Weeds: Little boats (the skeeviest episode yet)
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- August
- 12
Weeds kind of freaked me out last night.
Shane belongs in an insane asylum. There’s puberty and there’s lunacy. He crossed the line, hit the gas and kept going. Seriously, how’d that ever make it out of the writer’s room and onto the screen? I don’t care if your mom is Mary Louise Parker, that’s just not cool.
And no, I’m not going to spell out what that is.
Silas, on the other hand, gotta give props to the boy. He’s making the most of his connections in the retail cheese industry.
Honestly, though, has there been any more of a salacious storyline in this show’s four seasons in which Silas and Lisa, the neighbor cheese lady, become a hot and heavy item? Sure, they’re making it a business venture, and Silas does have a head for the business. But it still seems kind of gratuitous. Not that I’m complaining. It is fun to follow along.
Boy, I sure am beating around the bush here. Tough to be specific when the specifics are barely NC-17 rated.
Anyway, I nearly clapped when Nancy laid it out for neighbor cheese lady why it’s not nice get intimate with another woman’s young son. And she didn’t lay down any false morality or make any threats, idle or otherwise. She simply pondered the possibility of her own May-December romance with cheese lady’s son. Threat neutralized, as they say.
Seriously, what’s wrong with Shane, though? Eeewww. Sorry, lost my way there.
Anyway, Celia is a cokehead. That is the fastest addiction in the history of addictions. What was that, one hit. I loved how she marked down merchandise at the register just to score quick cash. Who’s stocking that store, anyway? Clearly the writers have never worked in retail. That’d be a logistical nightmare having a tunnel in your stockroom.
When Celia wanders into the tunnel, she nearly gets herself killed and also prompts Cesar to complain to Esteban about Nancy being reckless. Esteban is clearly charmed by her, though.
After wacking the cool kid upside the head with a tray, Shane could have any girl in school. Why’s he hanging onto that snapshot of a scantily clad Nancy. (I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.)
The dual mom talk with Silas and Shane was slightly confusing to follow, but it was a clever device to show the parallels between the two sticky situations the Botwin boys find themselves in and Nancy’s responsible approach to dealing with them. Still, Andy should have talked to Shane. The uncle who takes you to your first massage parlor is the uncle who should talk you down from the sick, twisted ledge Shane finds himself on.
Previews last week showed Andy and Doug confronted at gunpoint in an alley by a mean coyote. I knew then it would come to naught. No one on this show ever gets stuck long in that kind of a pinch. But it was cool to see Andy’s followers, disciples actually, come to his aid. I’m not sure why Andy didn’t get shot in the back anyway, but it worked.
And it looks like Doug will find his cross-border love, the one he’s been searching for weeks for, soon enough.
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on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 at 10:23 pm by Brian Howard.
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