《weeds》講述的是一個住在洛杉磯郊外的單親母親，為了維持家里的生計做起了販賣大麻的生意，最終成為一代毒梟的傳奇故事。劇名weeds除了指代大麻以外，同時隱射“widow's weeds”(寡婦的黑色喪服)，象征的是不屈不撓頑強生存的雜草精神。
這是一部黑色幽默喜劇，整個故事荒誕又真實，揭示了現(xiàn)實生活的丑惡，對人物的心理刻畫入木三分，里面的人物都是個性鮮明。
《weeds》影評
It started with Sam Fuller's "Naked Kiss", circa 1964. But it is not until after "American Beauty" that a sardonic view of suburan life has become mainstream. Then screens big an small have been flooded with cliched attacks on middle-class respectability. If "Weeds" has been built on this premise alone, the jokes would have got tiresome pretty quickly. But noooo-nooo-nooo-no!
The best jokes in "Weeds", in fact, have little to do with suburbia per se. As good jokes should be, they are more whimsical to fit into any easy social category. For example, where does the battery-for-dildo bit belong in the grand themes of contemporary American sociology? Or the situational joke of having Celia sitting down with the "Tennis Pro" for endless rounds of drinks, while the pendulum of her anger sways between her husband and his mistress?
Sometimes the writers let the same joke run a bit tired, like Celia's several fond farewells to her breasts. Then some of the actions ascribed to a character are not well thought out enough to be plausible; example: Nancy smashing the DV with her husband's memory. Sure, someone can do that and it wouldn't invalidate their emotions; but in the case of Nancy, we feel that the nice middle-class upbringing a=that we spot in her temperament wouldn't have allowed this particular outburst.
In fact, the greatest thing about Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy is her convincing middle-calss soccer-mom-ness. None of the high-baroqueness of the absurd characters in "Desperate Housewives", or the tropical-bird exotica of Annette Bening in ""American Beauty" or Frances Conroy (Ruth) in "Six Feet Under". Nancy is creditable and desirable as a mother and wife; one easily subscribes to her merits as a Longtime Companion (pun on her ground-breaking 1990 movie confronting AIDS).
Well, Parker has sure walked far since her "Fried Green Tomatoes" days. Bravo!