“Weeds” — The Brick Dance
Hey, it’s Carrie Fisher!
After last week where I spoke highly of Showtime’s decision to run a lower-third on the screen during the first few seconds of the episode filling us in on who was singing the theme song, they didn’t do it this week! What’s that all about? It wasn’t even being sung in English. Throw me a bone, here Sho.
OK, now that that’s out of the way. What was up with the dancing scene? It seemed right out of Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, only without the platform shoes, and y’know, this time with the threat of rape. Kind of a stupid scene, no? Really, it was a scene that highlighted the problems with the series. More often than not, it seems that the solution to all problems is for Nancy to do something vaguely sexy in front of seemingly dangerous people. It’s fun, sure, but it isn’t particularly funny. The series needs Zooey Daschenel back (hell, any series could use Zooey Daschenel back). Perhaps her presence at the end of last season and the beginning of this one raised the comedy stakes to a level the series creator’s weren’t prepared to maintain.
I just want to laugh. Is that too much to ask?
The brightest spot in the episode was Andy finally having to show up for army. It provided more “potential” for comedy than anything, but at this stage of the game, potential goes a long way. Nothing else in the episode was all that memorable. Hopefully this changes in the coming weeks once Matthew Modine and Mary-Kate Olsen show up. Right now though… not so much.
Again, I just want to laugh. I’ll leave the drama to the professionals.
