'Shameless' Season 9 episode 12 review: The Gallaghers, starting with Lip, are truly done with Fiona

Everybody is too self-absorbed with their own messes to even pay attention to the downward spiral Fiona is diving headfirst into

This article may contain spoilers for 'Shameless' season 9 episode 12: 'You’ll Know the Bottom When You Hit It'

This week's episode of Showtime's hit dramedy 'Shameless' was very much an extended version of the promo teaser that dropped a couple of days ago. In that, there wasn't anything more to the episode except extra details into the scenes and sequences the teaser had already revealed, and if you took a good look at the video, you'd know exactly what to expect.

For starters, the conflict between the Gallagher siblings, Lip (Jeremy Allen White) and Fiona (Emmy Rossum), reached an all-time high, and as usual, everybody is too self-absorbed with their own mess to even pay attention to the downward spiral Fiona is diving headfirst into.

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