“He Taught Me How To Drive-By” Weeds Review (part one)
The new episode opens at U-Turns funeral, and he’s being buried in his hot tub, but only because the boat didn’t fit in the funeral home. Even Conrad and Heylia are there!
Clinique is pregnant, and it turns out it Sanjay’s baby, even though she doesn’t remember the name. All she remembers is that it was an Indian kid she mercy-f*%$d for U-Turn. Nancy meets “Two Strikes” and they reminisce the good things about U-Turn, like Nancy being taught how to drive by.
Sullivan is trying to convince the Agrestic town board to vote on a merger with Majestic, but because Doug told everyone about his house deal with Celia, the rest of the board votes against the merger. When Celia informs Sullivan they can just do a referendum, allowing the town itself to vote on the issue, the rest of the board starts calling her Councilwoman “Whore” instead of Hoades. Super adult of them! After the rest of the council leaves in a huff, Sullivan asks Celia to come home with him. She suggests lunch instead, and I’m surprised at that. Seriously. I guess I thought she’d jump into bed with him like she did Doug, but not so. She’s playing him for all he’s worth instead!
Back to U-Turn’s funeral, and Nancy is talking to Conrad for the first time in weeks. She asks Marvin what will happen to her debt now that U-Turn is gone in a roundabout way, and Marvin informs both she and Conrad that he’s in charge now. When Conrad brings up Marvin’s recent ass-shooting, he tells them that he’s setting up a meeting, trying to end the feud. And that he’s bringing Nancy along to ensure no shooting will happen. No one wants a dead white lady on their hands, after all!
At a new session of summer school, Isabelle is in class with Shane as her parents’ divorce has kept her from summer camp. The teacher is trying to present a new “mystery case” to the class, but Shane busts him out every time with his thinly veiled conservative Christian doctrine. When he teacher asks Shane to stand up and present to the class something he finds mysterious instead, Shane brilliantly presents the mystery of a school that receives federal funding yet blatantly presents a doctrine-based belief system in direct violation of church/state separation laws. And thank you George Bush for that bullshit allowance!
Speechless teacher, Shane wins the battle.
I’ll post the rest of the review later! For now, enjoy the reviews from earlier episodes.
To catch up with all the old episodes:
season three, episode one
season three, episode two
season three, episode three
season three, episode four
[tags]weeds, nancy botwin, mary-louise parker, celia hodes, elizabeth perkins, doug wilson, kevin nealon, andy botwin,
justin kirk, heylia james, tonye patano, conrad shepard, romany malco, silas botwin, hunter parrish, shane botwin,
alexander gould, peter scottson, martin donovan, jenji kohan, mary-kate olsen, showtime[/tags]
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