“Shameless” is based on the British TV series of the same name. The original story is set in Manchester, England, and follows frank, an alcoholic father who lives on disability benefits, and his six children.
We’ve seen plenty of examples of family dramas that promote universal values and spread truth, goodness and beauty, but it’s hard to find one as “shameless” as shameless.
And the scale is not limited to the lewd scenes, but to the fact that each of the main characters is as despicable and nasty as the film’s title suggests.
Dad Frank, for example, is a representative of “scumbag parents”.
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He ran away because of his ex-wife, feeling the truth is wrong to pay, from then on, every day with alcohol and drug paralysis, not only do not want to make money to support the family, but also the monthly benefits are taken to buy wine.
When he ran out of money, he charged his boss money, not caring about the food and clothing of his six children.
Frank once shaved his younger son’s head, tricked him into thinking he had brain cancer, and took him around crowdfunding “medical bills” to raise money.
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But is such a mouth full of lies, no bottom line of cheating with female feelings of the man, but because of enough despicable and occasionally reveal the truth, in the play slept countless women, including his own son’s minor girlfriend…
For example, fiona, the big sister in the drama, is also a “slag girl”.
She is the de facto patriarch of the shameless family. Unwilling to see her brothers and sisters go hungry or forced into foster care, she left school at 18 to work and single-handedly put her broken family back together.
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Because of the serious lack of love in the growth, Fiona did not know how to love but longed to be loved, once indulged in sex and hurt the people who really loved her.
And every time she gets a chance to get out of her shitty life, she can’t help but ruin it.
For example, she finally fell in love with a reliable man and got married quickly, but she cheated on her again and again, and still made love with her boyfriend’s brother.
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Like the time a brokenhearted drug party at home nearly killed his brother and landed him in jail.
As you can imagine, having a dad and a big sister like this can leave a negative impact on the children, even if they don’t follow suit.
Lip, the oldest son, is a prime example.
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Lip was born with a superior IQ, playing while learning to take an examination of a famous university, was originally the south Side of Chicago “proud son”, but he still played a good card.
As a result of the inheritance of the father’s super heterosexual edge, he slept all the way to the university campus from the south, from the first love of sexual addiction, brother’s “ex-girlfriend”, Asian white rich beauty outstanding students, sleep to married female professor, divorced single mother, garage girl…
Lip single-handedly holds up half the show’s drama.
However, the fate is strange, due to the relationship was not good, drinking trouble, he was eventually expelled from school, back to the South side to continue to waste.
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But the show would not have attracted as many fans as it did if it had only shown the misfortune of its original family.
As a successful family drama, “Shameless” makes fun of the chaotic and disorderly life of the bottom society in The United States through the protagonist’s family, but this does not mean that the characters in the drama are stubborn and have no redeeming qualities.
In fact, in the process of elder brother and elder sister following their father’s death, the younger brothers and sisters are barbaric growth of each better.
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For example, the third favorite, Ian, went from being an innocent gay boy to a leading figure in the gay movement, even going to jail to save trapped gay men.
Ian’s story is legendary. He tried to get into military school and was expelled, discovered he was born to his mother and brother-in-law, suffered from bipolar disorder and was on the verge of a breakdown, and became a meat stripper.
But even so, he still returned to normal life, and enrolled in the rescue fire brigade.
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Not to mention he and “South area small bully king” Mickey this pair of abusive love CP, all the way through the shape of marriage break up, come out of the closet compound, actor quit and so on all sorts of storm, finally in the prison concourse, made up for thousands of audiences broken heart.
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Debbie, the fourth, also had a magical upbringing.
She used to be the only clever warm heart child in the home, but because of the lack of care, puberty is particularly rebellious, once dead to be pregnant with cheating and playing with female feelings of the man’s flesh and blood, become the edge of learning electric welding edge with baby single mother.
Later, she was hooked up with a girl at night school, which aroused her inner gay orientation and made her almost a radical feminist.
The fifth brother, Carl, was violent as a child, abusing animals, hurting classmates, and dealing drugs with blacks. He was sent to prison.
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Did not expect this paragraph of prison experience, let him upgrade to become “card god”, after being released from prison, drug trafficking, gun sales, protection money, almost disorderly into the “Breaking Bad” set.
But in the economic crisis, almost homeless family, he also took responsibility, with all savings to redeem the property.
What’s more, at the peak of his career, he suddenly woke up and quit his job and went to military school.
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Finally, there’s black brother Liam, number six, whose striking skin tone suggests he’s the product of his mother’s infidelity.
In the earlier episodes, he barely existed, except for the fact that he was almost killed by Wayan’s drugs.
But having witnessed his brothers and sisters die in style, liam has not aged badly and has a bit of a race-conscious rhythm, so it’s hard to know if he’ll do anything big next.
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Back in the early seasons of the show, the main family tried to survive on the South Side by stealing food, drinking and toilet paper.