Weeds (season 1)

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Weeds
Season 1
Weeds S1 DVD.jpg
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Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes10
Release
Original networkShowtime
Original releaseAugust 8 (2005-08-08) –
October 10, 2005 (2005-10-10)
Season chronology
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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. During season one, 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, whom 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 foods. On the advice of her accountant, city councilman Doug Wilson, she opens a retail bakery 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, 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 teenage daughter, Quinn, who she sends off to boarding school in Mexico. Her younger daughter, 11-year-old Isabelle, is overweight and the target of Celia'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 has a brief sexual encounter with him. At Valley College, Nancy's 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 his friends attack and severely beat the security guard. As a result, the guard returns the marijuana to a puzzled Nancy, apologizes, and offers to help her business in any way he can. Nancy develops a mutual attraction with Peter Scottson, a single father, 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[]

Recurring cast[]

Episodes[]

See also: List of Weeds episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
11"You Can't Miss the Bear"Brian DannellyJenji KohanAugust 8, 2005 (2005-08-08)
Recently widowed housewife Nancy Botwin has turned to dealing marijuana to support her two sons, Silas and Shane, and maintain their position in the picturesque suburb of Agrestic, CA. She sells some of her product to Josh Wilson, a fellow dealer. When Nancy discovers that Josh has been dealing to young children, she uses newly found personal information about Josh to stop him. Shane is harassed by his classmates and retaliates by spraying them with paint from a squirt gun. Silas and Quinn conspire to have sex. Quinn records an affair between Dean and a tennis pro; Celia later sees the recording and is forced to deal with her husband's infidelity.
22"Free Goat"Brian DannellyJenji KohanAugust 15, 2005 (2005-08-15)
Unable to deposit her pot money at the bank, Nancy is unable to pay her bills. Doug Wilson suggests Nancy start a cover business to launder money through. To obtain product on credit, Nancy offers her car and wedding ring to Heylia as collateral. Shane grieves for his father by watching old home videos. Celia shaves the hair off of Dean's head as retaliation for his affair. Silas confronts Celia over Quinn's disappearance. Celia tells him that she was sent to a reform school in Mexico, but doesn't tell him that it was punishment for recording Dean's affair. Celia confronts Helen Chin, the woman with whom Dean had an affair, and they have drinks at a local bar.
33"Good Shit Lollipop"Craig ZiskRoberto BenabibAugust 22, 2005 (2005-08-22)
Nancy discovers the medical cannabis clubs in Los Angeles and that Heylia has been selling her a low quality product. Conrad helps Nancy to produce tasty Cannabis foods. Celia discovers Isabelle's secret chocolate stash and replaces it with laxative chocolates. After Isabelle soils herself at school, she retaliates by stuffing Imodium into Celia's pill box. Celia unsuccessfully tries to get Nancy to have an affair with her in retaliation against Dean. Silas meets a local deaf girl, Megan, and asks her for a blow job; Megan sprays blue paint across his pants instead. Despite his bad first impression, Megan decides to give Silas a second chance. As a mountain lion terrorizes Agrestic, Shane successfully shoots the mountain lion in its face with a BB gun.
44"Fashion of the Christ"Burr SteersJenji KohanAugust 29, 2005 (2005-08-29)
Andy Botwin, Nancy's brother-in-law, arrives from Alaska. Nancy is not thrilled to see him, telling him "everything you touch turns to shit." Andy recruits Shane to sell a batch of T-Shirts with a typo (spelling "Chris died for your sins") that offends the religious community; he also engages in a sex chat with Megan using Silas' screenname. Enraged by Andy's behavior, Nancy threatens to throw him out of the house. Andy reveals that he had learned of Nancy's business from Conrad and asks to join her. Andy also convinces Silas that his chat only encouraged Megan to want Silas more, which prompts Megan and Silas to start an intense physical relationship. Nancy chooses a bakery for her choice of cover business. After a crate of soda pop crashes into Celia's house, Celia tells Dean that she has breast cancer.
55"Lude Awakening"Lee RoseDevon K. ShepardSeptember 5, 2005 (2005-09-05)
After encountering the dangerous side of dealing, Nancy contemplates leaving the business. Andy meets Doug, and they instantly bond over their love of pot. Andy approaches Nancy about the plan to set up a sham bakery, but she turns him down. Andy buys an ounce of weed from Heylia to sell in Agrestic. A police officer arrests him for simple possession, a minor offense without jail time. Celia reels from her breast cancer diagnosis by giving away lots of clothes and furniture to her housekeeper. Shane writes a rap song about killing a fellow student; Nancy verbally chastises him. Shane has a discussion with Celia about how they both make people uncomfortable. She advises him to, "Let your freak flag fly." Silas dumps Megan and then tries to woo her back.
66"Dead in the Nethers"Arlene SanfordMichael Platt & Barry SafchikSeptember 12, 2005 (2005-09-12)
Nancy signs the paperwork needed to open the sham bakery. Doug calls her a drug dealer for the first time. Nancy objects: "I'm not a drug dealer, I'm a mother who distributes illegal product through a sham bakery." Conrad and Nancy agree to go with Celia to an African-American dance club before she undergoes breast removal surgery. Celia has sex with Conrad. Silas and Megan normalize their relationship. Shane makes a fake terrorist video that shocks Nancy. Lupita discovers Nancy's cache of marijuana in her closet and blackmails her into giving her a raise. Nancy mourns Judah's death by watching a tape of them making love.
77"Higher Education"Tucker GatesShawn ScheppsSeptember 19, 2005 (2005-09-19)
Silas' tutor, Sanjay, begins dealing pot with the help of Nancy as she expands her sales territory into a local community college. Someone throws a roll of pennies at Nancy's car; Conrad hypothesizes that another dealer is "hating on her." Shane makes a new friend, and Andy has sex with the friend's mother. Andy dislikes having sex with her due to her unusually rough antics, but when Andy's sexual disinterest jeopardizes Shane's one friendship, Nancy orders Andy to "keep fucking the biter." Celia's obnoxious mother makes life at the Hodes' house difficult until they kick her out.
88"The Punishment Light"Robert BerlingerRolin JonesSeptember 26, 2005 (2005-09-26)
The Botwin family unveils Judah's headstone during a small ceremony. Nancy meets single father, Peter Scottson, after Shane bites the foot of Peter's son during a karate tournament. Nancy and Peter get to know each other at a restaurant, and they share an unexpected kiss. Since Nancy is still recovering from Judah's death, they ultimately agree to temporarily part ways. Later, Nancy confronts Alejandro, a rival drug dealer who threw the pennies at her car, and they have an unexpected round of sex in an alley before she threatens him with a BB gun. While Nancy is away, Andy and Doug bond by hunting a rodent and trashing Nancy's house. Celia confesses to Dean that she had sex with Conrad, resulting in an argument, which is followed by a round of passionate sex.
99"The Punishment Lighter"Paul FeigMatthew SalsbergOctober 3, 2005 (2005-10-03)
The sham bakery opens. Unfortunately, a security guard at the community college who also deals drugs threatens to arrest Nancy, before stealing her $14,000 worth of pot. Nancy confides to Heylia and Conrad. Alejandro offers to professionally partner with Nancy. Silas and Megan's father bond over boxing and driving lessons. Nancy considers starting Shane on anti-depressants. Shane steals Silas's cigarette lighter, which is confiscated when Shane takes it to school. Silas punches Shane for losing the lighter, as the lighter was a gift from Judah. Celia has started chemotherapy. Maggie tries to oust Celia from the leadership of the PTA, but fails after her house is annexed by Summer Canyon. Nancy is surprised when the security guard, having been beat up, returns all of her pot.
1010"The Godmother"Lev L. SpiroJenji KohanOctober 10, 2005 (2005-10-10)
Heylia sternly lectures Conrad for beating up the security guard, believing Conrad was trying to impress Nancy by being a "big man" for her, and orders him to cut off all contact with Nancy. Silas reveals that he knows Nancy deals pot. Andy advises Nancy to inform Shane about her business, as Silas was angry about being lied to, but Nancy ignores his advice. Andy tells Doug that he enlisted into the Army Reserves in Colorado to impress a girl and "forgot" about it; Andy is now being ordered to report or face jail time. Celia witnesses Isabelle kissing another girl and shows her disapproval. Vaneeta gives birth to her child. When Heylia refuses to start growing Conrad's new special strain of marijuana, Conrad approaches Nancy, and the two form a team consisting of Dean, Doug, Alejandro, Sanjay, and Andy to work their operation. Nancy chooses to make time for Peter. After having sex, Nancy discovers that Peter works for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

References[]

  1. ^ "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 |transcript-url= missing title (help). 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.
  2. ^ "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 |transcript-url= missing title (help).

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