Shameless Returns

[AndyAudi]

And it 's back tonight!

(In case anyone missed all the advertising it's been getting)

[EDLT]

Birds with tits and stuff

[Sterls]

EDLT said:

Birds with tits and stuff

Micky is so funny! Thought it was another good episode.

[Republik]

Top stuff

I think Jackson will be a good character.

[j4ckos mate]

i cant stick it,

that or the royle family, it disgusts me that people like that actually exist,


they film it a couple of miles away as well

[EDLT]

Its not a documentary.

[IndyAndy777]

The stag night was pure genius.

Will they find poor 'ol Frank?

[ajprice]

'The Turdis' line was a great bit lastnight

[Zod]

What made Shameless great was the fact that, despite the appalling depravity, the family was held together by love and the kids would do anything for each other. Most of the children have gone now and the focus has moved to a large extent to the Maguires. In the first few series there is no way you would have had major characters murdering a loan shark. It has lost its soul and become a comedy drama - watchable, but it doesn't tug at the heart strings in the way it did when it was great.

[Devilstreak]

EDLT said:

Birds with tits and stuff

Completely forgot about this thread. Glad it's back, even though it doesn't seem as good to me. Hopefully it will be back to it's best tonight

[Davie_GLA]

I'm all caught up now.

Although Mrs Doyle camel toe last night was a step too far.

[Republik]

Davie_GLA said:

I'm all caught up now.

Although Mrs Doyle camel toe last night was a step too far.

Better or worse than Mrs Doyle's tits?

[Davie_GLA]

oh yes, forgot about that. I thought they were OK given her vintage.

[MiniMan64]

Excellent, just excellent stuff.

There are more dodgy Shameless episodes these days but that was the best one in a while I think.

[ajprice]

Yes, it was a good one tonight

[Steamer]

Mickey coming in two mins. Late with Deber-nams

[EDLT]

Zod said:

What made Shameless great was the fact that, despite the appalling depravity, the family was held together by love and the kids would do anything for each other. Most of the children have gone now and the focus has moved to a large extent to the Maguires. In the first few series there is no way you would have had major characters murdering a loan shark. It has lost its soul and become a comedy drama - watchable, but it doesn't tug at the heart strings in the way it did when it was great.

Maybe they can't think of original stories for kids to be involved in. They've moved on to drug dealers and now they are bringing in characters that are trying to better themselves (the trainee teacher, Chesney's tasty cousin, and Mrs Doyle(sort of)) to keep it fresh.

[MiniMan64]

Interesting American take on Shameless...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2nAnpNouEM&fea...

Not entrirely awful no?

[EDLT]

That looks terrible. It looks like they tried to do grotty but still ended up with a family of pretty people living in a mansion.

[Frederick]

Agreed... it looks shocking.

It's like they've been given a checklist that says "Alcoholic dad, gay son, bright daughter, enterprising son, scheming daughter, baby. Fill in the blanks"

Of course it looks like anything the yanks copy from us - look at Red Dwarf and The Office for two. US TG isn't that bad, but three out of four is a pretty ste statistic!