The belated Weeds recap: Su-su-sucio
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- June
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A crazy week kept me from sharing my thoughts on this week’s Weeds until now, which is too bad. It was probably the best episode in a while.
I didn’t think I’d take to an entire season of Nancy looking over her shoulder all the time, but the fear and tension mixed with the occasional aloofness and ambivalence about her situation is turning out to be fun.
And I don’t see that tension lifting any time soon with warnings from Esteban that she’d better relax or there’ll be consequences. Andy’s right. He is going to be a great dad. Andy really lightened the heavy mood in this one, and I think the result was a great balance.
From his repartee with Esteban and Su-Su-Sucio—what a clown—to his fling with Jill, he brought the funny to otherwise dreary happenings. Jill did too, for that matter. You got the impression of her as the serious sister who made the sacrifices Nancy skipped out on.
She didn’t look so serious in bed with Andy when Nancy, uh, let them finish.
My favorite moment, though, came soon after when Nancy was trying to round everyone up into her car. Sucio was gone from the outdoor shower, leaving only traces of blood behind. That was a pretty good indication that Guillermo had some bad guys working on his behalf to at least scare Nancy if not make a move on her directly for putting him in jail.
Clearly she had time to make a deliberate and inefficient getaway, complete with a call to Esteban to give him a head’s up.
That moment I mentioned came when Jill watched Nancy reference to Esteban his indecision over whether to kill her or not. All that sisterly jealousy pent up from years of watching Nancy have all that wild fun with their middle school teachers and such simply dissipated. “Still wanna be me?” Nancy asks.
It’s not always such fun being Nancy, she quickly realized. What a coincidence. Nancy only recently realized that herself.
You know who’s having fun, though? Silas and Doug. They’re going into the weed business, legit. A little graft for the constabulary is all it took to set them on the road to small business ownership. That cop was pretty funny, so downhome hokey and yet distastefully corrupt in a matter-of-fact way. Medical marijuana is a sound business plan, anyway.
Silas: “Obama’s president! They’re not gonna bust them anymore!”
Seems like the natural evolution for the show, no?
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