Last night was Mr. Brooks last Weeds episode of the season (according to interviews), and it saw a number of plot-moving events happen. Last night was a very interesting episode, if not the most memorable (or good) of the season. So let's take a stroll.
I think it's a big cop out to have last week's episode end with Nancy about to off Bubbie herself, with a pillow, in the living room, and to start this week up post-funeral. I guess the writers realized that having their main character euthanize a 90+ year old woman on screen was not the most sympathetic step-forward they could take. But maybe it would have been for the best -- I already get the feeling that Nancy doesn't really have emotions anymore as much as modes of operation -- panic, less panic, and pissed of. So how great would it have been to see her emotionless face, with maybe a roll of the eyes, as the life escaped from her sons' great-grandmother? At this point I think WEEDS is on its way to becoming a sort-of Frankenstein story, where Nancy is the monster that everyone else lends a piece of themselves to create.
What was the deal with all the realtors in the episode? A lot of distracted screen time was spent with them. I hope they play a continued role in the rest of the season, if only to validate their existence in this episode. And what happened to the rest of the Agrestic cast? They are cutting characters left and right in this show. Dean and Isabella are notably absent, Conrad and Heylia are gone for good, so maybe this is their attempt to introduce some new "whacky" side characters.
I wonder when Andy will realize Nancy has become an emotionless machine. After being played in the desert? Maybe. But unlikely. Like everyone else in the show, he is a complete idiot. It's actually a problem I've been having with Kevin Nealon's Doug. In the beginning of the show, he's kind of an idiot because he's really good at his job, and so he can sort of be a man-child in the rest of his time -- he's bored, and that's how he exists. But as the stakes for him have gotten higher and higher (literally and figuratively), he hasn't panicked or freaked out or become less of an idiot. Now, after his sham insurance plans for Agrestic were discovered, where does he flee to? To a known accomplice's place. Where he sits in a van and gets high all the time. Dude, were I on the run for fraud, the last thing I'd do is that. It's TV, I guess. It's just a disappointment. I prefer Nealon as a spoiled, intelligent man-child. C'est la vie.
Albert Brooks shows his characters true colors (in case we had missed them before) by being a total asshole to Shane and then walking out on the family with all of Nancy's formerly-hidden-money. Shane continues to be the most fucked up kid on the face of the Earth, and Silas is just an idiot. Does anyone else remember when he punctured his condoms and impregnated his deaf teenage girlfriend? That shit's fucked up. But they've taken a half-step back, and now he's not really a tragic figure, a young man waylaid by the premature death of his family's patriarch and the downward spiral of his mother, but instead just a guy who grows weed in a truck and gets high a lot.
And of course, at the end of the episode, Celia gets caught and Nancy is put into a precarious position. My hope is, of course, that they just put a fucking bullet between Celia's eyes, but maybe that's just me. I mean, Nancy's already a murderer (see: Bubbie), so it's just the next step, ordering hits on people. But no, instead we'll get some girls-are-back-together crap before Nancy discovers what Celia's true motives are and it all comes to a head and (yawn).
I was thinking about how I miss Marta, from the first two seasons. But it was a very, very different show then. I still like WEEDS -- I laughed a lot last night -- but it's not the show it used to be.
But hey. It's better than nothing.
-RoboNixon
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