Yeah, they were pretty clearly (and douchily) excluding Carl from their big family plans.
It feels like cotton candy!
Yikes, Karen!
Is her contrite act just that…an act? Or has she changed? I’m looking forward to her and Mandy having some sort of showdown over Lip.
And Ian. Ian, Ian, Ian. Honey? Micky isn’t going to change. His dad has ingrained a homophobic streak in him a mile wide and, while you may benefit from the occasional times when he can put that on the back burner, you need to just let it go.
Also, I guess I didn’t realize or remember until last night that Micky and Mandy are siblings.
But this was funny:
Mandy: Guess who! ::grabs Lip’s crotch::
Lip: Jimmy’s Dad!!
Good episode last night. Really powerful acting from Emmy Rossum in that courtroom scene.
I’m just going to assume that Lip & Ian testified offscreen before Carl & Debbie. Their testimony would’ve be alot more damning. I hate how nobody mentioned that the camp Carl attended was for terminal cancer patients or that the last time Frank came home his buddies pied in Debbie’s room (because she was the only kid who didn’t lock him out). I did like the look on Fiona’s face as the judge was explaining how she basically won’t have a life of her own, at least not for 16 yrs. This was not news to her.
Regarding Hymie; isn’t Jody legally his father since he’s married to Karen? 
Karen is a sociopath; I don’t buy her act for a single minute. She wants something. She looks like a heroin addict. Did she blow through her father’s life insurance money already? As for Ian & Micky; yeah that’s not going to end well. I’m betting Micky commits suicide, possibly by cop after murdering his father. I’m glad they clarified what’s going on with Lip. So he should’ve graduated by now, but he’s missing 2 classes. I wonder if he bothers going back. His crab mentality is getting really grating.
And it looks like they screwed up the Aunt Ginger thing. Simply ratting Frank out would take him out of the picture, but then the house would probally ended up getting seized by the government. Is Patrick one of Frank’s brothers, or a more distant relative?
Well, in service of the story they wanted to get all of the kids back under one roof again but they also don’t want to lose Macy from the show. Cutting him out completely wouldn’t give him much to do, so they give Fiona guardianship and Frank still has his parental rights. Not very realistic, considering the level of damage they could have done to Frank in that courtroom, but it does what the writers need it to.
As for Lip, he said something about this being his second senior year. Wouldn’t that make him at least 18 years old, and therefore out of reach of the juvenile authorities? So why did he end up in foster care?
And I thought Patrick was Aunt Ginger’s son. If you remember the EMT who picked her up was a friend of his. Most likely he said something to Patrick about her passing and so he filed the will so he could take and sell the house. BTW, the bit where they had to locate a body to substitute for Aunt Ginger (and then remove a toe) was disturbing, both to watch and presumably for them.
Yeah, I could totally see that happening.
Pardon me for butting in. I don’t have Showtime so I’ve never seen the show, but I just read on my friend’s Facebook page that their band (Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band) will be featured on the show this Sunday and in some upcoming episodes. On her Facebook page Breezy Peyton said “If you have Showtime, be sure to tune in this Sunday to Shameless to hear our music. They are using almost half of our new album. We will be on episodes 8, 10, 11, 12.”
I knew these folks before they quit their day jobs and decided to devote all their time to touring and making music. These are the nicest people you’d ever want to meet. Their steady success couldn’t have happened to a more deserving band. I’m so proud and happy for them! I hope everybody likes the music. [/not spam, honest! I’m just thrilled for them]
Wow, that’s really cool. I always notice the music they use in the episodes, because someone who works on the show really does seem to spend some time searching out quality music.
I agree with you on this, but their use of Wilco (not the music, just the band’s name as part of a plot) was pretty laughable. First of all, Wilco is big in Chicago but will never be Solider Field big. Second, nobody would believe that Wilco was playing a secret show at an untz-untz nightclub.
I forgot about that part (that was an episode I was only sporadically watching, as I was going back and forth tending to kids). I was a little bemused by that choice.
I don’t understand how the toe chopping worked. The corpse now has an unhealed missing toe. Wouldn’t that be a problem?
Hush, you.
Probally not. I doubt Aunt Ginger will get an autopsy, and the Gallengers will take the cheapest funeral option possible; direct cremation. They were just being overly cautious.
It was ridiculous and the whole part with the body bothered me and my suspension of disbelief. A lot about the show is hard to believe, but that really pushed the limit.
How is it overly cautious? It’s like a big red flag if there is an autopsy or someone like EMTs notice. Why would the coroner, pathologist, or EMTs know she was supposed to be missing a toe? On the other hand, it wouldn’t be hard to notice that a toe was removed post-mortem.
I think they could have had her declared dead without a body and it would have been a lot more believable, but I concede the show is not necessarily focused on believability.
OK, as long as I wasn’t missing some obvious explanation. That was a total WTF moment for me.
Nice to see Karen hasn’t changed at all. Lip may be as big an idiot as he his a genius. Hope he used a condom this time. Debbie’s solution was pretty funny. Another interesting subplot introduced, then quickly resolved (like the schoolteacher, Mandy’s trannie sibling, etc). I think Frank living with a serial killer would be more interesting; I wonder where this is going. Doesn’t Chicago already have domestic partner benefits? :dubious: Illinois does have civil unions and is on the verge of marriage equality (granted it’s too late to work that in this season).
Yeah, ridiculous as the show is, it was the fact that Wilco fans would believe that Wilco was playing at that sort of club that made me laugh in disbelief.
I don’t understand what happened to Karen. She was a sympathetic character at the beginning of the show; even during her crazy phase when she fucked Frank I still liked her. But at some point she just went completely crazy. Lip needs his head examined.
I’m assuming/fan-wanking that she just pretty much completely broke during her crazy phase. I agree season 1 Karen didn’t show any signs of being a sociopath until after her father metaphorically pissed on her that one last time. Damaged, sure, but not vicious. Her dedication to her mother was touching and she seemed to have been flirting with the possibility of having a semi-normal relationship with Lip. She had shown some signs of selfishness, like being lured by a car and appropriating Frank for school. But none of it that unusual and could be explained away in context.
But at some point she flipped over from damaged to out and out broken. Which does happen to be sure. But I’m not crazy about the direction the writers took her and how they did it. It was a little jarring.