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The full Ian and Mickey (Gallavich) story from Shameless. Playlist of all relevant scenes. p. Realizing that they have none, Ian and Mickey embark on a journey to find gay friends. Carl is upset after his night with Tish, and Debbie and Sandy have another visitor from Sandy’s past. "Two at a Biker Bar, One in the Lake" is the seventh episode in the eleventh season of the US version of Shameless.

It originally aired on March 7, on Showtime. The Gallaghers disagree on the fate of their childhood home; Ian and Mickey seek out gay friends; Debbie and Sandy have a visitor. The scene that surprised us all. Ian says to Mickey that he is tired of being a mistress, and starts to leave, when Mickey makes an impulse decision to tell his family that he is gay in order to keep Ian from leaving.

In a particularly terrifying scene from season three, after discovering Mickey and Ian’s more-than-friends relationship, Mickey’s father holds him at gunpoint in front of Ian, while he forces him to have sex with a prostitute that will fuck the gay out of him. Ending a mammoth TV series is tedious. Dexter, a dramatic series with longer episodes, crashed and burned, forcing even the most diehard fans to cringe, curse, and hate-watch their way through its final two seasons.

I say this as someone who lovingly dusts off each blood-spattered box of the entire series on my DVD shelf, before selecting and re-watching season four, again. Over the course of ten years, we watched two angry, misguided, sexually oppressed South Side boys fall in love and become somewhat well-rounded men, who get married and learn to care for each other.

Their love story deserved the visual send off, and I definitely happy cried. The first Ian and Mickey interaction we get in season one sets the tone for their individual characters, as well as their main conflict. Mickey, the filthy, neighborhood sadist who operates purely on Id impulses, seeks to pulverize a timid, unsteady Ian for supposedly putting the moves on his sister, Mandy. The bully and the bullied. As a lesbian, I had already aligned myself with Ian being a queer character, so the part where Mickey and his equally deviant brothers chase Ian into a storage closet literally, a closet was visceral for me.

The first season builds on their foil relation with Mickey searching the streets for Ian, suggesting there will be a hate crime crescendo. Plus, we find out that big bad Mickey is a power bottom. So much to unpack! His father even tells him about a fellow named Earl who was beaten to death with a tire iron for being with men. Mickey grew up with the same guidelines under the watchful eye of his white supremacist, hyper-homophobic, convict father.

In both worlds, being gay gets you killed.

"Two at a Biker Bar, One

For me, none of the other violent scenes in the whole series and there are plenty , are as disturbing as this one. So, the struggle for the tire iron in that heated confrontation between Ian and Mickey begins to show us again that it is a handy tool used by hyper-homophobic men to beat queers to death. However, when the tire iron is thrown aside and Mickey chooses love, all the power is taken out of it as a weapon of hate.

Over the course of the next few seasons, we see them love each other in secret. Ian becomes lost and struggles with his mental health, but never his sexuality. Hello, Gay Jesus! The hushed statement comes too little, too late and falls short of what Ian truly wants with Mickey. Somewhere along the line, Mickey ends up back in jail. The vulnerability of this scene is punctuated by Mickey wearing a dress and earrings, a disguise he chose to elude capture.

Regardless, season seven and nine turned the tables on their love scenes as well. They felt tender, almost normal, and exposed the very nerves of both characters. Alas, the finale of season 10 gave us the gay South Side wedding we had yearned for, but there was still work to do.

Mickey was free, but he was also still driven by his old habits. Even though the pair made it official, Mickey planned to stay the course of his criminal impulses. Anyway, we slowly see the two release themselves of the binds of their fucked up, feral childhoods and begin to take care of each other the best way they know how. Season 11 was a tall order for the writers, but they continued to give us a couple who could compromise and become better, for their individual character development and as a unit.

In my opinion, they did a brilliant job pushing Mickey.