I’ve been a fan of Broad City from the start of the TV show and last week the series came to a close. Five seasons of Abbi and Ilana lead to a smart conclusion: growing up.

I can’t tell you how many times Broad City put me into hysterics. Saying this show is “so funny” is the fast and lazy way of summing it up but it’s true. It’s like Workaholics with brains. Abbi and Ilana are absurd, gross, real, and sincere. The most important traits best friends can have.

You can tell that Abbi and Ilana are friends in real life. They have a chemistry that can’t be faked and with how crazy they go with these characters that’s a must. They trust each other to make it all work and it usually does.

Abbi plays it straight and wary, the vessel for most of the audience. Ilana is chaos, the grab the world by the bridles and ride it until there is nothing left free spirit. Ilana has no desire to find out what being an adult is all about. Through the show, they navigate their early 20s basically joined at the hip. They balance each other out, Abbi leaning on Ilana to be her guide to getting out of her shell and Ilana relies on Abbi to keep her from going truly overboard. For a while they ride the waves that New York City sends their way and never look more than a few days into the future. Maybe as far as the next time rent is due.

Then things change. Not with themselves, at first, but those around them. Starting last season, Ilana breaks up with her long time boyfriend, Lincoln. That’s the first major wave that knocks Ilana off her surf board that I can remember. A major life disruption that she wasn’t prepared for. Then this season there was a try for reconsilition that’s quickly followed by the crushing reality that they aren’t compatible anymore. Lincoln wants to leave the city, start his own dental practice, and put down roots. He’s ready to start a family. Ilana is younger, with no desire of having kids now. They have truly grown apart and have to move on without each other, something that Ilana reluctantly accepts.

Abbi has a reality check not long after Ilana does, right when she turns 30. She gets into a relationship with a woman for the first time and she comes to realize that she’s been treading water for years. Her girlfriend is older and it becomes obvious that they live in two different worlds, maturity wise (trying to show off on social media can be dangerous and enlighting, folks). Living paycheck to paycheck doing small jobs she hates, a slew of comically bad relationships, and getting high with Ilana all the time is starting to get old. It’s only fitting that Abbi and Ilana, while high together, realize they are co-dependent.

I know this all doesn’t sound like a comedy but it’s the years-long experiences of these characters–that often end up in embarrassing situations–that is the heart of the show. Abbi and Ilana have a blast together, through the best and worst of times, and they depend on each other’s reliable behavior to keep trucking on. So when Ilana applies to school to get into psychiatry, it’s huge. It’s Ilana making moves on her own (and her finding this path by doing that “session” with Jaime in her apartment is one for the ages). She instinctively wants to stay in NYC so when Abbi applies for art school in Colorado, that’s another mountain they have to navigate together. It’s also the most important challenge of their young lives.

I love the series finale. It has all the components that make the show great and I think it’s completely satisfying. A lot of thought went into it as the last season gives every major character a send off (my favorite is what they came up with for Bevers).

I’m a big fan of stories that end not by cutting things off like a dead limb, but by showing that this world does continue. It’s just that the cameras are being shut off and we are all moving forward.

Found

The end of season nine brings us the first main cast member of the show to leave. Fiona Gallagher, one of my favorite and one of the most important characters has moved out. From the pilot episode, Emmy Rossum has brought the keystone of the Gallagher family to life and she’s going to be missed.

A lot came together on the season finale so let’s start from the top.

Deb moves front and center as the matriarch of the family. With Frank parked on the couch for the next few months recovering from the broken leg, he’s now a full-time burden. Fiona offers to kick off the solution making and Deb says she’ll handle it. A schedule is made to rotate his care and everyone helps except for Liam who is still missing in action. Good timing on him but it makes Deb go looking for him which finally reveals to the family that he’s moved out. Except, he told everyone days ago but no one was paying attention to him.

Now that Liam knows what a functioning home is like, he sees no reason to go back with Deb. He does hand her a list of demands to get him back and a bewildered Deb leaves him be for now. This is two circumstances where Deb took over for what Fiona normally does: organizing care for the family and going to get family from their life in crisis walkabouts.

Deb also bonds with Carl over Kelly the “Heart Beaker.” It’s been a while since these siblings have run together and during this close time she finds out about how bad Carl is feeling. As far as she knew, he was only upset about Kelly. In a heartbreaking scene she finds out that he was also rejected from West Point and he’s going to drop out of military school and work full time at the fast food place to begin working towards store manager. He’s given up and resigned to work long hours next to a fryer. With Liam out and Carl in pieces in front of her she realizes she’s got a lot of repairing to do, something she’s watched Fiona do her whole life.

She takes the high road when she meets Kelly again, telling Kelly that Carl has given up because he now has nothing to work for. Deb was wrong for what she did and what Deb wants isn’t what matters here, it’s her brother. Kelly and Carl had the relationship that was important. When Kelly finds out that Carl is dropping out of school, she marches to Carl at work and pulls him out by his ears. Even Carl’s boss is impressed. It’s a reunion that’s fit for Shameless.

That leaves us with Fiona. She watches Deb steer the ship with a sense of surprise and awe. The groundwork for this started around 2 years ago when Fiona went into real estate and moved out. They were all adults and had to fix their own problems and pay their own way. It was the start of Fiona looking out for herself, she was done with being The Fixer. But then Fiona crash landed back into the Gallagher homestead and she found herself back at the start.

Max wasn’t kidding though, getting her that $100,000 payout in just a few days. A way out was delivered into her hands and the growing sense that she had to take advantage of it couldn’t be ignored. Frank is back sucking the life out of everyone. Deb wants to take over Fiona’s bigger bedroom for her and Franny. Watching Deb handle Frank meant that Deb could take control of anything. Her reasons to stay kept getting smaller. Fiona even gets away with punching the neighbor with a $2,500 fine. Her lawyer tells her to drop the nonsense, grow up and move on with her life. Looking for another push, Fiona goes to visit Ian and jail and he agrees with the lawyer. Fiona is surprised by his answer and he calls it then and there: You are looking for someone to tell you “no.” To pick the easy way for you on a decision that is scary. You have no reason to stay stuck in the mud.

So Fiona does it. She’s caught by Deb packing her bags and Deb runs to get Lip who understands what she’s doing right away. He doesn’t try to change her mind and insists on having a going away party for her and everyone runs out to get everything together. With all of the reasons for her to stay put out of the house, she makes final preparations to leave. If she doesn’t go now, she doesn’t think she ever will.

And then the scene. Frank is on the couch and they have a final confrontation. While he may praise her to others about raising the family herself while he and Monica were slowly killing themselves, he can barely say it to her. With his feebled body on the couch, he doesn’t even initiate the goodbye and his response is curt and shitty.

“You did a good job. Monica wasn’t up to it, you stepped in and helped. Thanks.”

“Helped? I did it all, Frank.”

“Well, if that helps you sleep better…”

“…See ya around Frank.”

“I doubt it.”

Fiona doesn’t try to fight the ego. Why bother shouting to a brick wall? Frank is Frank and that’s always the reason why people want to get away from him. He’s obviously upset she’s leaving, one in a list of many who have done so, but he can’t outwardly admit that. Life goes on and Fiona gets on a train to parts unknown to start her own. Not without a final gift to her family: $50,000.

Emmy leaving creates a big hole in the show. She’s been the nucleus for nine years and it’s going to be weird without her. This changes the family dynamic with the most reliable sibling being taken out of the picture entirely. So what characters step up? Will Deb simply take over Fiona’s standing? Ian is coming back next season, will they add any more new main characters? Bring Kev and V more? While this is sad, at least Fiona isn’t dead. This is the chance to do more with other characters and I hope they don’t leave Fiona as an after thought as is the norm for the show. It’d be nice for her to be mentioned her here and there so we know where she is. This feels like a momentous season that had some good peaks, I hope the writers can keep the momentum going.

Lost

Liam exists! And everyone is miserable!

So it turns out the writers directly address one of my biggest WTFs about the show and that is, where is Liam? Turns out that his entire family hasn’t noticed he’s been gone for two days, Fiona looking for him one morning and asking everyone where he is. Liam’s been with his friend/bodyguard at his grandmother’s house. While everyone is slogging through the swamp Liam has been kicking back watching TV and eating awesome food. When Liam’s friend asks him why he doesn’t answer his phone, he responds, why should I? They didn’t realize I was gone for two days. Can’t say I blame him.

So back to the misery pit. The Kelly situation comes to it’s natural peak just like I thought it would. Carl is distraught over Kelly breaking up with him and Deb is smug about it. With the break up done she now thinks she has her foot in the perverbial lesbian door. While sulking at work, a guy comes in to rob the store. Thinking the gun is fake, Carl tells him to bugger off and the gun goes off, just missing him. Not a good time to mess with Carl. He jumps the counter and beats the dude with the fryer basket. While Carl fends for his life, Deb sneaks a smooch on Kelly and she does not get the response she was hoping for. Kelly heads for the door (she goes as for as to apoligizing to Deb for leading her on) as fast as she can. Kelly and Deb now know Carl was right and at the end of the episode, Carl and Deb bond over “Kelly the bitch.”

While Fiona took the “stay off the streets” route last week by going to a meeting, Frank stuck to his stride and true self and crashed in Fiona’s old apartment building again. Not a smart move as Frank wakes up to a wrecking ball coming through the wall. He barely makes it out but breaks his leg. He waves off any help and limps home, collapsing in front of the Gallagher home. The kids get him into the house and it’s revealed why he said no to the help, he had all sorts of drugs on him. He manages to finish his drug deal in time to get taken to the hospital where Fiona sticks with him as long as she can before meeting a lawyer about her assault case.

The interesting thing here is the divergent path of the two Gallaghers. Fiona is on the first step back to sobriety. She knows she can’t stay in the pit she’s been in for the last few months…she ended up right next to Frank and she knows where those choices go. She’s going to her obligations. On time with her lawyer her gives her advice that could mean she avoids jail time. She’s already going to meetings and she’s looking for a job. Through the entire episode we watch her make progress. She’s not “cured” of course, she’s still in the pits but she’s looking for the light in the darkness to find a way out. Much like Deb and Carl’s heart to heart, Fiona has one with Lip about how she feels like she can never get ahead. And at the meetings she doesn’t think she can call herself an addict, but she knows it’s in her family and she’s been dealing with her losses with alchohol. Frank is the opposite. He rides that addiction train through another gauntlet. Through the hospital system for the umpteenth time, he’s barely tolerated and he’s literally left on the street to fend for himself at the end.

Lip navigates another crisis with Lori. She’s getting a lot of pressure from her father, and he comes to visit Lip at work to talk about the baby. Lip doesn’t know what Lori is doing with the pregnancy and this makes it sound like she (or her dad) has made the decision to keep the child. As we know, Lori doesn’t take to others calling the shots, so this power play by her father may push her into a choice that spites her dad. On top of this, there’s a history of breast cancer in Lori’s family and she gets tested for a gene that greatly alters her own life expectancy when it comes to being pregnant or not. It’s possible that having a child could prevent her from getting cancer. Lori never wanted to have kids. It’s a lot to handle and they are both forced to wait for the test results.

Kev and V are back to the sweet lovin’ but Kev’s stamina has taken a hit over the sexless 2 weeks. Kev is afraid the surgery changed him and Kermit and Tommy at The Alibi are no help with the pep talks. Something does come up to distract him: their twin swap trick at the school comes to an abrupt end. It took months for the sisters to figure out the Ball’s had more than one kid which is pretty amazing. Now caught, they have two options, pay $1400 in back tuition or Kev needs to play the role of Jesus at an upcoming church event. It’s an easy choice but Kev has two shoulder a massive, heavy cross for 150 yards. No on said scamming came without punishment.

The final note for the night is Fiona’s run-in with Max, the guy she got into the deal with for the retirement home property and her apartment complex. You know, the guy who ended up with everything. At her new job working the graveyard shift at a gas station, he walks in to pay for gas and snacks. Shocked at where she landed since he’s last seen her (behind an inch of bulletproof glass in the hood), he offers Fiona a way out. While the retirement home deal is not expected to move forward for at least six more months, he offers to buy her share of the investment deal out. She’s going to get her $100k back.

A window has opened in Fiona’s pit and she can see the light that’s leading the way out. Her efforts to get back on her feet, no matter how small and insignificant they seemed to her, are paying off.

You’ll Know the Bottom When You Hit It

Don’t be mad. It’s no ones fault.

Xan

A lot of what I was hoping was going to happen, happened this week. Lots of necessary talking and confrontation goes down. Plus, the classic Shameless side talking digs come fast and furious. Surly Fiona can be really funny.

At the start of the show, Xan says the above line to Lip and once she leaves with the DCFS agent, he promptly goes to Fiona’s room to pack up all of her stuff and throw it onto the curb. In a heavy Fiona episode, anger is the focal point.

Fiona spends most of her day at The Alibi and day drinking Fiona makes a quick impression on V. When she asks for a vodka on the rocks, V accidentally makes her a vodka cranberry. Frank moseys in just after a blackout starts after setting up a supply line to sell the neighborhood the needed essentials at a significantly raised price. Since no one in the South Side prepares for anything, it’s a good time to be a hustler. Since Fiona has nothing to do and about $100 to her name, she strikes a deal to help Frank sell. Her business acumen kicks in and she gets much more ambitious than Frank. Ditching a half-assed wagon idea, she creates a stand for them to sell much more. It works.

When Fiona makes her way home in the middle of the afternoon and finds her stuff outside, Lip is there to greet her with a fight. They have it out in the kitchen and Frank breaks it up (for quite possibly the first time in his life). Lip tells her to GTFO and she tells him to GTFO of her house. Lip tells her to go to a AA meeting and Frank rolls his eyes at the judgment. When Fiona storms out, Frank leaves too but with some parting advice for Lip: You should be thanking her, raising 6 kids by yourself isn’t easy.

So Fiona and Frank go back to The Alibi. Furious Fiona asks V if she can crash at her place and Frank divies up the days take, Fiona gets aggressive and Frank now has advice for his daughter. While they continue to drink, he tells her she’s a bad drunk. That makes her laugh at loud and he lays it out to her: you’re abusing the gift of booze. She doesn’t get drunk and have fun, she gets angry and wants to fight everyone while thinking about the past. In eccense, Handle Your High or else. Normally when Frank gets on his soap box it’s the ranting of a brain pickled by substance abuse and scams, but this is downright sage like wisdom that only Frank can deliver.

As the day goes on everyone is sweating it out with no power, except for Liam because again, he doesn’t exist. Deb continues to buddy up to Kelly which drives Carl nuts and the battle comes out in front of Kelly. She’s weirded out and doesn’t understand Carl’s reaction (still naive of Deb’s true intentions) and she breaks up with Carl because he’s too clingy.

On the positive side with Lip, he talks to Tami about the pregnancy and makes some headway. His main message is that if she keeps the child, he’s on board for fatherhood. He’s not going to ditch her or the baby.

To my delight, V is brought in to engage with Fiona. Today marks the first time V has seen her in her full collapse, she now knows what’s going on in her friend’s life and can see what state she’s in. This isn’t her first rodeo of course. V has been there to catch Fiona when she’s fallen and vice versa. Since Lip wants Fiona out of the house, V goes to talk to him to try and fix things. He’s adamant about kicking Fiona out because it’s time she hits rock bottom. If he doesn’t she won’t get better and V is doing nothing more than enabling her. V objects at first but he makes a clear impression on her.

At the block South Side party Kev put together, it turns out that every town in Chicago except for the South Side has power back. Fiona, primed and ready to continue her quest to rage against the machine leads the group on a march on the north end. En route, their momentum and catchy chants stop short when the power comes back on. Everyone is happy that the power is back and are ready to go back and kick it at The Alibi. Except for Fiona. She’s incensed and tries to rally them to keep going, raise hell to make change happen. No one cares and Fiona lashes out, making V move in to carefully calm her friend and lay the news on that she isn’t welcome to crash at the Ball home anymore. Fiona puts on a stiff upper lip in a show of understanding and leaves the party.

The next morning we get to see Fiona at the bottom. Frank is passed out next to her on the floor. Apparently, they met up later that night and continued to drink. They broke into her old apartment complex which is now a full-fledged dump. She can barely move the hangover is so intense, there is no water on in the building, and she vomits in the hallway a few times. She picks up one of the business magazines she left behind. It has her name and address on it, a subscription. A woman in a power pantsuit striking an executive power pose is on the cover. This was Fiona, what she was working so hard to achieve, to move her life forward for the first time. Now she has nothing left from that time and any happiness and optimism she had have been replaced by uncontrollable anger.

The final scene warmed my heart. Lip is at a AA meeting listening to a man talk about his life’s greatest regret and Fiona walks in and takes a seat. With the poignant voice over from the man over the scene, Lip looks over and sees his sister for the first time in a while. Shameless at its best.

The Hobo Games

We’re getting close to the end of the season and thus the end of Emmy Rossum’s time on Shameless. Fiona’s exit on the show is taking shape and it’s getting weird to say the least.

Before we go full breakdown, I feel like we need to go over some annoying Shameless tropes that continue to fester. This series has never been keen on continutity. Big events tend to happen in a vaccuum where once it happens, it’s never thought of again. Characters are often written off in this way, they just take off. Minor characters are even killed off with no repercussions whatsoever. It’s like it never really happened, the community never reacts to it, characters don’t seem to be affected by it.

We are on season 9 and that’s a lot of storytelling. The character list is well into the hundreds now so that turns into a kind of tide where the writers use characters for a specific thing, abandoned them and then pull them out of the drawer when they need to try to fill a gap, make something happen. I can see the utility in that bad it’s really bad when main characters are used that way. Since the kids on the show (I’m referring to the entire main cast) have gotten older, they increasingly live separate lives. Most of the time the siblings don’t know what each other are doing. That’s 6 characters, 8 including Kev and V, 9 with Frank. That’s a ton of characters to juggle and a huge challenge to manage well. But in particular, Liam is an after thought. His character was a toddler when the show started and they relatively recently got and actor to make Liam an active character. How he literally disappears is absurd. No one talks about him and he’s not even shown in the house unless he’s part of the plot of the episode. The way he’s portrayed, he doesn’t actually exist in the family.

Kev and V are treated in much the same way, except they are always given a C plot to keep them active. This couple is supposed to be the Gallagher’s oldest friends, they live I think on the same street. You’d never know that because it seems like they live in a different city as they barely interact with the Gallaghers. It’s been like this for years, so why bother coming up with shoe string stories for them? All of this sits next to the Fiona and Lip plot that’s unfolding now.

So here we are at “The Hobo Games.” Starting at the bottom of the importance scale, we have Kev and V going through a vasectomy story.

Deb is flirting with Kelly as hard as she possibly can, enough so that Carl notices and doesn’t like it. Despite knowing that Kelly is straight, Deb has it in her head that there’s a good chance Deb can turn her. Kelly is going to need to confront this pretty soon (she’s just having a good time hanging out with Deb, they’re friends now) as I’m sure if Carl doesn’t say anything, Deb is going to cross a line and it’s going to get awkward real fast. I think in the end this is less of Deb wanting a romantic relationship and more that she needs a friend. Fiona often ignores her so she has no female to talk to (there’s an idea to get V meaningfully involved).

Liam does not exist.

Frank has made it to the final stages of The Hobo Games with Mikey. They’ve got a shaky alliance going and it stumbles into a phony gay military veterans scam to make it into the grand finals. During this whole contest, he’s been away from Ingrid while her ex-husband continues to drop by the house in an effort to get her away and back on track of a healthy life. She calls Frank who tells her he can’t come home yet because he has to finish the contest (50k is on the line) and that makes her furious which makes her question Deb who once more says that she cannot rely on Frank. So, a “test” is concocted and Ingrid tells him that her body is freaking out, something is wrong with the sextuplets. With this crisis put in front of him, Frank stays committed to you guessed it, the contest. This is the push that Ingrid needed to pull the parachute. Not only does Frank lose the contest (thanks Mikey) but he loses Ingrid as well. Frank, always the dirtbag agrees to a lump sum payoff to stay away from Ingrid, waving any parenting rights as well. Not that he has any, as the father is actually Carl. So that’s the end of Ingrid and I say that because Katie Sagal is a big name so the odds of getter her back are pretty small (and her story has nowhere to go).

Now for the main event: Fiona and Lip on a crash course that feels rushed and half baked. This episode starts a few days after the last one so a lot is skipped over. The last we saw Fiona she was in the back of a cop car and all of sudden, she’s waking up in someone’s apartment. We learn, many scenes later, that Deb paid her bail. A whole lot of aftermath was skipped over and glossed over in what I think is a detriment to the show. Fiona has embraced the drunk life and it’s not a secret. She’s been spiraling for months, her family have seen this before and don’t offer to get her help. Deb just demands money from her and then looks worried.

Lip is running around with his head on fire. Xan showing up last week put him into overdrive mode and after Tami establishes herself as a rock, she’s now sketchy. She ditches him and Xan and then won’t reply to any of his calls or texts. He handles getting custody of Xan by himself and it’s an uphill climb but he commits to it. While he’s out getting things together for Xan, DCFS shows up that day. There is no way on Earth a government agency shows hours later for an inspection like that. This whole scenario sets up Fiona’s first “failure.” She’s sleeping off the hangover when she’s woken up by this guy from child services. She has no idea what’s going on and does her best to give the guy a tour. At the same time, Deb has left a huge hole in the living room floor to install a new furnace. V also left her 4 year old twins with Deb, who stuffed them into her daughter’s pack and play and left all 3 kids in there. They are Deb’s responsibility and the house is a disaster, none of which Fiona had anything to do with. So the inspector leaves with no good notes. Lip arrives home with Xan just in time to try and salvage the end of it but can’t. So he’s mad.

Fiona’s second “failure” is meeting Jason while she’s looking for Lip to apologize to him for not doing a hail mary earlier. Who’s Jason? Good question. Lip is his AA sponsor, a character we haven’t seen or thought about in ages. Yes, along with Xan we have another pop up character to make a fight happen later with illogical circumstances. Fiona has never met Jason and doesn’t know he’s in recovery (it’s his 100th day to boot!). She sits down in the bike shop to talk to this dude and while she pours out her heart, she makes herself a drink. He’s eyeballing the bottle the whole time and asks if he can have some. She says sure, oblivious of his past. Jason doesn’t just fall off the wagon, he ends up doing heroin again, and he calls Lip in a pit of despair seconds after Tami tells Lip she’s pregnant. That’s why she’s been ignoring him, she’s been freaking out.

Lip’s entire world is burning around him. Tami bolts, their last words sounding like she’s done with him (keeping the child in any manner a question). He’s failed Xan, she’s going into the foster system. And now his “awful” sister ruined another person’s life in the same day (to his credit, Jason tells him exactly what happened, that it’s not Fiona’s fault. Lip ignores this). It’s been a dramatic 24 hours.

This brings us to the final scene at home where Lip confronts Fiona in front of Deb, Carl, and Kelly. And yes, Liam isn’t there. She rightfully defends herself, first saying “Who is Jason?” She apologizes for the pain she inadvertently caused and then he lays into her about Xan blaming her for everything and tells her she has to move out of the house.

There’s a lot going on her obviously and very little of it works well. I understand why Lip is mad and he should be. He’s deflecting everything onto Fiona who is a mess right now. She’s made mistakes for sure but none of what he’s furious about is her fault. No one in the family talks to each other so this is what happens. It’s completely unreasonable to hold Fiona responsible for any of it. No one knew what Lip was doing, he didn’t even ask anyone if it’s ok that Xan moved in (highlighted by Lip bullying Deb into sharing her room with a kid). “Old Fiona” might have been able to do a little better with the inspector but she can’t make miracles happen. Everything else was Deb’s doing and odds are that dump would fail any inspection no matter what. And Deb was right there on the couch listening to Lip lay into Fiona and she didn’t say anything to defend her sister! Plus, the only reason Fiona met Jason was because Lip wouldn’t answer her calls and she went out looking for him to apologize for something that was out of her control.

I expect Fiona to push back hard on Lip’s nonsense next week and she absolutely should. This whole set up is forced and stupid. I’ll be pissed if this ends up being the thing that makes Fiona leave. Deb better speak up or she’s awful too.

I always hate it when Lip and Fiona fight because I love them so much. They are the oldest kids, conscious of the worst Frank and Monica days and were always there for each other. They have links to each other that the other kids don’t because of their age. Over the years they’ve been through so many trying times and have come through the other side. Liam getting into Fiona’s cocaine years ago is so much bigger (and well done) that it makes this ordeal look extra stupid and unbelievable.

This is why Kev and V need to be part of the actual show. I miss this couple (real friends!) being a part of the Gallaghers lives. V and Fiona go way back. I can’t remember the last time V talked to Fiona and when they did it was probably two sentences. Sure they live separate lives but this isn’t real life, use your characters! Kev and V wouldn’t want to help Fiona.

While the Gallagher’s have never been one for interventions, leaving a person to do what they want, but the total hands-off on Fiona makes no sense. Frank is a lost cause, he’s abandoned them so many times they’ve become numb to it. But watching Fiona turn into Frank and letting it happen? That’s far from how they feel about her. Their deep love for Fiona who’s done everything for them for their entire lives. Fiona is who they are legit loyal to so this whole set up is gross.

I don’t like what’s going on and I hope what happens next doesn’t betray who these characters are. They’ve written themselves onto a cliff, they better not fall off of it.