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.

So…

Until Next Time…

I am…

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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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.

SO…

Until Next Time…

Happy Viewing

Michael Quenstown

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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.

Stay Tuned!!

As always your comments are appreciated and more than welcome!

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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.

As always your comments are more than welcome and appreciated.  I thank you for reading, and…

Until Next Time!

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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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In Mexico, meanwhile, Celia is still playing house with her Rebel host helping to organize his operation and even going so far as to try critiquing his ransom notes and trying to rewrite them and making a general nusiance of herself that she is drugged–AGAIN, and wakes up on a bus that drops her butt off in Texas!

Meanwhile, Doug and Silas return and Silas has a proposition for Nancy: he wants to start a legitimate retail business selling medicinal marijuana which is perfectly legal in Ren Mar.  Nancy reluctantly agrees to fund his venture as long as he promises to keep Doug away from the inventory.  And if this wasn’t stressful enough, sister Jill pays a surprise visit with Shane in tow. Turns out Shane threatened to show the pictures of her and Andy having sex to her husband and she had no choice but to bring the little pervert back home, refusing to let him move back in with her. Nancy pleads with her sister to reconsider since it is too dangerous for Shane to be there. Jill’s visit is as much a surprise to Andy and the two end up in Andy’s room to continue where they left off.

With Nancy’s blessing, Silas and Doug apply for a business license for their medical marijuana store, but hit a snag when they are informed that their application cannot be accepted without signed consent from a law enforcement official.  Of course they end up meeting a crooked cop who demands monthly payments in exchange for his signature!

Nancy, meanwhile has become fed up with Sucio’s filth and drags his butt to the yard where there is a shower and forces him to clean up his act, so to speak. But when she goes to retrieve the hopefully clean bodyguard, she finds he has disappeared with only his discarded clothes and a puddle of blood in his place. Totally freaked, Nancy grabs everyone and flees the house.  Nancy tries to convince Jill that they are in mortal danger and begs her to catch the next flight home. That is until Nancy receives a call from Esteban on her cell making sure she is following doctors orders and taking it easy.  She tells him what happened to Sucio and fears that it is a sign from Guillermo and that he knows she ratted him and his tunnel out to the DEA and it’s payback time. Esteban tells her if it was Guillermo, he would have killed her and not Sucio and to go someplace safe and wait for his next call.

And all of this is happening under the watchful eye of Agent Roy Till from a nearby car.

Did Agent Till have something to do with the disappearance of Sucio?  Did Sucio at least get a shower?  What has become of Celia?  Will Doug and Silas’ medicinal marijuana store be a success or will Doug smoke all the profits away?

Keep it right here for my blog of Episode 4: “Super Lucky Happy”

Until next time

Happy Viewing!

Michael Queenstown

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In “Machetes Up Top”,

Elsewhere, at Nancy’s estranged sister Jill’s house, Andy tells Jill that Nancy would like her to take Shane in to live with her and her husband and twin daughters and that it is for his own safety.  Reluctant to do anything for a sister who only talks to her when she needs something, Jill agrees.  After Jill and Andy knock off about a case of wine, and Jill pours out her feelings about how both she and Andy are so unappreciated, they end up getting it on. And Shane captures all the action on his cell phone camera!

In the National Forest, Doug and Silas run into some trouble finding a place to grow their weed and narrowly escape with their heads intact, minus their weed which was taken by some goons who had the same idea of growing pot in the forest.

Somewhere in Mexico, now that Quinn was kicked to the curb by her rebel leader boyfriend, Celia is given her freedom.  But, with nowhere to go and all her friends and ex-husband caring less about her well-being, she decides to stay, and organizes her captors weaponry with “Machetes Up Top” of the shelves.

Elsewhere, fearful for her life, Nancy pays Dean a visit to have him draw up a last will incase something should happen to her, naming Silas as Shane’s legal guardian. Nancy ends up in a Japanese restaurant, drinks herself silly and pays Esteban a surprise visit.  She confronts him with her new found information and asks when she will wind up in a landfill.  Esteban tells her he hasn’t decided that yet, and in turn she pulls a gun, points the barrel at her tummy, puts the trigger in his hand and tells him to decide NOW!  Bad move Nancy!  Esteban throws her on a table,  pulls down her skirt and reminds her who is in charge!!

Stay tuned for Episode 3!!

Happy Viewing!!

Michael Queenstown

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I have to say I wasn’t too sure where they could go with this season, but was pleasingly surprised with it.  How hilarious was it that when we last saw Celia, her daughter Quinn had drugged her and was holding her for ransom unless someone came up with the money to get her back or be killed and have all of her internal organs sold on the black market?  And no one would pay up!! Calling everyone in her cell phone and no one had the money nor did they care what happened to her.  Luckily for Celia, she had the battle with cancer and because of all the chemotherapy, her organs would be useless anyway.

Nancy returned home after revealing to Esteban the sonogram of the baby, unsure of her fate, while Andy, Doug and Silas decide to grow pot in a national forest and Nancy decides that it would be best for  Shane to live with her sister.

Can’t wait for next week’s episode!!

Until next time

Happy Viewing!

Michael Queenstown

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When we last left our friendly followers of the fine stuff,  DEA agent Roy Till is out to kill the people (and their loved ones) responsible for his partner’s (both on AND off the job) gruesome murder, which would include Nancy, if she knows more than she’s telling.  And Esteban discovers Nancy is responsible for the DEA finding the drug tunnel (whoopsie!!).

Along the way, Celia develops a drug habit (I’m shocked!) which becomes serious enough for Isabelle and Dean to stage an intervention.  After attending rehab she apologizes to Dean and Isabelle, but they reject her apology insisting instead that she track down Quinn (remember her??) who is still in Mexico after Celia sent her packing and off to boarding school at the end of the pilot episode.  Yes, THAT Quinn!  But,  her plan goes kablooey when she is drugged and kidnapped out of revenge by Quinn and held for randsom.  Can  ANYTHING go right for this poor woman?  Probably what she deserves for playing Wilma Flintstone!

(L-R: Kevin Nealon, Hunter Parrish, Mary-Louise Parker, Justin Kirk and Elizabeth Perkins)

Meanwhile, Doug has Mermex deported after rejecting his romantic advances (having sex with Andy did’nt help her case either), and realizing he has nothing left for anyone to take from him, writes a letter to his seperated wife daring her to come after him.  And speaking of poor Andy,  I gotta wonder what season 5 will hold in store for him,  wrestling with his feelings for his sister-in-law Nancy (does he “love” her more than “in a motherly way?) and questions his reasoning for sticking it out with the family for so long.

And, as for our ganja queen Nancy?   She left us hanging with her informing Esteban she was carrying his child (she said “it feels like a boy”) by showing him an ultrasound picture of her with child after he showed HER a picture of her and DEA agent Till, realizing she was the one who blew the cover on his drug tunnel.  Was the Ultrasound picture really of  HER womb,  or  was it just her way of not getting offed by Esteban?

Well we’ll just have to wait a little longer to find out,  now won’t we???

Happy toking and viewing!!!!

Michael Queenstown

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Everyone's favorite Ganja Queen Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) Love the green pumps girl!

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