Weeds "Super Happy Lucky"

As the fifth season of Weeds continues to go on in Ren Mar, the Botwins continually lose morals which is what this episode is about. It is an examination of how little morals you can possibly have and still substain a successful life.

The episode opens with Nancy shooting deer as part of a game in a bar. She's still wearing an odd thing on her head from last episode and it still isn't working out for her. Andy comes up beside her and instructs her not to hit rabbits and yet, would it matter? Nancy has left a trail of humans behind her including a few husbands and a drug lord or two, so why should it matter if she hits a fake rabbit? Andy brings her home. Shortly after the family sits down, Esteban arrives with a new bodyguard for Nancy named Ignacio. He's funnier than the last two and tasers Andy on arrival because Andy has called him a thug. Here's a change. A Mexican other then Esteban who understands English. Of course, Shane, being a pubescent youth, doesn't react to this well and gets mad at Esteban for "sticking his penis in her vagina". I guess she never told them about when he raped her two days ago.

Shane sees his teacher smoking in the environmental garden. His teacher asks him for more 'product' and Shane promises he'll give him more. He goes home and puts a few 'sandwiches' from last season into a bag. Andy sees this and makes a remark on the depreciating morals of the Botwin family. He's one to talk. Plus, those sandwiches are probably already rotting. I think they've been in that refrigerator for a few weeks on that show. I really don't think you would want to smoke any weed that was in those. He comes back to school and gives it to his teacher, but the teacher drives away without paying him. Shane just stands there in awe.

Meanwhile, Silas and Doug investigate space for selling in their medical marijuana club. The go to an angry Asian lady who argues with them for awhile. She asks them what they're even planning to sell anyway and Silas says that he's going to be selling 'compassionate care'. She thinks that they're some kind of Jesus freaks. Silas has already gotten with Mary Kate Olsen in Season 3. Been there, done that. With the help of the corrupt police officer, they make a bargain with her and get the space.

While Nancy is at home, she receives a baby swing from Andy and has trouble putting it together. While she is trying desperately to put it together without the manual, Ignacio brings in Roy Till who has been watching Nancy from across the street. Ignacio has tasered him which has cause Roy to pee in his pants. Nancy tasers Ignacio which causes him to pee in his pants as well. Since Nancy is the best person at solving difficult situations, she handcuffs both of them to her bed. They explain to her that she has to make a choice for who lives and who dies. Someone rings the doorbell. Of course, it's Celia who wants to live with Nancy. Nancy says no and slams the door on her face.

While this crisis is going, Nancy takes a little break and goes for a stroll. She finds Andy working out in her garage. She calls him stupid politely. He looks inside a boxing glove and finds some information about Judah's 30 year old bank account. The teller at the bank explains that money is continuing to pile up in the account and that she'll let him have it on one condition--he goes on a date with her.

Esteban arrives to a stressed Nancy who is looking to a Magic Eight Ball for help. It probably makes better decisions than Nancy ever would anyway. To forget all the stress, he walks with her on the beach. I guess true love outweighs for Nancy.

"Super Happy Lucky"-Grade: A-

True Blood: Scratches

True Blood is also a show I've watched since it started. It has gotten steadily better since the beginning and is still great. Erotic and thrilling all at once, True Blood manages to please me for its 50 something minutes everytime it's on. Tonight's one was the best of the three this season so far.

It starts off where the last cliffhanger left us. Sookie and Bill are fighting over the incident with Jessica's family. Sookie attempts to explain that it wasn't her fault, that she didn't know Jessica was going to get out of the car. These retorts are of no use to Bill as he dismisses them very fast. Did Sookie honestly believe that Jessica wasn't getting out of the car? I mean, really, come on, it doesn't take an idiot to figure out that she was lying when she said that! As the show gets progressively better, Sookie progressively loses IQ points. I swear she was smarter and more likeable when we first met her.

Sookie walks out of the car. Karma for her stupidity comes in the form of what looks to be a minotaur. Well, actually, it's a maenad. I did my research. A maenad is an animal that feeds off lust and hatred. It makes three long gashes in Sookie's back and she falls to the ground because the pain is so intense. Jessica convinces Bill that he should go look for her because she won't come back to the car. Bill finds her and gives her his blood in attempt to heal her. She begins to have a seizure. Maybe it's lupus. (House, anyone?)

They rush Sookie to Fangoria. Jessica drives the car home. Eric calls a medicine doctor that says that she's seen these sort of wounds from a dragon before. The doctor pours a clear liquid on Sookie's back to boil out the poison from the claws. Meanwhile, Pam tries to resist going out in the woods to look for the monster because she's wearing her favorite high heeled shoes. Personally, I thought they were ugly and should have been lost to the mud in the woods. When she comes back, they're soiled and she has found no monster.

Sookie wakes up healed on a table in Fangoria. She can hear Ginger's thoughts which reveal that Lafayette is in the basement. Sookie lurks on her thoughts once more to find a gun which she uses to threaten Ginger to take her to him. She finds Lafayette alive, but just barely. Eric finds the two down there and works out a deal in which Sookie must go to Dallas to look for Goddrick, a lost vampire. Seems like the show is finally coming back to the books.

Jason's unimportant storyline continues at the Fellowship convention. While he's in a meeting, he remembers that he is troubled by dreams of the vampire he killed for his blood and confesses this to the female leader. She then confesses to him that she lost her sister to a vampire and pushes Jason further away from fighting for vampire rights.

Tara and Marianne continue to clash. She asks Marianne why she won't let her leave in a very subtle way, but Marianne ignores her and rolls a large and amazing joint. Maybe she gets MILF weed from Nancy Botwin (I'm just full of 'em today, aren't I?). Tensions boil over at a party in which Tara and Eggs finally kiss. Then, women start taking of their tops and acting like sluts. A topless girl comes over and gives Eggs a massage which prompts Tara to retire to her room and be mad at him. The party gets all "Eyes Wide Shut" and turns into a wild orgy. There's even a part where a fat man who I thought was a pregnant woman at first jumps into the swimming pool. Of course, anything too revealing is obscured by his belly, thank God.

Even more sex occurs when Jessica realizes that nobody is home, goes to Merlotte's, and brings home a guy of her own. When Bill and Sookie finally reach the house and start hooking up, they bump open a door and find Jessica having sex. Bill throws her against a wall. Sam takes a nude midnight swim. Daphne shows up to join him, complaining that he's to hard on her. He's about to be too hard inside her. Sorry, had to say that one. Anyway, he apologizes and she removes her shirt. All's not well when there's scars from the scratches from that monster too. There's the old True Blood twist.

"Scratches" Grade: A

Harper's Island: Splash

Hey, here's my first post. I've been watching Harper's Island since it first started. I'm not totally crazy about it, but it's a good summer show because it's just fun and that's all. Some of the episodes I've hated, some I've liked. This one was just okay. The three preceding this one were quite nice, but some of "Splash" was just plain stupid.

In "Splash", many characters meet their deaths in, of course, gory manners. The beginning immediately picks up in the Cannery with all the female wedding guests minus Abby. Let me tell you that it is the oldest stereotype in the book that all the men stand up and fight for the women. Anyway, immediately, John Wakefield, the killer if you didn't know, barges in. Nikki is stupid and tries to stab Wakefield and fails miserably, leading to her own death. Another guy, whose name slips my mind because he is less important, tries to kill Wakefield is a poor shot as is everyone else is in the show. Wakefield forces a long spear through him and so ends that character. All the other women escape when the character who just died comes back for one last breath. So stupid.

Next, we have Abby who finally meets up with the other guests who are out and about on the island. They ask her if she is okay, which she is, and Abby decides that she is bent on killing the killer. If you're trapped on an island with a killer, wouldn't the smart thing to do be run away from him and not come out to fight him? Sounds like a surefire way to get murdered. A lot of other things happen in which one of them involves them going to a church when they hear the bell ringing. Don't these people watch any horror movies? They look around and realize that nobody is there, but wait...where is Chloe? In a drain vent and imprisoned by Wakefield, of course! Cal somehow rescues her, also tries to shoot Wakefield, fails, and falls off a bridge. Chloe commits suicide over this.

Trish, Madison, and Beth go to the police station where the find all of the Sheriff's files on Wakefield. They find a file on none but...Jimmy! A second killer? More like another red herring which this show seems to be full of. Now that the writers want us to believe it's Jimmy, it can't be. I still stick with my theory that Abby is somehow in cahoots in all this. Also, I doubt Chloe actually died, but whatever, she was expendable anyway. As was Cal. See you in two weeks for the two hour season finale! Hope it's good.

"Splash"-Grade: B-