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WEEDS

SEASON 5 FINALE:

“ALL ABOUT MY

MOM”

Well here we are gang, another season of Weeds has come and gone.  Season 5 comes to a chilling conclusion as Nancy walks into a room of her house to find a masseuse waiting for her, a gift she has a hard time refusing. Nancy tries to relax as the masseuse works on her. The masseuse tells Nancy she is strong like the boss, until, of course she finds out that the boss is Pilar.

We find Celia, looking more-and-more Nancy-like, making a screwdriver out of concentrated OJ in her hide-out in a storage facility, when Doug drops by. They try to agree to the terms of selling her stash. Doug only has $37 to his name, so she suggests selling on credit. Then he notices her pot is not his, and she realizes he knows she stole his pot. He threatens to sic the black cop on her and now she knows she was set up. She bangs him on the head with her pitcher of screwdriver, and finishes the rest with one last swig.

Back at home Silas gets a call from Adelita from her bedroom upstairs asking him to come up to her. When he gets there he finds out she is numb on one side of her body due to a bad reaction to Heroin. Nancy talks to her surly son Shane, who doesn’t say much of anything any more.

“Holy s—, you’re a junkie,” he says.

“I’m a recreational user,” she insists.

He says he’s going to call her dad.

Elsewhere, Andy leads Audra (or as we have come to know her, Dr. Alanis Morissette) into the garage, covering her eyes. He claims to have a sexy surprise for her. It’s a new minivan. He sold the General Lee and a few arcade games. He also unregistered their phone number so Gale the pro-life stalker can’t find them and forwarded it to the van. He has her climb into the front seat to notice the ring hanging from the rear view mirror. She’s distracted by the TV screens and GPS and pretty much everything but the ring.

“God dammit, look at the rear view mirror,” Andy barks at he, and turns her head toward the ring.

She tells him he should take it down because if the light hits it, it might blind someone and cause an accident. He asks her to marry him, but before she can answer, Silas calls on the van phone, saying he needs her for an emergency. Nancy comes downstairs to find her husband having coffee with Pilar, who says she and Esteban have always been a great team. Esteban says that they’ve come to an understanding.

“So I’m guessing death, and/or blackmail and/or imprisonment is the glue that holds you together,” Nancy tells her.

Pilar tells Nancy Esteban will win the election, even married to her , but it’d still be best if she stayed in the background.  Pilar invites her to a fundraiser at her house that night. She should come for 30 minutes, then get a headache and leave, she directs Nancy, then leaves. Nancy tells Esteban about looking for him yesterday and finding him on TV. He says Pilar is blackmailing him and his options were to cooperate or go to prison for life.

Nancy calls a now free Guillermo. She tells him she wants it done today. He says it’s no problem.

Meanwhile, Doug wakes up tied up in Celia’s storage locker. She explains that she’s going to go back to being a drug dealer. But Doug tells her she’s not cut out to be a drug dealer. She doesn’t have a team. Nancy had a team. Celia wants a team.

Back in the house, Nancy runs into Andy and Audra (wearing the ring) in the hallway outside Adelita’s door. Silas comes out and thinks his mom knows. And then he has to tell her that Adelita is a junkie. Audra and Silas go check on Adelita, while Andy and Nancy go downstairs where Nancy finds out Audra hasn’t said ‘yes’ yet.

Esteban wanders in and wonders why Andy is there. Eventually Nancy tells him Audra is with Adelita, and immediately Esteban comes to the conclusion that his daughter is pregnant. When Nancy has to tell him the truth, he thinks that that is impossible.

Finally he says “I can’t” and walks away.

Well, Nancy says, then I will.

Meanwhile, Celia greets her new team: Doug (co-team leader and finance), Dean (legal), Sanjay (sales), Ignacio (supply and, as “Perro Isano,” muscle) and Isabelle (brains).

Audra and Andy walk home. She’s still wearing the ring, but hasn’t answered. They walk inside, where they find crazy protester Gale wielding a crossbow. Andy runs away immediately, leaving Audra there alone with her dangerous stalker.

At the fundraiser, Silas says his mom arranged for Adelita to go to a rehab in Arizona. And that it was weird seeing Esteban cry. Cesar tells Nancy to get used to Pilar and her ways. She says she’s prepared other ways. Nancy tells Esteban she’s leaving. He says he’s sorry about everything. He gives her his jacket and she walks out. Pilar walks out with her. Pilar tells Nancy she knows she tried to have Guillermo to knock her off, and that next time she tries to have her killed, she might want to choose someone who doesn’t work for her and isn’t still mad at Nancy for ratting him out. Pilar suggests they add two more to the list: Shane and Silas. Nancy tells Pilar if she comes near her kids, she’ll kill her. Pilar coolly lists the ways they might go, in a car accident, a plane crash….

“Or a croquet mallet,” someone says as she is whacked solidly in the head and knocked into the nearby swimming pool. It’s Shane, who looks pretty pleased with himself. All Nancy can do is look at him with a combination of relief and horror.

And as season 5 comes to a chilling cliff-hanging close, we are left with a motionless and presumably lifeless, Pilar floating face down in the pool.

So, I hope all you Weeds fans have enjoyed this season as much as I have.

Your comments, as always are encouraged and appreciated.

I again thank everyone for reading me and I look forward to bringing you more in the future.

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Michael Queenstown

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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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Until Next Time!

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Michael Queenstown

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NURSE JACKIE

SEASON 1 EPISODE 11

“PILL-O-MATIX”

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.

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Until Next Time…

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Michael Queenstown

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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.

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.

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Until Next Time…

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Michael Quenstown

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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.

At 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…

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NURSE JACKIE

SEASON 1 EPISODE 10

“RING FINGER”

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!

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NURSE JACKIE

SEASON 1 EPISODE 9

“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.

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and, as always…

Until Next Time…

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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.

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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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WEEDS 5.7

“WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS”

…And now, the continuation of Weeds.

Nancy’s packing her things as Esteban tries to prevent her from leaving.  She wants to know who the stiletto-heeled Mexicunt was who is preventing their holy matrimony. It turns out that the lady is very well connected, and Esteban needs her in order to win the next election in his political scheme . He assures Nancy that they will indeed get married – after the election.
Meanwhile, back at the medicinal marijuana shop in Ren-Mar, Silas is still attempting to run a respectable business as Doug wanders around the store completely wasted, eating laced ice cream cones.  Deputy Jones enters the store out of uniform, having recovered in his car from his blow to the head last week, and he’s back to extorting Doug and Silas for 10K to keep him from filing assault charges.
Back at Esteban’s home, Nancy-who is very close to her due date finds out the house is being set up with a birthing room so she never has to leave the house for any reason.  So who does Nancy turn to? Andy, of course. And of course Andy shows up driving one of his new toys: one of 17 General Lee cars used in The Dukes of Hazzard in season 4. Or at least that’s what the guy he bought it from told him. He paid enough for it, so it better be. He drives Nancy away from Esteban’s Mansion, and admits he still loves her even though she is poison.  They go to see Dr. Alanis Morissette and induce labor, so she can have the baby on U.S. soil with a U.S. birth certificate. And may I add right here, that with all the hype of Alanis Morrisette appearing in this show, her character has had hardly anything to do. Of course that may have something to do with the fact that she can’t act, but I digress.

Meanwhile, we find Celia attending a motivational seminar given by the You’re Pretty! Cosmetics lady Raylene. Afterwards, Celia tries her hand at selling cosmetics to her co-workers from the mall, fails, and returns to the Botwin house, dejected.  Shane is there to meet her, since he was told by his mother to go there after school as part of their escape plan.  He wants Celia to tell Nancy she will take care of him so he can stay there. She’s not too keen on the idea until he starts giving her a foot massage. Then he tells her she’s selling the wrong product. She should sell what people really want. Drugs, for instance.

At the pot store, customers are all decked in full costume as part of Comic-Con, which is taking place nearby. Dean comes in to see Silas, who has hired him to dissolve his business partnership with Doug. They compromise – Doug will keep away as long as he gets a morning bowl every day. As soon as that’s decided, the DEA bursts into the store, and orders everyone down on the floor. They’ve come to arrest Jones for theft, extortion, and falsifying documents. Turns out the quiet, unassuming guy Silas hired to help them in the shop – whom Doug tried to fire earlier that day so he could hire a hot chick he wanted to bang – is an undercover cop.

Esteban and his goon come busting into the hospital. He bursts into Nancy’s room, where she is lying in bed talking to Andy and Shane. Thinking she is still pregnant, he starts to throw her clothes on the bed for her to get ready to leave. At this point, the door opens and a nurse brings in the newborn baby and puts him into Nancy’s arms. “He has your eyes,” she says.

What Next?

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