Weeds (Grasshopper)

"Thug is never having to say you're sorry." U-turn

When this season of Weeds started, I thought they were off their mark. But this is definitely the episode they found their stride. Not only is Andy back, with the Army storyline out of the way (I should say for now, cause everything comes back,) but we finally got to see Mary-Kate in her sister less debut. Nancy is now living the Thug Life full time, and U-turn is her teacher.

Nancy's training from U-Turn on being "Thug" includes a few rounds in the boxing ring. He tells her that the next day, she is going to get a surprise. That surprise is a surprise inspection of Conrad's crop. U-Turns grooming for Nancy to be his new Lieutenant doesn't look good, as she apologises to Hetylia and Conrad for kicking some of their crop. All of the U-Turns school of hard knocks is pretty light, and mostly humorous throughout the episode. So when U-Turn grabs Nancy's neck, and throws her against a wall, Nancy, and I suddenly realized how unfunny her situation actually is. But as Nancy goes on a Rocky like run up a hill with U-Turn and Marvin, we find out that U-Turn has high blood pressure, rendering him helpless on the ground. As Nancy goes off for help (and a banana since Marvin says he needs potassium,) Marvin gets his revenge for the mistreatment, humiliation, and suffering he has put up with working under U-Turn. And with a large forearm over U-Turns mouth and nose, it was lights out U-Turn. Marvin played the grieving friend well as Nancy ran back up the hill, without help, or bananas.

Now that U-Turn is out of the way, we can all breath a sigh of relief right? Probably not. Nancy still has a footlocker full of "heroinlicious" in her storage room. And after throwing a party at the request of Sullivan, I thought for sure someone would have opened it. Sullivan's attempts at sexual harassment bounce off Nancy like water on rubber, but from the previews it looks like every dog has his day. Andy came threw again for the family preparing the food for the party. He took $1000 and made it look like $5000, that was supposed to look like $10,000. Andy's conversation with Shane was nice, but I see trouble brewing for Shane as his mother becomes more distant. As one son looks to his mother for guidance, the other son looks to new found spiritual enlightenment, in the form of Mary-Kate. I'm referring to her as Mary-Kate because I don't remember her characters name, and I just assume that's how she acts in real life.

Doug once again shines as my favorite character in this show. Upset about not getting a house, and Celia getting closer to Sullivan, he decided to play golf. Hitting balls threw Celia's new windows, but instead of Titlist, these balls said WHORE on them. Doug doesn't stop there, he goes further in trying to now STOP the crap superhighway and fight the good fight to save the endangered, whatever that little rat thing is. Its comedy gold, that's what it is.

So what will happen next? Who will come looking for the heroin? Where are the DEA agents that were so interested in Nancy? And how long will Celia and Nancy stay friends? All that, plus Nancy is now a free agent again, so everything is coming up Nancy.....for now.