I'm writing this noon post much later than I should be and much later than I normally do, because I've been fretting over Weeds (and other stuff because I'm not totally shallow) all morning and thinking a lot about the comments from my last Weeds Uncap.
I sat down to watch Weeds last night and found myself feeling kind of sad about it. When I watch a show that I recap for MamaPop, I take rather detailed notes, both about the plot of the episode and any particular quotes or actions that I think are worth pointing out in the recap. And last night, I just couldn't do it.
Whoosh! It's six months after left Nancy left that fateful note for Andy, grabbed Shane, and showed up at Esteban's doorstep pregnant and decidedly freaked out.
Nancy is at a women's clinic with Andy for a check up. While Nancy scrunches her nose at a fellow patient's Egg McMuffin, Andy mutters about how the thing that freaks him out most about women is how our periods sync up in a most wolfish manner. Nancy gently lectures the girl about eating the unhealthy breakfast sandwich and how it can't be good for her baby, but the girl shrugs and says that she's not having the baby anyway. Andy nods knowingly and says, "Ah. A-bo-bo? Hoovertown?" Andy seems like the last person that I would want to have a conversation with regarding my reproductive choices. Well, no, that's not true. Scott Roeder and his arsenal is probably the last person, but Andy's way down at the bottom, that's for sure.
Last week, after Sucio disappeared leaving a bloody trail behind him, Nancy fled with Andy, Shane, and Bitchface and had orders from Esteban to await further information from him. This week, Bitchface is out of the picture, though I don't think we heard for sure if they dropped her off at the airport so she could go home or if she and Nancy got in a fight and she huffed off saying she would just walk home to Oakland or if she was attacked and eaten by dogs. Wherever you are, Bitchface, I hope you're well and I hope we see you again this season because you're kind of fun.
Nancy glares at Cesar while she prepares her Weird Pregnancy Breakfast of a hard-boiled egg, mustard, and ginger ale. Ew. Cesar glares back and finally says that he's through with her. Nancy's not lucky enough to be rid of him entirely. Sucio has come to take over as Nancy's bodyguard/goon. And Sucio is kind of grungy. He and Cesar speak briefly. Sucio, confused by the barking dog doorbell, asks where the dog is. "Eating breakfast," snarks Cesar.
I'll tell you this much: I don't think too highly of this Esteban character and how he's handling Nancy's pregnancy. I think maybe there are some power issues in their relationship.
Yay! The new season of Weeds premiered last night. Now, let's see, where were we...Nancy and Andy had a come-to-Jesus talk during Nancy's bath time wherein Nancy confessed all over her dealings with the feds, resulting in Guillermo's arrest and whatnot and Andy realized that he was in lurve with Nancy. Silas was tossing around ideas of expanding his grow operation to a farm. Shane was hanging with the gothic Miley Cyrus twins and starting to sell weed. Celia was kidnapped by Quinn and her boyfriend in Oaxaca. Isabel and Dean were holed up, just trying to get by. Oh, and more tiny thing: Esteban summons Nancy to his office, presumably to kill her, but Nancy reveals that she's pregnant.
The season finale for Weeds airs on Monday! I know that this is a few days early, but this is my last MamaPop post for the week and I need to talk about this.
Okay, children. How can we tell that the Botwins and Co. are totally screwed? By the end of the episode, Nancy is consulting Shane and Judah for advice.
Nancy's new supplier has weak weed but bullies for friends. Tara and Silas seem to be getting back together. Celia and Heylia are BFFs. Shane is...losing it.
U-Turn may be dead, but his thug training appears to be really blooming in Nancy. She is quickly turning into, well, a gangsta.
Nancy, I do NOT approve of your dalliances with Sullivan. As long as you are in The Game, you need to stick with people who do not have the potential or incentive to screw you over. Peter was a REALLY bad idea, Sullivan's not much better, but would you please just marry Conrad? Please?
So, I don't know if I was just tired or this episode moved extraordinarily quick, but this recap is kind of choppy and doesn't even come close to capturing all of the great lines that were in last night's episode.
Anyway, with Nancy and Conrad apparently free from the grip of U-Turn/Marvin, they have the Herculean task of rebuilding a business ahead of them and finding people they can trust...
So, last week, after Nancy finished a hard day of negotiating her way out of debt, moving a trunk full of heroin to a rival Mexican gang, "legalizing" her boss' construction crew, and then using those new citizens to petition to have Majestic and Agrestic merge into the weed and porn capital of California, she inexplicably demanded some oral pleasure from her skeevy boss Sullivan. While that was going on, the body of her dead husband Pete washed up.
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