While this season had many critics, I still feel like it was above-average. However, not everyone would enjoy this, since it's really only for the people that really love the Botwin's. I'm going to be honest, though. I would have never been able to see this entire season in one sitting. It had no conflict, and nothing really to keep it going. When the Botwin's settled down, so did the show, and a lot of fan's have had mixed feelings about this.
I have to give this season kudos for the fact that they broke away from the classic thirteen episode season used by many shows, such as Weeds and Breaking Bad. This formula is spending about four episodes recovering from the cliff-hanger, about four episodes of filler, and then a bunch of action. This season spent about two episodes recovering from the cliffhanger, and then the rest was what seemed like filler until you realized was actually being factored into the character's ending. It was never really boring seeming-to-be-filler either, it was more just like, why are they showing us this?
While I'm not going to get too much into every episode (you can read my reviews for that), I'll provide a brief outline, what I liked, and what I didn't.
This season was about Nancy recovering from her head injury, but then that turned into her trying to redeem herself and close shop on the weed business once and for all. But then she realized that she was doing it all wrong, so back to Regrestic it is! Then, Andy realizes that if he doesn't get the fuck out, that he'll be hanging on to Nancy's coattails for the rest of his life, so he does just that. Then everyone from the show reunites in a reunion for Stevie.
This season's episodes ranged from great to some of the worst Weeds has every had. The great episodes are as follows; Messy, God Willing and the Creek Don't Rise, and the finale. The others were either good, meh, or bad.
There were some redeeming qualities this season that kept it going. Such as MLP's always-stellar acting, great character moments, and the danger-seeking Botwins finally settling down. Things I did not like include the fact that Alexander Gould seemed to lose even more interest this season, many character cameos or scenes that ended up just being filler in this end, and finally, Celia wasn't there. Well, then again, that can be said to be a flaw of every season since season five.
I know this was a short review, but I'm pretty sure this summed up all of my feelings about this season. There was way too much filler, it was really slow paced, and there was no conflict whatsoever. However, the first and final three episode are some of the best the series has had so far, and that's an achievement most shows don't get to achieve in it's eighth season. Overall, this was a great ending to a great series.
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