Nancy Botwin, Weeds

Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) was the main protagonist on comedy-drama series Weeds. At the start of the series, Nancy and her two sons had been left destitute after her husband’s sudden death, so she turned to selling marijuana to support her family. She quickly became one of the top sellers in her area, and over the course of the series she become increasingly more entangled in illegal activities.

Nancy re-married three times during the series and become known as a black-widow as all of her husbands end up dead. She also had another son with her third husband, Esteban. All of her serious relationships on the show were with men, even sleeping with rivals, who are all men, in order to maintain her business. She first hinted at being bisexual in the first season by answering “yes, in college” when asked if she ever slept with a woman.

In between Seasons 6 and 7, Nancy served a prison sentence, and it was revealed that she met a woman named Zoya and become her “prison wife” for the three years that passed between seasons. When Nancy got out of jail, she moved to New York and Zoya followed her in an attempt to continue the relationship with Nancy, though she was rejected. Zoya soon left New York again to avoid being framed for arson and sent back to prison and was not seen again.

In the series finale, which jumped forward seven years, it was revealed that Nancy married Rabbi David Bloom, who later died in a car accident.

Appearances:

• 102 episodes.

Female love interests:

• Zoya Ravitch (Olga Sosnovska, recurring in S7, 4 episodes)

Relationship story arc with a woman: No

Male love interests:

• Judah Botwin 💀 (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, guest, 2 episodes, husband)
• Peter Scottson 💀 (Martin Donovan, recurring, 14 episodes, 2nd husband)
• Esteban 💀 (Demián Bichir, recurring 27 episodes, 3rd husband)
• Dave Bloom 💀 (David Julain Hirsh, guest, 7 episodes, 4th husband)

Relationship story arc with a man: Yes

Filter Relationship Arc:

• Male (Recurring)

Storyline during sweeps? No

[1] A relationship story arc is defined as explicit, developed on screen, and lasting more than 3 episodes. It is listed as questionable or subtext if romance is only implied, mentioned instead of shown on screen, part of a dream sequence, or otherwise not explicit for the viewer.
[2] Sweeps episodes air in February, May, July and November, the periods when advertising rates are set. A character is marked as "sweeps" when there is a very limited number of episodes that address their sexuality, all air during sweeps period, and the storyline is otherwise ignore/dropped.