Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh Nancy. I just can't do it anymore (is what I wish Andy was saying in this picture).
I have tried, really I have, to recap these past two episodes. But I just don't have it in me any more. Nancy has always been a character with a lot of flaws and things to dislike about her, but over the seasons she has maintained an aura of charisma that helps the audience to understand why people keep doing things for her, keep falling in love with her, and why, against all rationality, she has not yet been murdered. That charisma or whatever it was is now gone. In its place is the human embodiment of selfishness walking around on two skinny little legs.
All Nancy does is bring bad shit to those around her. It has been so sad to watch Andy with his dreams of legitimacy and of establishing a life for himself outside of Nancy's sphere of control just get completely fucked over. I'm tired of her being able to fuck her way out of any situation. I'm tired of her being, as my friend Michaela put it, just "a doe-eyed vagina". She treats everyone in her life terribly, using them for personal gain at every opportunity, and there's no redeeming aspect left to her. Sure, her sister is awful, but is the audience really supposed to want Nancy to get her third kid back when she continues to use and abuse the two she already has? When Weeds started out, yes, she was doing something bad and yes, there were unlikable aspects of her character, but she was fighting against the white suburban system of privilege or whatever and she had a dead husband and kids to feed and it was easy to root for her. Since they left Agrestic her motivation for dealing has become her addiction to danger and dangerous men and that is just UGH. Andy, who is The Best and who singlehandedly saved season 4, is just sad to watch now. Weeds missed an opportunity to get them together and have it be passionate and hilarious, and now the only thing I want for Andy is for him to successfully extricate himself from Nancy's life forever.
Aside from Nancy being awful, the writing on this show has just gone so far downhill. Remember when it was funny? Like, consistently, reliably original and funny? Even Doug isn't funny these days, and that's saying something. Remember when it was sexy? When even though you thought Nancy was being dumb and thinking with her ladybits it was great to see her finally get it on with Conrad? Now there is plotless gratuitous lesbian shite and an old, old man. UGHHHH. The realistic aspects of drug dealing have never been Weeds' forte, but things have gotten unbearably bad from a real-world standpoint. Like, nothing that has happened this season would ever actually happen at all. NOTHING. From the halfway house to the inexplicable student loan scam to the SEC bullshit to Doug's job to FUCKING MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG gluing Andy's bike shop upside-down like she is the birds from The Twits or some such nonsense. Bitch, you don't have shit on the Roly-Poly Bird. Seriously though, any show that has to bring in Michelle Goddamn Trachtenberg (I care not if I spell her name wrong) as some sort of excitement/antagonist is really struggling and grasping for relevance. I hate her in everything (ugh Georgina Sparks ughhhhhhhh) and this is no exception. And sorry, but Silas isn't that dumb. He just isn't! After everything he has been through, he is just not that dumb (nor is Shane dumb enough to print shit out instead of putting in on a flash drive, helloooo, this is 2011), but if I start listing all the ways in which this show is WRONG about EVERYTHING, we'll be here forever.
When I was talking to Michaela about this, I brought up Celia. Although sometimes her plotlines weren't great, Elizabeth Perkins is a great actress (Big, anyone?) and Celia was the perfect antagonist for Nancy. Always causing problems, sometimes inadvertently, stumbling along in her own narcissistic terrible-mother world...but always willing to call Nancy on her shit. Without Celia to be a mirror and foil for Nancy, things have run amok. People call her on her shit, but no one is willing to stand up to her and tell her to fuck off.
So that's what I'm doing. Fuck off, Nancy Botwin. I'm over you and I refuse to watch you destroy the lives of characters I like in completely unrealistic situations any longer. You have made it surprisingly easy to quit you.
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