I wasn’t into “Cats! Cats! Cats!” very much. To be clear, I’ve always been a fan of Weeds. The willingness of the creative team to actually go places and jettison baggage dragging things down has been a plus for me. There’s no season I dislike as a whole, just hits and misses with more of the former. Last season’s fleeing in the form of the never-ending road trip worked wonders to breathe life into what even this non-hater considered a stale storyline in the Mexican cartel stuff while delving into the Botwin family dynamics/history.

This episode, though, felt weird and a little off-putting. Recent storylines and characters that showed some promise were seemingly dropped—no, not even “dropped,” they were simply spirited away with reckless abandon. The SEC business, Zoya, Shane’s internship with The Law, and whatever Aiden Quinn’s character’s name was come to mind. Crazy Zoya being ditched was okay in my book but for the fact that her reintroduction seems pointless in retrospect. Why couldn’t she just have been left in prison? She popped up, caused about an episode’s worth of zaniness, then departed. Okay…? I assume her brother is also done on the show since that sounds about right for Weeds’ M.O. Zoya’s scene with Andy that led to the title was amusing thanks to him, of course. More on Andy later.

Perhaps I foolishly bought into all his huffing and puffing for most of this season about how Silas is no longer an underling to Nancy (he’s his own big-boy drug lord now), but I was expecting a little more from him. A pretty girl comes along and he lays bare his entire operation, down to its complete lack of anything resembling security, then by dawn (hehe, couldn’t resist the BtVS reference) things are a bit in shambles courtesy his lack of thought process.  Though, really, I’m likely being too hard on him. It isn’t as if he learned from the best. Having Nancy as a template in both the ways of life and the ways of drug dealing was never going to end well for the Botwin boys, but at least—in my favorite character development so far this season—Andy’s actually learned a little bit and is simply trying to be a regular businessman with his eco-bikes.

Andy is far and away the most interesting for me. He’s just as funny as he ever yet he seems to have used the Copenhagen years to mature the most of all, to the point where his desire for some normalcy in the face of Nancy the Ruiner is tragically heartbreaking. Honestly, I’d kind of love it if by the end of the series everything is in complete shambles—Nancy dead while Shane’s imprisoned or something—with Andy left to carry on the way we found him, only now burdened with the fact that he couldn’t save his brother’s family except for the technically unrelated Silas.

As for Shane and Doug, they’re an afterthought. Status quo for Doug, but Shane’s been strangely all-over-the-map this year as opposed to last where I felt he and Nancy had good meat to their relationship. This vaguely amuses me since season six had him literally all over the map.

A good chunk of this maybe sounds like I’m not enjoying the show, so I’d like to clarify that isn’t the case. Up until this episode I was pretty on board with season seven so hopefully this was a hiccup and the good times can keep on rolling.

Until the big downer ending I’m partial to, of course.