I seem to be getting more and more into this season as it goes .. After three remarkable seasons this one was beginning to look like a total failure, but after three romances in one episode and a grow operation, I started to see the old unstable structure of the Botwin family we had all grown to know and love. With Nancy's (Mary-Louise Parker) unexpected romance seeming to fade away slowly, she also had some unexpected romances revolving around both of her son's. Shane's (Alexander Gould) secrets surface in this newest installment to this already contradictory filled season of WEEDS. Having some puberty problems, Nancy's youngest son, Shane, is caught with naked pictures of his mother, which he had recently been using in his masturbatory rituals. If you thought it couldn't get worse, you were wrong. As fate would have it Nancy discovers her oldest, 17 year old Silas (Hunter Parrish), is mixed up in a steamy affair of his own with his thirty-something year old neighbor. Silas's newly developed romance decides to let him begin his own grow operation in the back of her previously owned cheese store. If dealing with these two weren't hard enough, Nancy still had to fumble around to try and keep her friend, Celia, on track. Celia ( Elizabeth Perkins) was struggling to deal with some problems of her own. While working for Nancy's front store, the Maternity clothing shop, Celia became addicted to cocaine and begins to steal money from the store. Andy (Justin Kirk), Nancy's brother in law, gets himself into a pickle, as well, with his coyote business. Running into his former inspiration for immigrant smuggling, Andy and Doug ( Kevin Nealon)seemed to be at the end of their road; until they are rescued by the immigrant families they had been helping to get across the border. In all I was pretty impressed with this episode after the disappointment I had endured through the last few. I would recommend, to anyone with the love for weed in the family setting, that you check out season 4 of 'WEEDS' and get a taste of what really goes on in the American Culture.

By: Paul Kemp