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Episode Recap: "Lady's a Charm"
Another week, and another fine installment of the rebooted Weeds. Let's get on to the recap!
Guillermo sent his burgeoning apprentice, Nancy, to Tijuana to test her skills as a drug smuggler. Nancy does not realize the extent of the Guillermo's manipulation, as she is blinded by the $10,000 that he's seductively waving in front of her wagging eyes. In a mysterious moment, Guillermo gives Nancy a seemingly harmless Jesus bobblehead for display in her car. Nancy's instructions involve getting her car's tail-light fixed (an accident which Guillermo caused) as a cover for a "drug pick-up" from Guillermo's cousin on the other side of the border. After an awkward encounter with the "mechanic", Nancy is stuck in traffic for re-entry to the United States. During this humorous sequence Nancy:
• Buys $50 worth of cheap merchandise solely for the purpose of getting her favorite iced coffees.
• Offends a mother in a neighboring car when attempting to offer a chunky child spare food.
• Panics when the border patrol's dog sniffs her car for drugs.
• Urinates in an empty plastic cup because there is no end in sight to the traffic.
• Forgets her passport.
When Nancy finally gets to the entrance, she is told to pull to the side so her car can be inspected. They find and confiscate inhalers that Guillermo asked Nancy to smuggle back to the US. Nancy is surprised to discover that the entire escapade is a test to see if she has the "chops" to succeed in the next step of the drug business. (The Jesus bobblehead had a camera inside and filmed her trip.) Nancy was initially irate, but getting half of the $10,000 quelled her rage.
There was even more comedy in this episode featuring Celia in prison. Celia is "dolled" up with make up by her cell-mate and is also given a horrible shiner under her eye. Throughout the episode Celia loses any remaining hope of vindication. Her pro-bono lawyer tells her that she has no chance of getting out of jail anytime soon. Doug and Isabelle's visit to Celia proudly displayed their ignorance to Celia's misfortune. But during the closing moments of the episode, Celia receives salvation from the DEA agent; an implicating photograph of Nancy Botwin with Guillermo.
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Jun 24, 2008 12:57 AM
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> Doug and Allie's visit to Celia
> proudly displayed their ignorance to Celia's
> misfortune.
Good recap, but Celia's daughter's name is Isabelle, not Allie.
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Jun 24, 2008 9:57 AM
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Just because I did briefly feel bad for Celia, here is a question...I know the writers of Weeds would like us to forget that Celia and Dean had an oldest daughter who got sent off to boarding school in the like the first episode, but I can't help but think why not give Celia a little sidekick and have the kid come back from school (perhaps just to check on her father) and meanwhile has the whole story because Silas has told her everything it his kind of innocent ignorance type way. I just have always been put off by the Richie's older brother technique from Happy Days.
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Jun 24, 2008 10:50 AM
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I was a little bored by last night's episode. I found Celia's story much more interesting than Nancy's. Nancy use to sell to people who would seem to be the last people who would be so into the drug trade. Now Nancy is just going to be a drug runner it seems. Not so interesting to me.
I still wonder if we are going to have 2 separate shows (Nancy and her posse, Celia and the people who hate her) all season.
Celia's hair and makeup were the most entertaining things in the show. I really could have done without seeing what was in the diaper. That did not add anything to the show.
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Jun 24, 2008 12:10 PM
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Am I the only one who doesn't think the way Isabelle treats her mother is not funny? I don't expect her to be a doting daughter, but to let your mother go to jail, be beat up and what else is just a tad bit over the line, no? I mean, what did she ever do than be a bad mother? There's a million of them out there, and I don't think most of the children are so callous. Oh well - maybe something will change.
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Jun 24, 2008 1:03 PM
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Tonib,
You are not the only one. I have always hated the way Isabelle treats Celia.
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Jun 24, 2008 1:19 PM
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Not that I don't agree with you that Isabelle is horrible to Celia, but Celia has been just as horrible to Isabelle. Remember when Celia gave Isabelle all of the chocolate, but it was really laxatives to make her lose weight? That was borderline abuse, IMHO.
I think that they write that relationship so over the top that it is a satire, I can't imagine having such a contentious relationship with my own mother!
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Jun 24, 2008 1:27 PM
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I agree llm that Celia treated Isabelle horrible, she even nicked named her Isabelly.
Anyway, can someone please tell me why Nancy is working with or for Guillermo. I forgot the reason why.
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Jun 24, 2008 4:04 PM
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Nancy is working with Guillermo because at the end of last season she and he went partners on the condition that Guillermo get her out of her Agrestic mess (ie. take out the Armenians or blacks, I forget which, maybe both, who were extorting her & didn't he also start the fire?). Anyway, you get the gist of it - he wiped her slate clean, she gives him half the business.
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Jun 24, 2008 5:15 PM
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Nancy is working with Guillermo because at the end of last season she and he went partners on the condition that Guillermo get her out of her Agrestic mess (ie. take out the Armenians or blacks, I forget which, maybe both, who were extorting her & didn't he also start the fire?). Anyway, you get the gist of it - he wiped her slate clean, she gives him half the business.
Actually it was the bikers with the bad weed that Guillermo was supposed to get rid of. He tried to do that by burning down their grow field. When he burned down Agrestic instead (which included her business) the deal was moot. He offered her a partnership if she wanted to get out of Agrestic since there was nothing there for her anyway.
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Jun 24, 2008 7:07 PM
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hey joshua, thanks for doing the recap and everything, but would you mind giving some of your commentary on the episode?
half the fun of reading these is to see what other people thought of it.
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Jun 25, 2008 4:26 AM
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I totally had the wrong idea about the bobblehead. I thought it was going to be a "sign", like telling an on-the-take Border Guard, "let this car go through".
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Jun 25, 2008 1:50 PM
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The highlight for me for this episode was how smokin' hot Nancy's oldest son has become! Can we say the boy's been working out?? Yowza! I hear he'll be romancing an older woman in the near future - someone close to Nancy's age. Can't wait!
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Jun 26, 2008 9:46 PM
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maybe it's cuz i'm new to the show this season, but i didn't enjoy this ep at all.
i felt sorry for celia, after getting made into a "special girl", getting a makeover AND a black eye..
i did not feel for nancy at all during the whole "wait at the border" thing, or her distress at realizing it was just a test run...
only interesting part was back at the house w/lenny & his son's drama...
i DOES get more interesting, right?
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Jun 30, 2008 11:23 AM
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