#more gallaghers…..maybe s1 mandy……who’s 3 say

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stuff from my shameless rewatch hehe ♡

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Shameless done ya dirty: a Top 5

5. Debbie: an iconic line for me is in 4x10 when the Gallaghers can’t find Fiona and Debbie says to Lip, exasperatedly, “All I do is look for my family. I’m getting all of you ankle monitors.” This is evocative of why she ends up having Franny so young, this desire for control and someone who will love her unconditionally and put her first. This is a reasonable canon development but then the show turns her into such a shallow, self-absorbed jerk that it’s impossible to sympathize with her. She’s not even an anti-hero. And Frank compares her to Monica in the finale but Monica was at least kind. Debbie has no such grace.

4. Fiona: mostly because of her roller coaster in her later seasons. She’s up, she’s down. She’s a small business owner, she works nights at a gas station behind bullet proof glass, maybe she’s a drunk. Who knows. I almost want to link her and Vee together here, because their friendship was completely trashed in the show as well. She’s higher up in the rankings than Debbie because she’s more beloved, but honestly she’s a forgettable character a few years out from her run.

3. Mickey: This one requires the least explanation for the Gallavich crowd - dumped, trashed by Ian in S6, written like a dumb, impulsive child with low “emotional IQ” in the final seasons. He’d be higher in the rankings if he weren’t redeemed by a stable partnership and business, loyalty and generosity, and ripped jeans. 😍

2. Mandy: What was on the writers’ minds between S1 and S2 that the Mandy who once explained English sentence structure rules to Ian in S1 became the poster child for “stay-in-school kidz!” PSAs in S2? Her unceremonious departure mid-S5, to never return and basically cease to exist was the icing on the cake. She deserved better.

1. Lip: I will never get over this one’s fall from grace. So bright, overcame a handful of obstacles to get through school, and never given a second chance by the writers once he emerged as an alcoholic. Worse, they treated him as someone whose most creative solution to crisis in the back half of the series was thinking of The Polish Doll and Debbie pretending to be the bride. I find his story line an insult to all the community, commuter and other 4-year colleges that give non-traditional students a path to success. It’s an insult to working-class and low-income young adults who are told by this show that there is only a single path to educational success - the elite college. The writing of his story is so classist. So narrow minded. Ugh. I’m getting worked up just thinking about it.

Honorable mentions: Sheila, Vee