Sheila Callaghan. She's been on quite a bit, at first just responding to fan questions, but then actively seeking out fan conversations and interjecting herself.

One of the show's writers has been tweeting a lot this season about their intentions and defending the show to fans who aren't liking it, and I thought some of the comments she's made are very telling. For instance, re: Ian's illness and why we haven't seen any of his treatment or path to recovery: they thought they…

You kind of lost me there with the Fiona vs. Mickey comparison. Are you talking about what the show expects fans to think, or what other fans expect people to think? I think most who feel Mickey's prison sentence isn't deserved don't believe that on moral grounds, but because of logic. His farcical accidental…

I'll just add to the Ian observation that I think your explanation of him acting out a loving relationship is interesting, but it would make a lot more sense to me if we hadn't already seen him in a loving relationship.

To me, this felt like the first glimpse of real Ian all season. I always loved his friendship with Mandy, and it was a welcome return tonight. I wish I could believe he'd be sticking around, but I suspect that pod Ian will be back for the rest of the season.

I would also argue that Ian's perspective on his relationship with Caleb in this episode is in opposition with what we've actually seen. Caleb has been his whole storyline this season, and last week the show made a point of showing them getting emotionally close, with Ian near tears saying he's so happy. And this week…

I'm at the point now where I almost wish we didn't get the occasional glimpses of how good this show is capable of being. It just makes the current state of things that much more frustrating.

I'm not sure they're going to take the story anywhere; I think they just wanted to give Caleb a surprising trait in the hopes it would make him more interesting/garner them the kind of attention and praise they used to get with Ian's previous relationship. As we've seen with Ian's bipolar (and countless other things…

I would be happy about it, too, if the story was actually about his new purpose. Instead, it comes off like a background feature that's there mostly to lend legitimacy to the romance arc. He wants to be an EMT now, why? Because his new boyfriend suggested it? We haven't actually seen him in class or heard anything…

Completely agreed re: Lip and Ian's stories. I find those the most frustrating this season, and it only gets worse with each passing week. They're both getting short-shrifted. Lip's story is all about who he's having sex with, when there are much more interesting stories about his college experience and moving away…

Agreed about Fisher's new show. But given the way the writers have been treating Mickey and his relationship with Ian in retrospect, I doubt they intend to bring him back regardless of his other jobs.

I see a lot of commentary about the show being better in Jess's absence, and I agree, but I don't think it actually has anything to do with Jess or Zooey Deschanel. It's the writing. With Zooey leaving for half a season, the writers had to actually get creative, and it's clear that the challenge invigorated them. They…

I expect something like this too, assuming that they're actually interested in dealing with the situation in a real way (not always a certainty on this show anymore). If I was Jess and I came back to see that my ex had moved right in on the girl who moved into my room, I'd be stung. It could dredge up some old…

"Cooler" got a B+ on this site? What on earth, that's the exemplary peak New Girl episode.

I scanned this list waiting for Mickey and couldn't believe it when I got to the end and he hadn't appeared. What an oversight.

How exactly is commenting on one aspect of a show akin to seeing it only through the prism of that one thing? You seem to be reacting to things I'm not actually saying as an excuse to rail about something that bothers you on a personal level. It has nothing to do with me or my perspective, so I'm not going to bother…

I didn't make any assertions about what was said on that panel, so I really have no idea what you're talking about. I simply said the discussion was had, indicating that the cast and crew of Shameless has no reason to feel disrespected by the audience thinking critically about these issues.

That's not actually how facts work, and I don't have to do your homework for you. I never said Alexander wasn't "cool" with doing nude scenes, I said that she had discussed being caught off guard by a request to change a scene to suddenly include nudity when it wasn't initially written that way. Which I only brought…

I don't appreciate the hostility or implication that I'm making this up. Both Sherrilyn Fenn and Sasha Alexander have spoken about this publicly. Feel free to google.

That's an interesting point. Last season, some fans were upset at the lack of physical affection and sex scenes for Ian and Mickey, because it seemed to be a double standard when all the heterosexual pairings got so many of those types of scenes. One of the arguments that was used to defend it was that because Ian and…