Weeds: Season 3

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 Product Description Mary-Louise Parker is back as pot-dealing widow and single mother-of-two Nancy Botwin for a third season of this hilariously subversive series. Thanks to the unresolved murder of Peter, her DEA agent boyfriend, Nancy has yet to see the light at the end of the tunnel. And it isn't just the Feds she has to worry about-Peter's ex-wife, Valerie (Brooke Smith of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS), is also on the prowl. Of course, that is just the beginning of the madness. Her teenage son wants to help out with the family business, her live-in brother Andy (Justin Kirk) ships out for Iraq, and dangerous drug dealing associate U-Turn has Nancy by the stems. Meanwhile, on the bureaucratic side of the Agrestic township, unscrupulous real estate developer Sullivan Groff (Matthew Modine) is shaking things up between council members Celia (Elizabeth Perkins) and Doug (Kevin Nealon). Mary-Kate Olsen (THE WACKNESS) also guest stars as the new girlfriend of older son Silas. Star Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Kevin Nealon, Romany Malco, Justin Kirk, Special Features: Multi-Disc Set Widescreen Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Subtitles - English, Spanish Additional Release Material: Audio Commentaries (8) - Cast and Crew Featurettes - 1. G.M.A - Good Morning Agrestic 2. Little Boxes with Randy Newman 3. Uncle AWOL with Justin Kirk Gag Reel Music Video - "Little Boxes" Musical Montage Interactive Features: Trivia Track Text/Photo Galleries: Biography - Mary-Kate Olsen - Star Additional Products: Soundtrack Sampler Runtime: 388 minutes.