Dear Sky One – what are you playing at with your scheduling of Weeds? Hidden away at 11.30pm on a Sunday night, are you ashamed of it? If so, don’t be. Weeds is smartly written, carefully nuanced comedy/ drama of the highest calibre and deserves a much wider audience than students, insomniacs and shift-workers.

Last night’s double-bill (another mystery of programming) saw the votes being cast in the local elections. Would established Councilman Doug continue to sit pretty or would Celia Hodes achieve the authority she craves? The result came down to a paltry three votes – but in whose favour?

Upset that her campaign for election was faring poorly, Celia was heartened by the sight of the ballot paper. Surprisingly absent from the list of candidates was Doug. Apparently in his haste on having been fired from his job, Dean forgot to nominate Doug’s name and so he was ineligible for the vote, earning Dean Doug’s serious contempt. This administerial oversight granted victory to Celia and she soon began to enjoy her power.

With her first point of action, Celia vowed to clean up the town of Agrestic and make drugs a thing of the past by installing surveillance cameras all over town to keep an eye on the street drug-dealers. Entering Shane and her own daughter Isabelle’s school, she appealed to the youngsters to avoid drugs and told them of her plans. This talk failed miserably, with Shane objecting to the invasion of privacy implicit in Celia’s grand master-plan. He then went on to reveal how he had witnessed her drunkenness at his house, how he considered drink to be a type of drug and soon the children were chanting “you do drugs” at the bemused and humiliated Councilwoman.

Nancy and her MILF (Mother I’d Like to F**k) pot, as so christened by new customer, rapper Snoop Dogg in a guest spot, were doing excellent business. This was much in contrast to Heylia who found all her customers asking for this new brand which she did not supply. Finding out from U-Turn where this new weed originated from, she grew enraged. Upset with her nephew Conrad and Nancy for growing against her advice, she vowed to sever all personal ties with both of them though business forced her to buy some of their popular product. Conrad was distressed by the bruising encounter but Nancy remained optimistic that Heylia would come to change her mind.

This fall-out might prove unimportant in light of Martin’s news: that the DEA were going to move in on Heylia. Nancy tried to talk her husband out of such action, but he remained adamant that he had to show his superiors some results and considering he wouldn’t bust her, he would have to target someone else, namely Heylia.

Elsewhere, Andy dropped out of rabbinical school, losing girlfriend Yael in the process. Sadly that was not the only thing Andy lost, when a stray dog taken in by Doug chewed off two of his toes. Ouch!