This show is one of the best shows of its time it gives you comedy and drama all in the same show. Any show where the only way you can make a living is by selling pot makes any t.v. show intresting.

One of Showtime's best shows is Weeds. A suburban housewife deals weed in her suburban neighborhood. The show is a great, a dramedy with an absorbing story. The first season seems a bit safe and indeed the critics would praise the show and then go out of their way to criticize it at the same time. Be aware the show is great and it becomes more daring and exciting in later seasons. A great credit to have this show aired and with such a wonderful cast such as Mary Louise Parker, Kevin Nealon and Justin Kirk.

I don't particularly like "drug humor," so I passed on "Weeds" when it first went on the air. However, the reviews for the show have been consistently very good, so I decided to finally watch a few episodes. I liked them. "Weeds" is about Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), a mother who lives in an expensive planned community (fictional Agrestic, California) and was left penniless when her husband unexpectedly dropped dead jogging. She turns to dealing pot to keep up her tony life-style, and it turns out that she's pretty good at it. The first few episodes show her adjusting to the absurdity or her new career and balancing her drug dealing with raising her two sons, teenaged Silas and the pre-pubescent Shane, who are adjusting to their father's death.

The show relies on this clever conceit of the drug-dealing mom for much of its humor, but at its heart "Weeds" is a devious satire of suburbia. Nancy may seem immoral selling drugs in order to make her Range Rover payments and to buy the steady stream of iced coffees she totes everywhere; however, she is far from being the most deviant character. PTA uber-mom Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), for example, has a cheating husband, an overweight daughter whom she tries to browbeat daily to watch her calories, and a teenaged daughter whom she sends to boarding school after she sleeps with Silas.

The show is well-written and offers plenty of laughs, and the acting is terrific. I'm not usually a fan of Mary-Louise Parker, as she too often seems depressed and mopey in most roles. However, she's very good in this career-defining role - even sexy at times. She's received two Emmy nominations for Best Actress in a Comedy and a win in that category at the Golden Globes. The crowded supporting cast is joined by Heylia (Tonye Patano), Nancy's sassy supplier, along with her family members, Vaneeta and Conrad. Finally, Kevin Nealon plays Doug, the marijuana-crazy CPA who helps Nancy run her business and also serves on the Agrestic City Council. Many of the biggest laughs are supplied by Heylia, although people who appreciate pot humor will probably also like Doug.

During the first season, "Weeds" does a great job of examining the hypocrisy of suburbia. Nancy's drug dealing is balanced nicely with plots involving Shane's school problems, Celia's family and their issues, and so forth. Unfortunately, mid-way through the season, Nancy's brother-in-law, Andy (Justin Kirk) arrives. Andy is a juvenile, pot-smoking, responsibility-shirking idiot, and he is on-screen far too often in the second half of the season (and beyond). In particular, as he and Doug become friends, the plots too often involve them being stoned and irresponsible - the very reasons I avoided "Weeds" initially. However, overall, the show still remains strong despite these unlikeable characters.