Cast and Crew
Creator: Jenji Kohan
Leading Role: Mary-Louise Parker, Hunter Parrish and Alexander Gould
Summary of Weeds Seasons 1-8 DVD Box Set
season 1
Nancy hires Sanjay and his Friends as she expands her sales territory into a local community college. Someone throws pennies at Nancy’s car; Heylia hypothesizes that another dealer is “hating on her.” After Shane makes a new friend, Andy has sex with the friend’s mother. Andy dislikes having sex with her. However, when Andy’s sexual disinterest jeopardizes Shane’s one Friendship, Nancy orders Andy to “keep fucking the biter.” Celia’s obnoxious mother makes life at the Hodes’ house difficult until they kick her out. Celia is nicer to Isabelle.
season 2
Nancy is upset to learn that Peter knows she’s a drug dealer; however, he asserts that, “Women dealing dime bags to bored housewives are below my radar.” He has developed a plan to make their relationship work. Celia signs Isabelle up for exercise classes and gets roped into them herself. Celia begs Nancy to help on her campaign; Nancy finally relents. Silas and Meagan reconcile. While having a sexual marathon, Silas punctures a hole in one of their condoms. Andy asks Yael Hoffman out on a date. Andy talks to Shane about masturbation. Nancy’s team rents a grow house. Conrad issues a warning to the group: “It’s fucked up personal shit that will pop you every time.” Just then, Dean discovers that the Conrad in their group had sex with Celia. Joseph calls on Heylia. Peter and Nancy elope to Las Vegas so Peter cannot testify against Nancy.
season 3
Nancy's pot selling proceeds swimmingly. Roy Till calls Nancy to his office. Although Nancy fears that she is going to be arrested, Till offers her a $119,000 life insurance benefit plus Peter's pension in exchange for her silence on her knowledge of Peter's illegal dealings. Valerie confronts Nancy over Peter's life insurance benefit that Nancy agrees to give to her. When Majestic's government arranges to audit Agrestic's books, Doug goes to Nancy for money. Nancy tries to "return" Peter's insurance benefit in small installments, but Valerie balks at that. Dean is discharged from the hospital. While Isabelle coordinates his care, Celia and Dean continue to spar. Celia discovers Groff and Nancy having sex.
season 4
Nancy convinces Guillermo to spare Celia’s life. He makes Nancy the manager of a California maternity store along the US/Mexico border. After Lenny leaves, Silas moves his plants into the house; however, he and Shane disturb a bee colony in the process. Andy liberates himself and a group of immigrants by shooting their coyote. Over dinner, Nancy acknowledges Andy’s contribution to the Botwin family, recognizes that Silas is a pot grower, and apologies to Shane for ignoring him. She allows Celia to stay at the Ren Mar house and hires Celia for a minimum-wage job at the maternity store. Nancy gives Doug an eviction notice. Nancy uses her knowledge of Peter Scottson to convince Till to release Celia from his service. While closing the store one night, Nancy discovers a hole in the floor of the store’s backroom. Leaving Nancy in the store, the camera moves through an underground tunnel, under the Mexican border, and into the Tijuana garage. It focuses on a handsome man in a business suit just before the credits roll.
season 5
Nancy confronts Andy over his having sex with Jill. Andy suggests that Nancy is angry because she secretly likes him and she makes a weak denial. Esteban meets Nancy's family. Testing confirms Nancy carries his son and he invites the Botwins to move in with him. Ignacio becomes Nancy's bodyguard and captures Capt. Till who has sworn to kill those who killed Agent Schlatter. Nancy then incapacitates Ignacio and holds both of them hostage. Realizing this situation must end with one of them dying, she reluctantly turns Till into Esteban who has Till murdered. Celia asks for Nancy's permission to move into the Ren Mar house;
season 6
Nancy returns to her hometown of Dearborn, Michigan and calls upon her old high school teacher Warren Schiff (with whom she also had an affair) to help hide her family while they secure fake passports. Warren feeds Silas' curiosity about his teen-aged mother. After meeting Lars, Nancy's high school boyfriend, Silas starts to doubt that Judah was his real father. Shane swipes Lars's hair brush to order a DNA test. Andy tries and fails to acquire passports; however, he manages to trade the RV with a family who was living out of their car. While visiting her parents' graves, Nancy meets Ellis, who claims he went to high school a few years behind her.
season 7
Nancy and Silas ask Heylia to supply them with pot; as a reply, she shoots a gun at them. Dean is living with Heylia in exchange for legal advice, but Conrad has left her to live with his girlfriend. Heylia blames Nancy for her loneliness. “I had a full dinner table before you showed up.” Heylia incites Silas to confront his mother about Lars. After Silas reminds Heylia he helped Conrad improve the MILF strain, Heylia agrees to supply Nancy.
season 8
Silas begins his initial day of work legally, professionally growing marijuana, while Andy seeks employment and Doug receives his comeuppance for his charity fraud. Moreover, Nancy begins working at a marketing company that sells a marijuana-based compound for cancer victims undergoing radiation therapy. Shane graduates from the police academy and shows his uniform to Nancy.
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