Weeds – Nancy must be something else in bed

I didn’t see it last week, but as soon as Silas started passing Emma (Michelle Trachtenberg) a message for her boss, I knew it was she who was in charge over at Pouncy House. I was proud of Silas for how firmly he stood his ground with her after being confronted by what could potentially be a pretty dangerous threat. A little less so after listening to him telling Emma about how he and his mommy had started a weed business, but proud nonetheless. Does Silas really sleep outside, by the way?

I’m not sure why his spotting the Pouncy House research that Shane stole from the police computer got Silas all worked up … why on television is it always assumed that if something is in the vicinity, the “last person you’d want seeing anything” has seen it? Why, when attempting to slip out surreptitiously, would Emma have tracked all the way across the apartment instead of making a straight beeline for the door? As it turns out she didn’t need to have seen the research anyway — considering that she’s the boss and was on an undercover mission from the beginning — but why automatically assume that she did? By the way, nice upside down bike shop! And on a side note, what’s up with Silas’ twin, Alex (Blaise Embry)? He’s freaky!

The Vermont craziness between Andy and Zoya sucked, but I enjoyed how Nancy got Zoya to flee. It actually goes to what I mentioned above regarding Foster (Aidan Quinn); only Nancy’s prison girlfriend would be so head-over-heels for her that she’d  build life plans with her. For most everyone else prison romance is just a way to kill time while locked up.

Shane gets more pathetic by the week. Now he’s selling Nancy on his cop connections in an attempt to get her to lean on him! His whine that “you keep partnering up with the wrong son” was so sad — and while Silas might “hate” Nancy, there’s no contest — and his desperate play stealing her the police’s research on her competition was somewhat embarrassing. I’m glad he’s locked up … best case scenario they forget about him while he’s in prison and we never see him again, but I doubt we’ll be getting that lucky. My guess is we’ll see even more of him as Nancy tries to save him from the path he’s going down.

Doug and the SEC officers was awesome. I guess his firm is supposed to be a successful one, but there’s no way it’s big enough for the SEC to have entrusted any of its investments to it. That said, Doug did a fantastic job threatening their financial futures and getting his firm out of hot water … for now. I’m not sure what’s to stop the SEC from pulling its money out and entrusting it to another manager, thereby neutralizing Doug’s threat, but I guess I’m unnecessarily complicating things. I simply loved watching Doug work.

Nancy was just along for the ride on that one.

Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Aug 23, 2011 @ 17:28 EST5EDT