Sep/090
Weeds’ Highs and Lows
Like smoking a good bowl, joint, bong or blunt, this season of weeds had its odd, freaky moments, its states of confusion and offered some moments of hilarity. I've complained before that this season has been all over the place. It totally has, but it appears they have reinvigorated the show once again. The finale aired last week and definitely set the show going in two very different directions. 
Nancy Botwin has left her drug dealing ways behind, but she wonders if her involvement had negatively impacted on her kids' lives. This has been a question pondered for weeks, but her new husband put her down because he thought his daughter was perfect because he sent her away to boarding school in Europe to make her a better person. It appeared that way until she was nearly gang raped while high on heroine and then was vomiting from withdrawals and half her body was numb. Nancy felt slightly vindicated that she was just as messed up as most teenagers. But in the final moments of the show, as Nancy was having an altercation with her husband's political advisor and supreme bitch, Shane comes out of nowhere and hits her with a croquet mallet. Her bleeding body was floating upside down in a pool as the closing credits began. I guess nobody's kids are perfect.
The second plot parallels the season one finale. 
Celia is now starting her own weed dealing business and amasses her team just as Nancy did at the end of the first season. This brings together the characters that were flopping around with nothing to do and brings the show back to its focus. I guess if Nancy isn't selling weed somebody has got to. While it is a reboot of sorts, it is completely different as well. I am excited by this a lot. I think this has potential to be hysterically awesome. But my poor Andy proposed to Alanis Morisette the abortion doctor and ends the season with an extreme protester pointing a crossbow at the happy couple as Andy runs away.
All in all, my enthusiasm is renewed, but at the same time I don't want this show to be an exciting first and last episode with an odd hazy middle ground. There are too many shows like that. Its cheap and annoying.
And on an awesome and unexpected note, my favorite song from my new favorite band was in the scene when Andy proposed. I didn't think a band named Starfucker would get any commercial gigs, but soon after this aired, I also heard the song in a commercial for Target. Go figure. Check out the song and its incredibly trippy video here:
