![]() The one Black main character, for example, is a nymphomaniac with highly questionable moral values. From perpetuating damaging stereotypes and having literally every single brown character to come on screen fulfil some kind of negative trope, Shameless pretty much ticks every box for what not to do in television. There is no easy way to put this – the show’s racist. However, this article is not a review of Shameless itself but rather the almost comically shameless racism the show is seeping in. The acting is amazing, the storylines are gripping and I lowkey have an emotional commitment to these characters now. On the train, before bed, during my commute, literally any time I could. Every spare second I had, I was watching Shameless. I binged the entire first season in about a week. This intrigue certainly didn’t dull once I had actually started the show. So, to see that it was on Netflix ready for me to binge was a pretty great discovery. I was already relatively familiar with Fiona’s “almost-crying but then firming it” thing, Frank’s dumbass tendencies and the Gallagher family’s overall chaoticness. For those who skipped that phase, these “edits” were basically just compilations of the most depressing television and movie clips from across the internet, edited together against melancholy music and “Shameless”, was a regular feature on these edits. Now, I am a teenager that had an emo phase which included a decent amount of Nightcore songs and Youtube edits that introduced me to Shameless and its characters way before I actually watched the show. The Gallagher family consists of a drunk Frank, the emotionally absent but physically present patriarch of the family, eldest daughter Fiona, who is the makeshift mother of the rest of the Gallagher children, Lip, Ian, Debbie, Carl and finally, Liam, the baby of the family. The show follows a poor but rambunctious family from the Southside of Chicago as they struggle to survive while facing the everyday challenges of growing up. When Netflix first recommended the US rendition of Channel 4’s “Shameless” to me, I was actually quite excited. ![]()
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