Same. They can't have a truly meaningful storyline about Fiona trying to be independent or resenting her responsibilities to her siblings if they ignore her legal guardian status, how she fought for it and how it restricts her choices. But they've been doing that for awhile, so my conclusion is that they don't care…

One would think. But this is exactly what they did when they introduced Caleb last season-suddenly Ian was a hopeless buffoon who didn't know how to date or any basic relationship norms, despite us having seen him dating and being in a relationship already. I don't really get why they think this is the right way to…

Re: selective amnesia. Ian worked in a gay club for two seasons and had a group of queer intellectual friends (remember in season 4, he brought Mickey to a house party where one of them was fascinated by him being a pimp). It's hard to believe he would be this ignorant about the LGBTQ spectrum. They've done a total…

Not to mention, the bipolar story here was quite muddled. I've talked to several people who walked away thinking Ian didn't do this because he was manic, but rather because he empathized with the patient. Someone suggested to me that the point was that Ian wasn't having an episode, but his family and boss always…

I've been wondering about this, too. If they renew again, they'd have to renegotiate all the actor contracts. I wonder if that would be worth it for what is clearly a dying show.

Kev and Vee's marriage problems were in season 5 (and a big UGH to that). Season 4 is when she got pregnant and had the twins.

Oh, yes. It peaked in season 4.

I spend way too much time thinking about all the promising storylines this show set up in season 4 that they just completely abandoned or destroyed. I'll never really understand it.

It's such a shame that the show never figured out how to do this story well, because it had such a great start back in season 4 and could've been a big source of growth for Lip and an interesting change to all the sibling relationships.

Mickey was forced to marry Svetlana when she ended up getting pregnant from his rape. It was always left ambiguous what, if any, sexual contact he had with her in their forced marriage.

The show where Ian has been gay and quite sure of that from day one.

I think it's more the producers ensuring that they're still getting in hetero sex scenes while they let Fiona have a couple episodes off from dating.

I'm really not following that logic. He betrayed his own confidence in himself and his sexuality, and that's supposed to make him not feel humiliated?

Shameless doing a nonsensical, out of character "sexual fluidity" plot with Ian as an excuse to shoehorn an explicit hetero sex scene in. Color me not surprised.

This show used to be so good at getting the small details of living in poverty right, but they've mostly abandoned that in the last couple seasons.

Sheila's house blew up (thanks to Frank's home brew set up) and she drove off in her RV to see the world. It was a rare happyish ending for a character exiting this show.

I used to think they would go there, but the time has passed for them to do that plot.

Nancy Pimental (ep/showrunner) did an interview with TVLine in which she basically admitted they're trying to be "zeitgeisty" by chasing all these stories about sexual fluidity. They don't seem to care that they're messing with established characters and relationships in their quest to be trendy.

That was my problem with Kevin/Veronica/Svetlana last season, too. They set it up as Veronica cheating on Kev, and him barely caring because lol it was with a lady! Then suddenly everyone is sleeping with everyone and it's all cool. That is not how healthy poly relationships are formed.

"It’s clear at this point the show is content to erase Mickey—he doesn’t even come up as his son becomes a bigger part of the story in the throuple—but I have to imagine that those invested in Gallavich are still going to have some issues with the way Ian’s story has played out."