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WEEDS: SEASON 5 EPISODE 12

“GLUE”

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…

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Michael Queenstown

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WEEDS: SEASON 5 EPISODE 11

“DUCKS AND TIGERS”

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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Michael Queenstown

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WEEDS 5.5 “VAN NYUS”

The 5th episode of the 5th season, “Van Nuys”, begins with Andy and Nancy at the Women’s Health Center, to meet with her obstetrician Dr. Audra Kitson (played by guest star Alanis Morissette) to discuss the option of aborting her baby. Is this obstetrician someone Esteban picked out for her? I can’t imagine why she would want to do this, because she would be signing her own death warrant if Esteban ever found out, and if Dr. Kitson employed by Esteban and Nancy decided to abort the child, she could rat her out to Esteban.

Would she seriously consider an abortion, or as Andy put it, “go to Van Nuys”, or “You’ve gotta abort that gopher, Nance!” And she scolds a pregnant woman for eating junk food in the waiting area, even though the woman is there to have an abortion herself.  She must care something about the baby, right?  She leaves without having made her mind up but instead decides to plant a garden of nice smelling herbs to help curb her hyper-sensitivity to smells. Her garden is killed by grubs, as if almost symbolically by the end of the episode.

Meanwhile, Andy makes good on his promise by impersonating his dead brother Judah and going out on a date with the far from normal “Mags”, and they go for fondue, re-enacting her and Judah’s first date, and before Andy can enjoy dinner, she asks him, as Judah, to take her virginity, which of course causes Andy to do a spit take. Before their date is over they end up in the midst of a bunch of homeless guys and Andy ends up having sex the whack-job mags.  But, he ended up with Judah’s money and continues to try to convince Nancy to run away with him, with the baby or without,  as he tells her “These are very dark waters you’re swimming in, even for you.” But, it seems that Nancy hasn’t made up her mind about moving in with Esteban yet.

Elsewhere, Nancy finds she has a squatter in her garage. Celia! Complaining that she has no place to go, and she was left to die in Mexico, Nancy gives her two days to get out. She even asks Nancy if there’s any chance she can get her old job back at the mall. Gotta love that Celia. Poor

girl, nothing seems to be going  right with her these days. And,  best yet, when Celia looks in the  freezer in the garage, we finally  find out what happened to Sucio!  Celia runs up to Nancy’s      bedroom yelling “Dead  Mexican!!”  Nancy has to call  Esteban telling him, and he send  two of his thugs out to retrieve  the body.  Celia is there when they arrive and watch as they proceed to put Sucio’s body in a barrel of acid.  When Celia tells Nancy she is going to take a bath, Nancy tells her that if she does, the toaster will go in after her. But, it seems for the time being, Celia has all she needs to hold over Nancy’s head as she took pictures of the thugs disposing of Sucio’s body and that it’s taking place in Nancy’s garage.  Looks like Celia will be staying indefinitely. Although I’m not sure how the pictures will hold any water. She’s done plenty of things Nancy could come back with.

After getting ripped off by his teacher in the last episode, Shane, Isabelle and Ignacio pay a visit to Mr. Sandusky. Shane takes back the weed but also takes several items from the apartment and when Ignacio tells Shane to “shoot him in the leg” he shoots his pet cockatoo, thinking he meant to shoot the bird, not his teacher.  Later, Nancy makes Shane return all the items and bring over a new iguana to replace the bird, telling him birds carry disease and this would be better with the ladies. But, he retaliates against Shane, telling he is going to fail him, and knocking him to the floor. Nancy goes ape over this, picking up a baseball bat and using it to cut off his air supply tells him it’s not nice to steal from a child and makes sure he won’t take advantage of her son again before they leave and grounding Shane, including “no more tweetering.” There are still signs of the badass Nancy Botwin I’ve always loved.

Not a whole lot of Doug and Silas in this episode, although they do visit a “Weed  Agent” by the name of “The Wizard” as recommended by Deputy Jones (guest Larry Joe Campbell) to supply their “medical marijuana” store.  After some haggling over price with Doug counter offering with “suck my balls” they reach an agreement with some coaxing by “The Wizard’s” sword wielding “associate.” Doug did manage to throw a few one-liners in there as he and Silas were setting up shop. “I think I’m slightly retarded in the mouth,” says Doug after he and Silas hurl insults and then hug it out after Doug takes a punch in the mouth after blaming Silas for killing his father, and then recanted it by saying “you didn’t kill your father, Shane did.”

But, to me the biggest surprise came when Andy seems to have convinced a teary-eyed Nancy to run away with him, leave a goodbye note to Esteban saying he’ll understand if he truly loves her, and drive off and escape his evil, it goes the other way, Andy gets the goodbye note instead, and she and Shane end up moving in with Esteban.

Does she really like the guy?

Or is she just afraid he’ll come after her, which, of course, he would.

Will Andy be her knight in shining armor to rescue her from the so-called evil clutches of Esteban?

Has Esteban changed for the sake of his unborn child?

It’s going to be very interesting what happens now that she has moved in with Esteban.  I’m sure we’re in for some very interesting episodes to come!

Stay Tuned!

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Michael Queenstown

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