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"Weeds" mini-cap: MILFs R Us

Shane? With nude pictures of his mama? Oh my. Well, that’ll teach me to go on vacation and miss Weeds for a week. I watched back-to-back episodes of the show this week and goodness gracious, I had to take a mega-swig of brain bleach after the “Yes, I Can” episode. I chugged the bleach like Thunderbird wine in a brown paper bag but you know how you can’t un-see something you’ve already seen? Yeah, well — it’s like that.

So, here’s a micro-recap of a mini-recap of the previous week’s episode. Basically it boiled down to a spanking (literally), a spanking (figuratively), some MILFy cheese and her new cheese whiz, a power play by Nancy, an Agrestic pot selling posse sighting, an illegal coyote start up company and charges being dropped against Celia. Did you get all that? Oh and it turns out that Capt. Till’s karaoke love was a planted seed that he’s gay! How did I not know this? It’s so obvious. (Now.)

In “Yes, I Can,” Nancy left tread marks on Guillermo’s back when she went over his head and asked the Man Upstairs, Esteban, for her own share of pot to sell to her client base. Of course, first she asked Guillermo for a cut of his supply but he said no so she flirted to the front of the line and asked directly. All it cost her was a robust over the knee spanking that she apparently really enjoyed because she smiled when she looked at Esteban’s handprints on her ass in the mirror. Nothing says “I dig a good spanking” than a coy smile.

While Nancy was making her return to power play, young Silas discovered a love for cheese or at least a lust for Rad’s mother, Lisa, who owns a cheese shop. Admittedly, the woman is as fine as an aged Roquefort, but maybe she’s a little too aged for 17-year-old Silas making the whole thing seem a little pungent like Limburger. OK, fine, I’ll give her a pass because she’s hot. Go Silas, it’s your birthday! Well, soon and you’ll be 18 and I can stop passing judgment.

Oh there’s good news for Celia: She won’t be charged with anything related to the grow house. Yay! But that means we don’t get to see her in her prison make up ever again. Boo! Poor Celia. The girl was either feeling really thankful or really lonely or really desperate or more likely all three that she even hit on Capt. Till. That’s some barrel scraping right there. But worse than her hitting on him he actually rejected her telling her he’s seeing someone. Turns out the some one is one of his male subordinates. Do I smell sexual harassment or is it just the smell of a tidy story line ender?

As for Doug and Andy, they interviewed Mexican nationals to get their take on how a good coyote business could work proving that market research is imperative no matter the business. While researching they also find a couple of guys that can help Shane who is acting as a general contractor for a bathroom addition for Bubbie’s house of Euthanasia. Nancy wants a new bathroom and Shane wants to make her wish come true. So, sweet. The things boys do for their mothers. Or is that to their mother or with their mothers?

Which brings us to Shane: In gathering all of Bubbie’s dreck for the estate sale Shane hosted, apparently he discovered old nude pictures that his father took of his mother before they were married and/or his parents. Isabelle ogled them, too! Heh. Now for many people seeing those types of pictures of their own parents would bring them to nausea but Shane being the lost, motherless soul he is these days, the nude pictures bring Shane to his nighttime bliss! Uh, hmm, um, yuck? Something’s wrong with that kid and I think her name is Nancy Botwin. No, I take it back — I know her name is Nancy Botwin.

Did the show cross the “ick” line with the Shane scene? Did Freud sit up in his grave?

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  • evanescentdrmz's picture

    concerning-

    The last scene with Shane was a little concerning... I agree! I'm interested where they take this storyline!

     

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    Kaytiana's picture

    Shane is so messed up!  I

    Shane is so messed up!  I have always found him being messed up really entertaining, but they are really pushing the boundaries here!  I'm also interested to see where it goes.  But then, if my mother was Mary Louise Parker...
    lashun's picture

    I agree...

    If my mom was Mary Louise what would I do? I took it more as a raging hormone thing. Like he would probaly do a hole in the wall. The pics are hot. (I paused it...no I didn't...yes I did) I have to admit I watched like 4 episodes back to back and I would do a hole in the wall after looking at MLP. The dresses just got shorter and shorter. She is definetly a hot MILF. She is definetly hot period..... I need that hole in the wall just thinking about her.
    roc's picture

    Weeds

    Quote:
    (I paused it...no I didn't...yes I did)

    Heh:) 

    wwxd's picture

    That was just plain weird

    I had my mouth wide open in shock. We all know hbo and showtime go crazy with what limits they push and can push.

    i.e. Secret Dairy of a Call Girl pilot w/ the b-j scene, yuck!!!

    but I think this is going way too far, this is incest. I donno, it's just really fracking weird.

    "Elise, if I give you any more collagen, your lips are gonna look like they got stuck in a pool drain." - The First Wives Club

    "Not my daughter you BITCH!" - Molly Weasley

    lashun's picture

    To my own defense

    I dont think he sees his mom as HIS MOM. She is a drug dealer who has a pot smokin brother and son and shane's good friend is a preteen lesbian. So normal childhood does not really apply here. Nancy burned down half of Cali and she is moments away from being killed or going to jail FOREVER. They live in their father in laws house who is blackmailing them and that is after Nancy kills his mother. NOT YOUR TYPICAL CHILDHOOD. Dont analyze so much. If you think about it none of it make sense.

    I just watch Nancy and wish she was my neighbor.... where is that hole in the wall...?

    wwxd's picture

    but...

    The question we must ask here is... is it necessary? And the answer would be no! I love weeds, I love it so much that I have all the seasons on blu-ray disc. I will pre-order this season as soon as I can. I just think it was really f_d up to show that. And I am noo prude. But come on..

    It's kind of like when I saw silence of lambs and that naked dude threw a type of body fluid at jodie's face. I was thinking the same thing then. Is that really necessary.

    I'm keeping my post g-rated. 

    "Elise, if I give you any more collagen, your lips are gonna look like they got stuck in a pool drain." - The First Wives Club

    "Not my daughter you BITCH!" - Molly Weasley

    roc's picture

    ....

    I'm with you. It wasn't necessary. Yikes... but I got the sense that it was meant to be a drastic visual to show how disconnected Nancy has become from her kids (Shane specifically). I love Nancy but this season more than the others she's floating further away from her responsibilities as a parent and I'm thinking the intent with the scene was a stark depiction of it. It worked for me! Heh

    em123's picture

    i was a little disturbed by

    i was a little disturbed by the shane scene. my mom is quite good looking but if i stumbled upon naked pictures of her i would probably sit in a corner and cry.
    wwxd's picture

    haha

    My mom is qite the nudist. She has walked around the entire house naked since I was little. I have no idea why she's just weird. Of course when she goes outside or when someone is over besides me she's dressed. I guess she's comfortible being in her nudy pants around me, not to say that I'm comfortible with her being naked in my presence. But I will tell you, when I found a sensual massage book with full on color pics lying on her bed, I was totally freaked out!! Ewwww

    "Elise, if I give you any more collagen, your lips are gonna look like they got stuck in a pool drain." - The First Wives Club

    "Not my daughter you BITCH!" - Molly Weasley

    em123's picture

    poor you! thinking of my

    poor you! thinking of my mom as a nudist is just plain horrible. dont even get me started on the sensual massage. haha

    lashun's picture

    i really do agree with everyone

    Nancy is not being a very good parent but I saw that coming since last season so I think that is why that scene did not make me puke. Alot of this show makes me drop my jaw. I think that is why I love it so much. It really takes it there. It presses on boundaries that may make people cringe. NOW - If it was my mom. I would scream then burn the pics!! But if it was TARA's mom (depending on how hot your mom is) then maybe....... hhmmmm.......nudy pants.... nice!!

     

    I am so kidding!! LOL

    Paraphase's picture

    I like the boundaries WEEDS are pushing

    Shane's private time with his mother's nuddy shots are a metaphor for his disconnection with Nancy and her stigma as something more than a mother but a pistol-whipping pot dealer. When people can get around the enormous GROSS factor of the whole situation it kind of makes sense and I am glad the writers went that far. But I am also thinking at the same time what the hell are the writers smoking to come up with this storyline.

     

    wickedgrrl's picture

    Julie Bowen

    I am so excited to have Julie Bowen on this show.  Talk about maintaining the MILF factor. 

    Did Shane know those pics were of his mother when Isabel finds them?  I wasn't sure if his "no its not" reaction was a cover or genuine.  Not that it matters because he totally goes there in the end.  "Paging Oedupus."  This is far from new territory.  I mean Caligula could give Shane a run for his money anyday of the week.

    Regarding Silas, I know the age thing should bother me, but damn they are hot together.  And its not like this is his first sexual experience.  Boy's been around the block a few times.

    Amato13's picture

    I was thinking the same thing

    When he said "NO it's not" when Isabel pointed out the pics were of his mom.  That's when you put it together (at least I did) that he'd been using this pics as a "focal point" for his late night activities.  Silas had earlier made a comment about him shaking the bed every night.  So I was wondering did he say no because he didn't realize they were his mom or no because he was embarassed of what he'd been doing with these pics of his mom?  I was hoping for he didn't know.  But then at the end when he was right back at it, it seemed it didn't matter either way.  I was definitely grossed out.  But I just wonder where they're going with it?  What was the significance?  Will he be found out? 

    badwolf's picture

    As far as Weeds is

    As far as Weeds is concerned, I've put any politically correct tendencies aside. In reality, I wouldn't want to hear about or see a 13 year old kid masturbating to a photo of his mom. Nor would I want to hear about a young man hooking up with a woman close to twice his age.

    I'm looking forward to see where they take the Shane plotline. He's a creepy little kid.  

    Hell, everyone on that show is creepy, which is part of the appeal (for me at least).  

     

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    Shele's picture

    What can you expect

    from a kid who flushed his socks down the toilet after spanking the monkey?  Yeah, it's kinda creepy that the bugly-eyed kid would whank the wonker over pictures of his mother - ok, it's a lot creepy - but, did anyone ever think Shane was anything other then a very scary, creepy kid anyway?  He's gonna put Halloween's Michael to shame some day - mark my word. 

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