It's about so much more than pot (Robin)

I just finished the first half of the first season of Weeds and oh my god. It's good. It's funny and snappy and smart and well-written. It pushes envelopes (or baggies?). There are a few annoyances -- like the What About Bob character, as I like to call it; the guy who is dopey and annoying and always this-close to ruining things for people who don't deserve it and is somehow buoyed along in spite of the fact that he's BAD -- but overall it's good. It started out about pot and is about pot, no doubt; but moreso it's about keeping a family afloat and dealing with grief and fitting into a community and growing up and watching your children grow up and realizing there's a whole big world outside of the teeny-tiny world you happily inhabited for so long.

Favorite quotations:

"If I could tap into my higher power my fingers wouldn't be numb." --Nancy (after she couldn't find any batteries for her vibrator)

"I'm the suburban baroness of bud, Nancy." --Nancy