Weeds: Doing The Backstroke
By fred | August 15, 2007
(S03E01) It’s been a while since I last saw the show, and while the first episodes of the show have found their way online I never found the time to watch them, so I was pretty happy to finally sit and enjoy the half hour of messy craziness that is Weeds.
That said, I can’t help myself but wonder if I like the show as much as I use to. On its first season, it was a pretty awesome show with a very different setup than what is has become today. And while evolution and changes are a good thing in itself, is the new direction the show is in as pleasing as its original, I’m not sure.
I feel like the show has lost some of its “appeal”, especially compared to its opening season, and turned into a little bit of a theatrical circus, at times. Note that I don’t mind it if it’s great, or funny. As cliché as jokes about guys getting high can be, seeing Doug an Dean taking all pills they can and ending up playing with themselves over a stupid “size war” was pretty funny.
But where the first season was all subtle and quiet, the third season completely sealed the move on to a new full on thing, sometimes going over the limit maybe, like having all bad guys meeting in Nancy’s house, pointing guns at each other, threatening each other, while never really being either that serious or intimidating for that matter, if only they weren’t playing with real, loaded guns.
One thing that didn’t really changed over time is Nancy, and her inability to correctly (know how to) handle a drug business correctly, or as safely as it can be done. Yet, it now feels that despite all their guns, those guys are doing an even worse job at grasping the whole thing and understanding what’s going on. Once again the only one who knows what he’s doing is Conrad. Poor guy got himself in some serious trouble, and he might not even get the girl…
Hopefully whatever happened will have real consequences, which should make this new season pretty interesting as Nancy will have to find a way to survive, and maybe escape, this whole messy place she’s put herself into. I would find it quite funny and ironic that, after the first seasons where she was trying to get herself into the drug business, the season(s) to come would be about her trying to get out of it, but that “business” would keep inviting itself back into her life.
Either way, surviving now won’t be easy, because while she’s still shocked than her husband might be dead (is he really?), her kids aren’t really helping. Silas doesn’t seem to realize that drug dealing is a pretty serious, and illegal, business. And that what he did what not only incredibly stupid, but also highly risky, for his, Nancy, everyone.
My only disappointment with this episode was with Zooey Deschanel. There was way too less of her. Because she only had one scene this time, and as cool and crazy as she was, it wasn’t enough. I need more “heart-hugs”!
I think the greatest thing about last season was her participation in the show, she was such a great, refreshing, awesome and funny character, I loved everything about it! She would drive all stories she’d get involved in into another dimension you wouldn’t expect, she had this little craziness about her, I really hope she’ll be back some more.
Plus, she’s extra cute.
Then we have Celia, who was true to herself, a real bitch. Although while she had no problem calling the cops on Silas for his stealing, because the moron is too stupid to wear a mask or something, she didn’t go the same road for Nancy and her drugs.
It could even have been his, for all she knew at the time, yet she decided to keep things under the radar and simply throw the while thing down the pool. While bitchy, it shows she isn’t willing to fully destroy Nancy and her kids’ lives, even though it could have been a great arrest for her anti-drug campaign.
Or, they just couldn’t have Nancy arrested, or else they had no Weeds anymore.
