Weeds, Season Four begins tonight.
Sunday, September 7th, 2008Season Four of Weeds begins tonight on Showcase, 10 p.m. I still love Weeds, four years in. The concept of a TV show about a weed dealing suburban soccer mom frankly, sounded awful to me when I first heard about it. But Mary-Louise Parker, Kevin Nealon and Elizabeth Perkins make it work. In fact, Nancy (Parker) makes this show sing. She is just magnificent. At the end of season three, she had just burnt down her house, and the DEA had discovered her stash and her drug operation. And Celia (Perkins) was being questioned by the cops. As season four begins, Nancy and her family are on the run to a border town in California. The DEA is interrogating everyone else, and they all pin the grow op on Celia. There are some really strange scenes involving Celia and the agent questioning her. Sort of a really twisted Basic Instinct interrogation-seduction thing. Bizarre. But worth it. Check out Weeds tonight.