Daily Archives: February 11, 2015

Shameless S5 E5

TV

Rite of Passage

Starting with my main complaint from last week, Sammi and Chuckie appear to show they are alive and well. The explosion at Sheila’s was way smaller than it looked like when it happened. The only visible damage shown is scorch marks on Sammi’s trailer, the house actually looks fine. No word on the dead man or Sheila.

Sammi’s problem now is that the person who owns the lot she’s got her trailer on is selling, so she’s getting kicked out. Frank promised her a new trailer with the insurance money, but it’s gone and Sammi still isn’t wise to how much her father actually lies. She does at the end though.

With Sheila gone and no money, Frank has no place to stay. He hatches an idea to use Wade’s weakness about his son’s death (Frank has his liver) to crash at his place. It almost works until Wade’s wife veto’s the growing insanity…until she pulls out her own crazy card.

Fiona and Gus make plans to tell Fiona’s family about their marriage, but when Jackie OD’s, that puts the plans on the back burner. Despite being surrounded by drugs her entire life (and the worst they have to offer) it makes Fiona fear for her future.

A big part of Shameless is how no one talks to each other. They keep things to themselves until it’s often too late. Everyone is off doing their own things and getting in trouble. It isn’t until the law catches wind when it blows back on everyone and it can’t be ignored. Fiona  and Lip finally find themselves time to actually talk, where Lip says he going back to school early. Working a horrible construction job and realizing that his hometown life is one of a circle of misery he realizes his only way to take really take care of himself and his family is to get out. It started right when he got home talking to his old friends and solidified with the stunt with Mickey (hope that AK doesn’t get dusted for prints, you shmuck). If anyone has a chance to get out, it’s Lip. Here’s hoping.

Carl is awful at math so he’s still awful at selling drugs. Debbie is going all out to be a prize fighter to impress her crush. Brother and sister to join forces to make money filming cat fights. This is not going to go well, Debbie is going to meet the wrong girl and get dropped.

Kevin and V’s side story continues to push them apart. Everything V says and does is stupid and giving the go ahead for Kevin to take off. Her last line to Kevin was pretty shocking (despite being a small part of the show, both actors do great work with what they are given).

Mickey and Ian are straight up broken now. Ian’s mind pushes him into unsafe decisions that freak out Mickey so bad he tells Ian he has to see a doctor. It’s been building every single episode and the ultimatum finally came. Ian bolts with Mickey’s son and now there is no telling what’s going to happen. Who can Mickey turn to? No way he’s going to call the cops. He didn’t know how to handle Ian before now, kidnapping is a whole new level. Ian is now a danger to others.

Let’s see, what else? Oh, Jimmy is back! Enjoy handling that monkey wrench Fiona!

Justified S6 E4

Movies

The Trash and the Snake

This episode turned out to be more set up than any major moves. Raylan has put things together: Avery is buying up land for potential marjiuana farms. He’s betting on the future legalization and wants to have the land to grow huge crops. By out the folks for cheap->profit. He’s going for it at all costs, if an owner says no too many times, they get into a rather horrific accident. So Raylan, being the good guy, isn’t going to stand for this guy stomping on his hometown for profit at any cost. He has a fantastic confrontation with him at Loretta McCready’s house. Huge bonus points for getting Dickie Bennett back, even if it was for only a short scene.

Ava spent the day with Hale, who is basically the combination of a pit viper and a bloodhound. She’s a complete nut with an ax to grind so she’s super dangerous. Hale implied that she knows about Ava’s arrangement with Raylan which Ava (rightfully) freaks out about. She’s managed to keep it together with Boyd, but this new angle of pressure isn’t going to  help any.

Boyd is still on the path to rip off Avery with Hale and Duffy. He knows where and what kind of safe he needs to break into, but he needs a new demolition source since his was shut down last episode. He find one through Duffy and…they gotta find another one. Don’t do drugs folks, it can make you absent minded when you really need to be paying attention.

That leaves us with the heist still being in the early planning stages and Raylan making it clear to Avery that he’s not going to get what he wants (for the first time in his life?). Hale might be swooping around Ava, but I think Raylan has the biggest target on him right now.