BWW Recap: The Gallaghers Don't Need No Gentrification on SHAMELESS

SHAMELESS ends with a bang sometimes, but this is the first time it's been literal. Leave it to Frank to destruct the closest thing to a home he's ever known as soon as he gets into the vicinity of success. What's his next move?

The threat of gentrification is closing in as Frank is trying to come up with a way to convince Sheila to not sell the house. He needs it for his brewery downstairs. But Sheila is all in and invites the lesbian couple, Lisa and Lisa over and accepts their check. Frank enlists the help of delinquent Carl to try and scare the Lisas off. He does so by relocating the no parking signs in front of their house to get their cars towed. Lisa confronts Carl and warns him that she doesn't scare easily.

After Debbie is blown off once again by the popular crowd, she decides to throw a party at the house. She invites her older crush, Matt, and his friends and uses Frank's homemade beer to be the alcohol of choice at the party. Because of its extremely high alcohol content, the population of the party gets remarkably wasted. Debbie escorts Matt to her bedroom so he can pass out where she proceeds to take advantage of him and finally lose her virginity. Matt is absolutely horrified when he wakes up and accuses her of date rape and never wants to see her again.

In Fiona-land, Musician Ian is back and asks Fiona out to a jazz club. When she arrives, so does his live-in girlfriend, Gigi. To cover Ian's lie, she pretends she is with Ian's friend Gus, who actually turns out to be a nice guy. Gus invites Fiona over for coffee and the two hit it off. Is Gus truly a nice guy? I mean, he is a musician, are they to be trusted? Fiona doesn't exactly have the best track record with nice guys either.

Ian, still in full bipolar mode, cleans Mickey's house top to bottom. Still ignoring his condition, Mickey tries to be supportive. They find out that Mandy's abusive boyfriend is making her move with him to Indiana. Ian turns to the only person who can talk her out if it; Lip. Lip pays her a visit and they fall into old habits quite quickly in the midst of which Mandy confesses that she loves him. When he wakes up in the morning, Mandy is gone to Indiana. After returning to work and tweaking his back, he considers taking Amanda up on her offer to go to Miami for the summer with her.

After the brothel upstairs at the bar gets raided yet again, Vee comes up with the idea to have neighborhood moms pump milk and sell the fresh breast milk online for a profit. However, Kev is getting pretty irritated that she is more focused on feeding strangers babies than her own.

Frank needs to upgrade his basement brewery, but he needs more equipment. He offers Sammy as a trade to the seller. He convinces Sammy that it is a blind-date set up, but when she finds out the truth she flips out on him. Sheila wants to buy an RV and get out of town, but Frank distracts her with an offer to renew their vows, since he was unconscious when they got married. When Sammy and Sheila get into yet another fight, they leave Sammy's "date" down in the brewery as they all go outside to scream at each other. In the middle of the argument, the house blows up killing her date. Sheila hops in the RV and takes off leaving them all behind.

Angela, the big tipper aka Steve/Jimmy/Jack's lookout. She asks Fiona out, but it is a date? Or a a way to have her finally meet up with S/J/J? Fiona just can't win. She still has a crush on Sean, she gets screwed over by Ian, Gus is a nice guy so far and S/J/J is still lurking somewhere near. Is this damaged girl ever gonna find happiness?

And what is up with Debbie? That was pretty messed up on a lot of levels. I don't know what is next for our favorite little Gallagher gal. And where is Frank gonna live now? WIth Sammy? Certainly not at the Gallagher homestead. Maybe he can strike up a deal with the lesbians!

Is it me or does anyone feel sorry for Chuckie? Of all the mishandled and neglected children on this show, poor Chuckie is the worst. That kid needs a fighting chance. Could Fiona handle one more? I think even she would do a better job than Sammy. Is Sheila gone for good?

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