WEEDS - Saison 1 - Ludwig CHAMOULEAU

Hello Mister Cox,
I chose to watch the WEEDS series.You will tell yourself why this series… It’s a choice very simple, I had once watched full series and I didn’t want to watch one that I had already seen. So, I'm looking for a netflix series, and I found WEEDS. An evocative title and yet I wanted to understand a market unknown to me and discover another facet of American life. It evokes a dark image of america without wealth. Obliged to dive in illegality in order to be able to pay more and more bills.

Suburban mom Nancy, embraces a new profession after her husband's unexpected death and subsequent financial woes. She wants to become the neighborhood pot dealer. As it seems like everyone secretly wants what she's selling, even city councilman Doug Wilson. Nancy is faced with keeping her family life in check and her enterprise a secret from her neighbor, her pseudo-friend, the PTA president, Celia Hodes …

For more informations :
Release Date : 7 August 2005 in USA
Budget : 3 000 000 $

Nancy Botwin lives in Agrestic, a suburb of Los Angeles. She has just lost her husband and she don’t want to lose her status in society. She then goes to deal a little bit of marijana in her district to make money. This allows her to preserve the luxury of her old life (car, villa …).
She have a friend, Celia Hodes, she have some problems with her 2 daughters become she finds one too big and she spies the other, Quinn to avoid that she has a relation with Silas (the son of Nancy)

Shane her other son think a lot about his father.
Silas haven’t got new about his girlfriend since first sexual relation. He discovered that his mother (Celia) sent him to boarding school. In the same time, Celia discovered that her husband cheated on her. Nancy has a lot of money problems because she can’t pay bills with cash, and asks Doug for help, unfortunately to get Heylia's drug she'll have to give the ring that his deceased husband to him offered in exchange.

Nancy's business is not going to start as she thought. She will initially have to fight against her biggest competitor: the legal sale of marijana for medical reasons. She also thinks about solutions to avoid losing its customers (prices, novelties, services …). In the same time, Shane saw on the television that a wild animal was running in the neighborhood, he then decided to go after it and kill it. Silas meet a new girl, Megan, she is deaf.
Celia discovered chocolat in the bedroom of her fat daughter and she thinks about solutions to punish her. She adds powerful laxatives to chocolates.

Andy, the brother of husband of Nancy arrived at her home one morning and he decided to stay.
Nancy work a lot to develop her business, Doug tell her some tips. Andy live his life like Silas, they don’t think about her family.

The house of Celia and her husband Dean was destroy because of an accident. Celia announces she has breast cancer.
Nancy discovered the risks of this work when a shootout breaks out at Heylia in the same time Silas leaves his girlfriend Megan.
Andy gets arrested while smoking a joint in his van, which allows Nancy to discover that the laws of america are quite lax with cannabis…

After his arrest Andy must go to meetings of "marijuana smokers Anonymous ». Nancy, with the advice of the lawyer of Andy and Doug has a new idea. She creates a trade of facade, a fake bakery. Nancy, Celia, and Conrad go out to a club. Meanwhile, Lupita (the housekeeper of Nancy) learns that she is a dealer.

Nancy is looking for a student to teach at Silas, but she finally sold him cannabis and sold it to college. Celia is hospitalized for her breast cancer. She receives her mother who is very unpleasant with her. Shane have got a new friend, Max and when his mother come at Shane’s house, Andy receives her.

The family inaugurates the tombstone of the late husband of Nancy. Shane have a judo competition where he bite another child, his father, Peter meet Nancy after the competition and she invites him to dine. In the same time, In the house of Nancy, Andy, Doug try to kill a rat and they destroy the house.
Celia tell with Dean about her history with Conrad.

Nancy is stolen 14 000$ by the police officer of the campus. The bakery of Nancy opened and she work so hard. The doctor of Shane want to give medicaments to him and Shane are happy because he want to be drugged. Celia is very sick but she fights to keep her position at the head of the council of mothers of the pupils of Agrestic.

Heylia forbade Conrad to talk to Nancy. Nancy moves closer to Peter. Celia saw her daughter Isabelle kissing one of her friends. Silas is arrested under the influence of ectasy.
Andy receives a letter from the army, he signed as a reservist and must be sent to Iraq, desperate he is looking for a way to escape.