#9. Weeds
Showtime
In Agrestic, Calif., the grass may not always be
greener, but it's cut up in baggies and for sale. The third season of
Jenji Kohan's suburban send-up about pot-dealing mom Nancy Botwin
(Mary-Louise Parker) raised the stakes for its characters as Nancy found
it ever more impossible to keep her family separate from the fallout
from her working life. An eerily topical finale involving a wildfire
left us anxiously waiting to see if Nancy's world will likewise go up in
smoke.