By Curt Schleier

This episode of WEEDS might best be describes as a transitional one.  That’s a nice way of saying it’s disappointing.  The little that does transpire is really just a set-up for the next few episodes. 

Andy Botwin (Justin Kirk) has the funniest lines.  He’s catering a porno shoot at an unoccupied house in the Majestic development – that’s evangelical real estate.  After some begging, he gets a role in a film using his unusual toe arrangement.  Clearly, the director knows the value of the foot fetish market, but to a point.  After filming three foot shorts – that’s the subject matter not the length of a piece of underwear – he’s dismissed.

He feels used and let’s the director know:  “You took something beautiful like Jenna’s beautiful vagina and made it just a place to put a foot.  You need to so some soul searching, my friend.  This whole industry does.  It exploits, it dehumanizes, it degrades men.”

What can you say after that but “Hallelujah”?

That however is the high point of the show.  Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) spent most of the episode following Valerie Scottson, the widow of Pete, the crooked cop she’d been dating.  To what end?  I presume we’ll find out next week.


Her younger son Shane (Alexander Gould) touches his first boob; it belongs to Isabella Hodes, Celia’s (Elizabeth Perkins) daughter.  Ironically, Celia has her first sexual encounter since reconstructive surgery following a mastectomy.  It’s with the slime ball Sullivan Groff (Matthew Modine), but he surprisingly handles it like a mensch.

With U-Turn gone to gangsta heaven, Nancy will have to deal with Heylia James (Tonye Patano), who is making life difficult.  But Nancy is nothing if not a survivor.

Hopefully, we all will, at least until next week, when the series returns to form, he said optimistically.