Parker continues the brittle, slightly wooden-but mostly kooky and it works style that she perfected in The West Wing, and she's flawless at delivering awkward dialogue - such as trying to discourage Shane from putting his 'used' socks down the toilet. Hunter Parrish, playing her older son, didn't get much to do this series really, although his deaf girlfriend had a pregancy scare, but he did spend time with his top off so I was happy. Elizabeth Perkins is Weeds hidden weapon, so deliciously bitter as cancer-sufferer and general all round bitch Celia, who competes with hilarious Doug for a place on the city council - and then tries to clean up the drugs in Agrestic. The main dramatic thread this season came from Nancy falling for a DEA agent, marrying him so he can't testify against her, and then everything going sour when she finds it's too soon after her first husband's death for her to move on. This all leads to a pulse-quickening final episode which has Nancy staring down the barrels of a myriad guns, Silas about to be arrested with a trunk full of weed, and Shane being driven away by a mental Zooey Deshanel. It's all I can do to stop watching Season 3 straight away - it is sat on my shelf - but Season 4 is not out yet in an affordable way so I'll wait until I can see a few more in a row.
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