Can't Cut The Cable: Weeds Season Five Premiere

Can’t Cut The Cable
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Weeds Season Premiere 6/8 “Wonderful Wonderful”
Well the pot growing, middle age, mom, drug dealer is back and still funny. I really thought that by now Weeds would be getting stale but this show succeeds from cast members “knowing their roles.” Still I fear that the writers are close to going to the same sources of angst, drama and last second heroics one too many times. By now Nancy B. should be dead, arrested or move to Jamaica where growing pot is legal.
In the first episode of this the 5th season, Celia’s been kidnapped and her friends want her back like people in Mexico want another Swine Flu outbreak. As usual Nancy’s kids want to do what she does, sell pot. Matter of fact Shane is dealing now at his middle school. Nancy wants them to be...she hasn’t said...just not like her.
The best part of the first show was seeing how cold Nancy is treated while being ordered to take a DNA test. You think maybe she understands that selling weed may not be the best way to make a living? Still this is a woman who has burned down her own home and snitched on some gangsters.
Next week Nancy meets up with one of her former gang members who tells Nancy that she’s the rat.
Over all a solid premiere. More of what we like from Weeds. Funny enough to forgive not enough change. And thankfully not trying to change just for the sake of being different.
As a man who doesn’t use drugs but who has been addicted to WEEDS for five seasons I’m giving this episode B+.
After Effects of Weeds-I like the fact that last season Weeds kind of tipped its hat to The Sopranos as much as a comedy can. From what I’ve seen of this year I think the writers kind of gave some props to The Wire...or maybe it’s just what I want to believe. Either way I could watch this episode again and I am looking forward to next week.