Chaos junkies of the world unite! Season 5, Episode 2 of Showtime's beloved comedy-drama "Shameless," titled "I'm the Liver," landed like a sucker punch with viewers when it aired Sunday.

Family matriarch and big sister Fiona was not able to get the guy and was called out for her own excesses: She's a chaos junkie; she is attracted to elements of danger and bad boys, which she's used as a kind of survival instinct up until now.

With the inevitable reappearance of Jimmy/Steve/Jack (Justin Chatwin) looming over the audiences' heads, Fiona (Emmy Rossum) is currently being pursued by three beaus, including: Her new boss Sean Pierce (Dermot Mulroney), owner of a local diner, former addict and single father who takes his sobriety and the 12 Step Program rather seriously, and Australian bad boy musician and diner denizen (Axle Whitehead) who invited her to go to a see his band rock out at a popular nightclub.

It's practically raining men for the Southside seductress.

Without a doubt, Fiona and Sean are quite smitten with each other and have chemistry -- required to attend regular Narcotics Anonymous meetings, Fiona uses that time to flirt with the boss -- but it seems that if Fiona doesn't shape up quickly she can end up back in her probation officer's agency again. Not a stranger to this kind of behavior, Sean gave Fiona a fair warning upon taking off her house arrest monitor.

"No, I'm not gonna judge you for that. I find it charming as f*ck that you took a screwdriver to your monitor. And I find it sexy as hell that you had a bloody lip before lunch today," Sean said. "It's just you're a chaos junkie, Fiona. And I'm a junkie junkie. So I love chaos. And when I get into chaos, bad s**t follows."

That's a picture-perfect term to define Fiona, not to mention the rest of the six offspring in the Gallagher clan, thanks to their unemployed alcoholic patriarch, Frank (William H. Macy). And with all of the crazy running amok, there seems to be a guiding light in the most unlikely of places in Svetlana (Isidora Goreshter), the Ukrainian prostitute who became the mother of Mickey's son, or as Debbie would like to address her: "She's my brother's lover's baby-mama."

Lady of the night Svetlana, who is currently renting out her uterus like a "boarding school" as a surrogate mother, found an unexpected ally in Kev (Steve Howey), who is in martial woes with Vee (Veronica Fisher), who refuses to breastfeed their twin daughters because of the pain. Not only does Svetlana come to Kev's rescue by breastfeeding the twins, she gives him great advice and coaxes him to cut of his long tresses. Now the twins will stop pulling his hair. She also gave Debbie a makeover and some sound advice on her feminine wiles.

At the climax of the episode, upon sucker-punching a weirdo grinding on an underage Debbie at the rock show, it was clear that Fiona is finally realizing what Sean was addressing earlier in the episode.

Things are still the same. As always for Frank, who is peddling his homemade bacon-flavored 130-proof brewed beer for pot brownies, he's damaging his new liver that he's estimated will buy him another 10 years (he even meets the donor's grieving parents and, no surprises, horrifies them). It also looks like he'll be going head-to-head with realtors looking to gentrify into his neighborhood, which is becoming a hot commodity for Chicago's hipster and yuppie communities: "Laugh. Laugh. You won't be laughing in a year when you won't be able to afford to live here. They move in, they take over. They kick the homeless out of the park, as if they don't have a God given right to sleep there. We are dinosaurs, my friend. And a big, fat comet is headed for our sweet slice of Earth. And that comet is a Starbucks."

He's accurate with his assessments: An organic, fair-trade coffee place is seen to be opening shop on their turf (near Lip's new construction summer job) and that could hex Gallagher tribe, who are barely breaking even at the moment.

Also moving in on everyone's territory is Sammi (Emily Bergl), who is having somewhat of a quarter-life crisis upon finding out Frank, a terrible father, was hers. The feud between Sheila (Joan Cusack) and Sammi came at a tipping point when Sammi had her heartbreakingly unlucky son Chuckie (Kellen Michael) to defecate on Sheila 's coffee table after Frank and Sheila abandoned her to go the donor function. Dropping some sage advice, from stepmother to step-daughter, Sheila told Sammi exactly what she needed to hear: "So as a parent, it's my responsibility to tell you that the reason people don't like you and that you're father doesn't want to be around you, is because you're very, very needy. I just think you should know that. And then you can work on it. You're needy, and annoying, and slutty and a bad mother."

"Shameless" will return Sunday, Jan. 25, with the airing of Season 5, Episode 3, "The Two Lisas." Check out the shocking sneak peek here.

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