“A MODEST PROPOSAL”

Weeds: Season 5 Episode 6

As we see on our screens as episode 6 opens, it is

SIX MONTHS LATER…

And I’m thinking to myself, “Not another Desperate Housewives moment!”, but as they only went 6 months into the future, I guess that’s better than 5 years, and it’ll help the story line along nicely.

Well, anyway, here we are 6 months later, at Esteban’s mansion, Nancy in the shower, and quite pregnant,and the proud papa Esteban reading a book on baby names.  She gets out of the shower and he hands her a box, saying “I’ve decided that we will get married.”  Quite the romantic, although the ring is big and purple and well, downright ugly. Turns out THAT ring was the championship ring of the soccer team he owns and with that he gives her the real deal. What is she going to say? No? I didn’t think so.

Shane has been picking up some spanish here and there hanging out with Ignacio, and drinking coffee, because Esteban told him it will put hair on his chest.  Shane decides to play hooky from school so he and Ignacio end up at a driving range and decide it will be fun If Ignacio honks the car horn every time someone tries to hit the ball, until one irate golfer decides to give Ignacio the finger, which of course ends up with Ignacio taking the man’s driver and beating him to a pulp, ala Tony Soprano, which makes Shane think twice about what “Fun” is.

Andy, in the meantime, is taking Nancy’s exit a bit harder. Growing a full beard and putting on some weight. He’s also gone through almost all of the $180,000 he got from Judah’s secret bank account and spent it on slot machines, pool tables, and a Ms. Pac-man video game. Oh, yeah, and he bought the General Lee car from the Dukes of Hazzard. He has not returned any of Nancy’s calls and she even goes to see him even when she goes to see him and talks to his voice mail in person.  He refuses to talk to her, even when she tells him she misses him and thats she’s engaged, but instead later shows up at Esteban’s to give the couple his blessings. And to inform Nancy that when things go wrong, and they will, and she becomes widowed once more, he will not be around for her.  But, as sure as I’m sitting here, she’ll end up in trouble, and as always, he’ll be there for her.

Celia, in the meantime, is still living in the garage, and has managed to find work at an athletic shoe store called “Super Sneakers” (referee style uniforn shirt and all) yet insists on wearing her high heels to work even though she has to run for the bus, which of course in pure Celia fashion, she misses. Good thing for her, because a beautiful blonde in a “You’re Pretty” Cosmetics car pulls up to the bus stop and liking Celia’s shoes, offers her a ride. We can only assume where this is going!

Oh, and Nancy finds time to go to the prison to visit Guillermo and rub her engagement and ring in his face. Why? I’m not sure, unless to prove he was wrong about Esteban, or that maybe the actor’s contract doesn’t run out until the end of the season?

Doug and Silas’ medical marijuana dispensary is up and running but with Deputy CP Jones always hanging around and helping himself to the merchandise, seeing as the boys have been coming up short lately with their payments, customers are not buying up the stock. Doug is on this George Hamilton kick as well, after reading his autobiography, even going as far as to having himself spray tanned. With Doug’s new “What would George Hamilton do?” attitude, he gets into an altercation with CP in the store trying to get him to leave and when CP takes a swing at Doug, missing, falling and taking a knock to the noggin, there’s no telling what will happen next.  We next see Doug scraping off his spray-on tan, saying that “George Hamilton can ‘Love at First Bite ‘ MY ASS!”

And just when you think things couldn’t get any worse, some crazy woman, barges into Esteban’s house, confronts him on the patio, and with Nancy over hearing, rattles off some stuff in spanish, leaves, and when Nancy confronts him, he tells her that things have changed and he cannot marry her.  HUH???

SPOILER ALERT!!!

If you want to know what was said to Esteban, here it is, as far as I know.

“You loved me good, until you got your BOY with her. But Marry her? Are you crazy? All the eyes of Mexico will be on you. All my hopes, my effort, my money, my time – I put into YOU?
You should have killed the f-in white b*tch when you had the chance! What I’m saying is you have to choose between me and the white woman.”

Is this woman his wife? Is he still married?  Is she the “Boss” so to speak of whatever mob, if that’s what it is, he is in? My guess is he truly loves Nancy, since he was supposed to have killed her already. But, we’ll see.

NEXT WEEK!!

So, Until Next Time!

Happy Viewing!!

Michael Queenstown

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