![]() ![]() These people are not bad even if they do bad things. The aspiring teen marine struggling to hide his homosexuality only fears losing the love of his brother, the absent drunk dad who loves his children but through the haze becomes a heckling prophet - a Shakespearean fool who sees through the thin veil of sanity and order, a young woman struggling to keep the family together seeing a way out through a handsome highwayman. The pilot introduces the characters, much like their British counterparts, not in an effort to garner their sympathy but simply as a statement of fact. Whereas the British original finds it's characters living, fornicating, screaming and jumping in the revelry of zero-expectation in a rigid class system, the American remake masterfully equivocates the triumphs and the tribulations of a lower class family existing on the edge of acceptability at the heart of society in a flawless, delicate and shameless manner. It's a fast paced Comedy-Drama like no other, in that it lends itself perfectly to both without apology or hesitation. I've grown up with the original Shameless.
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