Cash Game

The plot thickens!

Boyd doesn’t get what he was looking for from the bank heist (a boat load of cash) and goes to his partners to shake their trees. He wanted this to be quick and easy so he could take off with Ava. Along with this, we find out that the guy looking to buy up all the property, Ty, is part of a para-military group. This guy is a problem. His not so subtle threat to the older couple would put anyone on edge. The three guys (so far) served together and are working with someone to fund them. This, of course, has the guy Boyd’s partners wanted to rip off (Calhoun) right in the middle.  Calhoun realizes that his life is more important than money a little too late…maybe Raylan can help him.

So this revelation brings Raylan into close proximity to Boyd. Nipping at his heels really. Any scene with these two automatically means great things.

1) The talk Boyd and Raylan have outside the office was just delicious. Amazing writing and acting. It’s the stuff that this season will be remembered for.

2) Ava and Boyd confrontation. Holy animal, when Ava comes back home with the paper work Boyd hid in the shed! Raylan freaked her out when he implies Boyd wanted her to find that stuff (he didn’t). She decides to go on the offensive and it works. So intense, so good. When he leaves she practically passes out when she gets back into the house.

3)Choo-choo! Oh my god this new character is the best! I love him! Awesome introduction, he should just get better and better. He looks to be the muscle of the Ty group, but man is he funny. I’ve never seen Duke Davis Roberts before, he’s a hell of an actor. Perfect fit for the show.

The Two Lisas

This week’s title refers to the lesbian couple that are trying to buy up all the property in the neighborhood. The gentrification duo who are Frank’s nemesis…but not enough of of threat for Frank to deal with directly because he’s too busy with his basement brewery. He enlists Carl to come up with some scare tactics to get the Lisas out of the neighborhood, but it doesn’t work.

This was a major relationship episode, everyone is getting twisted up:

Sheila wants out and she wants it now. with or without Frank. She goes as far as getting a down payment from blonde Lisa. She starts to look into getting a swank RV to live in and Frank manages to talk her down until his brewery plan blows up in his face. Plus he basically pimps out Sammi, who rightfully flips out on him. One of the best Shameless arguments in the street from this.

Kevin and V are still at odds over their kids. The rub and tug over the bar gets shut down by the cops so V takes matters into her own hands to get a new lucritive buisness up there which takes up all her time (which Kev is not too happy about).

Moving on from any potential relationship with her boss, Fiona agrees to a date with the singer of a band that keeps hitting on her. He turns out to be a quality liar, but hey, she finds out right away and can spare herself the drama. She strikes it up with the bass player (who is an amazing singer) so maybe they can be happy together (probably not).

Mandy’s crap boyfriend gets a job out of state and tells her she’s coming with him. Mickey and Ian object and Ian turns to Lip for help to convince her to stay. Lip’s non-ability to commitment and fear of feelings push her away. The scene where they are together for the last time (?) was heartbreaking.

The Carl and Debbie raging teenage hormone battle reaches new heights. Carl has developed a skill that gets the girls to give him a hilarious nickname. Debbie’s idea to throw a party pushes her into a crazy realm of adulthood that she had no clue about. Her age and rush to grow up has made her life worse, not better. She has no idea which way is up now. Pretty ingenious idea from the writers, this is the most intense thing happening aside from Frank’s catastrophe.

Great episode, some really crazy stuff happened. Next week should see a lot of fallout.