Agreed. I never got the impression that he was supposed to be stupid, just a despicable person. His rants are a pure testament to that.

Fiona was the first to leave at the end of season 2, because the actress wanted to leave I believe. Lip made his last appearance in season 5 because he's gone to University. Debbie joined the army at the end of season 6. In season 7 a ton of ridiculousness things happen with Ian, culminating with him killing a guy and…

Agreed. Watching that scene I couldn't help but wonder if Mandy was lying. Things were getting complicated with Lip and I'm pretty sure Mandy could tell that Molly was the tipping point. But yeah we'll see if this gets followed up on.

I think you're romanticizing it dude. In Shameless I like how despite their cartoonish scenarios character reactions seem real and natural without sugar coating anything. Ian's first thought when he saw the chance to run was probably 'this guy might kill me' and everyone's first instinct is to survive, so I don't…

I seriously doubt they'll even think about giving up Liam. When the kids were breaking down their typical stay in the system they mentioned Liam always ends up with some nice family, so what their facing now isn't anything new. Besides Gallagher's stick together like super glue.

I really liked this episode. Perhaps because I've been up all night marathoning season 2 until now and am a little loopy, but no I'll go ahead and say this is the Shameless I enjoy. Season 2 had little to no development of Ian's character but with season 3 he's been getting a lot of attention and this episode looks…