Weeds
Suburban underbellyDark currents beneath tidy suburban surfaces.This show: 10/10Dark comedyFinding the laughs in grim and taboo material.This show: 9/10Antihero leadA protagonist doing bad things you can't stop watching.This show: 9/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 8/10Strong female leadA complex woman drives the story.This show: 8/10CynicalDeeply distrustful of institutions and human motives.This show: 7/10SatiricalComedy sharpened into social and political critique.This show: 7/10Criminal underworldOrganized crime, gangs and the criminal life seen from the inside.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Mary-Louise ParkerHunter ParrishAlexander GouldKevin NealonJustin KirkElizabeth Perkins
Written by
Jenji Kohan
Starring
Mary-Louise ParkerHunter ParrishAlexander GouldKevin NealonJustin KirkElizabeth Perkins
Written by
Jenji Kohan
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Weeds Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | ||
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| S1 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 8.3 | ||||||
| S2 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 8.9 | ||||
| S3 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.2 | |
| S4 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.9 | 8.3 | |||
| S5 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.2 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 8.4 | |||
| S6 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 8.6 | |||
| S7 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.5 | 7.6 | |||
| S8 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 6.9 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.5 |
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About
"Suburban satire that slowly turns into crime drama"
After her husband dies suddenly, a suburban mom starts selling marijuana to keep her family's comfortable lifestyle afloat, and gets pulled deeper into a world of dealers, growers, and increasingly reckless schemes. The show mixes dark comedy with real dramatic stakes, skewering suburban hypocrisy while its plots escalate season by season. Early seasons feel tight and satirical; later ones sprawl into soapier crime-drama territory. It's carried by a sharp, morally slippery lead performance and a talented ensemble of oddballs, though the tone and setting shift so much across its run that it can feel like different shows.
Watch it for
the fearless lead performance anchoring an increasingly absurd descent into the drug trade.
Maybe skip if
you want consistent tone, since the show reinvents its setting and stakes almost every season.
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All Seasons
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Season 12005
7.712K105h
The first season of Weeds premiered on August 8, 2005, and consisted of 10 episodes.
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Season 22006
8.011K126h 24m
The second season of Weeds premiered on August 14, 2006, and consisted of 12 episodes.
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Season 32007
7.812K158h
The third season of Weeds premiered on August 13, 2007, and consisted of 15 episodes.
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Season 42008
7.79K136h 7m
On November 5, 2007, Showtime ordered 13 new episodes for a fourth season of Weeds. It started on Monday, June 16, 2008 and concluded on Monday, September 15, 2008.
The season opener "Mother Thinks the Birds are After Her" was the last episode with "Little Boxes" as the theme song. The opening credits of subsequent episodes, after a recap of previous episodes, begin with a video title card unique to each episode. For the second episode of the season, for example, a highway sign reads "Weeds -- Created by Jenji Kohan" — the embedded text used for all title cards since the show's inception. Each title card also has a prop or part of the setting that refers to a plot element in the episode. Some part of the title card morphs into a marijuana leaf. In the highway sign example, a downward arrow designating a lane becomes a slightly larger pot leaf.
Silas and Shane are aged 17 and 13 respectively. However, Silas turns 18 at the end of the season.
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Season 52009
7.59K136h 1m
The fifth season of Weeds consisted of 13 episodes. Its debut, on June 8, 2009, attracted 1.2 million viewers, with a rerun on the same night adding another 500,000 viewers for a cumulative 1.7 million. The season finale episode premiered on Monday, August 31, 2009, averaging 1.3 million viewers, up versus season 4's finale that averaged 1 million.
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Season 62010
7.68K135h 53m
The sixth season of Weeds premiered on Monday, August 16, 2010 at 10ET/PT on the television cable network Showtime, and consisted of 13 episodes.
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Season 72011
7.38K135h 50m
The seventh season of Weeds premiered on June 27, 2011 at 10 E/9 C on the television cable network Showtime, and consisted of 13 episodes. As the season picks up, Nancy has spent three years in prison and now lives in a strictly monitored halfway house in New York City, where the family meet after the other Botwins have spent three years in Denmark.
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Season 82012
7.38K136h 10m
The eighth and final season of Weeds premiered on July 1, 2012, and featured 13 episodes, bringing the series total to 102. It marks the return of the show's theme song, "Little Boxes". Creator Jenji Kohan revealed that cover versions of the song would be used during the opening credits and confirmed that Ben Folds and the Mountain Goats would be featured artists. Kohan also confirmed that the song would be covered in a duet by Steve Martin and series regular Kevin Nealon, who each sang and played the banjo. Series co-star Hunter Parrish also provided a cover version for the season's tenth episode. The final two episodes of the season aired back to back as a one-hour series finale, which was the series' first and only one hour show in its eight-year run.
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Mary-Louise Parker Nancy Botwin
Hunter Parrish Silas Botwin
Alexander Gould Shane Botwin
Kevin Nealon Doug Wilson
Justin Kirk Andy Botwin
Elizabeth Perkins Celia Hodes
Andy Milder Dean Hodes
Allie Grant Isabelle Hodes
Tonye Patano Heylia James
Romany Malco Conrad Shepard
Crew
Jenji Kohan
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