Weeds: Head Cheese
By fred | August 26, 2008
(S04E11) We’re getting closer and closer to the end of this latest season of Weeds, the one that was meant to be a fresh new start for everyone, moving away from Little Boxes to a place where they wouldn’t redo the old mistakes they did in the past, once or twice (or more). But of course, as could be expected from Nancy, that was only to do newer, bigger mistakes that could have been avoided as well, but she “decided” otherwise.
And slowly, things are starting to get back at her. Because you can’t go around and not care about anyone, not your friends, not your kids, not your employees, not your family, no one but your latest lover, and then expect them to still deal with you as if you hadn’t changed. Case in point, Shane had been trying to get his mother to behave in both a more respectful of the law way, and also to be more of a mother to him.
He did try, he asked her to be around, and to get a “real” job, and be a (normal) mom, but she didn’t listen. She may have tried some bogus speech no one not even her took seriously, but she didn’t commit to anything. So when she’s suddenly getting mad because he’s 13 and just had a threesome with a couple of girls from his school he just met, his comeback was all the more truthful : “Quit pretending to be a mom!”
At this point I’m really bored with Nancy and whatever it is she feels like doing or screwing up next. I mean, as unsurprising as it was that she ended up calling our good cop friend back, what the Hell is she thinking about doing now ? Did she even wait a minute to think about it before picking up the phone ? I seriously doubt it, she just threw the box down to see what was inside, like a spoiled little girl who can’t take no for an answer.
Because with her running the place, with her lover being the big boss in the whole operation, with her past with Guillermo, at this point it doesn’t really matter : she’s in on it, she is part of the whole thing, and I can’t see how this could possibly and realisticly turned out okay for her, especially when other members of her family are either cooking & selling weed or snuggling in illegal immigrants…
But this episode wasn’t actually so bad, thanks to a couple of people. For starter, Doug. This whole plot with Maria isn’t really the best, and that love triangle coming up with Andy surely doesn’t look nothing interesting, but at least it’s pretty funny to see Doug being Doug, behaving in all the ways that made us love him in the first place, and see how that’s turning the “love of his life” away from him, because he’s a horrible horrible man !
The other character that for once was not stuck into some ludicrous boring plot, was Celia. How she got addicted to drugs and ended up in rehab in still the most stupidest thing ever, but if you don’t think about it and just enjoy her meeting a coke-addict pilot who had lots of great lines, or being thrown away to a different kind of rehab center where she obviously doesn’t fit in, now unlike that prison plot or other crap they came up with for her this season, that one is actually funny.
And for once in a long, long, long time, when it came to both Doug and Celia, this week it actually felt like Weeds, the show we once knew and feel in love with years ago. It was a very nice thing, sadly it was probably a one-time thing only. Only two episodes left this season, and I can’t say this season would have been good, much less a fresh new start.
