Did I miss an earlier thread? Anyway, I thought the bickering between Bug Eyes and Mustache was great but the ending …
All of a sudden they zoom forward two months and
Another gun shot fade to black final shot
If the writers wanted to make fun of season finales why didn’t they throw a few more cliched moments in?
Yeah… that two-month skip was pretty much an excuse to abandon subplots. What happened to the chick from Pouncy House? What happened with Doug’s company’s Ponzi Scheme? Did Nancy manage to get enough money selling fancy-label pot to buy that villa, and not arouse suspicion?
I’m not quite clear what Nancy’s sister requested exactly, even. Plan C was an excellent season ending with a clear jump in story line coming up. With this ending, as Bryan Ekers rightly points out, there is a already cutting/dumping of story lines (Dean and Heylia, the super angry cop, Andy and his now available girlfriedn, and the busting of the militant “distributer” in addition to the ones mentioned). I think they simultaneously tried to make a season and series finale while leaving the opportunity open for another year or two.
Where was her brother-in-law?
Was this the series finale as well? I thought the show’s creator said this was the final season.
In any case, if the shot took out Nancy whoever fired it deserves an award for performing a public service. Her character is the only one on TV rivaling Walt White for “least sympathetic lead character”.
Well, the super angry cop was at Shane’s Police Academy ceremony, though how Shane managed to keep this secret, as well as dodge an NYPD background check (seriously, could someone with Shane’s checkered background get into the NYPD?) escapes me. Somehow Shane’s become angry cop’s surrogate son, replacing his own estranged stepson, and angry cop must have pulled one billion strings to get Shane into the Academy.
Why angry cop would even play along with this escapes me, too.
“You little shit. You duped me into caring for you, thinking you wanted to be a cop when all this time you were playing with me. Give me one reason I shouldn’t lock you up right now.”
“I want to be a cop.”
“Really? OK, hold on. Let me call the police academy.”
From everything I’ve read, it’s still not been decided if there’s going to be another season.
I could have sworn I read at the beginning of this season that there would be at least one more season after this, but I don’t have a cite.
As for Nancy being unlikeable, she was more likeable when the show started, and selling pot to suburbanites seemed a lighthearted solution to the question of how to make ends meet. (Never mind that there were alternatives even at the beginning. She could have given up the McMansion and the housekeeper and moved herself and her two sons to a smaller house.) But then she got involved with the Mexican cartel and people started to die. Anyone else might have thought to go straight after being released from prison after three years. But she decided to jump right back into the business. I think the character is just addicted to excitement and can’t imagine living a normal, boring suburban life. I think it was this season or the previous one in which we learned that her late husband Judah’s profession was as a designer of roller coasters. That has to be significant to her craving for excitement.
Just got around to watching the finale.
Well, if we can skip three years of prison (and thank goodness), we can skip forward two months and skip some boring stuff.
I don’t think Pouncy chick was important enough to have her subplot resolved.
Doug as we know, has a big dick and is apparently really good with it. Remember the SEC chick Doug was banging? Remember when she said either Doug or his CEO buddy were going to take the fall for whatever it was they were doing? I figure Doug skated, and got a lot of money. He helped Nancy finance the Botwin-whoever-whoever family compound.
Yeah, it’s not really clear. Maybe she wanted to be a mom and also have a little more excitement in her life, which joining families with her sister is guaranteed to bring? I didn’t see Jill’s husband at the end. Did they split up?
Andy? He was there at the end, part of the whole new family compound. Nancy credited him for the compromises that made it all happen, in fact.
Shane seemed genuinely sorry for how he’d treated angry cop, and asked, “what do you want?” What angry cop wanted evidently is what we saw. Police academy. If there is a season 8, I see lots of potential there.
As for how Shane got into the academy, what would preclude it? There’s nothing in his personal record is there?
I just discovered this show a few weeks ago on On Demand. I was hooked and watched 7 seasons in a few weeks time.
I have to say that watching Nancy turn from a seemingly nice suburban mother at the beginning into what she eventually became was somewhat disconcerting. I couldn’t get the “nice Nancy” out of my head. I suppose that seeing it happen more slowly - once a week for 7 years, with breaks - would probably have made a difference.
The parallels to “Breaking Bad” are obvious and I’m sure they’ve already been discussed here. I think it’s likely that Gilligan took at least some inspiration from “Weeds”.
I found it interesting how the lighthearted opening (“Little Boxes”) went away as the show grew darker.
Anyway, we know now that there is going to be an eighth season, and I’m looking forward to it.
He says he hadn’t heard of Weeds when he was originally pushing the idea for BB. I can’t find the article I originally read this in at the moment, but he says it in this video too. Start around 1:40.
If he said it then it’s probably true. Certainly there’s no monopoly on ideas.
When I first started watching “Weeds”, it struck me as a cross between “Breaking Bad” and “Shameless”. That’s obviously coincidental since both of those shows came later and “Shameless” is based on a British show.