Season two is starting the new trend in the series, with much darker tone, while still funny. The themes and the story line will be more serious and Nancy will go deeper into the drug world underground while trying to expand, and getting mixed in the whole process starting with own weeds growing house. This season starts the decline in the series writing, and while this one is still good, things will go downhill fast with later seasons.

Story

Nancy has just found out that Peter is DEA agent, and that has a biggest impact on the story line this season. I had a lot of problems with everything around Peter, and most of it was very unrealistic. The whole DEA subplot was the weakest part of the season. Main story line is about Nancy trying to expand, and with help from Conrad setting the grow house. Conrad has developed a great strain of plant that will be their main product. But, their fast expansion will attract many new enemies trying to ruin their business and take the strain for themselves. Again, the whole insight on the gang activities while tries to be funny, fails to deliver, again showing them unrealistic. But, on the other hand, there are several minor subplots I liked, like the one revolving around Silas and his girlfriend Megan, or few plots with Andy. These smaller story lines are really great, and they are the main reason I liked the season overall.

Andy and Yael in rabbinical school

Cast

Andy and Silas are my favorite character this season. Andy trying to get out of the army by signing in the rabbinical school (beautiful Meital Dohan plays Yeal, the instructor in the school) and his many schemes are real fun to watch.

Conclusion

Good season for Weeds, not as good as first. Darker stories they wanted to tell are spoiled with some unrealistic characters. If you overlook that, the rest is really good.

Weeds is not a classic comedy that is made only to make you laugh. This is mostly a dark comedy with excellent, funny and intelligent writing and truly great cast and very actual theme that is rarly presented for TV the way Weeds have done. Series is created by Jenji Kohan and produced by Lionsgate Television for Showtime network. Episodes are under half hour long, and this first season had total of 10 episodes.

Story

Suburban mother and recently widow Nancy started dealing marijuana after the death of the husband and loss of income, so that she can still have the same life style as before. She has two sons and in the first half of the season, her dead husbands brother also moves in. First season shows mostly basics of the weeds dealing business and occasional confrontations with other dealers, and first steps to set up wider network of buyers.

But this is only a part of the Weeds. Main story is actually on relations between members in the Botwin family faced with the tragic loss and the new life that Nancy has to lead to survive. Also, we will see how things work in a small suburban community, and that appearances can be deceiving. Story is really tought provoking with many flawed character constantly making bad descisions, and getting themselves deeper into problems.

Weeds: Celia and Nancy

Cast and characters

Mary-Louise Parker is amazing as Nancy Botwin, but that is not a big surprise, because she is great in any role. Her brother in law Andy is played by Justin Kirk and he did great job in portraying irresponsible and lazy character. Elizabeth Perkins is great as Celia Hodes, best friend of Nancy Botwin in the beginning of the series. Without going too much into details, it’s really hard to find someone who is not up to the task.

Conclusion

First season of Weeds is really great, and fun to watch. For the next 2 season series will mostly maintain the quality of this first season, but after that things will be changed for the worse. For now, grab DVD or Blu-Ray with the fisr season and spend few hours on this great show.