Product Description

America's favorite pot-dealing soccer mom is more addictive than ever in the third season of WEEDS, the highly acclaimed Showtime(r) Original Series. Emmy (r) and Golden Globe(r) winner MARY-LOUISE PARKER stars as Nancy Botwin, a single mom who resorts to dealing pot after her husband dies suddenly. But when an off beat way to make ends meet grows into a mini-empire, the mother of all dealers finds she may be in over her head - and on the verge of taking everyone else with her. Hilarious and subversive, WEEDS is the hit that put the herb in suburb.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87 in DVD
• Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
• Released on: 2008-06-03
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 3
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 388 minutes

Amazon.com
Weeds: Season Three continues the dark line of comedy that emerged in the previous season for this Showtime series. The story picks up exactly where it left off, with Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) faced with a half-dozen guns pointing at her in her own kitchen, while an Armenian gang and Nancy's buyer, U-Turn (Page Kennedy), both demand she turn over her entire stash of marijuana (worth several hundred thousand dollars). Problem is, the pot is in the trunk of on-again, off-again friend Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), whose car has been stolen by Nancy's oldest son, Silas (Hunter Parrish). Silas wants in on mom's business, but his timing couldn't be worse as Celia and a police officer show up to reclaim the car while Nancy is still at gunpoint. The fallout from all this is that Nancy ends up working for U-Turn to repay her debt to him, a dangerous relationship that sends Nancy down a rabbit hole of underworld threats and violence. Meanwhile, Celia gets booted out of her home by her husband and becomes estranged from her young daughter, Isabelle (Allie Grant), who insists she's a lesbian. Celia rebounds a bit when a corrupt developer (Matthew Modine) gives her a house in exchange for her support on city council for one of his schemes. That goes wrong, too, when Celia allows Nancy, Doug (Kevin Nealon), and Conrad (Romany Malco), all of whom go into business after U-Turn stops being a problem, to put their endangered trove of marijuana plants in her house. Nancy's other son, Shane (Alexander Gould), claims he can see and talk to the ghost of Nancy's late husband, and Nancy's brother-in-law Andy (Justin Kirk) goes AWOL from the U.S. Army after his comrade is deliberately killed in an experimental missile test. As always, it's one thing after another on Weeds, and the blend of humor and suspense is uniquely compelling. Parker and the rest of the cast pull off some pretty surreal situations with great credibility. The show's lead star, particularly, can carry moments of blended terror and comedy: one of the season's most memorable moments finds Nancy forced to put on a sexy dance for a group of drug dealers in order to pick up a package U-Turn requires. The scene is humiliating, frightening, sexy, and comical all at once. Few actresses could have pulled it off, but Parker does. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

lacks edge
Wait, how can Season 3 be lacking in edge? I mean, she only dealt in pot in the first two seasons - Season 3 has harder drugs, bigger guns, international crime...

Yawn. There's no edge because it's sound and fury signifying nothing. Nancy is now just a drug dealer. Subplots swirl around her, but they don't cohere in any way. She appears to have been lobotomized in Season 3...seriously, how could she POSSIBLY have been surprised to learn the maternity store was a front for running drugs? And once she realized that, why does she persist at digging into the drug smuggling business when she knows full well she's putting herself and her family in jeopardy?

In Seasons 1 & 2, she was struggling to support her family in the only way she could think of. There was quite a bit of humor and warmth, and even characters like U-Turn ("he taught me how to drive-by") were likable and "the heroes of their own story". Now it's unclear what's motivating Nancy, and none of the other characters have much dimension either.

This is the TV equivalent of a pot hangover. They should have stopped with Season 2.

Feed me more WEEDS!!!
This is an exellent tv series. I got hooked on it watching one single episode of season 4, I had to go out and buy seasons 1-3. My favorite characters by far are Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins), These two manage to get into so many twists and farfetched situations, (which to my taste are cheesy situations) yet it manages to keep me in front of the TV wanting more. =). I recommend every season of this show 100%.

Good stuff
Breezed through this season. I think I watched four episodes every two days..during the summer in NYC. The last episode was kinda weird but still left you wondering what the hell was about to occur. Is someone going to jail? Is someone pregnant? If so, who the hell is the father? Is someone dead? Is someone not dead?
A bunch of good questions were left for the viewer to ponder as we patiently await season 4.