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:
Aug/090
Weeds? Is that you?
I miss Little Boxes. I once hated it: the shrieking opening credits to Weeds that I would quickly fast forward through. But it did represent the show perfectly. The suburban grid with the small time pot dealer selling to nearly everyone. The show on right now is so far from that original concept that it doesn't even have a theme song anymore.
Don't get me wrong, I am all for plot development and characters changing throughout a show's history. But some vestige of the show's concept should remain. Nancy Botwin doesn't sell pot anymore, they have conveniently moved that plot over to Celia who was once the queen of anti-drug in Agrestic.
I just don't know what to make of the show anymore. Once they introduced the tunnel last season along with the heroin and humans being brought through it, the show lost me a bit. I keep wanting it to take me back in, but instead I got Doug's dick in a drawer, Celia selling pot with purchase of makeup, poor little Shane getting shot and Dean's package in a cup of hot coffee.
The one interesting plot was Silas' medical pot shop, but that seems to have dissipated with Celia and Dean stealing all of their pot. And my favorite character, Andy, is relegated to being in scenes with Alanis Morissette as his new love interest. With three episodes left, I'm hoping they can bring the show back to a more familiar place. Out of Mexico would be a good start.
