"Weeds" was a dirty, strange comedy about a young widow, Nancy Botwin, who becomes a drug dealer in Agrestic, a fictional California suburb.
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Although very popular in the Agrestic community and a shoo-in for re-election, he loses his seat to Celia when Dean forgets to file his ballot petition. Doug and Celia have an affair that leads to a divorce from Dana. He loses exclusive golf-club memberships due to the machinations of Sullivan Groff. When he fraudulently borrows a large sum of money from an Agrestic financial account, he feels forced to flee Agrestic/Majestic and follow Nancy to Ren Mar to avoid criminal prosecution.
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Kat (Zooey Deschanel, special guest character in seasons 2 & 3) – a.k.a. Libby Cookstein—is Andy's ex- girlfriend who visits Agrestic to drag him off on a traveling adventure. When Andy arrives in Agrestic at the start of the series, he refers to her as “the crazy chick from Alaska.” Kat is a kleptomaniac who has committed multiple felonies with Andy.
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Groff and Celia have a love affair after her divorce from Dean is finalized. Between their love affair and his need to bribe her, he gives her a house in the Majestic development. Groff helps Celia overcome her self- consciousness regarding her reconstructed breasts. Celia becomes a key ally in dealing with Agrestic and helps him win a referendum that allows Majestic to take over Agrestic.
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Silas and Megan's relationship ends on a very bad note. When Silas attempts to confront Megan at the Graves's house, he and Megan's father have a minor physical altercation. Heartbroken, Silas becomes depressed, withdrawn, and starts interfering with Celia's "Drug-free Agrestic" campaign. Megan shows up again in episode 11 of season 8 when Nancy, Andy and Silas return to Agrestic (now Regrestic after the fire destroyed the previous and is now rebuilt) to track down Conrad to get hold of some MILF seeds or plants that they need for their new venture.
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Pam dressed up as Sober the Sasquatch during Celia's "Drug-free Agrestic" campaign. She often makes bizarre comments such as, "My sweat smells like peanuts", and evolves into a comic relief character. She travels to Ren Mar for Celia's intervention.
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The origins of the Carmina Gadelica can be traced to ‘Grazing and Agrestic Customs of the Outer Hebrides’, the second appendix Alexander Carmichael contributed to the Report of the Napier Commission in 1884.Carmichael, Alexander. "Grazing and agrestic customs of the Outer Hebrides", Report of Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Inquiry into the Conditions of the Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1884), pp. 451–82. Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier, had requested Carmichael to compose a piece on traditional Hebridean land customs based on the chapter on the subject that he had written for the third volume of William Forbes Skene’s Celtic Scotland.
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Sullivan Groff (Matthew Modine, leading character in season 3) is an unethical, womanizing real estate developer who has established multiple Christian-themed planned communities anchored with a megachurch. He bribes the Agrestic city-council to install a sewer-line to facilitate the growth of nearby Majestic, CA. Unfortunately, he makes an enemy of Doug Wilson when the latter discovers that Celia got a more valuable bribe than him. Doug then executes a series of juvenile pranks culminating with stealing a large Christian Cross from Majestic's megachurch and destroying a sewer line. When the other Agrestic council members learn that Celia got a house from Groff, they refuse Majestic's request to build a sewer line under their town.
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Baba was born to a Hausa Muslim family in the small African town of Karo. Her birth took place in the 19th century, before Karo became part of the British Empire. Karo was an agrestic town where harvesting and agriculture were important. Before British rule, Hausa women could be found harvesting the fields.
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Andy refuses to leave Agrestic because he has committed himself to raising Judah's children. Kat, who stole $1.3 million worth of poker chips, is being pursued by the bounty hunter Abumchuck, she steals Andy's van and kidnaps Shane during the season two cliffhanger. She abandons Shane to travel with a truck driver shortly thereafter.
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After divorcing Doug, she marries Wilfred (Beau Billingslea), a highly accomplished African-American man who designs symphony halls for a living. They establish a new household in Regrestic, CA, which replaced the burned-down town of Agrestic/Majestic. Dana returns to being a housewife. Wilfred owns a boat, the Ms. Daisy, which he and Dana sail on from time to time.
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Pam Gruber (Becky Thyre, guest character in seasons 1–4) originated as a minor character and member of the Agrestic PTA Association during the first season. She eventually becomes an on-again-off- again sidekick to Celia who often shows her dismay directly to Pam. However, Pam puts up with it because she has fun being with Celia. Also, Celia also helps Pam shoplift from Forever 21.
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Silas sees her after dismissing Andy's theory that their return to Agrestic is some kind of destiny, he almost immediately spots his first love working behind the counter at the Agrestic, Majestic and Regrestic Museum of Art. They stay after it shuts and catch up with each other on what they have missed, Silas admits to piercing holes in his condoms when they were together to deliberately get Megan pregnant to stop her from leaving California to go away to University. After a brief angry reaction from Megan, Silas declares his love for her and tells her that he has never loved anyone else, she agrees and they get back together and she decides to come back home with Silas and Nancy (which they announce to Nancy during Conrad's wedding reception) after they have finished their business in California. They later get married and have a daughter named Flora.
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Megan Graves (Shoshannah Stern, regular character in seasons 1–2, last name Beals in episode 1x01, guest season 8) becomes Silas' first serious girlfriend. She is a functionally deaf high school girl with a somewhat unfair reputation among the school boys and Agrestic's parents. Nancy calls her "the blow-job queen of Dewey Street." Megan meets Silas at a party in an unfinished home in the Agrestic development.
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They had a fun relationship and great sex; however, she stabbed him with an icicle for kicking one of her spirit animals. “It is all fucked up, but it’s never boring.” She arrives in Agrestic to obtain a release from Andy to publish her book, Permafuck: A Journal of Spirit Rape, as non- fiction. However, it was only a ruse to convince him to join her on the road.
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He becomes Nancy's business associate using this strain, and it is revealed that he has apparently held very strong feelings for Nancy for a long time. He and Nancy have a brief relationship which ends abruptly after a fire destroys Agrestic/Majestic. He establishes contact with Silas while the latter is in Copenhagen. During season seven, his aunt Heylia tells Nancy that he is living in LA, and is engaged to marry.
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The first three seasons are set primarily in the fictional town of Agrestic, California. During seasons 4 and 5, the Botwins reside in the also fictional San Diego suburb of Ren Mar. In season 6, the family relocates to Seattle, Washington and Dearborn, Michigan. In season 7, the family resides in New York City, living in Manhattan for the duration of the season, but relocates to Connecticut in the season 7 finale and throughout season 8.
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Silas Andrew Botwin (Hunter Parrish, leading character)—adopting the clandestine alias Mike T. Newman in season six and the stage name Silas Guinard in season seven—is Nancy's first son. Although Silas is the biological son of Lars Guinard, Silas was raised by Judah and Nancy in Agrestic, California for 16 years. Judah's death traumatized Silas, and he takes it out on his mother and younger brother. Silas is impetuous and impulsive, and has been sexually active since the beginning of the show.
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Doug Wilson (Kevin Nealon, leading character)—adopting the clandestine alias Ted Newman in season six and nicknamed "Rocket Man" by his college buddy Whit Tillerman—is Nancy's fun- loving but irresponsible friend who is a heavy weed user. Doug begins the series as an accountant and city councilman for Agrestic. When Andy moves into the Botwin house, they quickly bond over their mutual love of smoking pot. He is also friends with Dean Hodes, another pot user and poker buddy.
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Lupita (Renée Victor, regular character in seasons 1–2, guest character in seasons 3–6) served as the Botwins' housekeeper in their days at Agrestic. Eventually, she discovers that Nancy is a pot dealer and uses this information as blackmail against Nancy so she does not have to work as much. She shrugs off her duties afterward but is eventually fired when Nancy experiences money troubles because of U-Turn. After Nancy fires her, Lupita moves to Hollywood to work for Mr. Kaplin, a movie executive.
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Nancy Botwin is a single mother who lives in Agrestic—a fictional suburb of Los Angeles—with her two children, 15-year-old Silas and 10-year-old Shane, when the series begins. The pilot opens a few months after the untimely death of Nancy's husband Judah, who had a heart attack while jogging with their younger son. Nancy begins selling marijuana to maintain the upper middle-class lifestyle originally provided by her late husband's salary. References to conspicuous consumption are evident from the show's beginning episodes.
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Nancy declines, but changes her mind and leaves Agrestic after a fiery situation involving a rival dealer. She excitedly jumps on the opportunity to traffic pot across the Mexican border for Guillermo at the beginning of season four, but is uncomfortable with other transporting jobs, like smuggling heroin and child-prostitutes. These qualms and other factors put her at odds with the "chain of command" within the drug cartel and lead to Nancy blatantly violating its rules. However, her insubordination leads to a romance with Esteban Reyes, a corrupt Mayor of Tijuana.
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Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins, leading character in seasons 1–5) is a typical housewife living in Agrestic. She is obsessed with her personal image and alternatively manipulates or ignores those around her that do not fit neatly into that image. She is wholly self-centered, viewing almost all behavior on the parts of other characters as directly related or reactive to her, and displays behavior more consistent with a spoiled, mentally defective child than an adult. She also undertakes disloyal, subversive actions against others, ostensibly to teach them lessons.
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Skene, William Forbes. Celtic Scotland (3 vols, Edinburgh, 1876–80), vol. iii, pp. 378–93. Carmichael rounded off his contribution in an unorthodox manner, presenting a selection of traditional rhymes, prayers, blessings, and songs he had gathered from a wide variety of informants in the islands, intended to illustrate the spiritual refinement and respectability of their crofter reciters. The popularity of ‘Grazing and Agrestic Customs’, and a subsequent paper Carmichael delivered on 24 December 1888 to the Gaelic Society of Glasgow on ‘Uist Old Hymns’, encouraged him to embark upon a much more comprehensive work on the subject.
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Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker, leading character)—also known as Lacey LaPlante (season two) and Nathalie Newman (season six)—was a PTA soccer mom until her husband, Judah, suddenly died of a heart attack. To maintain the upper middle-class lifestyle to which she was accustomed in the fictional town of Agrestic, Nancy entered the world of marijuana dealing. At the start, her regular clients include her accountant, her lawyer, and fellow suburban friends. However, as she expands and fights for survival, she is confronted with the violent realities of her business as she jockeys against competitors, gangs, and drug lords.
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She is growing MILF weed in rural California when Nancy attempts to obtain pot from her. Heylia greets Nancy by saying "Hell no" while aiming a shotgun at Silas and Nancy as she still holds animosity toward Nancy after she burned Agrestic to the ground. Before she has the chance to take a shot at them, Dean saves them. During their meeting, Heylia accuses Nancy of dispersing her family to the winds. “I had a full dinner table before you showed up.” She also predicts that Nancy will meet a bad end and encourages Nancy to leave her family for their own good.
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The opening credits are set to Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes" song, which speaks of suburbanites from the same mold, all living the consumerist American dream. Visual and auditory references to designer labels, luxury homes, SUV's, plastic surgery, and expensive sugary drinks point to the consumption habits of the Agrestic characters. Nancy's desire to maintain her comfortable suburban lifestyle is the impetus for her decision to enter the illegal drug business and is another example of extreme consumerism in suburbia. The series follows Nancy's life as she gets drawn into the criminal system, develops a client base, starts a front to hide her selling, creates her own strain of weed called MILF, and relocates her family to stay out of jail and protect her children.
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Episode 11 of Season 8 sees Conrad's return when Nancy tracks him down to try to get hold of some seeds or cuttings of their "MILF Weed" that she and Silas need to start their new venture. She finds him living in their old community of Agrestic (Now called Regrestic) where he is about to get married and is going straight making organic health food products. After Nancy asks him to join her new Pot growing and selling venture at first Conrad turns her down but soon comes around after saving Nancy during a meeting with Guillermo García Gómez (Guillermo Díaz) which goes bad and then helps her persuade Guillermo to come on side and involved in the new plan too. The reception of Conrad's wedding is shown during the episode with the Botwins (Minus Shane and Stevie) in attendance.
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