Weeds is an American dark comedy television series about a widowed housewife from an affluent California suburb who becomes an upper-middle-class marijuana dealer in order to make ends meet.
It began with a 10-episode first season in August 2005. It was the highest rated series for Showtime that year. A 12-episode second season followed in August 2006, and a third season consisting of 15 episodes premiered on August 13, 2007. The season 3 premiere episode attracted 824,000 Showtime subscribers to tune in to the show. It was announced on November 5, 2007 that Showtime had picked up the show for a fourth season consisting of 13 episodes to air sometime in the Autumn of 2008 but In February of that year the fourth season was given a much earlier start date of June 16th.
The exteriors for the show are shot almost exclusively in Stevenson Ranch, a suburban area of Santa Clarita Valley, California. The shot of the large fountain and Agrestic sign seen in the introduction was shot at the corner of Stevenson Ranch Parkway and Holmes Place. The name 'Stevenson Ranch', was digitally replaced with 'Agrestic' and with 'Majestic' in later episodes.
The overhead, satellite picture displayed at the beginning of the show's introduction is of "Calabasas Hills", a gated community in Calabasas, California.
After her husband's unexpected death and subsequent financial woes, suburban mom Nancy Botwin (Parker) embraces a new profession: the neighborhood pot dealer. As it seems like everyone secretly wants what she's selling -- even city councilman Doug Wilson (Nealon) -- Nancy is faced with keeping her family life in check and her enterprise a secret from her neighbor/pseudo-friend/PTA president, Celia Hodes (Perkins). Written by IMDb Editors (Corrected by bdb4269)
When her husband, Judah dies of a sudden heart attack whilst out with his ten-year-old son, Shane. Nancy Botwin finds herself in a financial crisis, with no other option available to her she turns to Conrad Shepard and his family to sell cannabis using a fake bakery to move the goods. Aided by her wayward black-sheep brother-in-law Andy (Judah's younger brother) she struggles to keep her new means of bill-solving secret from her suspicious PTA members and nosy neighbor as well as from her children, Shane and his teenage brother Silas who are both dealing with their father's passing in their own unique ways. Coping without Judah patriarch of the family is also reflected on the Botwins, no more specially than Shane who's going through the painful process of growing up without his dad, with Andy being the reluctant rather poor substitute for father and son topics that go with growing up. While getting in trouble in school for various acts (such as spraying bullies in pink paint or setting fire to drawings) becomes a regular occurrence for him and a serious headache for his mom Written by suspiciouscrabs
