Weeds

What makes Nancy Botwin, in a strange kind of way, a sympathetic character, as she is a weed-dealing mom that has no control over her two kids who experiment with drugs and sex at an age that Pokémon cards are still cool. She sleeps around, has criminal friends, sets her own house ablaze, smoothers her grandma, and has no problem setting up a bakery (season 1) or a maternity clothes store (season 4) as a 'front' for white washing drugs money. Is it that sometimes she breaks down and we witness her struggle to keep coming up for air since her loving husband was struck dead by a heart attack? Is it that she has moral limits too: no drugs for kids (!), and when drugs dealing leads to frontier running she betrays her Mexican boss, who she is romantically involved with...It is not that all is without consequences, people end up in jail, get beaten up, are tortured and even die. But life in the suburbs is undisturbed, as the opening credits of each episode make all to clear.

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