Welcome back Nancy — it’s been too long.

As I alerted you, Weeds made its triumphant return last night. However, the return wasn’t quite as “triumphant” as it was “transitional.” The show — which is usually consistently and darkly funny — was able to get its tone back immediately, but the matter at hand now is to transfer the show’s setting from the burning cul-de-sacs of Majestic to an oceanside town near the Mexican border. There was a lot of ground to cover, including setting up Celia for the fall on the drug bust and introducing the character of Nancy’s father-in-law played by a sleazy-looking Albert Brooks.

Sadly, this means no more Conrad and Helia. Apparently, the rest of the gang is along for the ride, though.

One of my favorite things about the episode (besides a great scene with Nancy and a goofy neighborhood kid) was the rampant use of Yiddish. Since the episode brought the family back to deceased dad Judah’s house, they really played up the Jewish angle. If you don’t know many Jews, let me tell you this — if there’s one thing we love it’s when people (even, perhaps especially, non-Jews) use Yiddish in everyday conversation. We just can’t get enough. I’m serious. And when they were throwing out “goyisha punim” and “shiksa” left and right, I was kind of in heaven.

That’s about all I have to say about the episode, except one thing. On a hopefully non-catty-sounding note, there have also been some noticeable cast weight fluctuations during the hiatus. The guy who plays Guillermo seems a little more robust than on the season three finale. Meanwhile, the kids who play Isabella and Shane thinning out a bit as they go through nature’s changes.

I regularly watch the Tonys. Go ahead and laugh. I know it’s silly and a giant advertisement to go see a play and the awards are very predictable, but I have affection for the usual musicals and plays.

Last Sunday’s show featured the usual singing and dancing and Sondheim and Brits. It also featured the strangest acceptance speech I’ve ever seen. I did not understand what was going on.

According to youtube, he’s quoting from “The Back Country” by Louis Jenkins. Okay then, Mark Rylance!

The only other thing I know about Mark Rylance is that he doesn’t believe Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare (thanks, New Yorker). I’m with Stephen Greenblatt on that one, though.

Anyway, the Tonys! Into the Heights and South Pacific and August: Osage County won, and I really want to see Passing Strange.

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