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Last week I wondered why we had to meet Bubbie at all given her short stay and lack of audible lines, but this week I learned that we met her so that Nancy could kill her so that Lenny could extort money from Nancy putting Nancy in even more dramatic jeopardy. Cool, now we are [...]

In the many roles Nancy Botwin has taken on these last few TV years on Weeds — widow, housewife, mom, drug dealer, God — it’s nice to know she can still play the respectful granddaughter-in-law in times of deep family crisis. And so she came through for Bubbie by sitting shiva and honoring ”a courageous [...]

The literal red and blue coolers were the first of the two in the episode’s title and dead grandma Bubbie was the third. This week’s episode saw the result of Bubbie being smothered by an orthopedic pillow at Nancy’s hand and the seven day shiva to follow was one of the funniest sequences done on [...]

(S04E04) Nobody mourns like the Botwins. I can’t decide whose behavior was the least appropriate; there certainly were a lot of contenders. Lenny’s countdown was extremely insensitive, and his actions throughout the episode didn’t do him any favors, either. I’ll save the specifics for after the jump, but he made Nancy’s Andy-ditching look like an [...]