Weeds 2nd season finale (last fall)
Tim Goodman. The Bastard Machine : Bad news and good news; "Wire" and "Weeds": '
in comments, cut & paste of Goodman's (1Nov06?) column re Weeds season 2 finale

Weeds has managed, in two brief seasons, to get the balance right between provocative adult comedy and serious adult drama. It has managed to be soapy but real, grounded but insane, and electrically hip in the process.
Consider only two of the Season 1 tidbits that Kohan and company dished up: Celia has cancer, and Nancy falls in love with Peter (Martin Donovan), a DEA agent. Those were solid clues that "Weeds" was not a series afraid to lurch forward, plot-wise.

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comments also re Halloween
--you must be talking Lawton Ave. and yes those folks rule as one woman was even dragging her stash around in a little cooler cart
--ya have to put up with the political pumpkins, but Rockridge does rule for littl'uns and their alchie parents on Halloween