Frank has made a
total transformation this season, and I wouldn't be surprised if he came back
next season clean and sober, and a productive part of the Gallagher clan.
I know, I know... Let me explain.
At the end of the last episode, he actually turns himself in to the police so that Carl doesn't get arrested for the robbery. This is a side of Frank we have never seen – where he actually puts someone else's well being before his own. After Frank is cuffed and taken away, Ian runs onto the scene asking what just happened. Lip's only response: "Hell froze over."
I know, I know... Let me explain.
At the end of the last episode, he actually turns himself in to the police so that Carl doesn't get arrested for the robbery. This is a side of Frank we have never seen – where he actually puts someone else's well being before his own. After Frank is cuffed and taken away, Ian runs onto the scene asking what just happened. Lip's only response: "Hell froze over."
Frank and Lip celebrate his graduation with scotch. |
I really enjoyed
them getting all day-drunk together because they are the wittiest characters on
the show, and it was nice to see Frank actually spending quality time with his
son. I can actually get on board with Frank now, instead of hating him for
being a selfish drunk who not only doesn't care for his kids, but actually
tries to harm them. Because the things that come out of Frank's mouth are
really hilarious and even eloquent at times, even if only as means to his egotistic
ends. Some of the speeches he gave during his brief stint as a gay right's
advocate were truly funny. Or when giving an impromptu speech at Aunt Ginger's
funeral, a few episodes back, he said that she was good at what she did
(prostitution) and that "she could unhinge her jaw like a Burmese
python."
Carl shaving Frank's head. |
But, it is to Carl. And watching the boy shave his father’s head to try to cure him was quite powerful. It’s tragic that the only reason the boy thinks there is medicinal power in the sun's rays is because Frank told him that as an excuse, after he shaved Carl’s head, in a failed attempt to scam a cancer foundation. Carl still thinks he's a cancer survivor. But, the power of that scene comes when you think of Carl, whose childhood has been ravaged by his non-existent father, still having the inert humanity to venture through downtown Chicago in the middle of the night to save his father from sickness with nothing more than a pair of hair clippers. That was all really well done.
Frank leaving the hospital. |