It’s been a long strange journey with widow Nancy Botwin and her sons Shane and Silas. And, thanks to the folks out at Lions Gate, who sent out a copy of Weeds Season Six, the Showtime series comes our way once more, and it will keep you laughing..

It’s hard to sum up the plot without giving you the story so far, so I’ll do my best to compress it down. Essentially, Nancy Botwin’s husband unexpectedly dies, leaving her with two sons to care for. Thus, she turns to selling weed in her little planned community to raise the cash necessary to raise two sons. This launches off a whole new life for the Botwins, which brings us to the current season in which Nancy Botwin and family are now in Mexico, following their involvement with a Mexican drug kingpin. But they’ve escaped, and are now serving as scab labor at a hotel. But once Nancy finds out the local drug dealer’s gone on strike, she sees an opportunity to step in and fill the void. But will this be a smart move for Nancy and company? Or will this be yet another in a long, long, long series of missteps?

First off, sad news for those of you fond of the original theme song Little Boxes (I was–there was nothing freakier than original Malvina Reynolds’ Little Boxes. They might as well have called it Pod People: The Song.) it won’t be back for some while here.

But this will be soundly overwhelmed by the sheer hilarity that this series packs. It’s so seldom that I actually get to laugh at a television series, but Weeds will bring so much laughter that sometimes I wonder if the discs were pressed with laughing gas, and their exposure to the heat and rotation in my DVD player has released it.

It helps that the cast is brilliant, in its way, and there’s an intermingling of comedy and drama that makes each sharper for their mixing. It’s almost like having red wine with beef–the two work together.

It’s not every day that television is actually, you know, good, but Weeds from Showtime and Lions Gate will manage to succeed where so many before it have failed.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives a full ten out of ten to Weeds Season Six, a clever mix of comedy and drama that succeeds on both sides by virtue of its mixing. Spark this one up and prepare for a good long weekend of laughs and excitement.