Last week Shameless really went for it in terms of what they could allow Frank to do without becomingcompletely despicable, and it somehow worked brilliantly, in a way that was shocking, poignant, horrifying and a little funny. What really helped were the scenes after Dottie’s death, where Frank went into a spiral of guilt. This week Frank is up and out of that spiral and he’s not changed too much, and maybe for that reason this episode, as enjoyable as it was, is just a fine episode of Shameless, and not a “what just happened” like last week’s episode.
All of the Gallagher children (Liam excepted, for understandable reasons) are really interesting characters. It’s unual that I would actually like to see an entire episode concentrated on any one of them. This week’s episode put much of the focus on Debbie, who broke into a stress rash thanks to all of the responsibilities she’s been taking on, from looking after her own siblings to running the daycare centre. When FIona realizes this, she soon sees to it that Debbie has a sleepover. Only problem now is that Debbie has no friends. The show did a great job of introducing a range of shifty characters for her to interact with – from the girl straight out of Sucker Punch to the lovely boy with chess cred and a busy schedule – and did an even better job with the fallout of the sleepover. Read More...
http://www.daemonstv.com/2012/01/30/shameless-a-beautiful-mess-review/
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