Weeds - Season Three

I love this show and season 3 is just as exciting as 1 and 2.

These DVDs were poorly and cheaply made. Four or five episodes on one side, and then you are supposed to be able to flip the disc over and play episodes on the back. That's the way Season 2 worked, and that is the way they planned for this season to work. But they cut some corners, or used some substandard material, or something that didn't work as I tried it with 2 DVD players and 2 sets of Season 3 of "Weeds" and it did not work in any player on any back side of "Weeds" Season 3.I have read of other people with the same problems. I returned it. The season content was a major disappointment anyway, so I am well glad to be rid of the whole thing. The whole "Weeds" scenario just keeps going from bad to worse.

Even if the Side B's were able to be viewed, it is doubtful that those missing episodes could save this "Dark Season." Nancy is my girl, but when will she wise up and get down to business? She cannot afford to have friends and she cannot afford to be financially kind to her friends. What was she trying to do with Agent Wonder Bread's Ex-start a Disney movie? She got into the the life for the money for the kids and she needs to stop messing around in the Latte Circuit and concentrate on Business. Burning down California wasn't such a stretch-I was just glad they did not film yet another actor watching the fire with himself well in hand-again. There is way too much guys taking matters into their own hands and thinking that this junior high humor is big time funny again and again, when really, an allusion to it may be chuckle worthy once, maybe twice. "Weeds 3" runs it into the ground and it is no longer funny. They do a lot of things that way..

I hope they put Season 4 on quality disks and put more intellect behind the plot, and perhaps they can save the show.

I loved seasons 1 and 2. Only one thing to say about season 3. It was terrible.

Wait, how can Season 3 be lacking in edge? I mean, she only dealt in pot in the first two seasons - Season 3 has harder drugs, bigger guns, international crime...

Yawn. There's no edge because it's sound and fury signifying nothing. Nancy is now just a drug dealer. Subplots swirl around her, but they don't cohere in any way. She appears to have been lobotomized in Season 3...seriously, how could she POSSIBLY have been surprised to learn the maternity store was a front for running drugs? And once she realized that, why does she persist at digging into the drug smuggling business when she knows full well she's putting herself and her family in jeopardy?

In Seasons 1 & 2, she was struggling to support her family in the only way she could think of. There was quite a bit of humor and warmth, and even characters like U-Turn ("he taught me how to drive-by") were likable and "the heroes of their own story". Now it's unclear what's motivating Nancy, and none of the other characters have much dimension either.

This is the TV equivalent of a pot hangover. They should have stopped with Season 2.

This is an exellent tv series. I got hooked on it watching one single episode of season 4, I had to go out and buy seasons 1-3. My favorite characters by far are Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins), These two manage to get into so many twists and farfetched situations, (which to my taste are cheesy situations) yet it manages to keep me in front of the TV wanting more. =). I recommend every season of this show 100%.