TV Review: Shameless (6×05) “Refugees”

Welcome back to my weekly review and recap of Shameless. Catch up on previous coverage here. I’m struck by how at odds I’m feeling with this newest episode of Shameless which in portions I adored and others I felt nothing but detachment from…

TV Review: Shameless (6×03) “The F Word”

Welcome back to my weekly review and recap of Shameless. Catch up on previous coverage here. Shameless by its very nature is and always will be a show about a family of screw ups doing their very best to live with the…

TV Review: Shameless (6×02) “#AbortionRules”

Welcome back to my weekly review and recap of Shameless. Catch up on previous coverage here. I think I know why I’m already having such a big problem with this season of Shameless and it all comes down to the characters. Or I suppose…

TV Review: Shameless (6×01) “I Only Miss Her When I’m Breathing”

Welcome back to my weekly review and recap of Shameless. Catch up on previous coverage here. There’s a lot to digest in the season six premiere of Shameless which returned tonight on Showtime. I spent a lot of season five talking about how things…

Five things we’d like to see in season six of Shameless

I’ve spent much of the last few years singing the praises of Showtime’s Shameless and complaining about the lack of awards attention it gets. Season one and four are two of the best seasons of any show in the last ten years…

TV Review: Shameless (5×12), “Love Songs (In The Key of Gallagher)”

There is a big sense of everything being reset to the status quo in the season five finale of Shameless. Nothing big happens, people shift in the roles they’ve dug themselves, and the Gallaghers regroup, pick up the pieces and…