What makes a good television show? How can we really say that a television show is good? Well we can watch that television show for ourselves and then decide. However, if you don’t want to do that and potentially waste time, you can look online first at the many different reviews and ratings of the show. Shameless is a show that has run for eight seasons, starting in 2011 and still continuing on now. Looking into the ratings and following of this show, you can see that it has caught the constant attention of very big audience. It has a 93% rating on the rotten tomatoes scale, which is obviously very good seeing as that makes it an A on a grading scale. It is a show that pushes its limits and still has a huge audience.
Now when I myself first heard about Shameless, I thought it was absolutely ludicrous. I thought that it was a show that glorified being poor and a drunk. After watching it, I realized that it was a show that really just showed how much of a struggle it is to keep living with a life like that. It doesn’t glorify the life, but rather depict it so well, that you are intrigued to see how the next day of living goes, so you keep watching.
One episode that shows just how far Shameless will go into the world of sadness and grief is in Season 4, episode 5 entitled “There’s the Rub”. This episode shows off just how crazy life can get and then goes past that. While Fiona is trying to celebrate her birthday after crushing the heart of the one actual man in her life that wasn’t a deadbeat or liar, she decides that cocaine will help her forget all that. Well she forgets to keep track of her four-year old brother around said coke and he ends up overdosing on it. This one moment rocked viewers. This was also the moment that could be said to be Fiona’s rock bottom moment.
This is a show that isn’t afraid to go to the deepest levels of human struggle. It doesn’t worry about being judged for how bad it is and I think that is one of the best things about it. I think that it will continue to have viewers and a fan base regardless of what it does because we have all become so obsessed with how messed up they all are.
It is also a show that shows that you don’t pick this life. These kids didn’t ask to be born to a deadbeat father, they just were. They didn’t choose to live day to day trying to keep fed. It also shows just how hard it is to get out of this life. Being in this life for so long you get caught in the pattern and it stays with you. This is one of the reasons it is such a popular show.
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