I'm finding it so-bad-its-hilarious, but that was a wise decision. Especially if you like any of the actors involved.

Seriously. The dialogue is ludicrous ("That's not how it works, my fellow one-percenter!") the voiceover is the worst kind of literary writing (and I have an officially snotty MFA in that stuff!), and the characters are vapid cartoons and, except possibly for the grandfather, terrible, self-absorbed people.

Isn't saying Monica and Ian "understand" each other doing what Ian most resents, reducing him to his bipolar disorder? We don't know enough about Monica to know if she's ever experienced all the other parts of Ian's life, that are still real. And "understanding" someone isn't the be all and end all of taking care of…

Oh, come on, Frank was a lot more than "rude" to Sammi. You couldn't illustrate that comment better.

For me the best part was Liam poking her body in the background.

I've always found a lot of Sean's "no no you bring chaos" push-pull towards Fiona to be manipulative, tbh.

Liam poking Sammi's body while Debbie was freaking out and Mickey was casually weighing disposal options was brilliant. But as brilliant as that scene was, having that actually be Sammi's death—followed by being dispatched in a moving crate—would have created a huge rip in the fabric of Shameless with re to Chuckie. …

Yep, I was totally taken aback when Jocelyn rested the case. That was it? I think the idea of following through the aftermath is good and resonates with what the first season was thematically about (rather than just the whodunit/plot)*, but it's been very uneven.

It doesn't take very much digoxin over a therapeutic dosage to cause toxicity and interacts with a fair number of things—they could arguably she just think she accidentally took an extra dose or something like that.**

From her perspective, that's what she's doing—she's not getting revenge ON Ian, she's getting revenge on everyone else and using Ian as means to an end. I think that was pretty clear from her telling Ian he has a good heart, and then spitting out to Fiona that it's awful when someone you love is taken away. Carl's…

I don't have kids (yet?) but it didn't seem to me to be out of left field at all. . .I thought that was a pretty weird assumption for the reviewer to make (and I missed a third of the episode, including Ian telling her about his delusions, because of a stupid guy who couldn't find my neighbor's apartment and buzzed me…

Actually looked at the picture this time and it totally looks like Shailene Woodley is reassuring her co-stars that they will in fact survive this ridiculous franchise.

I'd been figuring that Mickey and Ian were going to come to blows, in a fight initiated by Ian, and genuinely tense about the fallout, so I'll admit the show really got me with the MPs at the end, when I was feeling all Pat Benatar mellow. Although I don't know that the problem is that Sammi is Frank Jr,…

I think Lisa was in a lot of ways the first adult female sitcom character I really related to. (I loved Murphy Brown, but I wasn't going to grow up to be her. I might grow up to be Lisa, and that was pretty all right.)

Yup. It's precisely because she sees Ian is a relative innocent that she went there.

I think I remember you commenting in the episode where the back story was revealed, and being really glad you were there! It really was the plot element I felt most conflicted about, and didn't want to make a kneejerk yes/no assumption.

It's irritated me from the first time I've heard of this damn series that the stupid faction names aren't grammatically consistent. Also, the world-building, such as it is, makes no fucking sense.

If we're going to talk about the Native American subplot, can we at least quote some actual Native people? It makes me uncomfortable to see how so much of this criticism of this as a "dealbreaker" has no Native input whatsoever.

The stuff people cite as being "unrealistic" on this show baffles me some times.

I also think it was in line with the episode when Cyndee comes to New York, and Kimmy is at first appalled that Cyndee is profiting from being a mole woman, but finally says it's not for her to decree how Cyndee chooses to live her post-bunker life. Donna Maria isn't cute and young and white (one of the first jokes…