Frank tells Carl he has cancer so he can scam a charity foundation. Fiona is blown away by what she's asked to do to get a job as a cashier. Lip leads a crusade to hunt down pedophiles in the neighborhood - until one of the offenders turns out to be a she.Download Video Shameless (US) May I Trim Your Hedges? Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Shameless (US) Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.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 series follows the dysfunctional family of Frank Gallagher, a single father of six children. While he spends his days drunk, his kids learn to take care of themselves.
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".
Emmy Rossum as Fiona Gallagher – the eldest of the Gallagher children (21). Because of her mother's absence and Frank's neglect, most of the responsibility of child-rearing falls on her shoulders; this forced her to drop out of high school in her junior year.
She works a few dead-end, minimum wage jobs to bring in money and support her five siblings. Though often stressed out and exhausted by her responsibilities, she never fails to perform them. She is prone to being overly selfless, and sometimes needs to be reminded to look out for her own happiness as well as that of her siblings.
Justin Chatwin as Steve Wilton/Jimmy Lishman is a young man relentlessly pursuing Fiona, going to great lengths to win her over. He owns expensive things and throws money around liberally, which Fiona finds off-putting, until she discovers he steals cars for a living.
It is later discovered that his real name is Jimmy, and he comes from a wealthy family. In season 2 he marries a daughter of a Brazilian mafia mob leader ,though is not attached to her. Fiona and Jimmy resume their relationship at the end of season 2.
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.