Weeds season 1
| Weeds | |
|---|---|
| Season 1 | |
 DVD cover | |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Showtime |
| Original release | August 8 – October 10, 2005 |
| Season chronology | |
The first season of Weeds premiered on August 8, 2005, and consisted of 10 episodes.
Plot
Nancy Botwin's family lives in Agrestic, a fictional suburb of Los Angeles. Her husband, Judah Botwin, dies of a heart attack while jogging with their younger son,[1] a few weeks previously. Nancy's children, Silas and Shane, both attend Agrestic's public school in the early seasons of the show. During season 1, Silas is fifteen years old and Shane is ten.
To support her upper middle class lifestyle, Nancy begins dealing marijuana to her affluent neighbors and friends. Andy Botwin, Judah's younger brother, moves into the house after Judah's death to help Nancy out, though he also seems to be there to freeload, and often disrupts her life. Nancy's supplier is Heylia James, a major distributor in Los Angeles' West Adams district, who she met through Heylia's nephew, Conrad (who is Andy's friend).[2] After losing customers to a medical marijuana store, Nancy begins baking and selling pot-laced brownies. On the advice of her accountant, city councilman Doug Wilson, she opens a retail bakery, stocked with Costco baked goods, as a front for her drug sales. Silas begins dating Megan, an attractive deaf girl at his school. Shane, troubled by his father's death, acts out, such as biting the foot of another child in a martial-arts tournament, earning him the nickname "Strange Botwin" from his classmates.
Nancy's chief antagonist is her neighbor, Celia Hodes, who is manic, image-obsessed, and manipulative. She is president of the Agrestic PTA, and does not get along with her cheating husband Dean, nor with her sexually active 15-year-old daughter, Quinn (Silas' previous girlfriend), who she sends off to boarding school in Mexico. Her younger daughter, 11-year-old Isabelle, is overweight and the target of her mother's passive-aggressive comments, although Isabelle seems mature and confident for her age. Isabelle reveals late in the season that she is a lesbian, to her mother's chagrin. Toward the end of the season, Celia is diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer. The brush with her own mortality softens her personality and leads her to treat her own daughter with more courtesy and respect. She quickly returns to form after her recovery. However, before her surgery, she meets Conrad and has sex with him. After Andy is notified to report immediately for his military service (where he will be trained and then sent to Iraq) or be sentenced to a military prison, he announces that he is studying to become a rabbi because he believes it will provide grounds for him to be discharged.
Drug dealing turns out to be more difficult than Nancy thought, as she discovers when she expands her customer base to Valley State College and hires Sanjay, a student at the college, to be her on-campus dealer. She is soon threatened by a rival drug dealer – Alejandro – who considers it his territory. She then has a brief sexual encounter with him. Also at Valley College, her entire stash of product is stolen by a campus security guard during a fake arrest, threatening the survival of her lifestyle. Unbeknownst to her, Conrad and friends pay a visit to the security guard, attacking and severely beating him. The result is that the guard politely returns the marijuana to a puzzled Nancy, apologizes, and offers to help her business in any way he can. Nancy and Peter Scottson, the single father of the kid bitten by Shane in a karate tournament, develop a mutual attraction, and they end up sleeping together. There is also attraction between Nancy and Conrad, much to Heylia's annoyance. The season closes with Conrad convincing Nancy to expand by becoming a grower as well as a dealer. They form a "team" that includes Doug, Dean, Sanjay and Andy. However, Nancy then encounters a complication: she learns that her new boyfriend Peter is a DEA agent.
Cast
Main cast
- Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin
- Elizabeth Perkins as Celia Hodes
- Tonye Patano as Heylia James (9 episodes)
- Romany Malco as Conrad Shepard
- Justin Kirk as Andy Botwin (7 episodes)
- Hunter Parrish as Silas Botwin
- Alexander Gould as Shane Botwin
- Kevin Nealon as Doug Wilson
Recurring cast
- Andy Milder as Dean Hodes (10 episodes)
- Renée Victor as Lupita (9 episodes)
- Indigo as Vaneeta James (6 episodes)
- Shoshannah Stern as Megan Graves (6 episodes)
- Tressa DiFiglia as Maggie (6 episodes)
- Allie Grant as Isabelle Hodes (5 episodes)
- Becky Thyre as Pam Gruber (5 episodes)
- Shawn Scheeps as Alison (5 episodes)
- Maulik Pancholy as Sanjay Patel (3 episodes)
- Vincent Laresca as Alejandro (3 episodes)
- Martin Donovan as Peter Scottson (2 episodes)
- David Doty as Principal Dodge (2 episodes)
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Judah Botwin (2 episodes)
- Tyrone Mitchell as Keeyon James (2 episodes)
- Haley Hudson as Quinn Hodes (1 episode)
- Daryl Sabara as Tim Scottson (1 episode)
- Justin Chatwin as Josh Wilson (1 episode)
- Craig X. Rubin as Craig X (1 episode)
Episodes
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "You Can't Miss the Bear" | Brian Dannelly | Jenji Kohan | August 8, 2005 |
| 2 | 2 | "Free Goat" | Brian Dannelly | Jenji Kohan | August 15, 2005 |
| 3 | 3 | "Good Shit Lollipop" | Craig Zisk | Roberto Benabib | August 22, 2005 |
| 4 | 4 | "Fashion of the Christ" | Burr Steers | Jenji Kohan | August 29, 2005 |
| 5 | 5 | "Lude Awakening" | Lee Rose | Devon K. Shepard | September 5, 2005 |
| 6 | 6 | "Dead in the Nethers" | Arlene Sanford | Michael Platt & Barry Safchik | September 12, 2005 |
| 7 | 7 | "Higher Education" | Tucker Gates | Shawn Schepps | September 19, 2005 |
| 8 | 8 | "The Punishment Light" | Robert Berlinger | Rolin Jones | September 26, 2005 |
| 9 | 9 | "The Punishment Lighter" | Paul Feig | Matthew Salsberg | October 3, 2005 |
| 10 | 10 | "The Godmother" | Lev L. Spiro | Jenji Kohan | October 10, 2005 |
References
- ^ "You Can't Miss the Bear". List of Weeds. Season 1. Showtime. Archived from the original on 2007-08-05http://www.tvtdb.com/weeds/transcripts/1x01.php.
Vaneeta: Can you imagine though? Boy out, jogging with his Daddy, having a good time. Then boom, Daddy drops. That would fuck a kid up.
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