Tami’s frustrations towards the RV life are more than clear in this episode, but her love for Lip and her desire to prove her family wrong are even stronger. “Citizen Carl” also brings in some pressure from Tami’s family on the subject of returning home to an easier life. This becomes very human, vulnerable territory that helps ground this episode from some of its crazier material. It momentarily seems like these obstacles may stem from a subliminal avoidance of this act, but in the end it’s a much simpler scenario. Naturally, this simple act gets lost in a myriad of complications as Lip and Tami get further from their goal. With all of their other stresses out of the picture and now that enough time has passed since Fred’s birth, Lip and Tami are finally able to have sex again. They’re currently doing great with their child-or as great as fresh parents can be doing-but now the next hurdle revolves around them trying to regain intimacy. Faye and Frank’s romance is certainly quirky and less desperate than the series’ other attempts at this idea, but it will have to do a lot to stand out and feel original from what the show has already explored in the past.įrank may have found himself a temporary soulmate, but matters aren’t as idyllic for Lip and Tami. This development works, but the big issue here is that Shameless has done a number of long-term storylines where Frank is in love and thinks that he’s found the perfect woman. Since Shameless has some talent in the role, it’s likely that Faye will stick around until the end of the season until the slate inevitably gets reset once again. Read more: Shameless Season 10 Episode 6 Review: Adios Gringosįrank’s new romantic squeeze is an interesting pivot for his character after his saga with Mikey and then his successful mission to sell a baby, but it still feels like there’s more going on here with Faye. Of course, this information only makes Frank more insatiable towards Faye. Ultimately, Faye’s big secret is that this seemingly perfect woman is in fact homeless (well, she lives in her car). While that particular story is a near-operatic tragedy in and of itself, it proved the catalyst for Carl's journey to the side of right - or at least as close to the side of right as the Gallaghers can get.Nobody can understand this immediate connection that forms between Frank and Faye and through the entire episode you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop. Thankfully, the kid got scared seriously straight later on in the season. When he got out at the beginning of Shameless' sixth season, that boss had a new gig for Carl, who proceeded to break bad in ways we never fully expected, eventually even selling firearms to both teachers and students at his own school. Needless to say, but things quickly went even more sideways for Chuckie from there.Ĭarl, on the other hand, entered juvie a hero for not ratting out his drug lord boss. Chuckie's sentence was naturally worse than Carl's - and, at the behest of his tragically misguided mom (Emily Bergl), the lad ended up throwing in with a group of white supremacists on the inside. That act led to a sentence of one year in a juvenile detention center for Carl. He was initially positioned to play the part of relatively innocent bystander, but the cocky young lad took his moment in court to curse out the judge overseeing his case. Of course, Carl got pinched in the sting as well. And when DEA agents turned up to make the bust, Carl did the unthinkable and let Chuckie take the fall on his behalf. To this day, it remains the most damning thing Carl has ever done on Shameless. The boys didn't get far on their quest, though. But as was Carl planning his first big run, he got cold feet - and instead of carrying the load himself, he enlisted his dim-witted nephew Chuckie (Kellen Michael) to do the dirtiest of the work. He even signed himself up to make some loot as a cocaine mule. While he's currently on a noble quest to make an honest man of himself, there was a time when Carl was one of the worst of the Gallaghers.ĭuring a particularly nasty narrative arc on Shameless' fifth and sixth seasons, Carl became a gangster and full-fledged drug dealer. But, like the rest of his less-than-noble family, Carl hasn't always made good choices. As Cutkosky has done some serious growing up on Shameless, so too has Carl - surprising even long-time fans by becoming the one Gallagher for whom they find themselves most often rooting. For Ethan Cutkosky, who made his debut as Carl Gallagher on Shameless at the ripe old age of 12, that's especially true.
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