![]() Shameless eventually reaches this point, but it takes the season too long. This season should be about embracing the relationships that these characters have built rather than resorting to the same melodrama that polluted the earlier years of the show. Lip is the worst offender in this episode, but Debbie comes in a close second when it comes to her relationship with Sandy and her future in general. He gets pushed into a difficult corner that might affect the rest of the season. Lip has screwed up plenty throughout Shameless, but he’s earned a happy ending at this point and it’s tough to watch the fragile life that he’s built for his new family continue to receive abuse. It’s equally difficult to watch Lip skirt the truth while around Tami and deflect on important topics that he should be approaching with her as a team. ![]() It’s major regression on his part and even though he leaves some racially motivated subterfuge to cover his tracks it still feels like he’d be the primary suspect in such a crime. Lip drives the majority of the conflict in this episode and it’s seriously disappointing to watch him resort to robbery after coming so far. Lip glibly remarks that he only fell off the wagon for “just one night,” and it’s this mentality that’s a destructive note to leave the Gallaghers on. This is hardly new behavior for the Gallaghers, but every mistake resonates more as the series gets closer to its conclusion. ![]() “Do Not Go Gentle…” begins with several Gallaghers in freefall mode and in a position where they can work towards redemption or just continue to enable their mistakes. ![]() ![]() Shameless finds itself at a turning point in its final season as it approaches the halfway mark and has characters in search of atonement for the radical decisions that are made in the previous episode. ![]()
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