Weeds tokes it on the run
Weeds
Season 4, Episode 1: Mother Thinks The Birds Are After Her
Showtime, Mondays, 10 p.m., aired June 16. Starring Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Kevin Nealon, Justin Kirk, Hunter Parrish, Allie Grant and Alexander Gould.
Synopsis: With the embers of Majestic and Agrestic smoldering in their rearview mirror, Nancy and family flee southbound to the border town of Ren Mar, Calif. Meanwhile, the DEA interrogates Doug, Dean and Isabelle, who all pin the entire grow operation on Celia. Back in Ren Mar, Andy confronts his father and new landlord Lenny.
BY SARA HAVENS & MAT HERRON
Sara: (taking long inhale) So (speaking without exhaling) what are we watching this week, man?
Mat: Pass that over here Weeds. (inhale)
Sara: This is the last of it. Did you bring any?
Mat: No, the show Weeds. On Showtime. (exhale)
Sara: Dude. I love that show. (inhale) That chick from Fried Green Tomatoes is sweet Im glad she found something to do with her career. And Elizabeth Perkins remember her from He Said, She Said with Kevin Bacon? Love that 80s shiz. Hey, doesnt bacon sound good? (exhale)
Mat: Bacon and eggs, scrambled. Kind of like Grandmas brain in this episode. Len (Albert Brooks) has the crappy end of the diaper. I guess we all have to look forward to Depends in our old age (exhale), but its payback for him being a jackass to Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) while she and Judah were married. Apparently Dad forgot how easy-on-the-eyes she is. Not one to be outdone, her bringing German dinner into Lens house was like a Freudian middle finger.
Sara: (inhale) Yeah, Freud was onto something. Deep shit. And you said finger (exhale) heh. What did Nancys brother-in-law Andy (Justin Kirk) say that I laughed at 10 minutes ago? He was reciting bathroom-wall graffiti he found at a rest stop. Something like, Here I sit, cheeks a-flexin just gave birth to a little Texan.
Mat: Texas is big. Huge. Its like its own ocean.
Sara: So this seasons gonna be weird, since Nancy burned down her SoCal mansion and left behind her a life of drug dealin or did she? Whats she going to do now? Be a Wal-Mart greeter? Doubt it. Do you think Celia (Perkins), Doug (Kevin Nealon) and the rest of them will join Nancy & Co. in her new bordertown? I certainly hope so wait why am I answering my own questions. Mat are you awake, man?
Mat: Dougs a banjo-toting schmo. Assuming he makes it out of the police station, he should be deported to some never-neverland. Like Kansas. Toking while hes at an emergency shelter? With cops around?
I wonder whom Id have to bribe to buy a section of the Mexican-Texas border. Beins that Pablo Escobars dead now, maybe my options are wide open. And if you retire from drug dealing, do you have to give up your portion of the fence?
Sara: Fence. Thats a funny word. Say it out loud. Fence. Ffffence. Fencé. Speaking of the border, do you wanna make a Taco Bell run?
Mat: Cool, but Im drivin.
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