4/5
Having come into the second season of Weeds without watching the first – a friend told me the first season wasn’t all that great – I was expecting to have the somewhat difficult task of having to dissect the background histories and stories of the characters. Thankfully, preceding the first episode in this collection is a mammoth wrap-up of the first season. Not that it’s necessary, this series’ plot really follows a new path. Having now discovered she’s quite good at dealing marijuana, Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) decides to start growing, buying a house and teaming up with a misfit collection of townsfolk, all somehow connected, growing what guest-starring Snoop Dogg labels ‘milfweed’. However, complications, such as Nancy marrying a DEA agent, her children wanting in on the action, rival dealers and whatnot, are a daily occurrence. Hilarious, yet, sentimental, Weeds succeeds through well-crafted characters and a perfect balance between humour and drama – Nancy’s brother-in-law Andy (Justin Kirk) providing a great deal of this.
Extras: none
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