Weeds at 15: In defense of Nancy Botwin, an anti-heroine ahead of her time
, which is now available on Netflix because licensing is quirky like that. Bookmark it for later if you never got around to finishing the show the first time around.
Here’s a take you probably weren’t expecting: It’s hard for me to think about Nancy Botwin, Mary-Louise Parker’s doe-eyed, scrappy mother on the Showtime dramedyLike Nancy’s husband, Judah , my grandfather died unexpectedly of a heart attack off screen and before my time .
For my grandmother, this involved extensive penny pinching and a life insurance policy. But what if she hadn’t had those options? Because, for Nancy, it meant selling weed.. After all, it starts with a caffeine-addicted pretty white lady in a Land Rover who is mostly welcomed by her suburban yuppie neighbors to hook them up with a drug that has sent legions of people of color to prison .
There’s also a shocking amount of the comedy that may not read as well just a mere 15 years since its premiere. In one early episode, Nancy’s brother-in-law Andy masturbates while masquerading as Silas during an instant message sex chat with his young nephew’s girlfriend . In another, he takes Shane to a massage parlor. Eventually, he’ll become a benevolent coyote known as El Andy, and Shane will bludgeon a female drug lord with a croquet mallet .
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