Product Description

The hemptress returns in the complete fifth season of the Showtime® Original Series, WEEDS. When pot-selling soccer mom Nancy Botwin took her homegrown business south of the border, she found the grass wasn’t greener on the other side. Now she’s pregnant with the child of a powerful politician turned dangerous drug lord – or is she? Doug and Silas are trying to branch out on their own, Andy is looking to score, and Celia attempts to turn the tables on her kidnappers. With enemies out to smoke the Queen of Green, Nancy’s sure to find a whole new crop of trouble in an all new season of WEEDS – starring Emmy® and Golden Globe® winner Mary-Louise Parker.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #805 in DVD
• Released on: 2010-01-19
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 360 minutes

Customer Reviews

Yet Another High Quality Season
Showtime's series Weeds is one of the best shows on television. Each season is consistently strong- with engaging, inventive stories, complex charecters and wonderful dark comedy. Mary-Louise Parker is absolutely phenomenal as Nancy Botwin, one of the most complex and uncompromising charecters to ever appear on television. Parker is backed by an always reliable supporting cast who bring humor and heart to the at times, very dark proceedings. Weeds' Fifth Season is the slowest one but that does not mean it's bad. It is the most character driven season, we get to see the true colors of these charecters and what they really want, and at times, its not pretty. Nancy continues her downward spiral and drags her youngest son Shane down with her. Silas becomes the emotional center of this extremely dysfunctional family, and at 18 has become the real father figure. Andy strives to get out of Nancy's grasp and start his own life while Celia tries her hardest to be a different person and at times actually tries to BE Nancy. This season is all about coming to terms with the inevitable and face the consequences. There is plenty here to reward long time fans of the show and viewers interested in the psychological make-up of these crazy charecters. The season finale promises to set up more of the themes established in this season. I cant wait to see what happens next. Weeds is still my personal favorite show on TV, layered, funny, deep and always surprising.

This Season Five DVD set includes the episodes:
- Wonderful, Wonderful
- Machetes Up Top
- Su-Su-Sucio
- Super Lucky Happy
- Van Nuys
- A Modest Proposal
- Where the Sidewalk Ends
- A Distinctive Horn
- Suck 'n' Spit
- Perro Insano
- Ducks and Tigers
- Glue
- All About My Mom

Consistently innovative and exciting plot twists
Season Five is totally unpredictable. Just when I think that Nancy has no more moves to make, she finds a way to wriggle out of each disastrous situation and actually come out ahead.

The character of Estaban has been a great addition to the cast. He keeps things exciting in the show by adding a much more dangerous element than merely selling drugs. Nancy finds herself between a rock and a really hard place. She is in danger of losing her home, her family, her sanity, and her life.

The most exciting season yet, must see t.v.

Weeds

If you have higher (no pun intended) than average standards for television I'm afraid you will find season 5 of Weeds disapointing. Of course it's still better than most shows on the air, but this season's plot was nowhere near as good as previous seasons. The quality of the writing has declined significantly.

On the other hand, if you're not all that picky about writing quality and are just looking forward to seeing your favorite characters again, by all means, add this DVD to your shopping cart! Certainly there's at least a laugh or two guaranteed in each episode.

The season picks up right where season 4 left off with Nancy's life in peril. Lucky for Nancy, Mary Louise Parker is the star of the show so Nancy is indeed allowed to live. She spends the season dealing with the fallout from last year's cliffhanger. Her affection for the drug kingpin boyfriend changes from episode to episode; one minute she's terrified he's going to kill her and the next she's madly in love.

The strongest performance of the season is easily Justin Kirk as Andy. He effortlessy shuffles Andy back-and-forth between moments of silliness and seriousness. At times he's the feckless, pleasure-seeking Andy of the past, but he also finds time to stand-in and parent Nancy's sons, have a serious adult relationship and get stern with his sister-in-law when necessary.

Unfortunatley the other original supporting cast members continue to feel out of place in the new setting. So much so that Doug, Celia, and even Silas seemed to exist in a completely different show. This simply doesn't work. It was the main problem with season 4 and it continues to be a problem in season 5.

There you have it. I'd say rent before you buy.

Oh, Alexander Gold as Shane also has an interesting story-arc this season and gives an excellent performance.