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This show use to be very enjoyable and entertaining. Then it focused too much on parroting Hollywood political vomit and grandstanding that it became unbearable to watch. Watch till season 7. Then forget they made more.

Holy cow did I hate this show,, alcoholic father normalizing neglecting kids, giving them drugs and alcohol,,, teen girls giving blow jobs in front of her mom,,, sick stupid, rape culture and horrible... Look, I'm streetwise and this show shows outright child abuse as if it's funny.. I repeat, I hated this show...

I posted a review and it was trashed. The show has become a nightmare, I stopped watching.

Disgusting! Done with this POS. This has gone far beyond. You don't recommend to start killing people, inciting civil war. It's not acceptable and it's not entertainment

Don't even bother. Totally unpleasant trash about unpleasant people being unpleasant.

I don't see the point of this version of Shameless.

It's a rather sad clone of the British version, just with American accents and frankly, poorer acting.

William H. Macy may seem an untouchable national treasure to many in the US, but he doesn't hold a candle up to David Threlfall when it comes to playing Frank. Sorry, USA. You are missing a true acting master class.

Are Americans incapable of trying to understand English spoken with a Manchester accent? You really had to remake it? I mean it borders on cultural arrogance. Your loss.

No moral judgment, it's just not the kind of thing I want to dwell on for an hour. Or a season.

I agree with the reviewers commenting here that Shameless is Shameful.

If I could have given a review with ZERO stars, I would have. This series is that bad.

The nudity, profanity, drug use, chain smoking and violence does NOTHING to contribute to the story telling. Nothing. Note, this series is supposed to be a "dark" comedy, and yet, there is nothing laughable in any of the episodes. And....I'm ashamed to admit, I watched ALL FIVE seasons....EVERY episode. I didn't laugh once.

Big Tobacco MUST have been a significant financial backer for this Showtime fiasco. The cigarette smoking was so excessive, I found it difficult to imagine how many packs of Marlboro's the cast went through. There were scenes with 11 year old kids lighting up. I wonder if Worker's Comp for lung cancer is in their future? Gross. Excessive. Sad. The chain smoking did nothing to contribute to the story line. It's as if the writers were trying to draw a thick, invisible line connecting low income, working class people with stupidity and smoking. Yes, it's stupid to smoke, but one has nothing to do with the other.

You can be filthy rich and be a chain smoker. You can also be filthy rich and be stupid. One act does not require the other, yet the writers of Shameless obviously want viewers to connect those lines. They also expect us to connect with characters that are so incredibly unbelievable and colossally stupid. No amount of chain smoking or drug use could render an entire low income family that stupid.

Shameless writers actually thought episodes filled with excessive profanity, full-frontal nudity (in EVERY episode), chain smoking, drug use, and violence would fill the massive holes in unbelievable story telling. It didn't work for me. Obviously it worked for some, but I am still waiting for the HUMOR.

Please give me one episode with a shred of truth, a tiny touch of comedy and I may add another star. If the writers haven't figured this out thus far, chances are slim for future seasons. I, for one, won't be wasting my time. I'm ASHAMED I watched every single episode and remained hopeful to the end.

Shameless....NO. Shameful.....you bet.

This American adaptation takes the original show's plot and ideas, but lacks the emotion, humor and convincing characters. The original series had just the same amount of sex, drugs and violence in it as in here, but it was really all about COMPASSION - about COMEDY. It took a broken family story and made it funny, cheerful, hopeful.

The American version lacks all these qualities. You are left with a bleak reality filled with one dimensional characters, meaningless sex and violence. If that's your thing, congratulation! TV is endlessly filled with this kind of bleak, empty entertainment.

Just so you know, I don't despise all American humor. The American "Office" was an amazing adaptation, and WAY better than the original British show. But this here is not the case. Steve's actor is a piece of cardboard compared to the original, excellent James McAvoy(Who played Professor Xavier in the last X-men: First Class). Watching this show was Painfully boring. Want to prove me wrong? Just watch season 2 episode 1, I dare you to find ONE single joke on that episode..Go on and try..send it to me..

This show was my favorite. The first 4 seasons were an amazing blend of irreverent comedy and drama. 10/10 stars stuff. Now it's just sad. There's no comedy, everyone is in conflict and in distress and a pain to listen to. The storylines are the opposite of what they used to be; they were very much down to earth, now they've reached "gay jesus" levels. This is truly horrible now. And there's no hope for the new seasons, since half of the cast is gone. Yet another show pulling a game of thrones ending.

Avoid. Trash TV. This show is been running for too long. No reason

I watched all of season one and decided not to watch anymore. At first the show grabbed me with its multitude of characters that you want to see more of. Unfortunately it started going downhill later in the season. Apparently the first few episodes, the ones I liked, are basically shot for shot remakes of the original series. Once the series started going in its own direction it got extremely frustrating and climaxed in a finale that brings nothing but shock value to the table (not really surprising considering that's just about all Showtime does).

While the first half of the season is pretty strong the main characters get really annoying with their stupidity and you go from one shocking situation with little lasting depth to the next.

This show was mildly amusing for a couple of seasons. Season 10 (the most recent season at the time of this posting) seems to be teatering on the line of just plain stupid.

I really hate how in the first episode they are ridiculing pain patients by falsely representing pain medication. There are people out there who legitimately suffer and use pain medication to escape tourment as a way to live when all other medical alternatives have been exhausted.

In this particular episode, Frank steals medication from an elderly lady and misuses it. The writers are really grasping for straws here and are doing it at the expensive of people who stuffer from chronic pain. By establishing this narritive (even for comedic purposes) - the producers are contributing to a fictional stigma that pain medication enduces some sort of fantasricized effects that it does not really produce in real life.

This show has caught a flat and bottomed out. Point being, that it's so unbelievable and foolish at this point - that it subtracts from the comedic potential that this show has if it wasn't so sloppily put together in general. Don't waste your time with this overrated show. It is just so profain and unsubstantive that it isn't even amusing anymore. Profaine can certainly be funny, as long as the profanity is cleverly crafted, and in this show - all of the whit and creativity behind the humor that the show formerly possessed has evaporated - post season 7.

Agree to disagree - if you will. I've just seen enough of Shameless. The show has run its course and it belongs in trash alongside the show's present storylines, writing, and acting.

I had gotten a few glimpses of this show over the years and wasn't attracted to it. What I remembered about it mostly was the awkwardness of the Frank Gallagher character.

I'm a fan William Macy and have enjoyed his performances in various Coen Brothers movies. After a year of quarantine misery and running out of options, I decided to give this show a shot.

Turns out it was exactly what I had thought. This show is shallow, lacks any creativity, subtlety and nuance. Understand, I've lived and hung with the types people they are depicting, and I know that such people can be extremely funny, witty and a lot more complex that what Shameless comes up with. That's the biggest swing and miss here in fact, because when you have a set of "down & dirty" characters with nothing to lose, it provides a nice canvas on which to create a variety of entertaining situations. This show completely misses on that front. The characters are completely un-relatable. The only motivation they have is for shock value. Time after time they will do or say the most outrageous thing. Macy's character is the most ridiculous of all. His rants are ridiculous. You can't help but see thru them to what they are: some idiotic writer's idea of the most outrageous rant that a bottom-feeding alkie and drug addict can deliver. I lost respect for Macy because I would have thought he knew better.

What is sad is seeing all the positive reviews here and the overall 8.6 rating (WTF?!!!!). Even sadder are the reviews that say "this show used to be good..." I couldn't get past Episode 8 of season 1 and I know there is NOTHING there. They did 11 seasons of this?!!! No wonder this country is F'd. I guess people are happy with two dimensional characters living in filth and depravity, as long as they're having lots of sex and doing/saying the most ridiculous things. Shameless gives you that in spades.

Shameless US apparently has the right to exist since it has a heap of ecstatic reviews (even if the majority of them are from US audience). But to me personally it seems an incredibly huge failure. Being a real fan of the original version I still had no prejudice and did hope that US would turn out brilliant as well, offering same great plot but in a different geographical and cultural environment (we all know for sure that Americans "can do" and there are plenty of talented US shows filled with irony, witticism and charm). But what we have here is just a pale shadow of the original. Bloodless. Tasteless. It's just all the way wrong from the script and dialogues to casting. No humor left, no irony. The characters seem strangely superficial in comparison to British ones. And speaking of actors, this is, of course, a matter of taste and a discussion leading to nowhere, but… What are all these talks about looks? Seriously? HOW can one find the actors in US version prettier? I'm not speaking of UK and US looks in general, only about these particular cases. I just admire the UK version casting. Each and every actor. Terrific choices. Sexy as can be. All of them. Each in its own way. This is my own personal view, of course. Sorry if its sounds offensive to US version fans.

This is so disgusting. Worst tv show of all time. I can't believe how people can like this thing. Pediphilia, homosexuality, rapes. Don't watch it. This shouldn't even be allowed in my opinion. This show is a reflection of the new terrible world.

At the beginning this show was fun, heartwarming, and relatable. But like most shows now days, it went political. Trashy.

Being a fan of the first 3 series of the Channel 4 show (not BBC!) I was immediately disappointed by the opening credits of the American remake. I saw the first 5 minutes and could not stand it any longer... Utter rubbish! Watch the original version for something you will actually like. Just comparing the opening credits proves the original version was going to be a hit and gets you hooked, even if he does have a "quirky" British accent from Manchester.

Yes the actors are more pretty in the American version but that just dilutes the whole atmosphere of the show. The original version was that bit more believable simply because the actors were not straight from a modeling agency, they were REAL people, not beautiful people who get actor roles based on their looks.

I tried to see the point of the show Shameless. What kind of message the creators of this show want to send to young people born in the poor parts of the city and in troubled families. I got the impression that the creators of the series were just trying to figure out a way to earn money and attract a lot of attention of viewers forcing young actresses to undress almost in every episode. The real fates of the young people born in the ghetto are enough difficult. I think that this show can only lead them to a wrong direction without providing any solution for them. It is hard to believe that the directors of this series, if they have already acquired the popularity and attention of the audience, could not have made at least one character and through him to send a message such as: USE CONDOMS AND READ BOOKS!!! Condoms and books are not expensive. It's not all about sex, there's something about love and your head.