The show aired on Channel 4 from to and is currently streaming for free on Tubi and Pluto TV. The series has the same basic premise as the American version of Shameless , following Frank Gallagher and his gaggle of kids. Want to watch the US version of Shameless? No problem! Where to watch Shameless. If you miss the early days of Shameless , which largely centered around Fiona's Emmy Rossum struggles to raise her siblings on her own while also trying to keep the Gallagher family financially afloat, you'll definitely appreciate Maid.
The miniseries centers around Alex Margaret Qualley , a single mother who escapes an abusive relationship and gets a job as a housecleaner in Washington to support herself and her young daughter. Although the show is billed as a dramedy, it definitely leans more into the dram of it all than Shameless , but the shows are alike in the ways they show the toll living below the poverty line takes on people, and how poor people are marginalized while serving the rich.
Plus, Qualley gives an incredible performance. Did you know Shameless was originally based on a British show of the same name? Yup, there's a whole other unhinged Gallagher family in the U. But aside from character names, their portrayals of poverty, and both shows having essentially identical first seasons, the British Shameless is very much its own separate animal. The series, which also ran for 11 seasons, is set in Manchester instead of Chicago, and takes its characters to places fans of the American adaptation probably wouldn't recognize; the character of Karen Jackson played here by Rebecca Atkinson is a much bigger, longer-lasting presence in this Shameless , while Fiona Anne-Marie Duff and Steve a pre-international fame James McAvoy depart after the second season.
It's a completely different series that deals with completely different themes, but it was pretty highly acclaimed in the U. Toni Collette gives one of the best, and most underrated, performances of her career as Tara, a wife and mother with dissociative identity disorder who frequently transitions between her multiple personalities, which include a prim '50s housewife named Alice, a brash Vietnam war veteran named Buck, and a flirty teenager named T.
The show is sensitive about Tara's increasing frustration with her alters and her complicated feelings about frequently losing and regaining control of her mind and body, as well as the impact it has on her family. There are echoes of both Frank William H.
Macy and Monica Chloe Webb in Tara, and it's not hard to find parallels between the ways her kids, Kate a pre-Marvel Brie Larson and Marshall Keir Gilchrist , struggle to balance their acceptance of their mother's condition with their desire for a "normal" family, and the ways the Gallaghers have learned to process their parents' failures over the years.
How rare it is to find a show that can out-shame Shameless , but It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia does a pretty excellent job.
Following the daily lives of a morally bankrupt, self-absorbed, clinically insane, often irredeemable foursome who own and operate a bar in Philadelphia, Sunny is the kind of series that delights in refusing to let its characters grow as people.
As a unit, the gang has only succeeded in becoming more narcissistic and clueless to the world around them as the seasons have stretched on.
They continue to behave terribly and never learn from their mistakes… but in a really funny way, thanks to the beauty of the minute sitcom format, which allows the show to blow itself up every week and reset the clock in the next episode.
Based on an award-winning British series with the same name, it immediately gained a strong following. The Gallaghers never fail to show up for one another, regardless of their many grievances and disagreements.
He has a strong role in the family's shortcomings as the six siblings struggle to bounce back from poverty, substance abuse, and their not-so-good parents. Shameless manages to emphasize the importance of family and support systems without portraying any of their characters as perfect; they are always ready to deliver some tough love to one another.
She quickly became a fan-favorite as Fiona is the epitome of a strong independent woman. She is vulgar and unapologetic as she takes risks and makes sacrifices to support her own goals and to protect her family. That was what happened here. He spent his money on drinks and a car — and donated some to help disabled children get prosthetic limbs. Frank had the nerve to try to get that money back.
When he found out the man already spent it, he grabbed the prosthetic leg of a young girl. Yet, seasons later, fans are expected to still root for Frank to at least stay alive.
Debbie needed to make money to take care of herself and her baby in Season 8. She got a new job and started night school to learn to be a welder.
However, she wasn't exactly taking legal jobs. One was so sketchy and dangerous that injury was a real risk—and she did end up getting hurt. The injury was so bad, she either needed reconstructive surgery or to be willing to lose three toes. Both options would have cost money she didn't have. After all, she took the job for a reason. The Gallaghers tend to find a way out of their messes, and that was exactly what she did. She decided to have Liam — yes, the youngest member of the family — remove her toes for her.
Frank had to step in, but the job was done. Carl stumbled into a lucrative detoxing business, which all started with him kidnapping someone. From there, he ended up meeting Kassidi.
She might be crazier than most of the characters on Shameless put together. The thing is, he didn't even mean to propose. However, she took the ring he bought her as an apology gift as just that.
The two got married, despite how young they are. What was even crazier was the fact that he did it knowing he planned to return to military school. Kassidi was clearly going to freak out over that, and she did. She went so far as to handcuff him to the bed. The Gallaghers aren't the best family by a long shot, on TV or on Shameless. So, it's not hard to blame Debbie for wanting another family. However, she went about trying to get that in the wrong way.
She thought if she had Derek's baby, his family would take her in, like they did his brother's girlfriend.
In order to do so, she lied to her boyfriend and told them they were safe to be intimate. This is something that happens often on the Showtime series. The Gallaghers' actions directly affect someone else. In this case, Debbie decided Derek's future, as well as his family's, would include a child without letting him have a say. It was wrong. Carl has turned his life around somewhat, except for getting married. Before that, however, he was dealing illegal substances—and enlisting the help of Chuckie.
At that point, Chuckie didn't have a choice because he was Carl's slave as part of a deal. So, he just stood there while Carl taped the substances to his body. Thanks to a tip from Frank, police dogs found them at the bus station, and Carl of course ran. He didn't escape for long, since Sammi was more than happy to tell the police about him.
Both boys were sent to juvie, though Sammi did try to prepare Chuckie for it — in all the worst ways. There was so much wrong with this storyline, and it all resulted from Carl's initial action. For a very short period of time, Frank was trying to do the right thing.
He had a job. He got Liam into a private school. It's just too bad the school cared more about using him to make prospective parents think they were "diverse. That included wanting him to get him information about the wealthy families in his school so he could rob them. He even planned to rob his friend's family while they took Liam on vacation with them.
Poor Liam actually did the reconnaissance his father needed. However, the code he gave him didn't work, yet Frank again somehow managed to evade the cops. Let's just hope Shameless doesn't expect fans to watch Frank use his son ever again.
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