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…
TV News: The Affair Season Two Trailer Teases More Than Two Sides to the Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKDB4fqUMtk One of my favorite new shows last year was Showtime’s The Affair. Full of passionate performances and mystery, the show pulled off a very entertaining and intriguing examination on complicated relationships and how an affair changes and affects the…
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…
TV Review: Shameless (5×10) “South Side Rules”
What we have here is good television. Shameless turns in what might be my favorite episode of the season (so far), with one it’s most meditative installments to date. The camerawork by John Wells lingers on his actors faces…
TV Review: Shameless (5×09) “Carl’s First Sentencing”
The living and the dying take up most of this week’s episode of Shameless, which doesn’t do much to further the ongoing storylines, but gives a lot of hints of what’s to come as well as setting up new storylines for the…