The Weeds recap: Machetes up top
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Yeah, yeah, this recap’s at least a day late, but to be honest I’m having a hard time getting in to Weeds again.
It’s not that the episodes haven’t been good so far. They’ve been alright. It’s just that the show has gotten pretty long in the tooth, and I’m having a hard time caring about the Botwin clan anymore.
Still, I enjoyed watching Nancy saddle up to the sushi bar, take a long drag on a cigarette and knock back a shot with the chef. Why’d I enjoy it? Hard to say. She’s never been much of a mom, and now she’s not much of a fanatic about pre-natal care.
But it was the level of reckless disregard that I found compelling, because really, she’s more likely to go down in a hail of bullets than she is to deliver a healthy bambino.
There was a decent insight there too when she talked about jumping off the Morristown Bridge (She’s a Jersey girl?) when she was 10, and the local paper wrote that she fell. She didn’t fall, she jumped. Big difference. And that difference is her whole life, as her sister—Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character—seemed to attest.
Still, this is all a bit much for her. The stress of a neighborhood pot operation is one thing; now she’s coping with a virtual death warrant that comes due in less than nine months. She’s not Esteban’s wife, as Guillermo gladly reminded her. She’s nothing but a dead mom walking until that baby comes arrives.
That was some jailhouse chat, by the way. She must be crazy taunting him like that with only a layer of plexiglass in between. That comment about the tattoos on his back for the guy behind him, well that’s just dangling a steak in front of an angry lion. That’s the other side of Nancy, though.
She was similarly brave in Esteban’s office, going for his gun but pointing it at her baby bump. That just resulted in his essentially raping her on the spot. Troubling stuff, that.
On a lighter note, Celia took to sprucing up the guerrilla lair, lending to the episode title. The sad realization that no one loves her and she has nowhere to go has her thinking about staying behind with her captor, particularly now that her daughter Quinn is gone. And why not? She’s got a highly manipulable guy to focus on and a roof over her head. He’s going to shoot her if she slaps him again, though.
Speaking of people who deserve to be shot, Doug and Silas ran into a heavily fortified pot farm while scouting out their own plot of land in the national forest. I can’t take Doug anymore. He’s way too annoying. And Silas is just a brooding teenager who could use a beatdown from a druglord to put him back on the right track.
And how predictable was it for Jill and Andy to get it on? This storyline of him and Andy going to stay with her family seems like a throwaway plot tangent to me, which wouldn’t be a first.
So Nancy’s getting her finances in order and setting things up with Dean she she meet an early demise. Good move, except for the part about Dean. That guy’s a loser.
I can’t imagine how they’re going to milk this entire pregnancy, but this wasn’t a bad start.
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on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 at 2:36 pm by Brian Howard.
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