Weeds, Season 3, Episode 11, "Cankles".
Nooooooooo!!! All those other posts were horribly wrong, at least the bits where I was whining about Mary-Kate Olsen's character. I think I see where the writers are going with Tara, and now that I understand, I hope this episode isn't the last we've seen of her.
When Tara tells Silas she is going out on a date with another guy, it all came together. Whoever cooked up that twist was brilliant, but I should have seen it coming, the clues have been there all along. Tara isn't meant to be a hypocrite, she is just a cafeteria style Evangelical. It's funny, it's true to life (I was raised amongst the Catholic variety), and best of all, it isn't bitter. I wasn't crazy about the Majestic storyline at first, however, the last few episodes have shown that the writers want to do more than just hit one note with the subject.
The Christian angle is a nice foil for the suburban crime story thread. Nancy's discussion of Tara with Silas really underlines how Weeds can be such a spot on parody of The Sopranos. When Nancy calls Tara a "good earner", it's almost as if she is chanelling Tony Soprano. At this point I think the comparisons between the two shows are inevitable, and it's nice to see the writers run with it.
In one respect, the writers have surpassed The Sopranos. Every season would bring a new arch-nemesis for Tony, and by the end of the season, the potential rival would be dispatched in a suitably gruesome manner. The conflicts on Weeds come to a boil much more slowly, and dramatically it isn't quite as repetitive as the last three seasons of The Sopranos.
It wasn't until the final minutes of this episode that I realized the show had been building towards a conflict between Nancy and her frenemy, Celia. Their rivalry has simmered for quite some time, but I think it was a smart move to turn up the heat before the season finale. I suspect the ups and downs that Nancy experiences are going to be even less predictable then Tony Soprano's.
When Tara tells Silas she is going out on a date with another guy, it all came together. Whoever cooked up that twist was brilliant, but I should have seen it coming, the clues have been there all along. Tara isn't meant to be a hypocrite, she is just a cafeteria style Evangelical. It's funny, it's true to life (I was raised amongst the Catholic variety), and best of all, it isn't bitter. I wasn't crazy about the Majestic storyline at first, however, the last few episodes have shown that the writers want to do more than just hit one note with the subject.
The Christian angle is a nice foil for the suburban crime story thread. Nancy's discussion of Tara with Silas really underlines how Weeds can be such a spot on parody of The Sopranos. When Nancy calls Tara a "good earner", it's almost as if she is chanelling Tony Soprano. At this point I think the comparisons between the two shows are inevitable, and it's nice to see the writers run with it.
In one respect, the writers have surpassed The Sopranos. Every season would bring a new arch-nemesis for Tony, and by the end of the season, the potential rival would be dispatched in a suitably gruesome manner. The conflicts on Weeds come to a boil much more slowly, and dramatically it isn't quite as repetitive as the last three seasons of The Sopranos.
It wasn't until the final minutes of this episode that I realized the show had been building towards a conflict between Nancy and her frenemy, Celia. Their rivalry has simmered for quite some time, but I think it was a smart move to turn up the heat before the season finale. I suspect the ups and downs that Nancy experiences are going to be even less predictable then Tony Soprano's.
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