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Weeds Season 5 Episode 12: “Glue”

WEEDS: SEASON 5 EPISODE 12

“GLUE”

WEEDS (season 4)

Here we are, with one episode left to season 5, and quite an exciting season it has been.

Nancy is freaking out this week about Esteban. After a night of drinking, hops into a car with Andy and Cesar to go find Esteban. During the car ride Andy tells Nancy he is going to ask Audra to marry him and wants to give her the ring that Judah gave to Nancy.   Nancy laughs him off, because she doesn’t think he turly loves Audra.

When they get to the police station, they are constantly given the run around going from floor to floor and no sign of Esteban. When they finally get some answers they find out that Estaban was already released.

Adelita decides to have a little get together at her father’s house and she invites Silas to stay and join their party. When Adelita’s friends come over, they are two guys and invite Silas to join them in smoking some heroin, which he turns down. Later, when Adelita is stoned, her two gentleman callers try to take advantage of her in her condition, until Silas decides to intervene. When that doesn’t work out, Shane decides to pull a knife on them, using the teachings of his “summer school” teacher, Ignacio.  The two boys leave, with Silas impressed with his little brother.

Celia, meanwhile, seems to have what appears to be a detective trailing her, so of course she runs in fear.  The, so-called detective, is in fact, Dean in blackface, which is actually just “You’re Pretty!” cosmetics.  All just in fun, mind you, to get back at Celia for stealing the pot and shutting Dean out of her plans.

Back at the house Nancy and Andy return just in time to see Esteban on the television in a press conference announcing he is back on the ticket and running for governor. And who should be beside him but Pilar. Looks like she dragged him back into her clutches.  Andy then announces his intentions to marry Audra to the rest of the family, with Nancy announcing that he will be using her ring, and with her blessings.

Can’t wait to see how all this comes to a boil for next week’s season finale!

As always, thanks for reading me and your comments are always welcome and encouraged…

So…

Until Next Time!

Happy Viewing


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Weeds Season 5 Episode 11: “Ducks and Tigers”

WEEDS: SEASON 5 EPISODE 11

“DUCKS AND TIGERS”

WEEDS (season 4)

Hey gang, another episode of the fabulous Weeds has come and gone, with only two episodes left after this, things are getting pretty exciting, and one only knows how this will all end up.

Now in this, the 11th episode, “Ducks and Tigers” everything seems to be going smoothly as Shane, Silas, Nancy and Esteban are all playing lawn darts, when from out of the blue a smoking hot Latina teenager saunters into the backyard. Nancy seems worried and the boys tongues are on the ground until Esteban introduces the young woman to the family. It is his daughter Adelita. Adelita didn’t know her dad and Nancy were married, nor did she know she had a new half-brother.

Elsewhere, Celia is in a restaurant having breakfast with Rayleen, who’s extremely turned on by Celia’s success in the make-up company. Celia laughs it off until Rayleen pulls Celia’s hand under the table and shoves it up her dress in the middle of the restaurant, causing a flustered waitress to return later to freshen their coffees.

Nancy finds Lupita giving the baby formula, against her wishes. Esteban told her to give the baby fromula. Nancy sets Esteban straight. Nancy gets a call from Guillermo, but ignores it.

Meanwhile, Andy is waiting outside the clinic for Dr. Kitson. Gale the abortion protester stares him down. When she comes out, she isn’t convinced that Andy is a changed man, since he picked her up in the General Lee, but he has a surprise for her. He opens the door for her. He had the doors unwelded!!

In another part of town, and over bong hits, Doug and Dean scheme on how to get back at Celia. Dean wants to put  ”spider goats” under her door. They’re part spider and part goat and their webs are like kevlar, he explains. Doug is particularly distressed to notice the size of his feet, which leads to a repressed childhood memory about getting molested at the circus. He suggests they get stoned in shifts and if one has a good idea, they’ll write each other notes, “like ‘Memento.’”

Nancy meets with Guillermo in the conjugal prison trailer. He explains that the woman Nancy wants dead is big time. And he wants something in return, his case transferred to Mexican courts.  She asks how she knows he won’t come after her. He says they’re like one of those YouTube videos, where a tiger and a duck become friends and get all confused; you think it’s going to be OK, but you never really know.

At the the doctor’s place, Andy gives Audra a foot massage as she reviews anatomy. She identifies the bones in her leg as he works his way up, kissing her. Then she’s naming lady parts and he’s showing off his special pleasure skills. And then a tomato splats against the window. It’s Gale the protester. He has a thing for her. She knew it was a bad idea having Andy pick her up.
She says she’s always moving and they’re always finding her. As tomatoes continue to lamely splat against the pane, Andy suggests she move in with him. She can have her own room.

Back at home, Nancy asks Cesar if he can get a judge to move Guillermo’s case. He’s not happy she visited him, but she tells him they have to work together now. Shane comes down for beer. Nancy tells him he is not allowed to have anymore beer. The fact that she let him have any in the first place was for a special occasion: he got shot.  He goes in the fridge and sneaks one anyway!
Then, Nancy forbids Cesar from hurting the judge, threatening to tell Esteban he tried to kill her. As a show of good will, she cuts up the piece of steak he’s having trouble managing with his injured arm (which she shot).

Celia takes Isabelle out for some mother-daughter salon pampering, sharing her success. Isabelle is suspicious of her nice mother. Celia confesses that she wants to apologize for how she reacted when Isabelle told her she was gay. And she has questions. Like what do you do?  Isabelle realizes what’s happening and starts telling her mother no. “You cannot take this away from me,” she says, “it’s all that I have.”

At the Ren Mar house, Andy has lit candles and made dinner for Audra. She comes over, impressed.  They soon get to lovin’. Afterwards , in bed, she has questions about what he did that worked so well. And could he please do it again? They consult an anatomy book so he can point out what he was working on. Then he decides to go with a demonstration.

Silas saunters by Adelita at the house, suggesting they go for a night swim. She turns him down, telling him she’s reading. He tries to talk books. It doesn’t go well. Nancy sees his futile attempts and, once he leaves, says outright to Adelita that her son can be very charming. But the self-possessed high school princess tells Nancy that her lover is 32, so she has no interest in Silas.
Nancy extends an olive branch, suggesting they go to lunch together sometime. Adelita says that’s nice of her, but she’s not invested in her father’s love life.

Nancy finds Lupita, and announces that the baby won’t nurse. She sends her off to feed him the formula.  Esteban finishes chatting with some fellows on the lawn and tells Nancy he still has a chance at governor. He even has some clean money lined up. He asks where his daughter is. He heard Silas tried to hit on her. He says he’s not in her league, he’s a “simple boy.” Offended, Nancy says Adelita has a stick up her a–. He hopes so, he sent her to France to get it there. She wishes him a pleasant night on the sofa.

Meanwhile Celia comes home from shopping with Rayleen, making small talk in the hallway. Then they make out for a little while. Celia’s ready for more, but Rayleen says they’ll get to that. She picks up her bags and leaves.

Nancy finds Shane in the bathroom and offers to help him change his bandage. Silas comes in reading a book, but leaves. Shane gets impatient when his mom takes too long to tend to him. He takes the bandages and leaves.

A disgusted Isabelle finds her dad and Doug passed out in Dean’s office. They’ve drawn all over each other’s faces. She figures that they’re planning on getting back at Celia. She is all for it.  ”Let’s do this right,” she says.

At night, Nancy sits on the bed as Esteban works on the couch. She tells him that she wants Stevie to go far away when he’s old enough. Esteban says there’ll be nothing to run from, he won’t be Pilar’s clown.  Nancy is worried that she ruined her kids, and Esteban reassures her that they can fix them.
Then he tells her he’s been reading about formula and he’s changed his mind about it. He asks her to come to the opening of his Tijuana campaign office the next day.  At the office the next day, Cesar tells Nancy he found a judge who would move Guillermo’s case. Incriminating photos involving livestock are involved.  Then the police pull up (under the direction of the incomparable Marco Rodríguez). Esteban is placed under arrest for suspicion of conspiracy, racketeering and tax evasion and is hauled away and Nancy can only look on in horror.

Has Esteban been set up?  If he was, is Pilar behind it somehow?

Or has Esteban’s past finally caught up with him??


Stay tuned!

As always, I thank you for reading me, and your comments are welcome and encouraged.

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Until Next Time…

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Nurse Jackie: Episode 11: “Pill-O-Matix”

NURSE JACKIE

SEASON 1 EPISODE 11

“PILL-O-MATIX”

Edie Falco as Nurse Jackie Peyton

Edie Falco as Nurse Jackie Peyton

With one episode left, it’s hard to believe season 1 of Nurse Jackie is almost over!!

What a great season it has been to this point, and it shows no signs of slowing down. For those of you who have yet to see this episode, be warned:

IT CONTAINS SPOILERS!!

In this episode, Pill-O-Matix, which is the name of the machine that will be replacing Eddie in the pharmacy, we learn that it’s not the machine they were expecting, but a cheaper version.

During mother and daughter tap class, Jackie has a run-in with her old school mate and her daughter, prompting her to take herself and Grace out of the class altogether. So whatever progress Grace was making, this incident just set her back, oh, probably to episode 1!

Kevin wants to surprise Jackie with a replacement wedding ring, but the surprise is almost ruined by Fiona, who almost spilled the beans on Kevin’s plans.

Dr. Cooper, after being kissed by Jackie in the previous episode, decides to call it quits with his current girlfriend, Melissa. He tells her he kissed another woman and he is having feelings that he never felt before. Makes one wonder if  ”Coop” has really ever had much luck with women in the first place. He develops a crush on Jackie, plying her with flowers and coffee and gum, because he asked Zoey what things Jackie liked. Jackie does not like this unwanted attention.

During a lunch-time shopping spree with Jackie and O’hara, we learn that O’Hara’s mother is in a coma, for which she blames her step-father.

Elsewhere, a popular television movie critic (guest star Victor Garber) is admitted to the ER with a broken elbow incurred by walking and using his laptop at the same time.  Mrs. Akalitus introduces herself to the movie critic, and they seem to have a lot in common career-wise, and the fact that he is divorced even seems to light up her day. I’m thinking we won’t be seeing the last of this blossoming storyline. When interviewed by Zoey, he tells her he hates cats, which doesn’t sit well with her. Then the very next minute administers the wrong dosage of a pain killer which puts him into a coma.  Jackie has her removed from the floor and limited to desk duty.

For a going away gift from Eddie, he shows Jackie how to override the pill machine so she can still get her fix now that he will no longer be around. He still wants to keep seeing Jackie, and now they wouldn’t have to sneak around at work. He wants them to move their relationship to the next level by meeting her kid, too! He sets her up with some Oxycontin for the meantime, and they have one last fling (for now) right on the machine itself. Now how’s that for irony??

After work, Zoey, Mo-mo and Thor go out for pizza and the boys try to reassure Zoey that what happend was only a mistake and they too have made their fare share as well. And Zoey finally figures out that nurse Thor is an openly gay man!!

In the final scene, we see Jackie plucking two flowers from an arrangement she threw in the trash earlier from Dr. Cooper, heads to Kevin’s bar and presents them to Fiona and Grace, who rejects mom’s offer. I have noticed that every time Jackie and Eddie get it on, her guilt gets the best of her and she presents her girls with little tokens of her love. As the camera pulls away from the happy family gathering, we see that Eddie had followed Jackie home, and we see him looking through the window of the bar to find out that not only does Jackie have a kid, but another kid and Husband to boot!!

I cannot wait until the season finale next week to see what goes down, and I’m sure you’re all with me on that one!

So, as always, your comments are always welcome and appreciated.

Thanks for reading, and…

Until Next Time…

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Weeds: Season 5: Episode 10: “Perro Insano”

WEEDS: SEASON 5: EPISODE 10

“PERRO INSANO” (INSANE DOG)

Here we are kids, nearing the end of another exciting season of Weeds, with episode 10: “Perro Insano”, which translated means Insane Dog.

Last week we saw Shane take a bullet to the shoulder that meant for Nancy. Turns out Pilar put a hit out on her. And it turns out Cesar was in on it as well, as Nancy was able to deduce. Cesar shot and killed the hit man because he realized how happy Esteban is with her. She forgives him, but shoots him in the arm as payment for letting Shane get hit. They call on Audra to patch him up at the house, then gives him Percocet for the pain. He confesses later to Silas that he hasn’t touched an of the painkillers, because the physical pain takes his mind off of his emotional ones.

Esteban and Nancy try to convince Silas he should leave the country for his own safety, but he refuses, and instead insists on living in Esteban’s home and demands extra security. A new candidate has replaced Esteban in the race for Governor, so he decides he’s going to run as an independent, which will probably put the family in even more danger.

Elsewhere, Doug tries to cash in on Celia’s success with “You’re Pretty Cosmetics”, and can’t understand why Celia can do so well and he can’t even move so much as a lipstick. That is, until one of Celia’s regular customers approaches him and tells him she’s been buying weed from Celia under the disguise of the make-up so her husband won’t find out. Doug (finally) realizes that Celia is using the weed from their dispensary and pays a call on Dean to make nicey-nicey and get back at her.

Meanwhile, Celia is out of product and approaches Ignacio to ask him to be her supplier. For a 20 percent cut, of course.inter

Now that Esteban is running as an independent candidate for governor, he and Nancy have their wedding at the house, with just close friends (Ignacio and Cesar) and family, Andy signs over Stevie Ray’s birth certificate over to Nancy, and Nancy makes another visit to Guillermo. This time she wants Pilar dead, but was kind enough to bring him a piece of wedding cake.

Hold on to your hats, kids, cause these last episodes are going to be pretty intense.

And, as always, your comments are always welcome and appreciated.

SO…

Until Next Time…

Happy Viewing

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Nurse Jackie Episode 8: “Pupil”

NURSE JACKIE

SEASON 1 EPISODE 8

“PUPIL”

More fun and adventures in store for Nurse Jackie and the staff at All Saints Hospital in episode 8, brilliantly directed again by Steve Buscemi, entitled “Pupil”.

Jackie arrives to work only to have Mrs. Akalitus inform her that due to budget cuts, she is 4 nurses short, then introduces Jackie to a temp Sam, who’s trying to take insurance information from a Mrs. Greenfield (guest star Andrea Martin) who was hit by a car and has a head wound. Sam doesn’t appear too bright, so Jackie takes over. Jackie informs Zoey she’s going to be on her own today and she needs to do better than the time she gave a drug addict six percocet for a non-existent broken finger.

Mrs. Akalitis is still looking after the abandoned baby from last week. She was going to call social services to get the baby, so why is she still keeping it around? I think it’s just wonderful to see a different, dare I say, human side to her. I quite like it myself, but as we know, she too was a nurse, and it just comes second nature to her to be nurturing.

Mrs. Greenfield is taken for a CAT scan and wants Dr. Cooper to meet her daughter Melissa when he comes back, but he isn’t answering his pages (again). When Jackie finally locates Cooper and has to yell at him again to start using his pager, she gets a call from Grace at school after having a panic attack. He sees this as an opportunity to snap back at her, about the way she talks to him, she tells him to shut up because she’s talking to her kid. He shuts up. Of course, even though she asked him to keep the information to himself, he runs off to tell Eddie.

After Zoey rolls an enormous man down the hallway and accidentally goes over temp nurse Sam’s foot, and he never even flinched, she notices that he is glassy-eyed and informs Jackie she thinks that Sam may be on something.

jackie-peyton-pictureAt lunch, Jackie informs Dr. O’Hara about Grace’s panic attack at school and about Cooper finding out she has a kid in the first place. Unfortunately, she is unaware that Eddie also knows this to be true until she pays him a visit later on and he asks how her kid is doing.

Mrs. Greenfield needs surgery but seems more concerned about introducing her daughter Melissa to Dr. Cooper. Cooper tracks down her other daughter Amy in the hall and asks her if she thinks her sister would go out with him. What a way this man has with women, huh?

Armed with her new evidence about temp nurse Sam, Jackie tells him he has two choices. He can leave now or go up to employee services and pee in a cup. Either way, she doesn’t want to see him again. As she’s walking away he says “it takes one to know one.”

Jackie drops by Eddie, exhausted. He asks how her kid is. She apologizes and tells her she can explain when she’s ready. He asks if there’s anything else he should know about, and she says ‘No’. I guess she forgot about her husband Kevin and younger daughter Fiona?

At Kevin’s bar, Jackie’s name is called to the open mike. She resists, but relents when Kevin tells her Grace put her name in. She sings “Up on the Roof” and watches as her daughter smiles, but only for a moment and then her reality returns.

What is in store for Jackie and the staff at All Saints Hospital next time?

Stay tuned and keep it here for more!

As always, your comments are appreciated and most welcome, and…

Until Next Time!

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Nurse Jackie Episode 10: “Ring Finger”

NURSE JACKIE

SEASON 1 EPISODE 10

“RING FINGER”

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When we last saw Jackie Peyton, she was suggesting to her daughter Grace that they do more things together as mother and daughter. Episode 10 of this fantastic series opens with the pair taking mother/daughter dance class together, where they end up running into an old high school classmate and her daughter. The daughter whispers in Grace’s ear that her mom was Grace’s dad’s girlfriend before her mom. Jackie and Grace get a big laugh over that one.

Back at work, Dr. O’Hara tries to smooth things over with Jackie, and notices that Jackie still has her wedding ring on. Whoops! Jackie seems to be having a problem getting her ring finger off. Meanwhile a cardiac arrest patient is admitted to the ER, and try as they may, Dr. Cooper and the nurses are unable to revive the young man. Jackie decides to tie up any loose ends and finds the man’s cell phone ringing, takes it out of his pocket and finds out that according to his text messages, he was on his way to someone’s house, most likely on a date. Since the man never showed up on time, the person on the other end of the conversation becomes mad. Jackie uses the phone to call whomever this person was and leaves a message to come to the hospital right away.  In the man’s possession was a rented movie, and some letters and bills to be mailed, minus the postage.

Dr. Cooper finds out Jackie went behind his back and signed off on the brain-dead patient from last week and goes off on her. She reminds him that he is never around and refuses to answer his pages when called, so she saw no other choice. He threatens to blow the whistle on her. When she confronts him later about his threats, he gets nervous again and grabs her breast. Rather than admonish him, she calms him down, shows him there are no hard feelings and then gives him a kiss.

At this point no one has replied to the message Jackie left concerning the cardiac arrest man.

The Pharmacy is getting prepared to receive the pill dispensing machine so Jackie finds Eddie in the back room, where they start to get busy, only to have Zoey accidentally walk in on them. Later Jackie Zoey agree that what she saw stayed between them.

Jackie decides she has no choice but to have Dr. O’Hara cut her wedding ring off her finger, and she’ll think of something to tell Kevin. Jackie decides to take a hammer and smash her ring finger, making it look like an accident, forcing her ring to be cut off.

On her way home, Jackie takes one last look in the cardiac arrest man’s bag of goodies, takes out the man’s mail, puts her own postage on it and drops it in the mailbox on her way. As she is walking to the subway, the man’s phone finally rings, she answers it and we finally have some closure.

I would love to hear your opinions or comments on the show, and remember your opinions and comments are always welcome and most appreciated!

Until Next Time…

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Nurse Jackie Episode 9: “Nosebleed”

NURSE JACKIE

SEASON 1 EPISODE 9jackieandcooper

“NOSEBLEED”

Jackie and Kevin take the girls to the park. Fiona has a fit when one of her balloons pops. She has one and Grace has two, so Grace lets one of hers go so they both have 1 balloon.  Awwwwwwwwww. How sweet of Grace. Maybe she is getting better? Don’t bet on it, folks.

At lunch Grace worries about germs. See? I said don’t bet on it. Grace wants Mom to not go to work, and Jackie thinks maybe she should spend some time with Grace. Kevin tells her he will handle it. Grace wants the hospital to burn down. Then what, Grace? Mom and Dad can’t send you to that pricey Catholic school to exorcise whatever devil it is that’s bothering you!

On her way to the hospital Jackie meets a homeless man she knows and has treated before. She watches as he collapses on the street. She rushes to help and she notices some blood. It’s coming from her nose! When they get the homeless man Mr. Everitt to the ER, Dr. O’Hara comments that one of the man’s feet will have to be amputated. Mrs. Akalitus has to pop in and remind them that this was a hospital and not a shelter, before returning to her office to hang out with the unclaimed baby and groove to some Billie Holiday music.

Dr. Cooper gets a visit from Melissa Greenfield from last week’s episode, who brings him a bag lunch.

In the ER, paramedics bring in a stoned kid who’s brain dead from a car accident.  Cooper is not answering his pages so Jackie goes through the kids pockets to see if he has a organ donor card. She claims to have found one, when in all actuality, it was a PETA membership card.

Mrs. Akalitus questions Mo-mo in her office about if any of his gay friends have ever adopted any kids and if so, how. She would appreciate it if he could find out for her.
Dr. Cooper, as usual, is nowhere to be found and not answering any of his pages, as usual. In the waiting room Jackie has a run-in with a snooty woman who wants her boys head lice treated. Turns out she has an upper-class address and won’t take her boys to their regular hospital or Doctor and she won’t treat them at home because she doesn’t want to touch them. Jackie treats the boys, and then has 6 cases of lice shampoo sent to the woman’s home. Without a bag!  You gotta love this woman!!
Mo Mo tells Jackie the brain dead pot kids’ parents are against organ donation, and Cooper is still not answering his pages!!

A man from child services tells Mrs. Akalitus that they found the parents of the abandoned baby and they have come forward. At this point Akalitus is torn about handing the baby over to them, especially after finding out the baby’s name is Dalton!

Eddie reveals to Jackie that he would like to meet her kid sometime, and maybe move their relationship to the next level. Not so sure how that’s going to sit with Kevin!

Dr. Cooper’s signature is needed for the paperwork on the brain-dead druggie, but he is nowhere to be found and won’t answer his pager. Jackie finds him locked in exam room 3 with the door locked, making out with Melissa. Jackie then tells the transplant team she saw Cooper verify the patient was brain dead. Just like Dr. Cooper, huh?

Jackie goes to see Dr. O’Hara about her nosebleeds. O’Hara mentions that she has told her sister in Paris about Jackie’s being married and having an affair, because her sister is doing the exact same thing, but isn’t able to juggle the two as well as Jackie. This upsets Jackie since she tells O’Hara these things in the strictest of confidences. O’Hara tells Jackie she thinks of her as a sister as well. “Think again,” Jackie tells her, feeling her privacy has been compromised.

Mrs. Akalitus meets with the parents of baby Dalton, and finds out they left the baby because they needed some free time to themselves. To hopefully teach them a lesson, Mrs. Akalitus tells them their baby is dead. As the parents start to cry, she says “He’s not dead”, and reveals that their baby was in the room the whole time. She warns them not to be stupid next time or she will see that they go to jail. Before they are allowed to leave with their baby, she makes them sign a waiver, freeing the hospital of all liability. I wonder now, how this is going to effect Mrs. Akalitus, and how or if she will take this out on Jackie and her staff?

On her way home, Jackie passes the lounge and sees a movie with Shirley Temple dancing. Jackie calls Grace and suggests they should do more things together like maybe taking cooking or dance classes. Grace agrees. Jackie stops by the lounge and sees people dancing on TV. She calls Grace and suggests they do something together like take cooking or dance classes together. Grace agrees.

All I have to say is this show gets better with each episode, and is quickly becoming one of my favorite new shows on television anywhere.

Your comments and opinions are always appreciated and welcome.

Keep it tuned here for your Nurse Jackie fix!

and, as always…

Until Next Time…

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Weeds 5.9 “Suck ‘N’ Spit”

Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin

Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin

WEEDS

SEASON 5 EPISODE 9

“SUCK ‘N’ SPIT”

As the saga unfolds this week, we see Esteban throwing a “mantrum” (or if you prefer, man tantrum) at home right in front of his goon Cesar. It seems Nancy’s words may have struck a chord with him and he realizes he truly loves her and this makes him furious.

Meanwhile, Silas and Doug get an earful as Dean breaks the news to them (unconvincingly I might add) of how he was ripped off in a shady neighborhood of all the pot from the store on his way home from the police station. Of course we know he’s lying, and so did Doug and Silas. Dean receives a black eye from Doug.

Back at home, a young cynical 14 year-old  Shane is told by his two goth girlfriends that he might have an  STD, because they were diagnosed with chlamydia.  Thankfully Uncle Andy walked in on them before anything could happen. Nancy, who appeared completely stoned, but wasn’t, takes him to the clinic with Andy by her side.  This, of course leads to many stories from Uncle Andy about the times he got VD. Nancy explains to him that at this particular moment Shane needs a parent, and not a friend. Shane winds up with a form of a yeast infection, prescribed a medication and sent on his way.

Elsewhere, Dean and Celia are working a You’re Pretty! seminar thanks to the stash of weed they somehow bamboozled Doug and Silas out of.  After the ladies are treated to some free booze, out come the credit cards to purchase the ganja-filled cosmetic cases. Seems like things are looking up for Celia. But if I know my Celia, it won’t be for long. But. let her enjoy it while it lasts. She later announces to Silas and Doug that she’s moving out and into a new condo thanks to You’re Pretty! cosmetics. Doug, in turn, not knowing (of course) that her success is due to the fact that her cosmetics are laced with his and Silas’ weed, decides to crash a You’re Pretty! seminar to see if he can become as successful as she is.  Because, of course, if Celia can do it, anyone should be able to! This ought to be hysterical.

In another part of town, Andy and Nancy chit-chat over tropical drinks at a fake Hawaiian restaurant. Then the burden of her milk-filled breasts becomes too great and she tries to pump in the bathroom to relieve the pressure. It doesn’t work. She calls Andy on his cell and begs him to join her in the ladies’ room. The next scene had to be seen to be believed, but it involved Andy and as he put it, “Lips to Nips”.  Yes, yes, yes. He had to suckle Nancy to get her milk flowing. Unfortunately, Andy accidentally (or not, I’m not totally sure) swallows the milk when he was supposed to spit it out. But he didn’t want to be a hypocrite!!

Esteban, coming off of a date he was set up on by Pilar earlier in the episode to get over Nancy and to start a new life and be happy with, barges into the house in his usual fashion and finds Nancy and Andy sharing the same bed. Assuring him that nothing sexual was going on, Esteban proposes to Nancy again. “We will get married. Now.” How romantic! As he and Nancy argue the point in the front yard, with Cesar looking on, Andy persuades Shane to go outside and eavesdrop on their conversation. Just at that moment, someone walking by shoots at Nancy and Esteban. The shots miss, and Cesar winds up killing the would-be assasin. But, instead of hitting either Nancy or Esteban, a bullet hits Shane in the shoulder. Shane groans out a barely audible “Mom” as a horrified Nancy turns and can do nothing but watch her son slump to the ground.

Stay Tuned!!

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Weeds 5.8 “A Distinctive Horn”

Elizabeth Perkins as Celia Hodes

Elizabeth Perkins as Celia Hodes

WEEDS

SEASON 5 EPISODE 8

“A DISTINCTIVE HORN”

In this episode Pilar, who is Esteban’s political advisor, among other things I’m sure, and the mexicunt from the previous episode, visits Nancy in the hospital as she wakes from a snooze. Pilar tells Nancy, as she coos over the baby in his crib that she never had children because they are extraordinarily inconvenient, and that her having this child was a mistake that could end the career of a very promising politician, and that she would correct the mistake.

When Esteban comes to take Nancy home, he refuses to put his name on the birth certificate, choosing to leave it blank for the time being (“until after the election”). Nancy tells him to stay out of it and that her family was coming to take her back to her home. When Nancy has to put a name down as the baby’s daddy on the birth certificate, I don’t know about you, but of course I knew right away it would be Andy’s.

Meanwhile,  Celia confronts Raylene of You’re Pretty! Cosmetics and wants to return the goods.  Raylene won’t hear of it, and instead advises Celia that she’s selling a lifestyle and a dream — not merely lipstick and blush — and besides, she signed a contract for a year and she’ll sue Celia’s ass if she tries to back out.

Nancy returns home to the house in Ren Mar with the baby and leaves him with Silas and Shane who don’t quite know what to make of their new baby brother to view their new brother in the baby carrier while she goes off to take a shower.  Upon arriving at her bedroom she finds Andy sprawled on a big round bed smoking a waterpipe and reading. And, he’s a little confused because the hospital called him a few minutes ago to tell him about their new father classes.

At first Andy rejects the notion outright of having his name on the birth certificate since Esteban won’t sign until the time is right, whenever that will be. Andy tells her “I’m through playing baby daddy to your kids.”

But, after finding out he’s now the dad (albeit only by name) on the newest Botwin’s birth certificate, he spruces himself up including shaving off that god awful beard, and head’s down to the Women’s Clinic to see if he can get a date and maybe more with Dr. Audra Kitson (played beautifuly, I have to admit, by Alanis Morissette). He takes her in the General Lee car to one of those fake Mexican restaurants, and in the short time it takes her to have a cocktail and realize she’s too good for him, she cuts to the chase and informs him she’d rather be home in her pj’s watching DVD’s.

Andy: What’s wrong?
Dr. Kitson: Nutshell? I’m past you.
Andy: Past me in what?
Dr. Kitson: In life.

After being shot down, Andy returns home, ready to accept the responsibilities of being a dad. But, of course, with Andy, he demands to be fully involved or not at all. His first demand: a bris. The baby’s foreskin must be removed by a moyel, at a bris, and whitefish served with bagels. Otherwise, no dice. Of course Nancy gives in to this.  Like it or not (but I truly believes she likes it) She realizes Andy is her angel.

This week is rather painful for Doug as usual. Silas and Doug come to Dean to get a court order so they can get their pot back from the courts. Dean will only do so if he can do something very painful involving Doug’s manhood and Dean’s desk drawer. Doug, being Doug, agrees. His yells can be heard throughout the building. I nearly fell on my ass laughing so hard.

After the pot has been rescued and is in Dean’s office, and he’s sipping away on a waterpipe enjoying his payment for helping Silas and Doug, Celia comes in to ask him to look over the You’re Pretty! contract to find any loopholes to get her out of it.  As ironclad as the contract seems to be, a thought crosses her mind as she sees all the pot at Dean’s disposal. What if she packs the cosmetics full of marijuana and sells those instead?  And they could make it look like Dean was robbed of all the pot?  Good to see Celia and Dean working together again!

The bris takes place in Nancy’s living room with friends and relatives looking on. Snip snip, and then the chowing down ensues. Andy’s even holding baby Steven (they named the baby Steven), in a nice white shirt and tie, looking very dad-like. Almost as if he were meant to be doing it all along, and then Esteban has to make an appearance. And not a happy one, I might add when he finds out what has just happened.

“My son is not Jewish. This is unacceptable!” he tells Nancy, who tells him he had his chance, but since he didn’t have the courage to claim the child as his own, his time was up.  He refuses to accept the fact that “that pendejo” has his name on the birth certificate. “That pendejo sticks around. He fights for what he loves. And he’s not a coward,” Nancy tells Esteban, who, before he did something drastic, turns and leaves.  But he’ll be back of course.

What a homecoming party for Nancy, huh? Quite possibly the best episode so far of the season. Until the next episode, I’m sure.

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Until Next Time!

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Michael Queenstown

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