by Pa Rock
TV Junkie
The great thing about having both Netflix and Prime streaming on my Roku device is that there is always - and I mean always - something entertaining to watch. Yesterday evening I finished the first season of "The Boys" on Prime, a tale of a ragtag group of young vigilantes out to bring down a squad of American superheroes who are actually pushing a greedy and self-serving agenda. The bad guys - the vigilantes - are actually the good guys, and the traditional good guys - the superheroes - are wickedly bad. What's not to love with a storyline like that?
So after finishing the first season of "The Boys," and not finding anything else on Prime that captured my immediate interest in the wake of that great show, I flipped over to Netflix to see what was new there. And my luck could not have been any better. "Shameless" was back with season nine - and I proceeded to wallow in episode one.
The Gallagher family never disappoints!
In the first episode of season nine, it is revealed that Frank, the worthless patriarch, has infected the entire PTA at Liam's fancy private school with a cocktail of three dangerous venereal diseases. Ian, the schizophrenic gay son is in prison where he is in the midst of organizing a sex strike among the gay inmates. Fiona, the older sister, has bettered herself and now owns an apartment house - which she is trying to mortgage to get Ian out of the slammer. Carl, a fascist younger son, is back in military school where he is a leader among men and striving to whip his company into shape - all the while trying to ignore his fiancee who is camped outside of the bivouac area trying to encourage Carl to back into her sleeping bag. Debbie, now a professional welder, plots a clever retaliation when she learns that all of the male welders are paid more than her. Lip, the oldest son, has to deal with a wedding hook-up who tells anyone who will listen that Lip's fornicating skills are sub-par - and Liam, the youngest, tries to figure out how to return all of the things that his father, Frank, has stolen from the homes of his classmates while he was sexually servicing their mothers.
Or, just another day on Chicago's South Side with those lovable Gallaghers!
They're not the Brandy Bunch.
Welcome back, friends. You've been missed!
TV Junkie
The great thing about having both Netflix and Prime streaming on my Roku device is that there is always - and I mean always - something entertaining to watch. Yesterday evening I finished the first season of "The Boys" on Prime, a tale of a ragtag group of young vigilantes out to bring down a squad of American superheroes who are actually pushing a greedy and self-serving agenda. The bad guys - the vigilantes - are actually the good guys, and the traditional good guys - the superheroes - are wickedly bad. What's not to love with a storyline like that?
So after finishing the first season of "The Boys," and not finding anything else on Prime that captured my immediate interest in the wake of that great show, I flipped over to Netflix to see what was new there. And my luck could not have been any better. "Shameless" was back with season nine - and I proceeded to wallow in episode one.
The Gallagher family never disappoints!
In the first episode of season nine, it is revealed that Frank, the worthless patriarch, has infected the entire PTA at Liam's fancy private school with a cocktail of three dangerous venereal diseases. Ian, the schizophrenic gay son is in prison where he is in the midst of organizing a sex strike among the gay inmates. Fiona, the older sister, has bettered herself and now owns an apartment house - which she is trying to mortgage to get Ian out of the slammer. Carl, a fascist younger son, is back in military school where he is a leader among men and striving to whip his company into shape - all the while trying to ignore his fiancee who is camped outside of the bivouac area trying to encourage Carl to back into her sleeping bag. Debbie, now a professional welder, plots a clever retaliation when she learns that all of the male welders are paid more than her. Lip, the oldest son, has to deal with a wedding hook-up who tells anyone who will listen that Lip's fornicating skills are sub-par - and Liam, the youngest, tries to figure out how to return all of the things that his father, Frank, has stolen from the homes of his classmates while he was sexually servicing their mothers.
Or, just another day on Chicago's South Side with those lovable Gallaghers!
They're not the Brandy Bunch.
Welcome back, friends. You've been missed!
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