Weeds recap: The Love Circle Overlap
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Weeds is on the decline.
That’s my totally subjective assessment, based on little more than my vague impression after 
the last two episodes. I’m just not feeling it lately. Or anymore. I can’t tell which. All I know for sure is that when the credits roll, I’m not feeling this show.
Maybe the abandonment of Agrestic/Majestic finally caught up to Nancy Botwin, in my mind, anyway. Maybe it’s that I watched three seasons worth of episodes in four months and and all Weeds‘ed out.
Or maybe Weeds is just on the decline.
Last night Nancy began having John Travolta-in-Phenomenon-type moments she called headaches but which Esteban called cries-for-hallucinogens. Transition then to a Lost Boys-type scene where she trips out with Esteban and his shaman guy. All you needed was for Kiefer Sutherland to tell her she’s eating maggots and it would have been complete.
Clearly Esteban is right about one thing: the stress is finally getting to her. Why now? I mean, after U-Turn, crazy DEA hubby and Heylia all threatening to kill her, why is now any different. Ah, but there’s a moral. Nancy witnessed evidence that the tunnel is used for human trafficking, the worst kind, too, judging by the look on that young girl’s face as Guillermo led her away.
Sorry, but I can’t stand the most amoral woman on TV having a moral crisis. It’s worse than when Tony Soprano cried his eyes out over his prized racehorse’s death. We get it. You’re not a saint. This isn’t a show about people always doing the right thing in the end. We accept that and buy into it whole-hog. Don’t reverse course and show our fair heroine feeling pangs of conscience all of a sudden.
She was ready to run whatever drugs were planeted in her Prius and couldn’t be happy with the easiest, best-paying retail job in the world without dipping her nose in a drug trade she had no business in.
That’s who Nancy is. She needs the thrill of the illicit. She’s way past providing for her family. She’s feeding an addiction to danger. If she throws it all away to be a hero, it’ll be completely out of character, not to mention uninteresting.
You know what’s interesting? Celia cuffed to her bed for a forced intervention. What blew me away was that Isabelle still wants her concern, even knowing she’ll never have her approval. I’d much rather see nasty, nose-in-the-air Celia than the pathetic junkie we’ve seen her become this season.
Out on the border, Dough has found his girl. But the jig is up with his Minuteman buddy. Gotta feel bad for the one border-crosser Doug and Andy threw back to make their getaway. Who says civilian militiamen don’t have feelings too?
On the homefront, Silas is growing jealous. This storyline is too annoying to merit further commentary.
Upstairs, Shane is living the dream, the dream of every 13-year-old boy. His girlfriends have big plans for him, if only he can go through with them. You can’t blame him for getting cold feet, though. Those girls are pretty fierce-looking. Hate to say it, but I think he’s carrying a torch for Isabelle. Too bad she’s carrying a torch for his mom.
Where are things headed? Well, guilt or something like it is giving Nancy visions of that sweet-faced girl. Meanwhile, her sons have become something of her making that she’s not altogether comfortable with. A change of course is due.
I’m just not sure I can stomach it.
(Oh, and Sanjay just makes me miss 30 Rock even more.)
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Here’s what I don’t get about Celia’s story line. She was always an alcoholic smoker who “also likes her speed and Ambien”. So how did that first sniff of coke turn her into a complete junkie mess by the end of one day? She’s clearly a seasoned substance user, so you would think she could handle her shit enough to not go complete over the edge in one day’s time. Sure, it makes sense that she kept going back for more, but it would have been a more believable and funny plot line if coke became her new upper for a while but she stayed the crazy bitch she is.