn (Page Kennedy), both demand she turn over her entire stash of marijuana (worth several hundred thousand dollars). Problem is, the pot is in the trunk of on-again, off-again friend Celia, whose car has been stolen by Nancy's oldest son, Silas (Hunter Parrish).

Silas wants in on his mom's business, but his timing couldn't be worse as Celia and a police officer show up to reclaim the car while Nancy is still at gunpoint. The fallout from all this is that Nancy ends up working for U-Turn to repay her debt to him, a dangerous relationship that sends Nancy down a rabbit hole of underworld threats and violence.

As always, it's one thing after another on Weeds, and the blend of humor and suspense is uniquely compelling. One of the season's most memorable moments find Nancy forced to put on a sexy dance for a group of drug dealers in order to pick up a package U-Turn requires. The scene is humiliating, frightening, sexy and comical all at once. Few actresses could have pulled it off, but Parker does. Hilarious and subversive, WEEDS is the hit that put the herb in suburb.

"Five stars! Weeds remains as thrilling and addictive as ever...jump on board"...San Francisco Chronicle

"Weeds has perhaps the best comedic cast assembled on television"...Los Angeles Times

"the most talked-about comedy in ages"...newsweek.com

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