Grid Effect

So we’ve accused Rescue Me of making it up as it goes along, but this strikes me as ten times worse. Like, do they write these episodes after the previous one airs? Everything just ends abruptly and there are virtually no consequences from past actions. The only exception seems to be with Celia, and we are tired of the tone of acting with her and her family.

Everyone in the Hodes family seems to hate each other, except for one scene about every three episodes (we are ten episodes in, and those three so far have been Isabelle leaving Dean, Celia taking in Isabelle & Isabelle getting help for Celia). Mind you, this episodes scene took place after Celia grabbed Dean by his tie and slammed his head into a nightstand. God I hate that bitch.

But whatever, she doesn’t want to take responsibility for any of her actions, something of a running theme on this series. While I don’t mind such prevailing wisdom to be depicted on a series, I certainly don’t want the show runners to be defending such a mentality, as they seem to do on Weeds. We will give them credit where it is due though, Nancy did seem to own up to her shortcomings last night. All it took was a nice does of liquid peyote and seeing Guillermo again.

Speaking of which, could that scene have been any more unnecessarily long? This isn’t Fear and Loathing, I don’t need to see a five minute tripping sequence. Whatever, between that and the trafficked teenage girl, it brought us to the inevitable conclusion that Nancy’s guilt would eventually catch up with her and she’ll end the relationship with Esteban. She has an itneresting set of morals. It’s A-OK to run an illegal drug cartel while claiming to be a public servant, involved in probably a countless number of murders. But how dare you deal in human trafficking, that just crosses the line. Anyhow, her break up will probably put her in some sort of jeopardy, which I imagine she will be saved from by Andy’s loyal illegals.

The show took an...interesting turn last night.

Maybe Shane’s goth minions will come through with some assistance beyond a proposed three-way. My God that whole escapade was creepy, particularly when they were talking about positioning. We are kind of relieved in that they didn’t seem to go through with it, which none of them appeared to really want to. But why even present it? Especially if it ends up moot from here on out like so many other story arcs on this series?

Silas actually provided sound, if nonchalant advice. I guess you need to be able to do such things in lieu of a mother. Nothing like a high school dropout telling his 13 year old brother how to handle a three-way with two girls containing multiple piercings. We hope they drop the storyline with the cheese woman eventually. Are they still dealing out of her ridiculous store, or did that end with their monogamy? Also, did you like how she completely dodged answering the question about her husband? That was classy. I mean, the implication is probably yes, but Silas is no doubt going to cling to that ambiguity for the answer he finds most convenient.

Remember when this series used to be a comedy? Those were the days. We laughed once the entire episodes when Andu and Doug picked up Mermex and the other illegals. Everything from the hug who “thought it was part of the protocol”, to Doug’s impotent shove of him, to getting busted and offering up the guy who hugged Doug, that was a comedic sequence. It looks like the coyote angle is on a standing ten count, hopefully they can squeeze a couple more episodes out of it, because it has been a highlight of this season.

In short, Nancy got a migraine, Celia’s chained to a hotel bed in rehab, the coyote’s are over and done with and the Botwin boys are all sorts of confused. And this will all be resolved in a couple weeks. Not exactly riveting, but what else are we going to do on Monday nights?