Weeds

Weeds: Preview of Season 5 Premiere
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When our favorite pot-selling suburban mom (who has since moved to Ren Mar, California) returns to Showtime tonight, she ponders her fate and her relationship with Mexican crime boss (and Tijuana mayor) Esteban (Demian Bichir).  Elsewhere, Celia's (Elizabeth Perkins) daughter Quinn in Mexico finds out there's not much interest or money to gain in holding her mother hostage, and the good ole gang - Andy (Justin Kirk), Doug (Kevin Nealon), and Silas (Hunter Parrish) - contemplate a partnership in the cannabis biz.  On "Wonderful Wonderful," the rest of the Botwin household tries to deal with the pregnancy, so maybe this is their way of coping?

When we left Weeds on season 4, Esteban just found out that Nancy (Mary Louise-Parker) ratted out his organization to the police when one of his people showed him a photo of her talking to an FBI agent.  To get out of the mess, Nancy showed him a sonogram of a baby inside her womb - supposedly his child.  The season closed with Nancy smiling with her big, brown eyes, and the mayor, understandably, confounded on whether to castigate her for what she did or to hug and kiss her for being the mother of his kid. "It feels like a boy," she says.



In an interview, the Weeds star says she thinks the pregnancy idea is "awesome."

"They told me at the beginning of last [season]. I just thought it was a great idea. I like it when the seasons end on that kind of cliff-hanger. But I didn't know what was going to happen with the baby, whether she was going to have it . It could go a number of different ways."

But if Weeds fans think she has hit rock bottom when her secret deal with the police was uncovered by her Spanish-speaking amor, Parker says not really. "She goes way down... but I like that."

Catch Weeds tonight 10pm on Showtime.

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- Glenn Diaz, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Showtime
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