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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Posted by ipodking

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Posted on 1/13/15 at 11:41 am to SlowFlowPro

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while slyly turning ian into an actual crazy person

Can't wait to see what happens with Ian this season. The previews make it look like he loses his shite.

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Posted by hiltacular

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Posted on 1/19/15 at 11:03 am to SlowFlowPro

Agree with most of what you are saying, they definitely seem to be struggling to come up with original material and are re-hashing the same conflicts we have already gone through. It gets tiring watching them struggle with things we have already seen them go through.

Not really sure where the show can go tho, I guess Jimmy/Steve is the surprise element and with him you can take it a few different directions.

With all of this said, I still enjoy watching it.

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