Diary of a Weeds Virgin – Threesomes, hallucinogens, and rehab

(Season 4, Episodes 10-11)

We’re hurtling toward the season 4 finale, and Nancy is going all out. She’s on drugs and ignoring her kids, who are sleeping with older women, selling drugs in sandwiches, and having threesomes. While she seems to be hell-bent on destruction, other characters are trying to improve their lives.

Dean comes back and helps Celia into a much needed intervention, while Sanjay and Clinique return to help out with the maternity store. Doug is trying to find love, and Andy is having deep thoughts about where he wants his life to go. Even though Nancy seems to be hurtling toward disaster, maybe everyone else will be okay.

Just kidding. She’s totally going to take everyone down with her.

(Season 4, Episode 10 “The Love Circle Overlap”)

Esteban spends the night at the Botwin household, and Nancy continues to ignore her kids — one of whom is babysitting his girlfriend’s 10-year-old son while she goes and has sex with her ex-husband, the other of whom is preparing to have a threesome with two other middle-schoolers. Just don’t be late for your date, Nancy!

To be fair to our favorite mother of the year, after she goes to Tijuana and has a hallucinatory experience with her drug kingpin boyfriend, she does seem to come to some sort of realization that, yes, she is actually hurting people with her constant stream of ridiculous actions. Whether or not that will cause her to make better decisions is up for debate (my guess is no).

Dean does return, as do Sanjay and Clinique, so my worries from the last few episodes were unfounded. Celia, in a roundabout way, is actually who brought them back together. Dean is in town because Isabelle is staging a much needed intervention for her mother. Sanjay and Clinique are back so Clinique can take over Celia’s job in the maternity store. It’s nice to have everyone back, but I still miss Conrad and Heylia.

(Season 4, Episode 11 “Head Cheese”)

Nancy doesn’t seem to have made any changes since her big revelation in the last episode — at least not any changes to herself. She called her old pal Captain Till (I’m still trying to figure out why we saw him in bed with another dude) and decided to give up Guillermo. I don’t disagree with her impulse, as it seems as though Guillermo is importing teenage sex-slaves through the tunnel now, but involving the DEA while she’s sleeping with a Mexican drug kingpin just sounds … ill-advised. But, then again, this is Nancy Botwin we’re talking about. Asking her to make a good decision is like asking Heroes to make sense.

Doug finally found Maria at the end of the last episode, so they’re trying to make a go of it. This brings up an important fact about Doug Wilson: as eminently entertaining as he is to watch on screen, being around that character in any other setting, especially a romantic one, would be horrifying. Maria is probably around my age, so if some dude who’s old enough to be my father took off his pants and told me about his embezzlement, his ex-wife, four children, and uh, genital warts, I’m not exactly sure a love connection would be made. Andy, on the other hand, has said that he wants a girlfriend, has far less baggage than Doug, and already has a rapport with Maria. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Andy made a play for Maria, or vice-versa, pretty soon.

I do feel kind of sorry for Celia. As much as she’s brought her own problems upon herself, the lady really just cannot catch a break. She finally starts to get into her treatment and seem like she wants to turn her life around, and she gets kicked out of the program and sent across town to deal with scary crack-heads. Meanwhile, it looks like Isabelle is going to be “partying” with Shane and his ladies. This entire thing terrifies me.

Clacked by Kona Gallagher
on Aug 26, 2009 @ 12:00 EST5EDT