After a weekend of DVDs that explored youth, now we deal with some very adult material.

"Weeds: Season Five" offers 360 minutes of the hit Showtime series starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner Mary-Louise Parker. This is the season when Parker's character Nancy Botwin has moved her pot-selling business south of the border and may be pregnant by a drug lord.

Bonus features includes cast and crew commentaries, bloopers, a history of weed, a guide to the show's dysfunctional relationships and a backstage look with co-star Kevin Nealon.

Also, the DVD package is 100 recyclable. Nice!

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The TV Guide Network thinks your life could use a little, uh, enhancement, so they've launched "National Weeds Awareness Week" to address the problems many Americans face in regularly accessing "Weeds." The best part of this news is that the network will celebrate the awareness week with a six-day "Weeds" marathon.

The TV Guide marathon will air from 9pm to 2am each night beginning Sunday, October 17th through Friday, October 22.

"Dexter" returns for its fifth season tonight, picking up right where things left off in season four. After being reminded once again of Dexter's gruesome bathroom discovery, we see him on his knees in his front yard, clutching his baby boy in his bloody hands while blue lights flash all around. Our vigilante serial killer is shaken to his core and so stunned by Rita's murder that he mutters, "It was me" to the police who first arrive on the scene.

But as guilty as Dexter looks -- and boy is he ever a perfect suspect for something like this -- we all know it wasn't him but Trinity who did the deed. But like Dexter, we also know it was because of Dexter's dangerous relationship with Trinity that Rita was targeted, and that is what has our usually composed protagonist unraveling in the premiere.

Michael C. Hall is truly great as the dazed, zombie-like Dexter, who stumbles around in the aftermath of Rita's murder processing his guilt and flashing back to memories of when they first met (giving Julie Benz a chance to reprise her role). Dexter has always known he would eventually cause his loved ones pain, but imagined it would be the pain of hurt and public humiliation when he was finally caught, not that anyone would actually have to die. More acutely than ever before, Dexter must reckon with the inevitability that his darkness will destroy the innocent people who love him.

Laura Linney is the star of "The Big C" (Showtime, 10:30 tonight) and I mean she's the STAR.

She powers the show, giving a performance in which she's funny, moving, subtle, manic, thoughtful, selfish and smart, sometimes all in one scene. There are some good actors on this show, but Linney (also an executive producer) is the reason to watch.

"The Big C" tells the story of Cathy (Linney), an uptight schoolteacher who learns she has terminal stage 4 melanoma, and with that pronouncement decides it's time to start living. She doesn't tell her family of her diagnosis, which could mean she only has a year to live; instead she just starts changing.

Showtime released their chilling trailer for season 5 of "Dexter" at Comic-Con this past weekend.

Spoilers ahead.

Looks like things may finally come crashing down on Jackie in tonight's second season finale.

It's not entirely unexpected. How long can you function as a drug addicted ER nurse stealing pain pills from your hospital and cheating on your husband with a crazy person without having everything eventually fall apart? The question is, will Jackie and her relationships all survive?

The premise of "Nurse Jackie" is awfully dark, but what makes the show work so well are the unexpected shots of humor. Such as the one in the clip below. I'm already excited for Season 3 (filming begins in September).

Great news! Jennifer Carpenter, the wife of actor Michael C. Hall, tells the Associated Press that Hall is "fully recovered" from cancer.

Hall, a native of Raleigh, was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma last year and has been undergoing treatment. 

He won both a SAG award and a Golden Globe in January for his portrayal of the serial killer (with a heart of gold) on this past season's "Dexter." Carpenter also stars in "Dexter" and plays the step sister of Hall's character.

"Dexter" airs on Showtime and begins shooting its fifth season soon.

The critically acclaimed and hilariously offbeat Showtime hit "Weeds" is coming to the TV Guide Network starting in September.

"Weeds" is about a suburban mom (Mary-Louise Parker) who finds herself broke when her husband dies suddenly, and she can't support her children in the lifestyle to which they've become accustomed. She resorts to selling pot to her affluent neighbors (Kevin Nealon) but over time, her involvement in the drug trade escalates. Those escalations are alternately horrifying and hilarious.

The show is pretty profane at times, so it's likely to be heavily edited.

"The United States of Tara" begins its second season tonight at 10:30 on Showtime and if you haven't watched, it's worth jumping in.

Toni Collette has won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her part as the woman with mulitple personalities, and although that's the kind of role that's typical awards bait, Collette, a subtle and nuanced actor, earned hers with skill.

I didn't love the show at first. Diablo Cody (of "Juno" fame") is the primary writer/creator and her work can be too precious by half at times. But the show quickly found a voice outside of Cody's and every character has a rich story line.

"Nurse Jackie," the surprisingly hilarious show about a philandering drug addict nurse in a New York City hospital emergency room, returns for its second season tonight.

What's that you say? A show about a pill-popping ER nurse who cheats on her husband with an unstable pharmacist (points for being practical) doesn't sound all that funny to you? I know, but you're wrong.