Weeds: "God Willing and the Creek Don't Rise" Review

This has made the past two seasons worth it. This was best episode in at least three seasons, and quite possibly since the season four finale. Rarely does an episode with so much hype not only meet my expectations, but surpass them. And never has a Weeds episode been this emotional for me to watch. Feelings of nostalgia and sadness were creeping up in every scene and they finally hit a satisfying climax in the end.

Since I'm saving the amazing Andy-Nancy scene for last, I'm going to bring up the only flaws of this episode. Like every single episode of the season, Doug's storyline has little finality, Alexander Gould's acting falls flat, Silas's scene with Megan where he kept repeating the same line over and over again got a little bit annoying, and some of the cameo's were just there for the sake of having a cameo. Also, some of them felt like a tease.

Why weren't Celia's whereabouts mentioned?!! Only the fact that she wasn't there, as spoken by the awesome Pam.

But other than that, there were no other flaws in this episode for me. Now we all know Weeds has jumped the shark, but this episode was worthy of being at the peak of the show. It had a great cliffhanger, and everything just came together so well. I really hope they stay in Regrestic. This city must be magic to the Weeds writers, since they hardly ever deliver a bad episode in this amazing town.

One of my favorite guest appearances was Megan. When Silas stared her in the window in season 2, I just knew she'd be back. Little did I know, it would only take six seasons. When he confessed that he poked holes in the condom, they had a great moment together. It felt like even after that, she could still forgive him and be willing to forget what happened. She wasn't the only great guest appearance.

Guest Stars Best to Worst:
1. Guillermo
2. Pam
3. Megan
4. Lupita
5. Conrad
6. Yael

The MVP of this episode was definitely Guillermo Diaz. He had his trademark line-delivery and he created, yet again, an amazing character. At first I thought, wow, he must have forgotten who his character was, because he was really different. But then I realized that he had been through prison, and this is exactly what the character at the end of season six gone through prison would sound and talk like. All innocence gone and all-business, unlike the old Guillermo. Not to say he's not loveable anymore, because he still is.

A close second was MLP, as always. Her cry of desperation had tears in my eyes. That entire scene was ust so well-acted and so emotional you just couldn't help just staring at the screen, hoping for Andy to stay, but at the same time, hoping for him to get the fuck out, because it was obvious that Nancy was just letting him have sex with her because she thought that was the only way he would stay. Many sex scenes feel awkward in this show, but this one had been a long time coming and it was so well done that it was hard to not feel like this wasn't just some sex scene to fill the sex quota needed for Showtime, but something that was needed to finally let Andy know that he was just being used and he just needed to get out and start his own life. Go him.

Of course, he'll be back. If I'm not mistaken, he's credited for the next two episodes. If those two episodes are as good as this one was, then I will be one happy Weeds fan.

9.4/10