What I’m Watching: Weeds

Weeds: Season 7, Episode 12 “Qualitative Spatial Reasoning” (B+)

Though we’ve been privy over the years to the lengths both Botwin mother and son will go to when faced with a threat, but there’s still something terribly startling about the way things play out in this episode. Silas bonding with Emma over their shared hatred of Nancy is almost the least of the problems, though the fact that Emma goes to Ouellette and tells him flat-out that Nancy is her competition is certainly alarming. I’m most concerned about what Silas is going to do with Jill and how that phone call to Nancy about Stevie being close to being hers again is going to end up being something very bad. Seeing Heylia and Dean get held up by a bunch of Sarah Palins was downright frightening, mainly because Heylia so aggressively fired out her window only to be cornered and have to surrender her weapon. What’s worst about all of this is that this marks the second time that a man infatuated with Nancy has interfered in a way she didn’t want to help take down the competition, and Demetri is much more dangerous than Conrad ever was. Nancy clearly realizes that things have gone too far, and her apologetic voicemail to Silas is going to be too little, too late. Andy feeling undervalued makes sense, and I like the fact that his funeral announcement phone call motivates him to walk out and do something productive with his life. Shane bringing Ouellette’s son to him and threatening him to make sure he’s nice is entertaining, and I suppose that Doug’s new relationship with Jolene gives him something positive to be doing, though it’s an odd arc to start one week before the season finale.