Wait, so is ‘Weeds’ just an alternate reality? Are we flashing sideways? As we near the end of season 5, I try desperately to figure out just what the hell is going on here.
Marriage proposals, crazy beards, extortion, and dudes getting beaten half to death with golf clubs. It all sounds like a pretty typical day in ‘Weeds’-ville, but season 5 is definitely starting to look up for me.
After a bizarre season 4, I get up the nerve to continue my Weeds Virgin Diary. Will I make it to season 6? Will I make it through season 5? So many questions start us off this summer.
(Season 5, Episodes 1-3) (Season 5, Episode 1 “Wonderful Wonderful”) The only thing I found surprising about this episode was that it’s taken her family this long to abandon Nancy. I would have assumed they would have just cut their losses a while ago. Even Shane, whose voice is just now changing, would probably be […]
I’ve heard that Season 5 of Weeds is not only dark, but bleak. I totally buy it, because the end of season 4 definitely sets the tone. We’ve got skin being sanded off of a person, betrayal, probable murder, kidnapping, and faux-suicide. So, you know, it’s definitely awesome that they keep on putting Mary-Louise Parker in […]
Wow. Honestly, I didn’t even see that crescendo building, and then, bam! There was Shane, smashing Pilar in the head with a croquet mallet, knocking her lifeless body into the pool. I guess the golf club beat down scene was included in the “previously on Weeds” for a reason. Still … wow. There’s actually been […]
(Season 4, Episodes 10-11) We’re hurtling toward the season 4 finale, and Nancy is going all out. She’s on drugs and ignoring her kids, who are sleeping with older women, selling drugs in sandwiches, and having threesomes. While she seems to be hell-bent on destruction, other characters are trying to improve their lives. Dean comes […]
