Fiona has second thoughts about loaning money to Meg; and a drunken Frank staggers home, where no one wants him, until he proves to be the only one who can quiet fussy Baby Hymie.Download Video Shameless (US) The American Dream Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Shameless (US) Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.Meanwhile, Lip's community-service encounter with a North Side youth group gives him a moneymaking idea, while Kev's wife returns with her son Kyle and Frank puts in a call to child services.Meet the fabulously dysfunctional Gallagher family. Dad's a drunk, Mom split long ago, eldest daughter Fiona tries to hold the family together. Eldest son Philip (Lip) trades his physics tutoring skills for sexual favors from neighborhood girls. Middle son Ian is gay. Youngest daughter Debbie is stealing money from her UNICEF collection. Ten-year-old Carl is a budding sociopath and an arsonist, and toddler Liam is - well, he might actually be black, but nobody has a clue how.
The acting is top-notch all around, particularly by William H. Macy, who is seamlessly gonzo as the always drunken Frank, who not only neglects his six kids but adds to their financial and emotional burdens. He steals from them, uses them to manipulate strangers, and hates them when they get in the way of his next drink.
In the season premiere, sweet red-haired daughter Debbie (Emma Kenney) is loyally counting the days until Frank returns from one of his binges — he’s in Mexico, but that’s another story — but shortly after he’s back in their Chicago neighborhood, he curses his freckled daughter, and not by name, since he’s forgotten it.
Macy and the writers keep Frank unsympathetic as much as ever in the first four episodes of season 3. And that is a great choice, as it protects the show from falling over the line into sentimentality and pure antic comedy. He’s such an awful narcissist, you can’t quite laugh at him, and he never becomes the stereotypical lovable drunk — Otis on “The Andy Griffith Show.”
Throughout, the tone of “Shameless” is expertly modulated by Paul Abbott (who also wrote and produced the British version of the show) and John Wells. It is as stringently hard-nosed about poverty and parentlessness as it is celebratory of the Gallagher children’s spirit and their scrappy triumphs.
Maybe the sexual content in “Shameless” makes awards people and some critics uncomfortable? It is true that the show is fairly explicit, with the kind of shame-free attitude toward sex that suffuses the entire story. It would trouble me to think that violence doesn’t dampen the acclaim of excellent shows such as “Breaking Bad” and “Boardwalk Empire,” but that sexuality is a deal-breaker when it comes to “Shameless.
Shameless is an American television Comedy-drama which airs on Showtime. It is a remake of the award-winning British series of the same name broadcast on Channel 4. The series is set in Chicago's South Side Canaryville neighborhood, although it is filmed in South Lawndaleand Burbank, California at Warner Bros. Studios. The series premiered on January 9, 2011.
The show's second season, which began shooting on July 5,premiered on Sunday, January 8, 2012.On February 1, 2012, the series was renewed for a third season,which began shooting on June 27, 2012 and premiered on Sunday, January 13, 2013.
The show's producers sought to distinguish it from previous American working-class shows by highlighting how Frank's alcoholism affects his family.Paul Abbott, creator of the original, said, "It's not My Name Is Earl or Roseanne. It's got a much graver level of poverty attached to it.
It's not blue collar; it's no collar."When John Wells, the showrunner, began pitching the show, he had to fight efforts to place the show in the South or in a trailer park. He explained, "We have a comedic tradition of making fun of the people in those worlds. The reality is that these people aren't 'the other' — they're people who live four blocks down from you and two blocks over".
Once I finished the American series, I gave it about a month to settle in and then started watching the British series. But I'd like to think that I was objective enough to judge it on its on merits, and not simply that it's different than what I'm used to.
Since, as many have pointed out, the script is nearly word-for-word identical, the difference lies mainly in how the actors portray the characters.
So I'm going to give my character-by-character head-to-head appraisal of UK vs. US. I'm going to use the character names rather than the actors' names for simplicity. Starting from the youngest...
Little Debbie: UK wins this one hands down. No contest. She steals every scene she's in. Who can not fall in love with this girl???
Carl: This one's close, but the UK one is (at least in the first season) a little more deranged and fun to watch.