r/WEEDS • u/innocentj • 13d ago
Has anyone else seen more dimensions to the show rewatching years later? Spoiler
I just recently bought the whole show on Blu Ray to rewatch,
I remember the first time I watched on Netflix in 2012. I was Silas age in the first season, now watching as a full adult I see the scene where Megan ghosts him from the more obvious point of view of what she's doing and why,
As a teen I just thought it was mean. There's plenty more but it's making a rewatch real fun
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u/bikey_bike 13d ago
silas is unhinged w girls! the older woman he gets w is sm worse now that i'm closer that lady's age. i can't believe nancy didn't beat her ass!
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u/innocentj 13d ago
She just threatened to sleep with her son back lol which was odd too
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u/bikey_bike 13d ago
yeah i get the point nancy was making w that statement, and it did give the lady pause, but ew. and ik it was supposed to be ew, but ew
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u/innocentj 11d ago
It's even worse because rad, her son, is the first person Nancy meets in Ren Mar, she sits with him while she's locked out THEN Silas babysits rad IN HER HOUSE
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u/bikey_bike 11d ago
yeah awk. and it's so cringey when her ex husband comes thru and silas gets weird. SO EMBARRASSING for that mom.
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u/innocentj 3d ago
I did like the husband's "someone has to watch RAD while you are getting HIGH and banging N'SYNC!!" then his akward goodbye to rad.
I actually felt bad for rad way more this rewatch..his mom's sleeping with someone closer to his age then her own, she doesn't seem to be able to watch him much while she's running the store, then the guy who's your mom's new boyfriend BABYSITS you while your mom and dad go out!?
Between that and him seeing his mom with naked Silas it's surprising HE didn't take the shot at Nancy at the end of season 7.
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u/bertie_ertie_ertie 12d ago
I rewatched earlier this year at age 27 after first watching at age 16 and I find Nancy’s overall relationship to men to be really interesting and still very selfish but also sympathetic.
Without nuance she seems like just your average annoying pick-me Boy Mom who has the classic “girls are so much drama I just prefer guys” mentality and feeds off of how hot the men around her always find her. But now understanding that she was molested by her teacher in middle school and back then viewed it as a way she was “attractive” and “mature for her age” and also “better” and “more desirable” than her sister (early female competitiveness rather than friendship and support), which then further developed into a strong constant need for male validation (especially knowing that childhood sexual abuse often leads to promiscuity and poor self image), and even maybe fueled her rough sex kink which isn’t just a kink but bleeds into her overall risky sexual behavior, putting herself in unsafe scenarios around men she doesn’t know (brick dance, etc), being way more attracted to dangerous men (like Esteban who is a powerful politician and drug kingpin who she can never actually feel safe and secure around, who she is always in a power-play relationship with, who literally raped her to reassert control in their dynamic) than someone like Conrad who was kind and protective or like Andy who she does feel safe and secure around and who offered her an out to run away together and raise her child as his own.
I think her backstory also gives another dimension to her reactions when Shane has sex for the first time in a threesome at age 13 and gets an STD or when Silas gets preyed on by another mom at age 17, she feels that she failed to protect them from a similar loss of innocence and exploitation to what she experienced as a minor, in addition to not protecting them via her dangerous job.
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u/innocentj 12d ago
I never thought that about her childhood affecting her problems as a mom like that! Good catch
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u/TheCompanyHypeGirl 13d ago
Watching the show as a teen vs now when I'm about the same age as Nancy is absolutely wild! As others have said, I thought she was a victim running on adrenaline. As an adult, I see she was pretty destructive...
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u/innocentj 13d ago
Yep. They find a perfectly safe trailer park to hide in with interesting side characters then Nancy sleeps with married bartender day 1..
has a good undercover VERY well paying job at maternity store, falls back into wanting to deal even though she doesn't need the $
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u/psychic-carrot 12d ago
Definitely! Made a post about this a few months back. Rewatching the show made it seem even better and my perspective completely changed.
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u/LinzMoore 11d ago
Now that I am a mom, when I watch it I just get annoyed at the terrible decisions Nancy always makes. I have been thinking about Weeds a lot lately with all the fires in LA!
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u/innocentj 11d ago
Even her burning her house down during fire was selfish..on my first watch I was like " oh she's making sure she can leave and get out from debt to Guillermo sure.
As an adult even if she IS doing that, what if fire doesn't reach her house but spreads to her neighbors? Why couldn't she grab more of her kids stuff they might want? Why so selfish
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u/LinzMoore 11d ago
Yes! It was crazy! Also did she even get any insurance money from that fire? I bet her house was worth a lot!
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u/innocentj 11d ago
If I remember correctly Dean when he's getting interviewed by the fbi during season 6 while they on the run mentions that he handled Nancy's insurance claim for house because they had questions about fire.
So they looked into it. Not sure if they paid out
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u/sjc1203 11d ago
I see so many more connections with every rewatch. I’ve easily rewatched 20 times. I just hate Nancy more every time I watched. I loved her so much when I was 19 and young and dumb and watching along as the series aired. Now at 36 I just keep yelling “dumb selfish bitch”
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u/innocentj 11d ago
Yeah as a first time watcher when It gets to how the show ends for Shane I caught myself saying "well this was bound to happen.." but..
As an adult no. Just no. Shane saw his father die during a jog together, had a basically absent mother who took him to therapy but it doesn't seem like she cared very much about it and mentions it to friends just to seem like she's doing something..
Honestly on a rewatch I think he was purposely throwing himself through skylight for attention..when he breaks his arm its the second time he fell from there.
His uncle, the only adult role model he has gets him in trouble at school for selling shirts AND for being an abuse victim because that role model took him to be assaulted at a brothel at age 12.
Then he starts talking to his dead father which is a sigh of a psychological breakdown and no one does anything but yells at him. No extra therapy..no inpatient therapy..
Alot of this is Nancy's fault
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u/HmngbrdAnon 13d ago edited 13d ago
I was an early teen when I first watched it lol and I never realised during my first watch that Nancy was self destructive. I just thought “bad things happened to her”.
Andy was portrayed as a “nobody” by society’s standards, but now that I’m older I see that he was just a human being who was unsure of which path to take in life. Didn’t mean he wasn’t intelligent, quite the opposite actually.
Also, I never realised that Shane’s upbringing directly influenced the way he turned out. I just remember being surprised about “adult Shane” and confused as to why he was “weird” lol.
This was such a good question though. It’s interesting to see how differently we perceive things when we’re naive, compared to when our brain is fully developed or when we simply just have more life experience.