Episode Report Card Jacob: B | 3 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Doing The Backstroke
By Jacob | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2007.08.13
The drug guys chat and bitch at each other for awhile and it's not that interesting or funny. U-Turn offers the other guys $100,000 (half their investment) to take off. Conrad freaks, but the Armenians are feeling it.
Nancy can't get ahold of Celia, not to mention that her Armenian minder lights up a cigarette in her car on top of everything else. They discuss her hybrid's mileage and sit very still. Smoker guy gets the call from Keshisyan and takes off without a word. U-Turn's representative is convinced the car is set to blow, so he and Nancy back up off it, but then U-Turn calls him and says that both Nancy's ass and grass are now his, having bought off the Armenians. If she doesn't turn up the pot soon, he's gonna have to shoot her in the pretty head.
There's kind of a neat parallel here with the Sexy Mama weed, where it's simultaneously fucking up both her regular Nancy life and her drug dealer Lacy LaPlante life. It's an emotional MacGuffin on the Agrestic side, where both Silas and Celia are basically trying to force Nancy to love them using the pot, while on the grow house side, it's just this menacing lack that is threatening everybody's actual physical lives by its absence. So instead of the pot eroding chunks out of her Nancy life, like in the first season, it's now working backwards, and all her real-life people are taking dangerous chunks out of her Lacy life by using it -- the exact same commodity -- for their emotional blackmail. Which they only feel is necessary because she spent the entire second season retreating into Lacey altogether because she couldn't find a balance. I never thought they'd be able to find yet another fresh way to play Lacy and Nancy off each other, but it's just a brilliant reversion. Kinda tells you everything about where she's at right now, doesn't it? Considering Nancy doesn't even KNOW that her child is now wandering the world with $13 in tampon money?
Doug and Dean are now having a spa moment with green facials and bottle after bottle of pharmaceuticals, still locked up tight in their host's bathroom. Talk of wife-banging leads to some intense discussion of their penises forever and ever, and eventually they bet half their stake of the sale on penis size. They drop trou and flash each other, and then decide -- given Dean's alibi that he's a grower, not a shower -- on two out of three, fluffing themselves. While wearing mint facial masks, in some Agrestic parent's lavender bathroom. Andy is going to be so jealous! It's only when somebody knocks on the door that they realize they're accidentally now having gay sex, and have thus taken way too many drugs.