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SHAMELESS
March 13, 2015  | By David Bianculli

Showtime, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

This is a same-week repeat of last Sunday’s installment – but it’s worth pointing out, especially to those who missed it the first time around. A lot happens in this episode, to the various scrappy survivors of the Gallagher family, but there’s one scene that froze me in my tracks when watching the first time. Lip Gallagher, played by Jeremy Allen White, is explaining to a college official why he should be allowed to make a series of tuition payments, rather than one lump sum, to stay in school. And as he does so, years of Lip’s bottled emotion and frustration and desperation start to leak out, in a performance that’s one of the most moving I’ve seen on TV all year.

 
 
 
 
 
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