(S03E04) The Modine has landed! This week, we got our first look at Sullivan Groff and, through him, the up-and-coming community of Majestic. It's probably a bad sign that Sullivan regards Agrestic as a potential toilet bowl, but who cares? His hair looked fabulous!Sullivan didn't waste any time putting his looks and charm to use on his new neighbors. After schmoozing with the city council members, he managed to (unsuccessfully) hit on both Nancy and Celia--not bad for a thirty-minute episode. Something tells me that he won't take no for an answer in Celia's case. Either way, it's great to see Matthew Modine again. No offense to Kevin Nealon, but I've been waiting for a hot older man to turn up on this show.
This season has focused a great deal on Nancy's lack of control, as a mother and as a drug dealer. All it took was a brief encounter with the campus security guard from Season One to remind her that she's no longer the "scary lady drug dealer with thugs." Nancy has had many different sources of protection in the past: Peter, Heylia, Conrad, etc. Now she's on her own, and even a random college student can scare her.
Her paranoia is definitely justified, though. With Peter's partner hanging around and U-Turn leaving threatening messages on her cell phone, Nancy has a lot on her plate. What's a former editor of Civil War textbooks to do? Joining the workforce was a great start. I thought it was sweet of Shane to pad his Mom's resume and give her some words of encouragement. Getting a legitimate job is the first smart thing that Nancy's done all season, even if she does have to put up with sexual harrassment.
Doug was, thankfully, up to his old tricks this week. The Agrestic City Council meetings are always hilarious, and this week's scenes were no exception. Doug maneuvered his way into the position of Interim Council Member, and now he and Celia will be colleagues. This should be good. Celia and Doug work much better as enemies than as lovers.
Silas made the most of his community service hours by selling off some of U-Turn's brick to his fellow trash collectors. I was amused by Mrs. Gruber's presence, and I'll certainly never look at ostrich meat the same way again. Perhaps she'll get some love from "the Groff" in a later episode. Nancy's attempt to forbid Silas to sell drugs was pretty pitiful, and I'm curious to see how Silas' involvement in the drug operation will change their relationship. For his own sake, I hope that he won't show up on U-Turn's radar.
Heylia and Conrad didn't get much screen time this week. Last week, Julia wondered how Heylia would handle the U-Turn situation, and I'm right there with her. It looks like Conrad's new operation will be up and running soon, but how long will he be working for U-Turn?
What was the deal with the "Battle Buddy" scene? I'm not sure what the Weeds writers are trying to do with the Army scenes, but it isn't working for me. This week's head-scratching twist was the last straw. The heavy-handed political messages were bad enough, but now we have to deal with some government conspiracy subplot? I love Andy Botwin, but he's no Jason Bourne. The only thing I like about this new twist is that it will bring Andy back to Agrestic where he belongs.
My real problem with Army subplot is that it has always felt unnecessary. Why branch out when there's so much going on in Agrestic? Why take Andy out of the Botwin household when his funniest scenes are with Nancy and the kids? For now, I'm going to hope for the best and focus on that gorgeous Modine hair.
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9-04-2007 @ 1:52AM
Oreo said...
I downloaded this episode and it was my favorite episode of the season until the army scene, it was terrible. I thought it was finally going to have a point, but it was so stupid! Weed's is wacko, but that's just wacked.
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9-04-2007 @ 2:46AM
Idiot said...
Weeds is probably one of my favorite shows on television fyi!
http://www.TheIdiotsBox.com
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9-04-2007 @ 9:27AM
Brian said...
"What was the deal with the "Battle Buddy" scene? I'm not sure what the Weeds writers are trying to do with the Army scenes, but it isn't working for me. This week's head-scratching twist was the last straw."
I don't think the Army was trying to kill them off. I think what they had was a device to "paint" a target. With the two of them being idiots, I think Andy's battle buddy pointed it at himself and the drone targeted him.
Just my guess. I figure next week's episode will let us know a little more about what actually happened.
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9-04-2007 @ 9:49AM
Katie said...
Oreo- where did you download this episode...I tried iTunes but they only had through season 2
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9-04-2007 @ 10:02AM
eric f said...
"hot older man"? gross. with that hair and tan he looks like a plastic tele-evangelist.
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9-04-2007 @ 10:05AM
khamel said...
oreo like many likely downloaded them off the internet - in the grey area of legality. the creator said he was fine with it so that was good enough with me (granted i downloaded it BEFORE he said he was fine but still). not lovin this season as much as previous ones. i was waiting for it to catch up to the leaked copies so now i can finally look forward to a new episode.
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9-04-2007 @ 10:53AM
wes said...
I think the army scene with the picture phone and all.. was to get our favourite bad uncle out of the army. He'll post the pictures or blackmail them to get out. Wouldn't work in real life, but on Weeds, maybe. Hopefully they do it in a much more clever way than i've laid out here.
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9-04-2007 @ 11:49AM
h8rain said...
I am wondering when the FBI will find out that she is married to the missing agent (she did mail it in). If he had life insurance or a pension plan, she would be entitled to it, but that would have to put a lot of suspension on her. Just married and now he is gone.......
Left Field theory: He is not dead, but made a deal with the Armenianes(?)
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9-04-2007 @ 1:26PM
Oreo said...
Who said Peter is dead, maybe he's still in the house? How many days have past?
And yes i downloaded them in the grey area of being legal. I have Showtime and would see them legally anyways.
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9-04-2007 @ 6:04PM
Adam said...
Anyone else think this show is just starting to really loose its edge. The first season was fun. She was the drug dealing MILF and was enjoying her time. Now its is almost as if they dug her character in too deep and they are trying to take it back. She needs to move and start over can we can have the fun time we had in the first season. The same thing can be said with Andy. What the heck happened in the desert?
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9-05-2007 @ 3:16PM
const said...
i used to look forward to watching this show each week. now, i'm just going through the motions with it, like with rescue me.
this was a great show. now, it's all drama, little comedy.
and can we move on from the cliched california antiwar view already?
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