There's a scene in the first or second season where he quips about American foreign policy in the high school bathroom with Ian and Mandy.

Let's not forget that Fiona is not their parent, she's their sister, and although she's had a more maternal role for, say, the younger three Gallaghers growing up, taking on guardianship of all five was clearly born of expedience to keep them out of the foster care system for good without having to depend on Frank or…

"Daddy Frank" was so gross and off-putting when Karen would say it way back in season one. Cannot fathom why they thought having a room full of people chant it was a good idea.

She was, definitely. And the shift in her characterization was especially confounding during that atrocious rape incident with Matty a while back, because she started off as such a bright, precocious kid who said things like "vaginal penetration isn't required for sex to occur," "Fiona takes care of everybody but…

WILL NEVER FORGIVE THIS CONTINUITY LAPSE

lol remember when Ian was "17" for like three years and then suddenly leapt into his early 20s since he's supposed to only be like a year younger than Lip?

The brunch scene was super annoying to me too. Reminded me of the self-hating hipster trope from last season, inasmuch as it strayed too far into caricature in a clumsy attempt to be timely (and was totally pointless to the main plot). For the record, I'm not saying those combinations of gender identities don't exist,…

What I DO like about this season so far is way more family interaction, which is the bedrock of this show. Showing them interact with Frank is, to me, a reasonable price to pay in exchange for more scenes between the siblings—if we're going to be forced to cede screen time to WHM anyway, which we are, it may as well…

I'm kind of dreading this show's caricature of startup culture, which already seems over-the-top. Shows like Silicon Valley have already hit the nail on the head wrt tech firms—we don't really need the Shameless interpretation of corrupt VC guys and eccentric programmers. Judging by how they've botched storylines like…

I mean, she didn't "let Liam do coke." I've gone on at length about this before, but I do think this show (and by extension its audience) does tend to hold Fiona to a ridiculously higher standard than any of the other characters, which is funny since she's done by far the most for the Gallagher family of any of them.…

Anybody else notice the cheeky lil' season one call back with Debbie (almost) stealing another baby? Funny that now she has her own.

"He also has some experience making friends with girls." Maybe not the best wording?

"Someone write Jaime a love ballad entitled 'My Right Hand Man.'"

I was like, WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE INTRO CREDTS and thought the video was fucked up. Nope. THE HOUND RETURNS!

So glad I wasn't the only one getting 2016 election vibes in that scene.

"HODOR IS A COWARD"??? Um, excuse you. Hodor (God, I'm so depressed now at the origins of that name) never wanted any part in this nonsense. It's despicable the way Bran et al exploited him. So done with their storyline at this point.

I'd just like to quickly say I told you so wrt Anika pushing Rhonda. K, bye

I won't rest until Sansa swears off men entirely OR marries sweet Podrick and lives happily every after.

See, I thought this episode sucked, but not that it sucks that much more than the other episodes this season.

PSA for fellow commenters: please, please, please. It's "Lucious" not "Luscious." I beg you, don't let this turn into another Lucius Malfoy situation. I have endured too much.