What you view as flawed logic is actually the reasoning of law. You can argue that in the universe of Shameless the law is routinely disregarded, but the show (as of now - this might change after talking with DCFS dude next week) is acting like these laws don't even exist.

It's a white person examining a black body, but it's also a woman having the upper hand in a situation with a man. It's not just about race. I enjoyed seeing a woman unabashedly treat a man like eye candy. This reviewer has less of an issue with the wonderful Thandie Newton being wasted on nude scenes where men (one…

Remember the first season of True Detective? People were disappointed to find out that it was a regular show about the police and they missed out on the quintessentially American gothic aspect of the killer being inspired by a little local island festival.

I've already said it a few times, but Lost compensated for its early slowness and undefined setting by providing massive amounts of information about the characters. It didn't take long before we came to care about these people. And then when things got dumb, Hurley popped up as comic relief. JJ Abrams has as many…

Logan embodies a particular type of "person" that we can only morally impugn with the distance allowed by watching it on TV. Logan is doing exactly what the park was made for (and I enjoy Ben Barnes as an on-screen presence. He's doing a great American accent. The Westworld viewing demographic probably doesn't realize…

That actor does some great physical work. I love how his "listening" mode involves no movement at all besides malfunctioning blinking.

She hadn't talked to him for 34 years in person. Her later comments indicated that she deliberately lied about interacting with his voice.

Hunky Head Security Guy = the secret third Hemsworth brother! I think he's the last one!

For being such a gorgeous kid, Cameron Monahan has chemistry with no one. I remember thinking that he had a spark with the first Mandy actress but that's it.

I think it's because we recognize certain "tells" in the scripting. It's very much in the writers' wheelhouse to show how easy it would be for Fiona to end up being a Frank-like parent even though her motivations seem different now. Saying flat-out that she's abdicating her parental duties so she can make more money…

Debbie was able to drop out, but Fiona was on the hook for ensuring that she was enrolled in night courses or a GED program.

Mickey has been convicted of attempted murder. There are legal grounds to sever his parental rights, and I can't see how the show would depict the trio in a lawyer's office but later have it come out that the lawyer didn't cover that. But it could also factor into the plot somehow so I won't rule it out.

I think he was talking about himself. He strives to create real human consciousness. But then what? What does he want to do with those new people once he's made them? He'll have put in all this work to create people when we already have less time consuming and cheaper ways of, well, making new people.

Logan will be back. Ben Barnes is a contracted series regular, at least for the duration of the season.

I think people have been somewhat clear about how you can have characterization mysteries or plot mysteries, but not both at the same time. The writers have hung their hats on some engaging actors, but that doesn't help them fully cheat the fact that they're not telling us who these people are. There are some viewers…

There's a fundamental quality of entertainment that I feel this show is lacking. Some people agree; others don't. What I will never care for is the argument that just because, on the meta level, a show's writers are attempting or lampshading something, that that somehow automatically equates to quality. Just because…

I think the show suffers for a lack of true plot tension. That the robots will gain sentience and more or less become human in "the ways that matter" is a foregone conclusion. Dolores apparently needs to reach the center of the maze before MIB does and I'm sure there's a reason but I doubt it's a good one.

Maeve was probably only pretending to be asleep during Felix's conversations with the other dude.

I just looked it up…legal guardians of minors are responsible for the housing, food and education of their dependents (I'm thinking more and more that this DCFS visit will end up focusing on Fiona, not Debbie. The two minor dependents have abandoned their educations under her watch). Guardians cannot legally spend any…

I think Debbie officially dropped out last year when Frank was teaching her how to commit welfare fraud, or something, but then she was shown attending classes again, which isn't how it works (I dropped out of high school in order to attend an accelerated night program. Part of the process involves you acknowledging…