In need of a new source of income after the sudden death of her husband, Nancy Botwin (Mary Louise Parker) resorts to selling pot with the help of her late husband's randy brother (Justin Kirk), accountant (Saturday Night Live's Kevin Nealon) and a local drug dealer player by Romany Malco. Rounding out the initial cast are Alexander Gould and Hunter Parrish as Nancy's kids and Elizabeth Perkins (Big, He Said She Said) as an alpha mom who forms a good friendship with Nancy despite a few philosophical differences.  Throughout the series, Nancy emerges as an unpredictably resillient businesswoman. In the fourth season, the show switches settings from the pristine yet phony suburb of Agrestic to a border town near Mexico where Nancy switches gears from production to drug trafficking. The show, which premiered on Showtime in 2004, was created by Jenji Kohan and came about in the wake of California Proposition 215 (which allowed for medical marijuana) and has tackled many issues of drug culture within that historical context. The show is a well-scripted dark comedy that takes on the holy cows of pristine suburbia and the political incorrectness of drug culture.

Rating: 7.8 | Year: 2005 | Network: Showtime | Free Episodes Online: 103
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