I said goodbye to an old friend tonight, Weeds. My Adrian died of a brain tumor in 2004 he was 33. Weeds began in 2005 with character Nancy Botwin's (Mary-Louise Parker) husband dying of a heart attack. It set the stage for the mother of 2, as she became pot dealer to the suburbs of Agrestic, California. With brother-in-law Andy Botwin(Justin Kirk) and friend Doug Wilson (Kevin Nealon), we went through 7 seasons (countless years) of her struggle to raise her sons, from California across country to prison and finally settling down in Connecticut.
The opening scene ends as it started. Steve Reyes Blume is now bar mitzvah age (13). His step father rabbi Blume is now deceased. Nancy again stands at a podium at a PTA meeting as she did in the first episode ever. Then she was arguing with Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins), for diet soda in the school, and this time it was for no helmets during soccer. Both times she failed. It seemed from the start, that beautiful Nancy Botwin was on the wrong side. The one thing she finally got right is she bought land, and in this future, she owns 50 shops that sell pot products, now legal. So successful that Starbucks wants to buy them out.
I watched as the writers closed up story lines, Silas (Hunter Parrish) has married his deaf girlfriend Megan (Shosannah Stern)and they have a baby that she won't let Nancy hold. She is resentful for Silas' childhood. Silas tells Nancy, when she asks him to make his wife be nice to her, "It is not about you anymore." This wonderful series wraps up the story lines to these characters and lets us see their progress, and then takes us back to beginning. Shane is a cop, a dirty cop, and hangs out with the old man who mentored him. He is a mess, alcoholic and resentful. It seems like a cruel joke from the universe that their marijuana business has flourished, as he tried to go legit as a cop. Clearly his journey through the last years have been hard for him to deal with. When Nancy asks him to come home, he agrees to go to therapy and rehab, but not home.
Doug Wilson is a guru of his own church. He travels around in a bus, wearing purple with beautiful young women that he uses as sex toys. They bring back his gay drug dealing son Josh Wilson (Justin Chatwin) all grown up. He is a lawyer, who lives with his famous artist boyfriend. Through out the episode Doug has his flock kidnap the son in order to make up with him. They finally do. Celia Hode's ex husband Dean (Andy Milder) can walk again and is present at Stevie's party, he lets everyone know daughter Isabel (Allie Grant) now is a boy. Conrad (Romany Malco) is not present as his wife is ready to have twins. Andy Botwin (Justin Kirk) shows up in the finale like he did in the first season, making breakfast in the kitchen for the family. He now has a little cafe where he cooks and is happy. He has a daughter, and though not with the mother, they are raising their daughter Leni together.
Nancy begins the prospect of facing her life alone. Young Stevie, does not get bar mitzvahed. He learns about his drug lord father from Guillermo (Guillermo Diaz), and decides his methodist mother, and catholic birth-father, really make him confused. He does want to go to boarding school, which Nancy finally agrees to. Nancy runs into Andy and offers to make him a partner in her business 50/50 (she was unwilling to do that when she opened the bakery as a front for the drug dealing), Andy says no. She offers to sell everything and come near him. He still turns her down, and tells her it is time for her to find herself. She decides to sell her stores and do just that.
As the original 5 cast members, Kevin Nealon (Doug), Mary-Louise Parker (Nancy), Justin Kirk (Andy), Hunter Parris (Silas) and Alexander Gould (Shane) sit on the porch for the last minute, we say good bye and good luck, I reflect on my own journey these last 8 years. I realize it is time for me to reinvent myself and go off on my own. First I am rewatching all seasons.Then I will put them away, say thank you for making my life a little more enjoyable, bringing me a laugh and taking me on an adventure.
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