In the context of the entire series, in which the characters started out with minor misdemeanors and migrated into heavy felony territory, I thought the finale did a fine job of pulling the loose ends together. Nancy had begun to find her bearings while falling in love with the mayor/kingpin; when he summoned her to that meeting (she didn't go to "confront" him as much as face the music), she knew there was a good possibility of dire (or at least highly dramatic) consequences. I thought the two-photograph McGuffin a near-perfect point of departure from the present to the unknown future.

Just my two cents.

This show is sooo...2005.

And that's bad because . . . .

Geez, could Salon find a reviewer who is at least impartial to this show?

Heather Havrilesky has hated Weeds from the beginning!! (All that moral abiguity, oh my god!). And God Forbid that a woman not meet Heather's most certain moral standards she seems to have for women. God forbid they not be the perfect mother and the perfect girlfriend and say all the perfect woman things that women are expected to say and do.

Nancy Botwin is a complex character that I bet most Hollywood actresses would be foaming at the mouth to play. Considering the dearth of parts for women with this complexity (and moral ambiquity - like most women who are alive and human!!) in the movies, it's a breath of fresh air in cable television and a sign of something great that society is evolving it's view of women as whole beings that they don't have to fit into a tight perception that society holds for them (or BTW, that women hold for each other because in the end it's actually women who keep other women "in line" with what is "socially acceptable" expressions of themselves as humans. You might want to think about that one, Heather).

Let's hope that the Hollywood movie industry starts to follow cable's lead in this area.

Good God, think about it!! What a tremendous advancement for women. Heather and Salon should be celebrating Weeds and, more importantly, Nancy Botwin.

And for crying out loud, lighten UP!! It's a Comedy!

I believe the show is better than the first season, and continues to move into 'great series' territory, rather than maintain a 'cult comedy' status. This is what happened with Six Feet Under (remember the 'comedic' commercials for embalming fluid, dropped after the first season?).

Jenji Kohan and company are taking risks. I like.

her bath -- isn't that bad for a pregnant woman? (getting the body temp up and all)

...why do you need a spoilerish subheader below it? I'm not usually one to whine about spoilers, but what's the point of the spoiler warning if you're going to make obvious statements in the headline?

I have a theory: Weeds has simply followed the money. Let me explain. Four (or five) years ago, when Weeds premiered, the economy was humming. Money was easy to get hold of, even easier to get money to follow money. In other words, the more money you owed, the more you could borrow. Now, the shoe is on the other foot (and man, does it ever pinch!). You can't get a dime out of a bank, unless it is your money you want to borrow. And you better hope the dollahs is still around when you waltz up to the ATM. So, as the economy began to slowly fade, then sink, and then make a beeline for a total header into the terlet, here comes "Weeds" right behind with a family in crises. First Nancy, then her friends and neighbors (all adults, so far), and then her family (excluding Andy, a ne'er do well with a equally "ne'er" and fabulous ex-g.f., the wondrous Zooey Deschanel) become ensnared in the life from hell. Crooked DEA dudes - one of whom she effing marries! - murdering drug kings from somewhere south or east (or southeast) of downtown L.A. - and where it all ended was that her whole town disappeared off the map. As Nancy blithely waltzed into the sunset and down to Ren Mar, so did several major banking insitutions. (Of course, where the banks got to wasn't nearly as scenic as Ren Mar.) The economy is now way past the toilet, and already several miles out in the Pacific. The only thing coming in from the Pacific are those hapless "wetbacks" trying to make a life for themselves in a country headed for meltdown. Meltdown, the new town where Nancy, Silas, Shane, Andy, and likely Doug and Celia (if she survives the kidnapping) can continue to eek (yes, "eek") out a living. An economy which seemingly has nowhere to go; an all-American family likewise. Is this a theory which has legs. To inject one tiny leetle note of partisan politics into all this: where does the Sarah Palin madness fit into all this. Surely that is as "fictional" as the Botwins. One final question: Who is more Palin - Sarah or Tina? Oops, one more final remark after the final remark - when Matt Damon uttered the words, "President Palin," did a shiver run up and down your spine?

...much better than the first seasons and MLP can't be matched in her portrayal of NB. if that isn't acknowledged, i am clear the article is just personal bias and has nothing to do with objectivity or truth. no show like it on tv.

I watched this last season of Weeds more out of a sense of loyalty than any serious interest. I think burning Agrestic and relocating the entire show seemed forced and implausible. In the first two seasons, the predicaments were somehow more believable, and the way the characters escaped them more organic, whereas the third season definitely felt more scripted. The spontaneity of the first two seasons is gone, and the plot in season three seemed to move at a scripted pace.

One of the big traps that sketch comedies fall into is resorting to the same tired, familiar jokes, funny only to those who have seen them since they were fresh. MadTV was funny the first season, but by the 53rd sketch with Pool Lady or UPS Guy, the original ideas were all milked and the characters became stale.

I feel the same way about season 3. The characters, shaded and nuanced and complex in the first two seasons, have flattened out. The jokes are stale. Doug has been reduced to a mindless, vindictive, boorish pig. Celia has degenerated into a punch line, everybody's whipping girl. Even her daughters take advantage of her. At least in the first two seasons, she had some bite. Now she serves no role outside perhaps pathos. Shane and Silas, both of whom were on character development arcs that were brilliantly subtle through the first two seasons, are essentially props in season three--as if they couldn't lose the characters but didn't know what to do with them. Andy is almost as lost, and introducing the love angle is, in my opinion, a mistake.

Weeds had an interesting premise in the beginning, and season one was very strong. Seamlessly blending elements of serious drama with madcap humor, the first season promised us a show that would be refreshing and groundbreaking, challenging viewers to question their own assumptions about normality, morality, failure and redemption. The second season wasn't quite as sharp. The third season simply left me flat.

I'm hoping that the series bounces back in season 4, but am not very optimistic about the odds of that. We'll see.