10 Redeemed TV Characters Who Didn't Deserve It

Weeds' protagonist Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) certainly started out the series as a sympathetic enough character - a recently bereaved mother who begins selling pot to support herself and her two children - but over the course of the show, Nancy's actions became increasingly, stupidly risky and prove almost cartoonishly narcissistic at times.

Rather than simply scaling back her lifestyle and working a regular job, Nancy jumps into the drug game with both feet, resulting in her family becoming endangered as they end up trapped in the middle of drug turf wars and DEA investigations.

Despite Nancy most often being the cause of her own problems, she rarely takes ownership of this or the impact her life choices have clearly had on her sons. As such, Weeds mutated into something that many fans only hate-watched in its final few seasons, as Nancy devolved into a selfish caricature of her former self.

A series finale which paid that off would've been tremendously satisfying, yet creator Jenji Kohan instead opted for a more sentimental wrap-up in which Nancy is now operating several lucrative (and legal!) weed dispensaries, and basically decides to forgive herself for her past wrongdoing.

The show let Nancy off too easily in the end, and after eight seasons of watching her be increasingly awful, it rang totally false.