Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Pride & Predator
By Jacob Clifton | Season 6 | Episode 8 | Aired on 10.11.2010
We are now preying on people for the simple reason that we don't consider them people. And yes, the reason they don't come off as people is that they have no respect for themselves -- and this show is spending its middle third saying exactly the kind of nasty elitist shit they can and I can't say about people, just now it's turned outward, to the people who deserve it maybe a little less -- but in this context turning the other cheek is about respecting people regardless, because that is respecting yourself. Not being gentle puppies, necessarily, but not being lions either. And the only person who gets that there's no pride in this is Silas, who would seem to have completed the homeschooling course that Nancy's still working on. That Weeds is still working on. It's like Silas went through Nancy and came out the other side.
Nancy refuses to give Jack her name when she gets out of his truck, and slinks away feeling normal for like one second; she climbs onto Andy in the RV's bed and giggles at him until he realizes she got laid. "I want to stay here for a while," she says, and they have a whole conversation without talking. I bet a lot of Judah's conversations went that way too. She likes boys you don't have to talk to, like Jack. The bear. He grumps, because they're always on the run, and he finally grunts and hides his face beneath the blanket
Nancy giggles and goes to sleep, finally okay. She'll plant her eggs, they'll grow up big and strong, and when Esteban comes calling she'll introduce him to Jack. She won't love him less, because she knows that she could love him, when this happens. But it's what's going to happen. She knows that too.
A second later it's morning and MPG's wife is pulling a full-on Cally Tyrol, dragging her kids to the GOD IS AWESOME LOVE van so she can yell the word whore like a million times. When Nancy figures it out, it's kind of sad. It's sad for Jack too, and he actually apologizes to her for his wife's behavior. Which on any other show would obscurely, I think, make us hate Nancy more. But for some reason this show is so upside down that it kind of seems like the wife is being more of a freak than Nancy. Less of a latte-sucking mama lion and more of a beat your ass kind of mama lion.
Of course, Nancy's not the homewrecker -- that would be Jack, who wasn't wearing a ring and who fucked a lady not his wife -- so instead of meaning anything it just means that A) This is a guy we probably could have stayed with for awhile, and looked at the whole time and had lots of sex with the whole time and B) That at least, as Nancy admits later, he got the job done.