yeah, I agree on it not being played for laughs, either. But some of Shameless's fans can be weird like that. I went over to the IMDB board (never again) and saw a few people "laughing" at the part in 'Emily' where Frank mistakes Sheila for his mother in an "oh, ho, you whacky Shameless!" way, when I actually thought…

oh my fucking god jimmy's back i can't handle this i'm going to kill a man i'm so fucking done with this show.

oh! that makes more sense. to be honest, I loved the note that Jimmy's storyline closed on and I'd been pretty sick of him at that point - I wanted to see a body because for all the showrunners' and Emmy Rossum's insistence that Jimmy is not, not, not coming back and very much dead, this is still Shameless and I've…

It's very different now. Every storyline has evolved so much. Fiona, Mandy,Lip, Ian and Mickey are basically totally different, if not opposite.

this is so fucking embarrassing I just feel bad for the guy.

I know, but I'm in the UK and we're about 8 episodes behind her. So I'm pretty bummed.

This is genuinely one of the most glorious pieces of writing on the AV Club. It makes me happy to think that, when I'm gone, my children and my children's children will have access to this.

Also I'm sure nobody is still reading this, but I haven't seen this one mentioned: Being single is terrible.

Nothing wrong with astoundingly bright, but just sayin' (and this is something no/hardly any TV writers pick up), there is a huge difference between being very savvy, witty and intuitive and being a good student. If you don't study and study HARD, you don't know it, and you're not getting valedictorian.

I have one recommendation for all you procedure sticklers: LINE OF DUTY, a UK show. Season 2 is amazing, everyone always lawyers up, everyone does their paperwork, and there's still a fascinating whodunit plot.

The best part of all that is IT'S NOT EVEN LIKE THEY COULDN'T KILL OFF DEXTER. THE SHOW WAS FUCKING ENDING. THERE WAS NO OTHER REASON. they wanted to release Dexter action figures or something?

Having not read the interview: maybe he meant, if you don't want to, you don't have to?

Yeah, I've talked about this a little bit below. I know TV works on a wish fulfilment basis but I hate either "everybody goes to an Ivy" or we're supposed to care because they meet some elitist bullshit standard.

A-fucking-men. I'm a poor kid who went a good school and then to the UK version of an Ivy League. I was one of two I knew, and tons more got rejected. Tons of smart kids don't go to Ivy Leagues. I'm sick of them trotting out the old "I went to Ivy League" as a reason why we should care or as a quick codifier for very…

Yep, but the only two serial killers who are of any real note - Hannibal and Garrett Jacob Hobbes - largely kill women. I respect Fuller for not turning this into, like so many primetime crime shows, a parade of endless dead/raped women. There's definitely a lot more diversity there.

THANK YOU SONIA I AM SO GLAD SOMEBODY MENTIONED DEAD GIRLS. it's just so fucking cheap and irritating, I scrolled through most of the list and thought it would never turn up. I amen everything you said about what a scary thing being a woman can be and how cheaply it's often thrown away, but watching something that…

@persia2:disqus why do you think Kubrick HAD to make that change? I sort of thought that a lot of Jack's lines reminded me of things that King would write, but a lot of Jack's OTTness came, for me, from Nicholson's teeth-grinding, madman line readings.

I completely agree! I love the film (saw it for the first time today) and it really makes horror into an art. Every scene is beautifully composed.

before I saw the grade I was like YOU CAN DO THIS JOSHUA

@Omar_Devone_Little:disqus Seriously, no sarcasm, what the fuck is Dexter trying to do with its characters? If they're trying anything, the audience seems largely unaware of it.