What Is Weeds?

Weeds is an American television dark comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan and produced by Lionsgate Television, which began airing on the Showtime cable television network in 2005. The show revolves around Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), a widowed suburbanite mother of two boys—eldest Silas (Hunter Parish) and Shane (Alexander Gould)—who turned to selling marijuana to support her family after her husband unexpectedly died. Over the course of the show, Nancy becomes involved in illegal activities on an escalating scale; the first three seasons deal mainly with selling and growing marijuana locally, while seasons four and after finds the Botwin family through constant resettlements within the Pacific coastal lines of the United States due to multiple circumstances that arise.