She and Silas, along with Conrad and some more people from their suburban past, grew their pot-selling dispensaries into a franchise. In the finale, Nancy has to weigh whether or not to sell it to Starbucks and retire with enough money for 10 lifetimes. She eventually does agree to sell, making her, Silas, Conrad and Guillermo very rich people. He found suburban happiness, opened a restaurant, made a baby with a waitress friend, and became a loving, drama-free father.
Nancy attempted to persuade Andy to come back — offering him her entire business — but Andy declined. It was heartening to see that Andy finally got out of that poisonous, destructive relationship for good. Silas Botwin — Remember Megan Graves, the deaf girl that Silas purposely impregnated back in season two by poking a hole in his condom in an effort to keep her from dumping him?
Well, at the end of the penultimate episode, he had a chance encounter with her. Shane Botwin — Poor Shane. The troubled kid ended up with the worst ending. He got in with the wrong people on the police force specifically Detective Ouellette , ended up dating some floozy played by real-life drug addict, Natasha Lyonne , and turned to drugs. The black characters for instance, weren't walking stereotypes, and they weren't overly hygienic angels.
They were black drug dealers, yes. They dealt drugs, but they searched for love, happiness, and fulfillment. They were strong personalities but also violently funny and emotionally vulnerable. The portrayals of Mexicans was one of the things that completely turned me off the show, along with the ridiculous excesses of the storyline. Why did the show go to such lengths to give well-drawn out, round, black characters, but then feel it was okay to trot a bunch of tired Mexican stereotypical 2-dimensional characters to either amuse or scare the audience.
It reeks of hypocrisy and racism. I really liked the portrayal of Nancy in the first two seasons. She was white mother who wasn't depicted as a complete angel. She made mistakes, regularly hurt her children's feelings, lost her patience, all while also showing love, affection, and some sound parenting.
She's also single widowed and pursues her own sexual desire. There weren't too many TV moms like her that I can think of. That is until they turned Nancy basically into a pin-up girl sorry to jump the gun on you as well.
Not that I terribly mind seeing Mary Louise Parker in extremely sexy outfits, but they are wasting a very talented actress and a complex potentially interesting character. I thought that Shane killing her made sense within the context she was talking about killing them but it was the context that was the problem. I felt like the show was very conscious about creating interesting characters of color and not reinforcing stereotypes in seasons - even with U-Turn, who was in many ways a negative stereotypes, had some transgressive charecteristics like his thorough attention to health.
While I agree with your assessment, I think that there are some interesting things that they do with pregnancy and motherhood in seasons five and six - but it's more in the context of the first three seasons. I think that the fourth season started out okay - again, I really liked Guillermo, and I liked the subtle foreshadowing of the maternity store.
Thank you thank you for writing this. I stopped watching after season three. It just got pathetic. I keep hearing tidbits of the current seasons, and it just makes me sadder. Shane dealing drugs? Nancy knocked up by a scary Mexican dealer?
Who she ends up marrying? It just makes me so sad for the actors, the show- what on earth were the writers thinking? And she put WEED in it?! In my mind, Weeds ended at season three. To take a show with gems like "What do you call the thing between the dick and the asshole?
I really have no idea what's going on with the show. I don't see how the quality and humor dropped off so steeply. I agree. Weeds is in the habit of creating great characters and dropping them off unceremoniously, never to be heard from again. Example: Josh. Remember Josh? If you don't I don't blame you, he was only present for the pilot episode, but he had a dry sense of humor, and basically made Nancy look good. He was an irresponsible smalltime dealer that Nancy supplied.
Being irresponsible he allowed Nancy to take an authoritative role, and keep him in line. Moving up the chain was Conrad who introduced and explained the basics of drug-dealing to Nancy, who in turn learned everything he knew from Heylia, the mother of all drug-dealing knowledge.
This chain of command made things comfortable, because if anyone made a mistake, they had someone higher up to correct those mistakes. Then this chain crumbles a little, and Josh's character is sort of broken and added to Nancy's children So she can have dominance over someone and Nancy herself being that she makes a few more mistakes and is less in control. But later when Nancy and Conrad break away from Heylia, the chain simplifies. Conrad is the new mastermind, Nancy screws a few things up, and Silas wants in, and Nancy sort of starts her own little group.
They also pretty much eliminated any objectives or goals they might have in season 6. Initially it was for Nancy to keep herself afloat, then to compete with local dealers, and this was all very interesting watching and learning as she did.
During her third marriage, there was at least some interest, the season had a clear antagonist and the goal was escaping him, but once she does, it's like the story just stops. They've stopped dealing, they just live life on the lam. Nancy's character has been corrupted somewhat too, now she's treated like some troublesome child who has sex with everyone. She has no control over her kids or her life, and she just stopped trying. Each new plot point ends as quickly as it began, Silas wants to go to college, but then he doesn't.
Andy tries to win a RV, but doesn't. Nancy sleeps with some guy from a trailer park, but then leaves. There's no sense of direction, things just keep happening to them. Each new episode is some new scattered gimmick but has no real effect on the plot. September 16, pm. Logo text. Related Stories. Related Story Behind the Scenes: Weeds.
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