Shameless, What is Happening?

[krickets]

So I am sitting in my car with 30 minutes left before I have to go into work, so I am using the iPhone LJ app to write this, which I've used sorta before, but nothing so complicated as an LJ cut. So I'm crossing my fingers that this works, and FYI there are spoilers for Shameless below.

What the ever loving fuck? This show is derailing. Can I just say that right now? We're three episodes into the season and I am pretty sure I don't EVER need to watch 2 out of three of these eps ever again. Whereas I've watched and loved each episode of season one 3 times each. (And could easily do with a fourth.)

There's something so disjointed about all of the storylines and I don't really feel like everybody's connecting in the same ways. I'm not sure I'm making sense, but it's early and I'm sitting in a parking lot on my phone, so go with it.

Can we talk about Frank a minute? This story the past two weeks has just sealed the fucking deal. We can now add murder to his list of sins. (Yeah, I quantify what he did with the pager as murder.) I just cannot even. Wow. And there's probably no way he will ever have to pay for that. And don't even get me started on the shit he said to Carl last week. All of his barely there redeemable qualities just went down the drain. But on top of that, I just need to see LESS of him.

In general, there's this weird imbalance going on. Don't like it.

And fucking show, way to make sex the most unappealing thing ever all through this episode. Just, no. And did I hear right? How would Lip not realize? Is he that incompetent in the sack? Just doesn't seem right to me that he wouldn't know, but then again I don't have a penis so it's not like I would know. Nobody was enjoying themselves. The working title for this episode could have been called "the one with all the bad sex."

I'm just sadly disappointed in everything.

Except Veronica. Thank fuck.

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Comments

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

This was a truly depressing episode. Veronica and Kevin were the only good parts of it for me, because even with their fight about the bar, they were still themselves. Frank needs to die in a terrible fire, and I mean that literally. I don't want him to crawl out choking; I want him to suffer and die because he is a horrible, irredeemable person. I'm not sure what barely there qualities he had before, but this was a new low and god. Can he just not be around anymore?

Don't even get me started on Steve. Jeez.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Yes, Veronica and Kevin are at least recognizable, and pretty adorable, along with their foster-daughter who's name at the moment escapes me. I like her a lot. And of course Debbie, who is always Debbie. I am glad Carl seems to have more of a speaking role this season as well. It's just difficult to not be irritated by EVERYTHING ELSE THAT IS HAPPENING!

I LOVE THEM ALL (except fucking Frank) it just feels so much less like a family this season for some reason. I need my Gallaghers to like, co-exist and not be in their own little bubbles. QUIT IT.

And Frank, well I was at the point where despite his constant thieving, I believed he really had started to care about Sheila. In his own way. But left to his own devices, we can easily see, that Frank is still Frank and he will never be anything else. It's disgusting. That woman had a chance to live and he took that from her. That's unforgivable. I hope she haunts him from the fucking grave.

ETA: I think the difference between this ep (and part of last ep too) is that before, despite how shameless things could get, you could still laugh at it in a small way, or at least care or feel something - relief, or sadness, or pain, or understanding. But this, all I felt was disgust. And hopelessness. (Except for V & Kev, of course.)

[hamarakissa.livejournal.com]

This episode was completely depressing... and all the sex was the most awkward EVER. Like wtf show?!?! It really does feel like it's derailing and I hope that it'll get back on its tracks ASAP.

Frank needs to go away again or at least not be so into the show. He is SUCH A HORRIBLE PERSON! Talk about bad influence he makes that statement true. His behavior is disgusting :x

I totally loved Season 1 to death... and I was the same with being able to watch the episodes over and over, but I can't do that with any of Season 2... yet. Let's hope it truly does get better - it has to!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

It has to. I WILL BE SO DEPRESSED IF IT DOESN'T.

[stainofmylove.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty worried about the show, too. Just ... the past three episodes have all had so much more Frank than almost any in the first season did, first of all. I remember watching the first season and being so confused, like, wasn't Macy supposed to be the STAR of this? And feeling relief that he wasn't! Not so much anymore, everything feels retooled around making him the leading character. And it's like, no, FIONA is (and Lip, but more in a scene stealing sorta way). And you're right about the family being split up and everyone in their own bubbles ... The tone is off, and everything is just suddenly much less fun to watch :\ I'm hoping Steve coming back into the equation will help this? At the most, it'll take screen time away from fucking Frank. I hope.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Worried is a really really good word. This show needs to go back to being awesome because it was this little gem of a perfect, perfect show and my perfectly imperfect Gallaghers and if it doesn't get better I MIGHT AS WELL DIE. (Whoa whoa whoa! Maybe a little dramatic there!)

I'm crossing my fingers that Steve coming back will bring some focus back to the show and edge Frank further out of the picture. (Could you please move over to the left? Little more? Litttttle more? Thanks, that's PERFECT.) Although I did have an issue with Steve's hair on his faux balcony. I won't lie, haha. Although it could have just been the green screening making it look super weird.(And for the record, he's not the only one who needs a haircut, Kev!)

Tone is off. FUN is off. EVERYTHING IS OFF.

I hope Frank ends up in jail with his mother, to be perfectly honest.

[elliotsmelliot.livejournal.com]

I saw this post, but waited until I watched the episode to read it. Frank reached a new low in terms of being despicable. Wow. And yes, that was a pretty bad quartet of bad sex. V & Kev are delightful. Ditto Debbie. I liked Fiona's storyline and felt it made a lot of sense, and it had some parallels to Frank's...in a much less shameless way. That connection made up for the disjointed feeling of everything else this season. Where is Sheila? Was Joan Cusack busy filming a movie when these were shot?