TV Review: Shameless (6×01) “I Only Miss Her When I’m Breathing”

Welcome back to my weekly review and recap of Shameless. Catch up on previous coverage here. There’s a lot to digest in the season six premiere of Shameless which returned tonight on Showtime. I spent a lot of season five talking about how things…

The Gallagher’s most “Shameless” moments

One of the many reasons Shameless can be such a hotly talked about show is its complete lack of fear in talking about any subjects. While I’m more of a fan of the Gallagher’s when they are at their best or, at…

Five things we’d like to see in season six of Shameless

I’ve spent much of the last few years singing the praises of Showtime’s Shameless and complaining about the lack of awards attention it gets. Season one and four are two of the best seasons of any show in the last ten years…

Shameless Season Six First Look

When Frank has the strongest storyline of the season, there’s something wrong going on in the writers room. After the superb season four, season five brought Shameless to some of it’s most least structured storylines the show has done so far, failing…

Ally’s Movie Review: Room

In the cinematic landscape we are fed quite a few “power of love” concepts over the course of a year, heck, in storytelling in general. Rarely however, have I seen that idea tackled with as much rigorous raw emotion as…

TV Review: Shameless (5×12), “Love Songs (In The Key of Gallagher)”

There is a big sense of everything being reset to the status quo in the season five finale of Shameless. Nothing big happens, people shift in the roles they’ve dug themselves, and the Gallaghers regroup, pick up the pieces and…

TV Review: Shameless (5×11) “Drugs Actually”

I was left mildly alarmed and even a bit speechless at various moments of tonight’s episode, so I’m breaking it down a little differently tonight. The Ridiculous: Okay. I can’t stand Sammi. Emily Bergl does a fine job, but her…