Weeds: You Can't Miss the Bear

Weeds: You Can't Miss the Bear
Showtime
August 7, 2005
Sitcom
DVD
C+

Regular cast:

• Justin Chatwin as Josh Wilson
• Tressa DiFiglia as Maggie
• Alexander Gould as Shane Botwin
• Allie Grant as Isabelle Hodes
• Haley Hudson as Quinn Hodes
• Indigo as Vaneeta
• Romany Malco as Conrad Shepard
• Andy Milder as Dean Hodes
• Tyrone M. Mitchell as Keeyon
• Kevin Nealon as Doug Wilson
• Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin
• Hunter Parrish as Silas Botwin
• Tonye Patano as Heylia James
• Elizabeth Perkins as Celia Hodes
• Renee Victor as Lupita

Also, Jina Song is Helen Chin here and would later be a nameless Reporter.

While this is an interesting concept-- a "typical" suburban widow with two sons sells pot to her neighbors-- I didn't think the acting, especially by the children and teens, was as good as it should be.  Parker as anti-heroine Nancy is good though, playing all the shades and emotions to her character.  I'll see if the rest of the cast can come up to her level.  (Perkins isn't bad, although she's distractingly like a Designing-Women-era Jean Smart.)

Creator Jenji Kohan wrote this episode and twenty-one more.  Brian Dannelly directed only one other episode.