The last season I watched Nancy met, fucked, and was impregnated by a high level Mexican drug lord. She seemed so intent to, like its been her life dream, but once she had him to the point hes comfortable tripping balls with her in his apartment she betrays him!
Note that this is a woman with two teenage sons, and in earlier seasons she went from a suburban housewife to drug dealer to drug smuggler to operator of a front business and after I stopped watching the show decided to get into the gun running business.:smack:
One of her sons grows marijuana and fucks middle aged women, the other kills a guy to protect Nancy.
I started watching the show back when it was a quirky comedy, but goddamn its become a sort of character study of a woman determined to hit rock fucking bottom in the criminal underworld and fuck her kids if she has to drag them down too.
I don’t know when or if they will end the show, but at this point the only possible ending would be Nancy’s batshit insane actions and refusal to ever take the non-criminal option ending with her and her sons in prison or dead.
Weeds has always been a show about the spiraling descent of Nancy. Honestly, it kind of baffles me that so many stoners are all “Woo-HOOO!” about Weeds, 'cause it’s about as unflattering and unrealistic with regards to casual marijuana use as it’s possible to be.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the show (haven’t seen the most recent season yet), but it’s because I’m constantly surprised and amazed that the writers can find another “rock bottom” to hit below the last “rock bottom”. Yeah, Nancy’s probably the worst best-meaning mom on the planet. The only way she could be worse is if she began to physically abuse her boys.
Your first question would require me to list every character and every situation that was on the show and then explain how and why it was unrealistic. Sorry, I don’t have time for that.
Drug-dealers are neither honest nor decent! Kind of hard to be if your bread is buttered by the pain and suffering of others and the degradation of society as a whole.
The show was never intended to be realistic. Calling it unrealistic is like complaining that the Flintstones doesn’t accurately portray the life of a caveman. It is not a criticism or the show; it’s a show of your own prejudices.
This was my issue as well. It’s hard to watch a show where every single character is an unrepentant asshole. It was impossible to empathize with anyone, and it wasn’t fun to watch them make the worst possible decisions every chance they got.
Did you not realize this in the very first episode? She’s risking going to jail and leaving her kids without a parent, for what? To make sure they live in a fancy house and go to a school with other white kids. I could not get interested in a show where the main character is such a shallow and horrible person. Also, it wasn’t funny or interesting.
I love the show Weeds, and she is perfect in the role!
That said, I have a friend who worked on a film with Mary-Louise Parker (Nancy) and he assures me that she is not acting on the show Weeds. Don’t know about her parenting skills (if any) but she really is as clueless and ditzy in real. She was also not exactly the most beloved member of the cast and several other actors swore never to work with her again.
But yeah, Weeds is kinda turning into Oz for increasingly bizarre twists that don’t go anywhere. If the show persists, I figure each season may as well begin with a “Six months later” title card, with the family in a totally different venue. Next season, sin months later, they’re a troupe of travelling acrobats!
Well, the only genuine weed dealer I ever met, back in college, was precisely that. I’m sure there’s a higher-than-normal percentage of jerks, but the idea of a sane, centered and decent person selling marijuana for a living doesn’t throw me at all.