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  • Season 05
  • Episode 13
  • All About My Mom

Weeds Season Finale: Boys to Men

Now Jenji Kohan has done it all.

  • S.05
  • Ep.11
  • 'Ducks and Tigers'

Weeds: Like Romeo and Juliet

Last night's 'Weeds' was straight out of Shakespeare, even more so than usual. 

  • S.05
  • Ep.10
  • 'Perro Insano'

Weeds: Married ... With Children

Nancy and Esteban, tied up in knots. 

  • S.05
  • Ep.09
  • 'Suck 'N' Spit'

Weeds: A Crying Shane

What hath the goth chicks wrought? 

  • S.05
  • Ep.08
  • 'A Distinctive Horn'

Weeds: The Rock-bottom Bounce

This episode, the rubble tumbles into place — and Nancy gets her groove back. 

  • S.05
  • Ep.07
  • 'Where the Sidewalk Ends'

Weeds: Baby-Makin’ Time

Uncle Andy, making moves. 

  • S.05
  • Ep.06
  • 'A Modest Proposal'

Weeds: Welcome to the World of Tomorrow

We jump forward six months, and step in it big time. 

  • S.05
  • Ep.05
  • 'Van Nuys'

Weeds: Randy Andy

It’s like we’re watching Uncle Andy grow into just plain Andy. Which is why the end of this episode is so exasperating. 

  • S.05
  • Ep.04
  • 'Super Lucky Happy'

Weeds: Nobody Puts Baby in the, Uh, Coroner

The humor is back. And so are the "family values." 

  • S.05
  • Ep.03
  • 'Su-Su-Sucio'

Weeds: Sister Act 2

Our hearts are warmed by the potential for enlightenment and reconciliation. And then ... 

  • S.05
  • Ep.02
  • 'Machetes Up Top'

Weeds: Dead Mom Walking

"You were an interesting person to know, Nancy Botwin." 

  • S.05
  • Ep.01
  • 'Wonderful Wonderful'

Weeds Season Premiere: Down in Smoke

For the first time, we are seeing unequivocally that Nancy just does not get it. 

  • S.04
  • Ep.13
  • 'If You Work for a Living, Why Do You Kill Yourself Working?'

‘Weeds’ Season Finale As Ridiculous As You Might Expect

It's judgment day for Nancy. As much as Mayor Esteban wants not to believe that the woman he loves is a snitch, Cesar is hell-bent on finding proof. And he does! 

  • S.04
  • Ep.12
  • 'Till We Meet Again'

‘Weeds’: How the Hell Are They Getting Out of This One?

Jenji Kohan has some serious moxie. 

  • S.04
  • Ep.11
  • 'Head Cheese'

‘Weeds’: Nancy, Rat

Is 13 too young to be having sex? Nancy thinks so. 

  • S.04
  • Ep.10
  • 'The Love Circle Overlap'

‘Weeds’: Nancy Has Her Vision Quest

She eats some ayawaska, a rocket ship to peyote’s bicycle. 

  • S.04
  • Ep.09
  • 'Little Boats'

‘Weeds’: Throwdowns and Sit-downs

'It's a little quirky to masturbate to pictures of your mother.' 

  • S.04
  • Ep.08
  • 'I Am the Table'

‘Weeds’: Mayor Unleashes the Beast on Nancy

Nancy does what she does best this week: shows impeccable irony in the face of absurd crisis. Sincerity, too. 

  • S.04
  • Ep.07
  • 'Yes I Can'

‘Weeds’: This Sex Stuff Is Just Getting Ridiculous

The mother-love theme is really growing legs. 

  • S.04
  • Ep.06
  • 'Excellent Treasures'

‘Weeds’: Return of the MILF

If Mary Louise-Parker wins this Emmy, it will be for perfecting the White Lady Who Gets Away With Everything. 

  • S.04
  • Ep.05
  • 'No Man Is Pudding'

‘Weeds’ Goes Batman-Bleak

In some ways, we got exactly what we’ve wanted. 

  • S.04
  • Ep.04
  • 'The Three Coolers'

‘Weeds’: We Sit Shivah for Albert Brooks

This episode played out like a confused adventure satire: 'Rush Hour 3' meets 'Bonnie and Clyde.' 

  • S.04
  • Ep.03
  • 'The Whole Blah Damn Thing'

‘Weeds’: Blah Blah Booyah!

Last night, hot on the heels of their very first Emmy nomination, the writers truly delivered.  

  • S.04
  • Ep.02
  • 'Lady’s a Charm'

‘Weeds’: Oh, Shit

There were, appropriately, a lot of references to the S-word this episode; our crew is deep in it. 

  • S.04
  • Ep.01
  • 'Mother Thinks the Birds Are After Her'

‘Weeds’: Season Premiere the Thing of Midsummer Madness

Ashes fall from the sky, and Nancy and her boys hotfoot it to a beach town on the Mexican border, inaugurating the young season’s drug-smuggling plotline. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.15
  • 'Go'

‘Weeds’ Goes Up in Smoke

It turns out Nancy Botwin started the fires in Southern California. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.13
  • 'Risk'

‘Weeds’: Nancy Gets a Tattoo

With just two weeks to go till the season finale, this was a smashing week for Weeds — every scene was jam-packed with character craziness coming to fruition. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.12
  • 'Stop Picturing Conrad’s Ass'

‘Weeds’: We Can’t Stop Picturing Conrad’s Ass

Nancy’s Season of Love, by which we mean Season of Sex came to a climax last night. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.11
  • 'Cankles'

‘Weeds’: We Are Dirty, Bad Little Viewers

Last night's episode left us feeling like dirty, no-good little voyeurs who don't deserve Mary-Louise Parker or a TV show that, in its second-to-last episode of the season, suddenly went from good to kind of great. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.10
  • 'Roy Till Called'

‘Weeds’: Everything’s Great! No, Wait, It’s Not!

Everyone: Nancy is loaded again!  

  • S.03
  • Ep.09
  • 'Release the Hounds'

‘Weeds’: The Satire’s Bizzack

We're not out of daytime-soap-land, but that cheeky Weeds satire has finally caught up with this season's meanderings. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.08
  • 'The Two Mrs. Scottsons'

‘Weeds’: Andy’s Toe Is So Getting Laid

No shoot-outs or punch-ups descended upon us this week. Instead, we were regaled with a stream of bodily issues. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.07
  • 'He Taught Me How to Drive By'

‘Weeds’: What the Hell Is Going On?

All the suburban demons really came out to play in this episode. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.06
  • 'Grasshopper'

‘Weeds’: Now With Heroin — and Murder!

Heroin, yes, heroin. Smack, junk, horse. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.05
  • 'Bill Sussman'

‘Weeds’: Nancy Does a Drive-By

Instead of getting all tangled up in the disappointing ludicrousness that Weeds has been spiraling into these past couple of weeks, let's focus on a few delightful and hope-giving moments. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.04
  • 'Sh*t Highway'

‘Weeds’: A River Runs Through It

Just when we thought the fictional town of Agrestic was a convenient metaphor for all of consumerist California, they go and turn it into the state's rear end. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.03
  • 'The Brick Dance'

‘Weeds’: We Don’t Recommend the Toilet Paper

Poverty has struck Agrestic.  

  • S.03
  • Ep.02
  • 'A Pool and His Money'

‘Weeds’: Catfight!

Some nasty, legitimately disturbing stuff went down in Agrestic last night. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.01
  • 'Doing the Backstroke'

Is ‘Weeds’ High on Its Own Supply?

"Silas, where is the 'dry cleaning'? I need every last bag of clothing or my boss is going to kill me. Just shoot me dead. You got that? Dead." 

Schedule
Mondays, 10 p.m.
Showtime
Cast
Creator
Jenji Kohan
Producers
Alan Ball, Gregg Fienberg, Brian Buckner, and Nancy Oliver
Debut
August 7, 2005
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