Wednesday, January 29, 2014

What I’m Watching: Shameless


Shameless: Season 4, Episode 3 “Like Father, Like Daughter” (B+)

Things are really getting out of control, even for the Gallagher family. Fiona got the chance to see that her boyfriend’s family life isn’t perfect, but unfortunately that led to a very miserable decision on her part, which she easily could have prevented but chose not to. Robbie answering Mike’s phone when he was asleep the next morning and telling Fiona that it was going to happen again was even more worrisome. I can’t imagine that Mike is going to be willing to forgive her when he inevitably finds out, and it’s going to make her work situation extremely unpleasant. Lip is doing his very best to try to stay serious, but it’s proving to be much more difficult than he had anticipated, some of which is his own fault for not putting enough effort in and some of which is due to other forces altogether. Deb is continuing to get great advice on how to be slutty from her friends, and it’s a relief that her boyfriend is opting to keep things platonic for now and not sleep with a thirteen-year-old. Carl stealing dogs to sell them back to their owners is typically deranged, and of course it would result in a low rate of success. It’s great to see Emily Bergl as Frank’s oldest daughter, who bonded so much with him and even offered her liver up right away, but then tried to kiss him, which made for one physically awkward scene. Sheila restarting her love life is actually going well, even if listening to Deb’s undefined terms wasn’t the smartest idea.

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