![]() Frank, in one funny scene, even washes with gobs of Purell. Instead, they’re presenting a pretty prejudicial view: the poor as unclean masses. (The intro is even set in a bathroom.) The writers may be trying to suggest that there’s a Survivor-like camaraderie among the family and friends that makes such privacy issues irrelevant. This episode, Veronica’s brother is chained to a toilet, Fiona steals mega-rolls from a toilet, Lip has sex in a toilet, a man’s locked in one, there are various shots of men peeing, and we learn Fiona never shuts the door. Except that, to illustrate the degradation and compromises of their lives, the writers are constantly setting scenes in toilets. ![]() So that makes the near-destitute Gallaghers, theoretically, all the more compelling. The struggling-for-cash class is usually embodied, literally, by the dead strippers on the procedural shows. Though the country’s knee-deep in recession, you don’t see much of it on TV.
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