Weeds season three just started this past week. Monday.
I just watched season 2. rented 2nd disc & watched it last nite. so now int in how resolved the standoff at end of season 2 finale...etc.
what's of note to me is that reading about season 2 before I watched it, unfamiliar elements (DEA agent husband? Armenians?) were alienating. sounded way far off into new plotlines too different. but really those plotlines did not seem as wild in the watching as in the reading. and makes sense, each of the two seasons so far only 12 episodes ie 6 hours so it's not like it's years & years on in the story..

Four new 'Weeds' episodes keep brilliant buzz alive - Tim Goodman, sfgate:
Last season's cliffhanger - pot-dealing mom Nancy Botwin in a kitchen looking at the barrels of a lot of enemy guns - teenage son Silas (Hunter Parrish) had taken all of the pot (that both the Armenians and U-Turn are trying to steal) - left a lot of fans wondering whether show creator Jenji Kohan had the chops to extract Nancy in a manner that didn't seriously damage the series.
So far, so good. After more than a little worry about the precarious balancing act that is the storytelling in 'Weeds,' four episodes of Season 3 confirm that Kohan and company are pretty clever at this high-wire business.
Only in the fourth episode does something arise that's troublesome in its silliness.
[So] Nancy's character suffers only one patently dumb scene in the first four episodes, [but also] some flags will probably be raised by Andy's new foray into the military (the problem there is that trying to skewer American foreign policy is just too easy and many years too late to be creatively interesting or bold). I did like season2 in Shane's debate electoral college v popular vote. "My argument for the popular vote: George W Bush." and his opponent all upset " how can I argue with that... he can't just invoke the name of the worst president this country has ever had. "
But if the writers can make a series about a marijuana-dealing mother in the suburbs both funny and touching, ridiculous and truthful, all at once, they probably deserve the chance to write themselves into and out of all manner of dubious angles without enduring untoward second-guessing.

The sly 'Weeds' keeps growing on me -- Maureen Ryan, The Watcher | Chicago Tribune
Things do take a darker turn this season, and the character of U-Turn (Page Kennedy), a thuggish gang member with whom Botwin has to work, threatens to become tiresome.
But there’s still plenty of comic relief to be had, especially from Elizabeth Perkins as Botwin’s condescending neighbor, Celia Hodes. The writers know exactly what kind of cutting yet insightful right material the deft Perkins is good at delivering, and they give Celia those kinds of scenes in just the right proportions. And of course Justin Kirk is a continual treat as Botwin’s immature brother-in-law, Andy, who finds out this season that the Army is still keen on, and in fact insistent on, inducting him. despite his lost two toes?!

Satirical 'Weeds' a hit with fans | IndyStar.com: Season 3 focuses heavily on family, Kohan says. Monday's premiere picked up where last season ended -- a standoff over Nancy and sidekick Conrad's 30-pound crop between the Armenian pot growers and U-turn, a menacing dealer played by Page Kennedy. U-turn coerces Nancy to work for him. Despite his bluster, his gangsta style will help her confidence and street cred.
Silas (emerging teen heartthrob Hunter Parrish) got busted for stealing the street security cameras and drug-free zone signs in the fictional town of Agrestic, while Shane (Alexander Gould) embellished Nancy's resume so she's more hirable for a straight job.
Two new cast members will surface in later episodes: Matthew Modine will appear as a slick developer building the Christian community of Majestic, which will become a fertile new drug market for Nancy. seems incredible she is still in business. And former "Full House" pixie Mary-Kate Olsen will appear as Tara Lindman, a Christian teen who becomes Silas' girlfriend.