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Shameless Season 6, episode 10 recap – “Paradise Lost”

Last week everything seemed to finally be coming up roses for most of the Gallagher clan, Shameless fans. Does that still hold true for this week? Given the episode title is “Paradise Lost,” this sounds a little doubtful — and we are talking Shameless here. Here’s the Shameless Season 6, episode 10 recap. Fiona & Sean: Things are full steam ahead with the wedding planning. Sean is moving into the Gallagher house and Fiona is all about having a traditional wedding. Flowers, church, reception hall — the whole nine yards. She also gets blessings from Will (Sean’s son, who oddly enough hated […]

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Shameless Season 6, Episode 9 recap – “A Yurt Of One’s Own”

Last week on Shameless Frank got busted dipping into the delivery, Carl is still on the path to being out, Sean lost it on Fiona for Will finding one of Carl’s guns. Here’s what happened on this week’s Shameless Season 6, Episode 9 – “A Yurt Of One’s Own”   Frank, Queenie & Debbie: Frank is ripping out his new do and hiding from T-Dogg’s crew, who is hunting him down to kill him. Debs is going to Queenie’s commune, soaring consciousness ecosystem, for a supportive environment. Of course not without some heckling from Fiona for dropping out of school. Debs […]

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Shameless Season 6, Episode 8 recap – “Be A Good Boy. Come For Grandma.”

After a week hiatus – I presume because the Academy Awards were on – we are back in business! Of course no shortage of Shameless this week and certainly no shortage of some T&A this week, either. So let’s dive in to this week’s Shameless Season 6, episode 8 recap – “Be A Good Boy. Come For Grandma.” Oh and full disclosure: the episode title is exactly how it sounds! Frank, Carl & Queenie: Queenie, now in charge of the Gallagher clan, is trying to make a REAL family out of them by eating at a dining table. In the […]

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Shameless Season 6, episode 7 recap – “Pimp’s Paradise”

Last week’s Shameless was a crazy wild ride, offering some closure to some circumstances but only the beginning of others. So looking forward to this week’s episode, I was disappointed — super snoozefest — and it took some weird turns. I have noticed this show is a rollercoaster. Build up a storyline … drag it out … then poof! Over! Move on to a new one. There are, of course, some key points in this episode that launch the next arch in the Gallaghers’ twisted lives. Which is — of course — what always keeps me loving this show. So with my editorial opinion out […]

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Shameless Season 6, episode 6 recap – “NSFW”

Last week on Shameless, Fiona still struggled with trying to find a place to live, Nick got his precious bike stolen, Frank weaseled Debs and himself into a cancer family’s life, Kev & V had a dead bar and new kids, Ian tried to hook up with a fireman, and Lip’s secret relationship with Helene was blown wide open by Amanda. Let’s see what the fallout of all these things and more are, in this week’s Shameless Season 6, Episode 6 recap – “NSFW” Fiona: Waking in the morning, still self-absorbed with her house drama, Sean asks if she is […]

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Shameless Season 6, Episode 5 Recap: “Refugees”

After last week’s flaming Yanis and the Gallagher clan losing their house, what can possibly happen this week to top that? Let’s dive into the Shameless Season 6 Episode, 5 recap: “Refugees.” Fiona: At a lovely family Gallagher breakfast, most likely the last in their house, Carl is yammering on about how they can’t be kicked out of the house and reminiscing about all the things that have happened there. All his broken bones. Liam being born on the table — the one where everyone is eating.  He keeps rambling on about all sorts of illegal ways they can keep the […]

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Shameless Season 6 Episode 4 Recap: “Going Once, Going Twice”

This week the Gallagher clan are fighting to keep their house. Will they prevail? Let’s see what happens in this week’s Shameless Season 6 Episode 4 recap; “Going Once, Going Twice.”     Fiona: Calling Cousin Patrick repeatedly to find out why they possibly are getting evicted from the house they rent from him, Fi gets no response. With Sean tagging along, she goes to visit him in the flesh to get some answers. Fiona learns that he took a loan against the house for $60,000 and never paid it back, so the bank is foreclosing on it. He could […]

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Shameless Season 6, Episode 3 Recap: “The F Word”

Some pretty heavy subject matter this week — not that there normally isn’t. I also found this episode fairly moving, so grab some tissue just in case. Here’s the Shameless Season 6, Episode 3 Recap: “The F Word” and you can decide for yourself. Fiona: Not only does she wake up with some morning sickness, she discovers Frank’s new endeavor of renting out their yard to Mexican evictees who are a casualties of the gentrification of the hood and had their house snapped up over night. She then strolls downstairs to find a smorgasbord of food that Carl has bought. She inquires […]

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Shameless Season 6, Episode 2 Recap: #AbortionRules

Last week Fiona found out the truth that Debs was keeping her pregnancy from her. Let’s recap how that went down with a recap of Shameless Season 6, Episode 2: #AbortionRules. Fiona & Sean: Waking up all stressed out with the newly acquired truth that Debs is actually knocked up, Sean tries to get Fiona to relax by doing naughty things to her and forcing himself on her. No, not in a rape way, in that loving “you really need to relax” boyfriend way. So she gives in, and then it’s quick to rise (no pun intended) so that she […]

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Meet the women beside the powerful men of Showtime’s “Billions”

Showtime’s timely new drama Billions taps into current concerns about income inequality and the tendency of some in the financial sector to not play completely by the rules when it comes to acquiring their fortunes. The fact that the series is cowritten and -executive produced by Too Big to Fail author Andrew Ross Sorkin probably plays a part in this. The show also focuses heavily on the tendency of many, especially men, in this sector to be obsessed with macho posturing and a desire to remain an “alpha,” a phrase that is uttered a number of times in the pilot […]