I don't even care how many buttons they pushed in this episode, but every single storyline was lazy and predictable and awfully acted - Hymie's Chinese grandma is the absolute worst or phoning it in - and the music was TERRIBLE with all the bottom-of-the-barrel-indie-pop whoo-hoos and whistling and they put the final…

To 1-3…I Hope you are wrong, because those seem like the most predictable choices. 4 is pretty much fact to me, already.

He seems to be the same age as season 1 Liam. Season 2 Liam was a toddler with a pacifier. I suppose this is a running gag. I mean, his whole existence is based on a joke. Probably was a kid related to one of the creators or crew and they could not bring themselves to let Monica and Roberta take him away.

I take it you are talking about s3 when you say "last season"?

Well, I got somewhat better at it, but I am not entirely cured. Case in point for me right now: The Man in the High Castle. I think that show is soooo boring and not doing anything with its theoretically great premise. I didn't finish season 1, yet. But I will at some point, I am sure. And then I might just check out…

It took that guy 40 years to come to that conclusion? Took me only 30 years…

You are doing this show injustice by saying that there is a "wrong" side. They are trying hard to give both sides valid arguments. Try and see it from the Otto side of the medallion:

Hold on…the most popular show in all of television right now has no budget? Is that true?

I always try my hardest to defend what others think to be a ret-con, but not this one…it was too stupid. Especially with the "Once upon a time there was a girl…" way of telling it.

Coming to think of it…Karen seemed more capable of becoming likeable precisely until Eddie was gone. Ever since then, she's detestable. That probably just means that she needed Eddie as a target to throw all her rage at and now he is no longer there she will be despicable to everyone around her until someone else…

You must have still been on season 1 of the UK version. Starting in season 2, Frank left his dad to die. Not without reasons, but still.

Very disappointed to see the talents of this actress wasted on this one-note character. I get that she is punishing herself by seemingly turning off her emotions (for reasons we cannot fully comprehend), but in season 1 it seemed as if she was going to come to a realization. Unless that happens in the finale, she…

And he's not even McAvoy to still make up for all of that bullshit. Yeah, this version's (Jimmy-)Steve does not work at all.

This episode was like they looked up "bipolar disorder" on wikipedia and created a plot contrivance for every point on the list of symptoms for the manic side of it. And every single other storyline is equally ridiculous, just to bring all of them to a head in the next one. I think the show so far set a bit too much…

That is Sheila trying to suppress that she feels as if she just killed Nana Gallagher.

I had to check back in my memory for my grade, but I was pretty sure I had an A-…this season is great and constantly firing on all barrels in regards to the show I expect Shameless to be. As opposed to the first season, they liberated themselves from the source material (or maybe some of this happens in s3 or later of…

That seems to be a strong possibility. It's the first place they looked at and they were explicitly told that it's God, so there's irony in that.
Dog is God backwards. Like, they search for him in many places and then go backwards to the beginning.
Just as they left, there was that weird horror-movie type shot of the…

Instead of Dottie a young boy with a full life ahead of him got the heart. You could argue that the boy's life was saved, instead. I guess that is the only way that they could have pulled off this kind of plotline.

Yeah, I'm still with it, regardless of what I'm saying. If only for the MVP Jennifer, Kirk "Charlie" Acevedo and Aaron "Will Traveler" Stanford.

I'm catching up on both versions of this show. In the comparison, this episode SUCKED. And even without the comparison, this was standard tv with ridiculous plot points.
It's competent, alright. But it's vanilla and the tone is not working. The American way of storytelling is all over this one. It demonstrates the…