‘Weeds’ Is Drugs and Family and Drugs and Grief and Drugs and Comedy and Drugs, and How Don’t You Get How Great a Show It Is, JOHN?

Part 3 of a 3-part series by Sammy Nickalls.

Sure, watching cartoons while high is excellent, but when you’re high, what’s better than watching a stereotypical suburban family descend rapidly into the moral gray area of drug-dealing? Weeds’ Nancy Botwin used to be a soccer mom grieving her husband’s sudden death in a California suburb, but over a few seasons, she develops plenty of other names for herself (literally): The Black Widow, Nancy Scottson, Nancy Reyes, Nancy Bloom, Lacy LaPlant, and Nathalie Newman. Talk about some intense character development, John. WATCH IT, JOHN, GODDAMMIT.

This has been “Goddammit” — a series of arguments in brief by Sammy Nickalls — and part of #JohnWithTheWind.

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