Much has been said about the quality of post-Agrestic Weeds, but we know true blue fans will still mark August 16 on their calendars. After all, Showtime announced the return date of Nancy Botwin (Mary Louis Parker) and her crazy family and it's always much-anticipated, thanks to jaw-dropping finales that Weeds should trademark already. For its star, she can't wait for Weeds season 6, which kicks off production later this month.

As is customary in the Weeds universe, season 5 ended with a bang, with bad-ass Shane (Alexander Gould) knocking off cutthroat bitch Pilar (Kate del Castillo) with a croquet mallet unto a pool presumably dead (you never really know with this show). Pilar had earlier tried to kill Nancy, but the assassin's bullet hit Shane instead, so we assume that's payback.

Meanwhile, in an effort to "out-Nancy Nancy" Celia (Elizabeth Perkins) successfully assembled a team of her own, mostly from Nancy's old team - Doug (Kevin Nealon) - accounting, husband Dean (Andy Milder) - legal, Sanjay (Maulik Pancholy) - sales, the masked wrestler dude - supply and "muscle," and daughter Isabelle - "brains."

For Weeds season 6, we'll see what happens when Nancy's drug-dealing politician husband Esteban finds out that Pilar is dead and how this will affect his bid for the gubernatorial post. Pilar has largely been the one calling the shots in his campaign, so we'll know what happens when she's gone. Not a lot of people really liked the Esteban storyline so we'll find out if that's also being knocked to the pool.

Separately, Celia is trying to be the show's new Nancy, trying to, in a sense, go back to its root. Will this new team succeed? Will Audra (Alanis Morissette) finally say yes to Andy (Justin Kirk)? Will Silas (Hunter Parrish) actually have a storyline of his own now that Esteban's heroin daughter Adelita is gone?

Weeds season 6 premiers August 16, Monday on Showtime.

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