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Weeds: “A Pool and His Money”

And the cliffhangers continue.

When we last left our Fair Heroine, she just found out that her best friend had found the marijuana she had frantically trying to locate it -- and kindly deposited in Our Fair Heroine’s swimming pool.

Plus we get yet another take on the writer’s twisted view of sociology. In their worldview, only white people live in the suburbs, only brown people work as their servants and black people of course all live in the ghetto. How enlightened!

But on the plus side we get to see actress Mary-Louise Wilson strip to her underwear and dive into the family swimming pool. Because, after all, why not?

Okay, to be fair, there's something about Wilson's character's need to scream out loud -- even if it only takes place underwater -- that seems a lot more familiar than I would ordinarily like to admit. Perhaps it is because you do not necessarily need to be a drug dealer or a drug user to want to scream underwater in this current economic climate. And you do not even need to have a pool.