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5 Not as expensive
9 Stats for sluggers
13 Lotto variant
14 Actress Davis
played by Susan
Sarandon in TV’s
“Feud”
15 “Alice’s
Restaurant”
singer Guthrie
16 *2010 Grammy
winner for Best
Metal
Performance
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19 2,000 pounds
20 French
possessive
21 __-Ball: midway
game
22 Discreetly, in
slang
26 Nag, nag, nag
28 Black-eyed __
29 Electrified particle
31 Without an escort
32 Bygone Honda
sports car
33 Impassive type
35 Dry-sounding
deodorant brand
38 ICU drips
39 *TV cooking
competition
hosted by Padma
Lakshmi
41 Sch. in Columbus
42 Tiny laugh
44 Bundle of papers
45 Put into service
46 Airline to Tel Aviv
48 Flub it
49 Letter-shaped
hardware item
50 Sinuous ski race
52 Gets in the way
of
54 H.S. exams
55 Dripping
57 SEAL’s org.
58 Tech news site
59 Paint choice ...
and what the first
word of the
answers to
starred clues can
literally be
64 Longfellow’s “The
Bell of __”
65 Standoffish
66 Just sitting
around
67 Pear variety
68 Mix, as a salad
69 What Simon does

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or bunny
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Billy Joel hit
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brainer!”
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pages
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prop on 
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takeoff hrs.
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cheap
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e.g.
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construction
project
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around the gills
12 Shoe bottom
14 Old Western
villain
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bartender
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stressful
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investment
accounts
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leader
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37 Collaborative 1993
Sinatra album
40 Half a winter
warmer
43 Stretchy
47 Like 1% milk

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Dominican capital
51 __ Yello: soft drink
53 23rd Greek letter
54 Picket line crosser
56 New Mexico town
known for its art
scene
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11/14/17

11/14/17

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SHOWTIME

‘Shameless’ takes on the 
Trump era in season 8

Standing in her bra and 

underwear, 
staring 
at 
an 

unclothed Tinder match, Fiona 
Gallagher 
(Emmy 
Rossum, 

“You’re 
Not 
You”) 
shakes 

her head and proclaims “I 
can’t do this anymore.” It is a 
moment of self-determination 
and realization; in a single 
sentence, this woman who has 
struggled through hell and 
high water decides that she’s 
had enough — enough with 

random hookups and enough 
with the way life tosses her 
around. As she smiles at the 
blurred lights of Chicago’s 
skyline while the chorus of 
PrettyDeep’s 
“SugarCane” 
synths 
in 
the 

background, 
one 

thing 
becomes 

glaringly 
clear: 

these are not the 
Gallaghers 
we 

have seen before.

In 
its 
eighth 
season, 

“Shameless” 
looks 
to 

transform 
its 
lovable, 

degenerate characters in a way 

that keeps them true to their 
disposition while remaining 
pertinent in 2017. Gone are the 
Gallaghers of 2011, dancing 
on the edge of poverty on 

the 
southside 

of 
Chicago. 

These are the 
Gallaghers 
of the Trump 
years, 
and 

they’ve 
got 

newfound 
money in their 

pockets to spend (albeit as a 
result of pushing their dead 
mom’s 
meth) 
and 
mended 

futures to pursue. And while 

SAMANTHA DELLA FERA

Daily Arts Writer

the Trumpian effect is evident 
in the show it is nowhere near 
centerstage — at least not 
yet. Newly militarized Carl 
(Ethan Cutkowsky, “Law & 
Order: SVU”) laments over 
the ungrateful elite. An ICE 
agent responds, “Do you really 
have to ask?” when asked why 
he only cares about illegal 
Mexican 
immigrants 
over 

Russian ones. Perhaps these 
ideas will be explored further 
as the season progresses, but 
right now, those lines serve 
the same purpose as the use 
of a fidget spinner in various 
scenes: “Shameless” is well-
aware of the trends and tirades 
of 2017, it’s just not ready to 
tackle them head-on quite yet.

But for once, that’s not a bad 

thing. The season premiere 
is filled to the brim with new 
plotlines 
that 
poignantly 

tackle 
very 
real 
and 
very 

relevant issues. Fiona exploits 
the benefits of gentrification 

with her latest tenant status. 
Debbie (Emma Kenney, “Epic”) 
looks directly into the face 
of collapsing trade industries 
when talking to her new welding 
classmates. 
Kevin 
(Steve 

Howey, “Blue & Green”) faces 
the stigma and uncertainty of 
male breast cancer. Only Frank 
(William H. Macy, “Room”) 
seems to be stuck in his old 
ways, continuing to blame his 
deceased wife and enabler for 
pretty much everything wrong 
in his life. Still, it seems that 
smoking a half-pound of meth 
has allowed him to reach some 
level of enlightenment. Every 
scene with Frank shows him 
apologizing 
to 
people 
he’s 

wronged over the past forty 
or so years (which, by the way, 
leads to the best line of the 
episode, in which he kneels at a 
tombstone and declares, “Wow, 
when you’re right, you’re right. 
I should’ve let you drive.”)

“Shameless” has finally freed 

its characters, allowing them to 
take control of their own lives 
rather than having to work 
with 
the 
continuous 
blows 

that life has delivered them. 
Of course, the show would 
not be the drama it is without 
conflict, and the fact that the 
Gallaghers and Co. are doing so 
well right now only means that 
their inevitable fall will hurt 
that much more. Eradicating 
the 
looming 
shadows 
of 

addiction and poverty let the 
characters look deeper into 
themselves and decide what 
kind of people they are going 
to be. Will they reverse back to 
their old, destructive ways? Or 
will they take the the high road 
out? These are the difficult 
questions driving the show 
as it teeters on the edge of 
becoming Showtime classic or 
just another series overstaying 
their welcome. I, for one, can’t 
wait to come along for the ride.

‘Daddy’s Home 2’ a failure

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“Shameless”

Season 8 Premiere

Sundays @ 9 p.m. 

Showtime

The Christmas season has 

finally arrived, and with it, 
the inevitable tide of bad 
Christmas movies. We already 
got 
the 
astonishingly 
lazy 

“A 
Bad 
Mom’s 
Christmas” 

last week, and this week we 
come to “Daddy’s Home 2,” 
the sequel to the 2015 comedy 
that existed to make us forget 
how great Will Ferrell (“The 
House”) and Mark Wahlberg 
(“Transformers: 
The 
Last 

Knight”) 
were 
in 
“The 

Other Guys.” Now, its sequel 
doubles 
the 

number of dads 
and 
drenches 

everything in a 
Christmas veneer 
to 
distract 
the 

fact that there’s 
nothing going on 
underneath.

Of course, the 

shallowness would be easier 
to forgive if “Daddy’s Home 
2” were actually funny, and in 
all honesty, there are moments 
where it verges on entertaining. 
It’s nearly impossible to count 
more than five times when it 
actually crosses the line into 
chuckle-worthy, 
but 
there 

are set-ups here that briefly 
appear promising before they 
go to waste. The obligatory 
Christmas tree incident finds 
Brad 
(Ferrell) 
accidentally 

cutting down a cell phone 
tower. The family gets into 
a fight while participating 
in a live Nativity. The other 
patrons at a bowling alley get 
way too invested in how bad 
one of the kids is at the sport. 
A director dedicated to their 
premise would be able to guide 
their cast to comedic gold with 
any of these.

The 
problem 
is 
in 
the 

execution. 
In 
“The 
Other 

Guys,” the scenes that worked 
did so because Adam McKay 
was willing to let Ferrell and 
Wahlberg riff off each other. 
The extras on the Blu Ray are 
filled with alternate takes of 
the two taking a premise like a 
simple confrontation between 
their characters and running 
with it. With more outlandish 
ideas like the ones on display 
in “Daddy’s Home 2,” there’s 
little reason they couldn’t do 
the same, but director Sean 
Anders (“Horrible Bosses 2”) 
seems unwilling to allow his 
cast to let loose. Audiences are 
stuck with jokes and scenes 
that either fizzle out before 
they show any signs of life or, 
in the case of an unfortunate 
incest gag, probably shouldn’t 

have been written in the first 
place.

This is doubly disappointing 

considering the caliber of the 
cast. Ferrell, despite being 
in the middle of a streak of 
lackluster 
flicks 
like 
“The 

House” and “Zoolander 2,” is 
an icon of modern comedy, and 
on the rare occasions when 
“Daddy’s 
Home 
2” 
works, 

it’s because of him. Mark 
Wahlberg 
has 
also 
proven 

himself a more than capable 
leading man in both drama and 
comedy, and series-newcomer 
John Lithgow (“Miss Sloane”) 
— here playing Brad’s father, 
Don — has recently carved 
himself out a niche as a reliable 

character 
actor 

of 
genre 
and 

prestige fare.

Even 
John 

Cena 
(“The 

Wall”), 
known 

better 
for 
his 

professional 
wrestling 
persona, 
has 

shown himself to be willing 
to commit to insane stunts 
for big laughs in projects 
like “Tour de Pharmacy” and 
“Trainwreck.” But again, the 
material that would allow for 
this simply isn’t there. Instead, 
the talented cast languishes 
under the unfunny material 
and lackluster direction.

The obvious odd one out in 

the cast is Mel Gibson (“The 
Expendables 
3”). 
Like 
the 

rest of the cast, Gibson has 
proven his comedic chops in 
the past, but it’s hard to see 
what he brings to the role of 
Kurt, the father of Wahlberg’s 
Dusty, besides the discomfort 
of seeing the controversial 
actor 
essentially 
playing 
a 

toned-down version of himself 
for laughs. It seems like an 
example 
of 
cynical 
stunt 

casting more than anything 
else.

Still, “Daddy’s Home 2” is 

a Christmas movie, or at least 
it carries itself as one, so it’s 
important to view it through 
that lens. This is where the 
film fails the most. It has all 
the hallmarks of a holiday 
movie — the bickering family, 
the mall Santa, the lights-
related disaster — yet until 
the shoehorned delivery of 
the final message, it’s all 
surface level. Even “A Bad 
Mom’s Christmas” for how 
tired its script was, seemed to 
at least be written by people 
who enjoy the spirit of the 
season. In “Daddy’s Home 2,” 
there’s nothing but paper-thin 
characters paying unfunny lip 
service to the most wonderful 
time of the year.

JEREMIAH VANDERHELM

Daily Arts Writer

“Daddy’s 
Home 2”

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