Nancy’s back. And Silas is nearly naked. Any love for this return?
Ordered Showtime just for it. Not disappointed so far. Thought Shane not getting a ticket for Silas was pretty harsh…
Interesting start to the season. I like how they’ve jumped ahead a few years, which has given the creator and writers a chance to drop the characters into completely new situations without having to show us how they got there. Silas is a male model. Ok! Shane is a puppeteer and seems to not be nearly as creepy. Ok! Doug is still a pussy hound. Got it! Nancy’s a prison-lesbian? Sure, why not!?
I thought the way they disposed of the Estaban storyline was a little too neat, but not really off the wall as far as something that was possbile. Do we know if Nancy had someone carry that out that for her? I feel like that’s a very real possibility.
Was the boss at the halfway house the same guy from “Malcolm in the Middle”?
I was into it. I found myself, as usual, thinking “awww, it’s over already?!” at the end.
How old is Shane now?
I’ve been catching up on recent seasons lately thanks to streaming from Netflix, and watching 3-4 episodes at a pop. So last night’s single ep was over in a flash, making me scream “MORE!” at my screen.
Another season, just as implausible as ever, yet I can’t stop watching.
I’m pretty sure that Shane is at least 18 by now.
Also liked that they jumped ahead three years - nice way to get rid of straggling plot threads and start some new subplots. Will be fun to see them in NYC after watching them from the suburbs to the beaches.
Nancy’s new suitcase full of “goodies” is a far cry from selling a bit of weed to pay the mortgage.
Yeah - this show moves along at such a great clip that the half hour seems to fly by in about 5 minutes…wish it were an hour show!
I’m trying to remember from last season: did anybody ever say anything about bringing Doug over? I like Kevin Nealon but his character could easily be dropped (just like Celia was).
I wonder if Richard Dreyfuss is going to be on the show this year. He’d definitely wait for Nancy if she got out first or come straight to her when he was paroled.
I like the way that the show began as a desperate new widow in the McMansion burbs doing what she felt she had to by sailing pot to make ends meet, but gradually it’s revealed that Nancy’s “steppin’ to the dark side” had been going on since childhood. She had an affair with her married middle aged teacher when she was an adolescent, pawned off another man’s son on the husband she loved so much, clearly never really enjoyed the stay-at-home-PTA-mom role, and stuck with the criminal activities time and again when legal ones would have paid as much. She’s basically one of the Kill Bill girls who never got the right break.
I do hope that somehow some way they’ll run into Heylia in NYC. She’s the only character from the early episodes that I miss.
I wonder about little Stevie. Does Jill have full, legal custody of him and what implications does that have for Nancy? I assume we find out pretty soon.
Does anybody know enough about Copenhagen to know if this was filmed on location? And apparently Copenhagen (if the show is to be believed) is similar to Amsterdam as far as canals and drug trade but just not quite as showey.
Okay, so we’re on episode two. Fun stuff! I wasn’t sure at first, but I think I’ll like this season.
What scam is Doug running? Or is he? When did he get, you know, athletic at something?
I don’t know that he is running a scam. His friend, who apparently works in finance, wants Doug to join him. Possibly the friend is the one running a scam.
I’m still working on how (and why) he got to Copenhagen. I can understand why he’d want to go but not why Andy, Shane and Silas would host him. (Kevin Nealon must have an ironclad contract of some sort that couldn’t be broken.)
Nancy has officially passed the “She deserves anything that happens to her” mark by getting immediately back into the pot game, in NYC of all places (where I’m guessing there’s gonna be a couple of competitors). But at least we get to see some Hunter Parrish skin next week.
I’m guessing that we’ll discover that the friend that Doug has hooked up with is running a scam of some kind and wants Dougie to get in on it with him. I, too, found it weird that Doug followed the Botwin’s to Copenhagen. I would actually rather have Celia as their tag-along than Doug.
I think the development of Nancy’s character has been frickin’ fabulous. She’s gone from desperate weed-selling soccer mom to FBI informant to wife of Mexican drug lord/politician to ex-con, mother of a murderer looking to re-enter the weed biz in NYC, of all places. She is truly a piece of work! I can totally buy her hooking up with a women in the pen, too! It’s the supporting cast that keeps this show kickin’ though. LOVE Andy, Shane and Silas. And I can’t believe that the bombshell that Silas wasn’t Judah’s kid isn’t going to come in to play again at some point. They just kinda dropped that one and moved on and that was HUGE!!
True, Doug isn’t really much of a scam artist, and his friend sounded a bit desperate.
Silas is going by Guinard (his bio-dad’s last name) now.
My favorite exchange from the finale:
ANDY- I’m saying goodbye to my nephew
LARS GUINARD- Technically he’s no relation to you…
SHANE- Shut the fuck up Lars Guinard.
My favorite was:
SMOOCH. “There, now we’ve made it to first base.”
I remember thinking “Go for third!”, but then I’ll admit I have lust in my heart for Hunter Parrish.
Which episode is that from?
And BTW, in last week’s episode in Copenhagen (Season 7, Episode 1), was it just me, or was Silas looking a little flabby? I assumed it was meant to demonstrate that he had been partying a bit too much.