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!