I started watching "Weeds" when it first came on the air in 2005 and it was immediately one of my favorite shows ever. Well, what started off as some primo shit, the show has sadly turned into barely anything more than ditch weed.
When we first met Nancy Botwin she was just a recently-widowed mother trying to make ends meet selling weed in southern California. Six seasons later she has alienated her entire family as the ex-con, ex-wife of a Mexican cartel leader who spent the last season hunting her and her children.
The seventh season started with a fairly mediocre episode after the season six finale thoroughly left viewers salivating.
Nancy is prematurely released from prison after taking the fall for a murder her youngest son committed. We see her continue her smart ass mannerisms that you would think prison would have beaten out of her. She is overly coy with everyone from parole judges to prison guards all within the first three minutes. All she needed was a Starbucks cup and a straw to chew on to complete the ensemble.
The whole time Nancy has been in jail, her children, Silas and the sociopath, Shane and her childlike brother-in-law, Andy have been recreating their lives in Copenhagen. They actually seem to be doing well after the Nancy Botwin rollercoaster ride left them with an imprisoned mother. They are the main reason I continue watching the show as they actually develop, learn and change as characters.
Every fiber of me was hoping they would finally say "screw Nancy" and stay in Copenhagen, but could they do that one thing? No.
At the end of the episode, the boys decide to fly back to America and see Nancy.
While the bulk of the episode was kind of weak and frustrating, we do get a nice tease of what's to come when we get a glimpse of Nancy heading right back into her life of crime after being out of prison for all of five hours, this time seemingly as a gun-runner.
It's hard for me to completely hate this show, especially after it started off so brilliantly. There have been some pleasant twists and honestly the finale to season six would have been a pretty satisfying end to the show. I can't say season seven won't be good, because who knows what the writers have in store for us, but I can say that after the flaccid premier, my hopes aren't high.
