Weeds

For a show that's often billed as a comedy, things are getting pretty rough and dirty on "Weeds." In Season 5's kickoff this weekend, the show's desperate heroine, Nancy Botwin, has slid further and further into the violent drug underworld, taking her two boys with her.

In the season finale - did anyone else find it premature? - Shane goes Talented Mr.

CATCHING UP: Maternal instincts of new mother Nancy kick into gear as she realizes she not only wants a real home life for the new baby but one for her sons as well - including youngest Shane , who seems to be exhibiting early signs of becoming a stone-cold gangsta.

With Mary-Louise Parker leading perhaps the most dysfunctional family on TV, it's hard not to enjoy watching Showtime's Weeds .

It is hard to believe that only a few episodes are left in this season of " Weeds ," but a lot actually has happened.

Whew. The bullet that hit Shane last week passed straight through. In the front, out the back.

Showtime's Monday night duo of Weeds and Nurse Jackie enjoyed their best showings as the calendar turned to August.

Kevin Nealon stars on the Showtime show "Weeds" and he has a new movie due out in theaters this Friday called, "Aliens in the Attic." His family heads to their vacation home in Maine only to find out that someone has gotten there first.

I cannot sell makeup when civilization is collapsing," declares Celia, who last episode made a pact to evolve from "loser" to "closer" by selling lipstick and rouge for a woman in floral frocks.

Yesterday was the deadline for Emmy contenders in series races to declare what sample episodes they're submitting to judges.

We have to get the fuck out of here right now. These people bludgeon innocent golfers for sport." - Shane to Nancy Oh my gosh.

When Andy finally calls Nancy out in this episode week's episode of " Weeds ," in the gentlest way, fans had to breath a sigh of relief.

Which is funnier, Weeds or Rescue Me? United States of Tara or Dexter? The Office or Boston Legal? When you're watching them, it doesn't really matter if your favorite show is technically a comedy or a drama, but come Emmy time it sure does, and things grow a little blurrier every year.

Within the first three episodes, we learned that Esteban isn't going to be putting Nancy in her grave anytime soon.

Sucio is back! You remember Sucio, right? He helped build the tunnel, he sold Celia drugs, he sanded off Agent Shlattera s face.

We rejoin Lady Botwin in her kitchen as she attempts to stare down Cesar, the "minder" thoughtfully provided by baby daddy Esteban.

First of all, I really like the little vignettes at the beginning of Weeds episodes now .

With Nancy Botwin knocked up with a drug lord's son, the D.A. out to get her, and Celia stuck in Mexico with no apparent way out, this season looks bleak for the Ren Mar-via-Agrestic clan.

Oh Nancy, you'll never get it, will you? See the problem Nancy faces is that every drug dealer and gangster she's met so far has found her strangely amusing.

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Nancy Botwin , Weeds Yes, this single mom is quite the looker, but what really makes her sexy is the fact that she's got some serious cojones - figuratively speaking, of course.

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No, I do not mean "go smoke a bowl." That's illegal. Instead, enroll in Justin Kirk's University of Andy for a few minutes.

When it comes to TV's current lineup of bad guys, there may be no one more complex, powerful or quietly sinister than Demian Bichir's Esteban Reyes on Showtime's Weeds .

While I and most other critics have been focusing on tonight's Showtime debut of Nurse Jackie , the network also premieres season 5 of Weeds , something I usually look forward to every summer.

This came as sad news to Justin Kirk's Andy, or as he put it, "You're a slutty, irresponsible, slutty slut." Meanwhile, Elizabeth Perkins' Celia is being held hostage in Mexico by her estranged daughter Quinn, but the laugh-material here is that no matter which of Celia's friends or famil...

I am - " Hercules!! The fifth season of "Weeds" launches on Showtime tonight! Notes: * It's the first season to launch without the ticky-tacky song about little boxes.

Home : Features : Television : Recaps : Recap: Weeds Season 5 Premiere Recap: Weeds Season 5 Premiere 9-Jun-2009 Written by: Julie Terry The Showtime series sets up for a great summer season.

When our favorite pot-selling suburban mom returns to Showtime tonight, she ponders her fate and her relationship with Mexican crime boss Esteban .

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THE PREMIERE AIRS ON SHOWTIME TOMORROW NIGHT AT 10 PT/ET. Season five of Weeds kicks off with the first of 13 new episodes with an episode entitled "Where We Left Off..." In celebration, and to test our resistance to temptation, I present to you a compilation of promos, clips, behind the scenes...

Season five of the drug dramedy premieres this Monday at 10 p.m. on Showtime, and not only have we seen the first three incredible episodes, we also just had the opportunity to chat with Ms.

At the end of Season Four . . . *On the border, Doug and Andy were becoming successful in their immigrant-smuggling business.

lt;p>Edie Falco with a glove, a syringe and a little prick in "Nurse Jackie" Photo courtesy of Showtime Nurse Jackie premieres June 8 at 10:30 p.m. Showtime's new half-hour comedy-drama, Nurse Jackie , is good cause for hope and high expectations.</p>

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I am - " Hercules!! The fourth season of "Weeds" was amazing. Nancy, Andy, Doug, Celia and the kids all relocated from Agrestic to Ren Mar, which apparently borders both Mexico and the Pacific.

lt;p>'I had fallen so in love with the family, to not be able to be a part of it anymore was really hard.' Which is understandable given the sandy-haired, blue-eyed Plano, Texas, native's current situation, as he furiously shuttles between fictional dysfunctional parents: his reckl...

Jenji Kohan sure has interesting taste in Hollywood women. In his ganja-centric comedy, Weeds , quirky starlets are sprinkled throughout the show as numerously as those little boxes that dot the landscape of Agrestic.

Today I received a fun e-mail from the folks at Weeds -- they have the publicity department working hard on 4/20! The show returns June 8 at 10 p.m. for its fifth season.

Jennifer Jason Leigh will be lighting up 'Weeds' next season. Showtime says the 47-year-old actress will appear on the fifth season of the hit dramedy, which premieres June 8 on Showtime.

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Single White Female' star Jennifer Jason Leigh has been cast in the fifth series of the hit comedy-drama 'Weeds'. The Associated Press reports that Leigh will play the older sister of Mary-Louise Parker's character, Nancy Botwin.

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Today 1:21 PM PDT by Natalie Abrams Sonja Flemming/Showtime; Monty Brinton/Showtime Get ready for the baby-daddy drama of '09! Weeds is finally back June 8, and executive producer and creator Jenji Kohan confirms to us that there's only a slim chance Nancy Botwin is not pregnant.

My only exposure to the hugely successful Mexican-born actor Demian Bichir has been in the last year on the Showtime series "Weeds." He plays Esteban, mayor of Tijuana, the region's largest drug kingpin, and ...

Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:25 AM EDT -Actress Elizabeth Perkins from the Showtime television series "Weeds" arrives on the red carpet at the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles January 28, 2007 .

Weeds'': No Hodes Barred TV Watch ''Weeds'': No Hodes Barred Celia goes after Nancy, Heylia, Doug, and her husband; meanwhile, Nancy battles the blackmailing private investigator hired by Valerie FRONTAL ... via Entertainment Weekly

On ''Weeds,'' everything comes up roses for Nancy, as she gets her second husband's life-insurance check and wins Sullivan over with a quickie POWER MILF Nancy is increasingly using her sexuality Monty Brinton ... via EntertainmentWeekly

When we last saw Nancy Botwin, she was frozen with dread, standing against ticky-tacky cabinets in a kitchen as five snarling thugs pointed their automatic pistols at her head. via The Toronto Star

And they can; they can take a performance and turn it into the exact opposite of what I intended." Just like her character, Nancy Botwin, the pot-selling mum in Channel 9 series Weeds, Mary-Louise Parker took the job because of her child. via The West Australian