Weeds Season Three Premier
The season 3 premier of Showtime’s “Weeds” was this week. I watched it the day of and have been dwelling on it. I have to say I was disappointed.
When we last saw the people of Agresta, Nancy and Conrad were being held at gunpoint by Uturn and a group of Armenians, who killed Peter. The Armenians were promised money for killing Peter, Heylia hired them. Uturn wants the pot, but wasn’t going to give Nancy any money. He was going to steal it, leaving the Armenians with no money for their services. To make matters worse, Silas stole the pot from his mom’s safe as he wanted in on the deal. Meanwhile Andy, the brother in law, is looking for Shawn, who took off in a truck with Andy’s psycho girlfriend.
Basically in the season premier nothing was resolved really, which is why I was so let down! Shane and the crazy lady ended up in Mexico, where she met up with a guy and took off. Shane was left with the car and told to practice driving and head home! He DID! Meanwhile Andy and a bounty hunter tracked them to Mexico, but the bounty hunter ditched Andy to go find the crazy girl. Andy was stuck in Mexico, having learned Shane took off back home in a car on his own.
Silas was arrested when Celia found out he was the one stealing her “No Drug Zone Signs.” Celia drove his car home, having no way to get home after she had a cop hunt him down and arrest him. She discovered Nancy’s pot stash in the trunk.
Nancy meanwhile convinced Uturn and the Armenians not to kill her, to let her track down the pot. They held Conrad prisoner while she went off looking for the pot. Uturn basically got rid of the Armenians buy offering them half of what they were owed, they wanted to take the pot in lieu of the cash. They left, leaving Uturn holding Conrad hostage. Nancy meanwhile discovered Celia dumped all her pot in her pool! It looks like Nancy and Conrad are both dead.
Basically it just wasn’t as funny and witty as Weeds usually is. There were a few laughs, but I expected more. Here’s hoping the rest of the season improves.
I loved it, personally, although I felt like Peter’s death was really just dropped to the side. I mean, we’ve seen two episodes now, and haven’t seen Nancy really show any kind of emotion about that fact that he was gunned down…or even mention it, aside from what we already saw at the end of last season.
08.21.2007 at 5:04 am