Showtime cofirmed Wednesday that its pot-dealer sitcom “Weeds” – which rivals “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” as perhaps my favorite Showtime series ever -- will air its final episode this summer.
Its eighth and final season launches July 1.
Series mastermind Jenji Kohan, busy also with Netflix’s new women’s prison sitcom “Orange Is The New Black,” has learned of the “Weeds” cancellation well in advance of penning the series finale.
Justin Kirk, who plays horny brother-in-law Andy Botwin, stars this fall in his own NBC sitcom, “Animal Hospital.”
A Wednesday press release offers clues regarding this final season:
For the final season, it’s back to the ‘burbs for the Botwins. The fallout from the shot heard round the Tri-State area will transform everyone for the better, at least initially. The tragedy has caused Nancy to turn over a new (pot) leaf and return to her pre-dealing soccer mom ways. Meanwhile, Andy finds some semblance of love with someone uncomfortably close to Nancy, and Doug uses his hedge-fund money in a surprisingly good way. But just as it was in Agrestic, nothing is as serene as it seems in Old Sandwich, Connecticut. Just how long before the Botwins return to their old ways and blow up this new neighborhood, literally and/or figuratively, will remain to be seen.
How close, I wonder, is Old Sandwich to Stars Hollow?
