re: Shameless Season 5 Thread

yeah these were my posts back on page 1

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i tried to get interested last night but the show is boring and stale now.

i don't give half of a frick about kevin/v

lip's problems are over blown and they're REALLY forcing conflict for him (not as bad as last year. college isn't hard for normal people. he's a super genius. it would be completely cake for him)

oh wait frank is drinking? he's trying to think of creative ways to drink? NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE

from what the season preview showed, apparently fiona is a borderline psychopath and they're just re-doing last season's story but with a slightly less dramatic set of results from her new psychopathy

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a big problem is that to make lip/fiona likeable and interesting early on, they have to give the characters some value. both are intelligent, hard-working, and on top of shite. the only way to keep them ghetto (because this show refuses to get outside of a celebration of being poor), the writers have to keep creating crazy scenarios to keep them down

last season they literally turned fiona into a crazy person (while slyly turning ian into an actual crazy person). last season turned a genius that was capable of getting 1500+ on the SAT into a struggling college student who apparently became unable to read.

so what appears to be the conflict this season? fiona doing exactly what she did last season and lip having the exact same existential conflcits taht he had ALL OF SEASONS 1 AND 2 (But with a less hot gf. karen jackson is one of the hottest chicks EVAR)

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i will say that i laughed my arse off at frank's bender. that redeemed frank. using him as a tool for the dying doctor was nice, too.