No one on the show deserves getting shot more than nancy, but ive always held out for. I had heard from a couple of insiders that this is what was going to. Its one of the reasons why shows built around central mysteries often have. I understand the logic of using the episode as an epilogue to nancys shooting, but nothing here got me any more excited about the rest of the season. Sep 27, 2011 spoilers ahead for those of you who havent watched mondays season 7 finale. He is seeking vengeance for nancys responsibility involving peters death. I had heard from a couple of insiders that this is what was going to happen, and then after comparing a closeup screenshot of the shooter to a cutesy picture of. Dont miss weeds, an addictive comedy, the highest grade tv has to offer. Spoilers ahead for those of you who havent watched mondays season 7 finale. In sundays series finale, weeds jumped forward several years to reveal that nancy and silas hunter parish business marijuana cigarettes called puff dragons not only was able to get off. The first season finale of weeds is chock full of incident. Luckily, she manages to find some pretty creative ways to deal with it. Nancy, shot in the head, is rushed to the hospital.
Spoilers for weeds season 8, episode 1, entitled messy, below. A list of everything nancy has done on weeds vulture. Weeds series finale ending what happened to nancy and. Find out in the 8th and final season of this critically acclaimed, hilariously addictive comedy. The victim is rushed to the hospital after being shot, with the. The season finale of weeds raises one very serious question. Do you think the series ended on a high note, or did it all go up in smoke. Jul 02, 2012 nancy botwins past finally caught up to her. Not only did 7 and 8 lower the stakes and give us a bunch of useless nonsense, but nancy turned into a horrible person through seasons 46, especially to her kids. In the season 4 finale of weeds, parker appears naked in the bath tub for an extended scene. The matriarch of one of the most dysfunctional families on tv kicked off the eighth and final season of weeds on the ground, covered in blood, having been shot in the head. Doug feeling up unconscious nancy shuddereww, the botwins. The weeds of today is a very different show than the one we encountered in the original pilot, but despite nancy.
The darkhumored dramedy about a potdealing suburban widow in california opens its inaugural season with nancy botwin marylouise parker dealing with family issues and tangling with a rival pusher. Weeds season finale as ridiculous as you might expect. On june, 2012, it was announced that season eight would be the final season. The final season of weeds premieres on sunday, july 1st, at 10pm. Sep 26, 2011 nancy was shot by tim scottson, who is the son of peter scottson, the dea agent nancy married in season 2. As the season picks up, nancy has spent three years in prison and now lives in a strictly monitored halfway house in new york city, where the family meet after the other botwins have spent three years in denmark. On life support matt richenthal at july 1, 2012 11. The matriarch of one of the most dysfunctional families on tv kicked off the eighth and final season of weeds on the ground, covered in blood, having. It has thirteen episodes beginning with messy and ending with the series finale its time part 2. The series finale jumps several years into the future and shows how the lives of the characters. Weeds picked up its eighth and final season right where last season s cliffhanger finale left off, in the moments after a shot rang out from the bushes during a family dinner at the botwins new compound in connecticut. Nancy being the one to get shot was a good choice the reveal of her with the blood.
Despite being surrounded by friends and family, many of whom seemed reluctantly tethered to. The finale may not be written as a series finale, but theres no way that a show as messy and dark as weeds could ever pull off a neat series ender. Weeds season finale as ridiculous as you might expect tv. Season eight picks up where season seven ended the family is eating dinner when a concealed sniper targets nancy through a rifle scope and fires a shot. Marylouis parker as nancy botwin and justin chatwin as josh wilson. Sep 17, 2012 lets talk about the final episode of weeds. Season 6s ending should have been the series finale.
The weeds of today is a very different show than the one we encountered in. The following recap of the weeds series finale, by its very definition, contains spoilers. That way, she could have penned a buildup to a finale that gave nancy. Messy might nod to certain themes, and that credit sequence might signal weeds coming full circle, but neither the larger story nor the season ahead felt any more meaningful in this 26. While she is still unconscious, the shooter, tim scottson, son of her late second husband, dea agent peter scottson, visits her. For those of you who watched, the moment when the red laser appeared on nancys forehead i broke out into a cold sweat. If you had sense enough to quit weeds years ago, this is how. Since surviving a gunshot from a hit man, nancy botwin makes a fresh start in new york doing what she does best selling pot and making enemies. Nancy marylouise parker found a dreamy new boyfriend, but he turned out to be a dea agent martin donovan. Season 5, episode recap dow jones, a news corp company news corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. The show finished its eighth season with an hourlong series finale that.
Plus, the final season of weeds is supposed to be coming full circle, complete with a return to the suburbs and nancys soccer mom days, so making the shooter someone from the early days of the. The american dark comedydrama series weeds was created by jenji kohan and aired on premium cable channel showtime. The matriarch of one of the most dysfunctional families on tv kicked off the eighth and final season of. About weeds season 8 the last time we saw nancy and the botwins, it was through the scope of a hit mans rifle.
Can she find out who put out the hit on her life, while remaining smoking hot at her business. Aug 30, 2008 weeds season 3 finale state radio kepp sake lovely song. Weeds has steadily gained live viewers from season to season. Certainly they cant finish the show with that finale. Weeds picked up its eighth and final season right where last seasons cliffhanger finale left off, in the moments after a shot rang out from the bushes during a family dinner at the botwins new compound in connecticut. Weeds was a halfhour dramedy created by jenji kohan that aired from 2005 to 2012 on showtime the show initially centered on nancy botwin played by marylouise parker, a housewife in the fictional suburb of agrestic, california, who, following the sudden death of her breadwinner husband, turns to dealing marijuana to provide for her sons silas and shane, respectively 15 and 10 when the. The eighth and final season of weeds premiered on july 1, 2012, and featured episodes. Nancy realizes that her wayward sons, especially silas, just turning 18, have raised themselves. With marylouise parker, hunter parrish, alexander gould, kevin nealon. Pilar and nancy are standing by the pool, looking stunning and exchanging death threats. Marylouise parker stars as nancy botwin, a suburban widow who begins selling marijuana to support her family.
And then we return to reality whatever that is in weeds. Weeds future was looking uncertain before the show was renewed for season eight and many suspected that the upcoming installments would be. After the shocking season 7 finale that ended with a gunshot aimed squarely at nancys. The seventh season of weeds premiered on june 27, 2011 at 10 e9 c on the television cable network showtime, and consisted of episodes. The season premiere picks up immediately after the mystery shot we saw in the season 7 finale do herdont do her. Shane, who has had a rough season getting shot started it all. Weeds is yet to be picked up for an eighth season, and i really wish creator jenji kohan had made this decision for showtime. Sep 27, 2011 weeds is yet to be picked up for an eighth season, and i really wish creator jenji kohan had made this decision for showtime. Nov 11, 2011 weeds future was looking uncertain before the show was renewed for season eight and many suspected that the upcoming installments would be the tv series vote up 0 0 vote down reply. But well get to that in a minute we left off with dmitri jacking heylia and dean for their milf weed, causing silas to reach a boiling point. Nancy had sprung from the joint and gone to new york city, where she made a fresh start doing what she does best selling pot and making enemies. Upon the conclusion of the weeds season 7 finale, it was unclear whether showtime would pick up this long.
The eighth and final season of weeds premiered on july 1, 2012 at 10 pm etpt on showtime. Nancy was shot by tim scottson, who is the son of peter scottson, the dea agent nancy married in season 2. No matter how many messy seasons or uneven episodes come between the pilot and a series final episode, the circular storytelling of a series finale often suggests that the middle was simply an amorphous journey between a definitive beginning and a definitive end. She met her late husband judah while attending berkeley, and hired nancy as a dancer for one of his performance pieces. An eighth season was announced in november 2011, almost two months after the seventh season finale. Season 7 finale theories spoilers holy shit rweeds. Its time couldnt have been a more appropriate title for weeds series. In the finale, nancy has to weigh whether or not to sell it to starbucks and retire with enough money for 10. A million little things unpredictable finale will leave us with more questions. After the shocking season 7 finale that ended with a gunshot aimed squarely. After that joint was fired up, any bad guy pursuing them totally succumbed to.
Sep 16, 2012 the eighth and final season of weeds premiered on july 1, 2012 at 10 pm etpt on showtime. After shooting stevies bar mitzvah cake in a temperamental outburst, he agrees to head to rehab and keep better company after nancy begs him. Weeds may have spent its last few years in a downward spiral, but its moments like this that kept my interest in the show afloat to the end. They made it sound like i was like, they made me take my clothes off and chained me to the bathtub, she said. A new spoiler reveals if the weeds season 7 cliffhanger was actually what viewers were made to believe. Tim scottson shot nancy at start of season 8 by alex moaba weeds picked up its eighth and final season right where last seasons cliffhanger finale left off, in the moments after a shot rang out from the bushes during a family dinner at the botwins new compound in connecticut. He is seeking vengeance for nancy s responsibility involving peters death. The dark comedydramas seventh season opens three years after potdealing nancy botwin marylouise parker has done a stint in federal prison and has been paroled to a halfway house in new york. Like all great episodes of weeds, it was the little things. Nancy botwins marylouise parker past caught up with her in a major way during sundays season 8 premiere of weeds. In the season finale, as the flames approach nancys home, she.
The assassination attempt cliffhanger will quickly be resolved and there will be a. Its been a bumpy ride for nancy botwin and guillermo gomez, with each wanting the other dead or otherwise out of the picture at. According to parker, she didnt find the shot necessary. As the final season of weeds begins, the botwins have to deal with that nagging issue of who got shot.
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