50 Top 10 Lists of 2007

Top 10 Returning TV Series

#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.

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