'Weeds' Season 6 preview

Talk about getting too big for your mom jeans.

In “Weeds”’ fifth season, the enormous and rather unnatural growth spurt the show underwent left Nancy married to a crooked politician with a new child, while her older ones had grown into a drug dealer and a murderer.

While these plot developments were certainly exhilarating, the show seemed to lose its sense of identity.

What was so critical to the flow of the show in the first few seasons was the suburb of Agrestic, the problems it presented and Nancy being an iced-coffee-touting wolf in sheep’s clothing. It was a show about a soccer mom who sold drugs.

No more.

Suddenly viewers have a monolith of a plot on their hands, side characters who have lost their identity and no ending in sight for the madness. The problem hasn’t been that the show outgrew Agrestic, but the magnitude of each turn the writers took.

Nancy obviously got in over her head, but her ensuing solutions to each insane problem simply invited more chaos — it was like burning down a house to fix a leaky pipe.

This unfortunately took away from the memorable Season 5 guest spot by Alanis Morissette, who was very good as Andy’s tough love romantic interest.

This season will (mercifully) be the last for Elizabeth Perkins’ character, Celia, who perfectly personified how out-of-hand the show has gotten the last couple seasons. She was once again the vehicle for the most insane parts of the madness, while her unbelievable relationships with the rest of the characters made her scenes almost completely unwatchable.

There’s not been much other talk, other than the return of Morissette and the arrival of new mainstay Linda Hamilton as a friend to Nancy in Seattle. Apparently that’s where the show is headed next, where Nancy can make a new start selling the same old drugs.

If this is a sign that Jenji Kohan is reeling things in a little bit, that might be a sign of good times for the series.