Shameless Season 5, Episode 3: “The Two Lisas”

Oh, wow, things are certainly blowing in Gallagher land this week!

Frank enlisting Carl do pull some mischievous acts
Frank enlisting Carl do pull some mischievous acts

Frank & Shelia: Frank decides to try and sell his beer and is on the search of finding buyers. With his first order in, he realizes his brewery is too slow and is trying to find ways to get it going faster. Trying steal some stuff from a scrap yard he is busted by the owner so he barters Sammi out as a trade since the only thing he needs is a woman for the night. Sammi, not knowing she is being pimped out, agrees to go out on a date with the dude. Back in her trailer, as he is putting the moves on her, she tells him that she wants to take it slow so and he spills to her that Frank promised him some of her “goods”.

Episode 503In the meantime, with the gentrification of the hood going forward, Shelia is still really pushing Frank to sell the house and wants to buy an RV, with or without Frank’s approval. Frank, to scare the lesbians off enlists Carl to pull some pranks. Carl’s tricks don’t seem to be working to good as the lesbians catch on. Frank, still feeding Shelia a bunch of BS as to how he needs to stay in the house since it saved his life, is not buying any of it and accepts some earnest money from the lesbians. Shelia in turn decides to test drive some RVs and Frank finally convinces her to not sell…

BUT wow once Sammi confronts Frank on pimping her out, combine these two situations together and it sure lead for one LITERAL explosive ending! Some of which I certainly saw coming, others not so much. Was it wrong to laugh as much as I did?

Mystery girl still trying to dredge some info out of Fiona
Mystery girl still trying to dredge some info out of Fiona

Fiona: Strange girl is back at the diner again and asks Fi out to dinner. Fi thinks she is asking her out on a date and tries to push her off. She again pays her $100, says she’s persuasive and will be back tomorrow. Meanwhile, after taking Debs to see Davis’ band last week and defending her honor to some drunk perv, Davis comes into the diner and asks her out on date. She goes to meet  him at some bar that his band mate has a jazz show at and surprise surprise, Davis’ long-term live-in girlfriend shows up. Typical band bloke trying to have a little something something on the side. Fi for some reason covers for Davis saying she is really the girlfriend of one of said band mate, Gus. Fi in turn ends up going home with her new “boyfriend” Gus and they seem to really hit it off.

Debs convincing Matty to come to her party by stating there will be beer!
Debs convincing Matty to come to her party by stating there will be beer!

Carl & Debs: I almost need to have Debs in a category all her own this week. Deb’s is so hung up on losing her virginity this summer, even more so after Carl tells her he was at some huge party the night before that no virgins were allowed at. Deciding to throw her own rager, she invites a bunch of older people she doesn’t know and swipes a case of Frank’s magical beer to serve at the party. She then persuades her old crush Matty to come to the party stating there will be people his age there and he can bring friends. Party is a total dud until the beer kicks in and what Debs in turn does to Matty I did not see coming at all! Will be interesting to see how the ramifications of that plays out. Especially since she doesn’t get that what she did was wrong.

Episode 503Ian & Mickey: With the Rub and Tug getting busted again Mickey needs to come up with another way of income for the family. When he comes home he sees Ian’s bipolar starting to set in with his obsessive cleaning of the house. They seem to have bigger problems for now, the need to convince Mickey’s sister Mandy not to move away with her abusive boyfriend Kenyatta.

Lipp: Enlisted by Ian & Mickey to try and keep Mandy from moving to Indiana, she confesses her love to him as what seems to be that last cry for “I want to be with you”. Unfortunately for her he is still emotionally unavailable to her and he says nothing in return. So of course she ends up moving away, without saying goodbye to anyone. Lipp, then back at the construction site, gets a text from Amanda that the offer to come to Florida still stands, he’s sort of looking like he’s not going to turn it down this time as the work he is doing is just a little too grueling for him to handle.

YES! A breast milk sweatshop is a great idea!
YES! A breast milk sweatshop is a great idea!

Kev & V: While still trying to push out the breast milk, her mom mentions that people sell breast milk online so V decides they should open up a breast milk sweatshop where the now vacated Rub & Tug business was. Kev is mad that V is not around for THEIR babies.

 

So yeah, as I said earlier things are really heating up! But STILL no Jimmy/Steve/Jack!?!?!