What I’m Watching: Weeds

Weeds: Season 7, Episode 8 “Synthetics” (B+)

What an episode for Nancy. There’s no one she won’t turn on at the drop of a hat in order to help herself out, moving in the middle of the night from Zoya’s bed to her brother’s and ending up with two massively obvious hickeys from different mouths. Nancy’s parting lecture from the halfway house is the least of her worries as she nearly loses her informant status and then ends up having her entire business discussed while she’s wearing the wire, as Zoya, Dmitry, and Foster all decide to stop by at the same time. I liked Zoya’s advice to Foster, or Chuck, as he told them to call her, “You might want to go away, because I don’t like you and I have a bad habit of losing things I don’t like.” It’s no surprise that Shane’s new mentor would ask if Nancy was a serial killer due to the fates of her previous husbands. Silas’ arrogance continues to grow, and I have a sinking feeling he’s going to get himself into serious trouble with Devon by sleeping with Emma, played by the enticing Michelle Tratchtenberg. Andy’s the only one whose business seems to be going well, as he gets photographed for the style section and manages to come up with such pearls of wisdom as “ruling cleanly and kindly over all of Sillyopolis” as a marketing slogan for the Copenhagen Wheel. Who would have thought that Andy would have been the most put-together of the entire Botwin clan?