Smoking Weeds

Why take the big risk of rebooting the show?

Jenji Kohan, Weeds creator and executive producer: “There’s a wisdom in television that you find what you’re doing right and then do it over and over again until you die. That wasn’t enough for us. We have such a great opportunity on Showtime to break the rules and follow the show where we want to see it go. And my writers were getting a little burnt out with suburbia. I said, ‘What can I do to keep you engaged and make it fresh again, not only to watch but to write?’ We were all excited to tackle some new issues and stomp on some new turf.”

Executive producer Roberto Benabib: “For us, the bigger risk would’ve been to stay in Agrestic and really start repeating ourselves. In the end, I think that scared us more than ripping up the sign and moving it somewhere else.”