![]() This is an exceeding low point for Fiona, who has been on a quest to dig her grave ever deeper than just six-feet. Previously handing Fi a small fortune for a drab laundromat, she now hands Fi a pink slip. Hearing that the diner was closed during some of the early morning breakfast rush hour shift was apparently the last straw for the owner who once viewed Fi as a quasi-apprentice. For as we’ve watched in the previous weeks, Fiona has been drunk, rude, and disorderly every day she’s been at Patsy’s post-Ford. Yet it is the one prudent and justified “mistake” she’s made after months of careless ones. This harrowing bit of seediness at the beginning successfully gets audiences on her side for electing to close Patsy’s Pies earlier than its 24-hour sign promises. It seems unlikely that Fi would allow herself to be alone at a 24-hour diner like this without any other waiting staff, but then Fi has been making all sorts of sloppy mistakes as of late. Luckily her cook came out with the biggest of butcher knives, but not so luckily these kind of late night wolves really do prowl. There was an implicit air of sexual violence when three sketchy guys crowded around the intoxicated diner manager, who they assumed was working alone. But it was worse than a near robbery Fiona faced. It begins in a familiar way a drunk Fi makes another careless mistake by leaving money out on the counter while she’s in the back. With that said, I had no desire to see the almost bad news at the top of the hour fall on Fiona. Tonight Shameless considered going the long way on all subplots not involving Frank the consequences were dreadful but in their own perverse way cathartic. One where optimism seems naïve and narrative shortcuts a little too convenient. As Kev apologizes to Santiago and his family, you’ve caught us at a bad moment. But in times like these, despair is a fair instinct. But too often a glib one-liner or a downbeat plot twist is used to write the characters out of facing the totality of their mistakes, just as often as the writers of the series attempt to sabotage any Gallagher’s prospects of a budding middle class future. I do not write that because I wish to see the Gallaghers, particularly Fiona Gallagher, suffer.
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