(Season 2, Episodes 1-3)
I’m starting season 2 of Weeds, and I’m still definitely digging the show. It is a bit daunting, however, knowing that I have so far to go in order to catch up, but it’s the summer, and isn’t that what summers are for? In this installment, I watch the first three episodes in which Silas is the most annoying person in Agrestic, Sanjay rocks my world, and Nancy makes some questionable parenting decisions.
Episode 2×01: “Corn Snake”
What I like about the start of season 2 is that each character has his or her own thing going on. There were points in the beginning of the series where I felt like some of the characters were wasted, especially Celia. However, I love how the whole cancer thing has kind of made her go off the rails a little bit. Plus, pitting her against Doug in the City Council race is genius; I only hope they have to debate.
Sanjay is another character who is really coming into his own. I love Maulik Pancholy as Jonathan on 30 Rock, and it’s funny to see the same hero worship he has toward Jack Donaghy applied to Nancy. He burned down a bakery for her! That totally makes up for the whole “setting her up to get jacked by the campus cop” thing.
In other news, Nancy slept with a DEA agent! I agree that he doesn’t know anything, but something tells me it’s not going to stay that way for long….
Episode 2×02: “Cooking with Jesus”
Wow; Silas is an idiot. I understand that he’s a teenage boy, but man. That guy is an idiot. His girlfriend gets into Princeton, and he’s all, “but we were gonna get an apartment together,” and accuses her of only getting accepted because she’s deaf? And then tells her that he’s going to drop out of high school next year, buy a van, and then they can get an apartment together in New Jersey? Wow. Just, wow.
One of the things that I do love about this episode is the interaction between Doug and Celia. I’m continuing to really enjoy this whole City Council race storyline, especially when it involves Doug telling a cancer victim that he hates her and he hopes she gets hit by a truck and dies. I started to feel sorry for Celia during her whole family portrait debacle, but just because the character has become funny lately, doesn’t mean that she hasn’t been the creator of her own crappy family dynamic.
So, how about that bombshell at the end of the episode? I had a feeling that Peter wasn’t going to go down easily, so I wasn’t too surprised that he showed up at her house. What does surprise me is that he knows she’s a drug dealer. How did he find out? Was it something she said/did, or maybe word has gotten out that the pretty white lady is selling drugs, making her profile higher than she wanted to believe? I don’t think he knew about her before they met though; the whole foot-biting incident was way too coincidental.
Episode 2×03: “Last Tango in Agrestic”
We pick up where we left off in the last episode, and they don’t make us wait to find out what the deal is with Peter. He didn’t know that she was a drug dealer when they met, but after she blew him off, he snooped into her life and figured it out. I like how Nancy isn’t put off at all by the fact that he did this; she just takes it as a logical explanation. Speaking of logical explanations, when he tells her that there are only 400 DEA agents in the world, and they’re responsible for taking down all the drug dealers, it kind of puts Nancy’s little business into perspective. Why would he give a crap about her at all?
In other news, remember how I said Silas was stupid in the last episode? I obviously had no idea what I was talking about, since his stupidity plumbs new depths in this one. He actually pokes holes in his condoms in order to get Megan pregnant and trap her in Agrestic? There are so many logical flaws with this, that my brain has just come to a sputtering halt. In any case, Silas is my least favorite character on the entire show.
So what the hell is the deal with Nancy and Peter? It’s funny, because I can kind of justify Nancy’s belief that she has to sell drugs to support her family, but getting married in secret to a guy she barely knows? Is it weird that I just find that way too irresponsible for a mother of two and recent widow? Supposedly it’s strictly business, and they’re doing it so Peter can’t testify against her, but come on. It’s marriage. How is this not a big deal?
Clacked by Kona Gallagher 
on May 30, 2009 @ 16:30 EST5EDT
I started watching Weeds two summers ago, and I was two seasons behind. I definitely caught up on those two seasons in time to watch the third in real time by the end of the summer. It sucked me in really fast ;-)