Wonderful character development!

Really Surprised!

It is a performances centric movie

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

I love this show, but they seriously need to get their Chicago geography straight. They always talk about being on the south side, yet they give their address as 2119 North Wallace. In the episode where Debbie took the little boy, they had him seen on Southport and then on Grand. Both on the north side. As a native Chicagoan it really bugs me! Other than that I love the show. Joan Cusack is stellar.

One of my friends told me to watch this show and I think I managed to watch like a season before stopping. Its ok, I guess, but overall I found it boring and the characters annoying. I asked the friend why she liked it and she answered "all the sex scenes" so I guess that''s why people are watching it.

I had watched a few episodes of the UK version it was OK, then finally decided to give the US effort a try just because I have always liked William H. Macy in anything I have watched him in as the main character. To be honest I wasn't expecting much and didn't go into it expecting a lot, that's probably just the way to do it, as now I am totally hooked and can't quit watching this amazing American version. All the characters are well done with a lot of thought and each character is well acted, I can feel that they all enjoy doing the series and probably are close like a family off the set. Yes there is a lot of sex and a ton of foul language, but there is also a lot of real drama and things that is part of real life and families! I have found myself actually feeling for Fiona and her trouble of trying to raise the Gallagher family on the Chicago south side and finding love in between, also Lip's troubles with finding his direction and once he does his trials and tribulations in college, Ian's sense of finding himself as he is gay, and each of the other's who have their own issues like Carl and Debbie most of all which was brought on by their dysfunctional parents Frank and Monica Gallagher. For me the neighbors Kev and Veronica steal a lot of the episodes as they are flat out funny and have a ton of chemistry together! All in all it's been quite a ride and in my book flat out one of the best dramedy series ever developed. I have been careful not to finish too quick as I am now on season 7 now as I want to cherish every one of the zany episodes. Heck it's so good I might just find myself watching it all over again once I am finished. Take my advice don't miss the Gallagher bandwagon you will love them, if you haven't indulged, you really should!!!!

Shameless is an often well written, often well acted comi-tragedy about a dysfunctional family set in the southside of Chicago. While it is a great show, it does have its share of deficiencies and contradictions. Here are some of the pros and cons.Pros: It appears that some of the writers have been around the block and experienced the underbelly of life. There are situations and scenes where whoever wrote it must have experienced them and does a good job of portraying them on the screen. The rawness and realism of some scenes are amazing. This show doesn't shy away from dealing with addictions, the legal system, poverty, LGBT issues, child abuse, death, love, sex, birth defects, infidelity, sibling rivalry, con artists, murder, education, adolescence, adulthood, crime, redemption and more in very authentic ways. In short in deals with the real problems of life. The show can be extremely grounded in reality and has moments of greatness in its dealing with all of the above issues. There are shows and scenes where one is riveted because of the intensity and realness. It has some great editorials given by different characters at different times that are often well thought through in their assessments of life. It doesn't shy away from controversy. The story line morphs and unfolds and takes surprising twists and turns sometimes very quickly. Some of the casting is great and one never tires of seeing those characters' foibles and adventures.Cons: Of course it's main goal is to entertain but it often results in an over-concentration of drama and plot into time, place and characters that is very unrealistic. There are some story lines that are so are fetched one loses interest. The show can be at once a parody of itself, farcical, cartoonish and unbelievable. It overplays depravity for effect and shock value. It goes overboard on sexual situations making them overly animalistic repetitively, creating them for pure audience titillation or making them so exaggerated as to make them just silly. I'm sure the new atmosphere in Hollywood is going to make these types of shows harder to make. There are situations that are downright ridiculous and lose the audience in their requirement to suspend disbelief and seem to have been written by writers who have no clue. Some of the acting is very bad while some of it is great and both can be applied sometimes to the same character. Some of the casting is bad and over time you can't wait for the characters to be written off the stage. Sometimes the themes are overplayed and get boring. Overall, I'd rate it up there with great shows like Breaking Bad and Mad Men. It is very entertaining. It's must watch TV if you want to see one of the best shows of our time.