Just end the show. Please. Every season has less coherent story and more political crap delivered in such a heavy-handed manner it's not even funny. We finally got past all the Gay Jesus crap only to be met with more of Debbie's obnoxious brand of "feminism" and Liam reflecting on his blackness. My problem isn't with the coverage of these issues, no--it's with the way it's delivered. The writers these days are too incompetent to be subtle about it so episode 2 literally has a salesman try to solicit a blowjob from Debbie then reveal he only did it because he's a fragile white male who gave up on his dreams. At various points in the episode, Debbie gets such blunt lines as "Why are men so pervy?" and countless others reaffirming her womanhood. In what I guess was an effort to cover hot button issues from both genders, when Carl asks his manager if she's sexually harassing him, she gives him the old "it's okay because you're a guy". I guess we're supposed to pat ourselves on the back for being woke enough to get that this was a joke about that being wrong?
All in all, this show has lost everything that made it great--namely, Emmy Rossum. Fiona was a character who didn't need to tell us through ham-fisted dialogue that she was a strong woman--we could see in every episode. Lip is the only character giving this show direction now but I feel like I've watched the "raising a kid" thing so many times now that I'm not even really that interested in that either.
Emmy Rossums character was the glue to this show and it very much fell apart when she quit and it now feels like they are trying to do a pure comedy show. The rollercoaster realism and darkness are all gone even though they try to keep it up with the story of Lip but it never really takes off.
I almost called it quits during the low grade farcical episodes that centered around Frank and Mikey that has to be one of the low marks for this show.
And why didn't they just re-shoot the whole opening scene instead of this mishmash?
Hope they can snap it up a bit and give this show the funeral it deserves in the next and final season.
Shout by BreezyBlockedParent2019-12-27T23:32:05Z
This is one of these shows where the producer simply doesn't know how to say goodbye. I mean the show was great but now they are just milking it. Like why mess up such a masterpiece. The story at this point is "blah". Look even Emmy Rossum got tired of this and said "f this. I am out. See you guys in the South Side when I see ya"