Shameless: The Complete First Season
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Actor: James McAvoyBrand: Warner Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 342 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: E2887
Studio: BBC Worldwide
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- Meet the Gallaghers. Mum went AWOL years ago, Dad stayed at home with the six children only to hit the bottle . and sometimes the kids. Blisteringly funny, offbeat drama following the rollercoaster lives and loves of an anarchic family from Manchester. The real head of the family is big sister Fiona, who looks after Carl, Debbie and baby Liam. She is occasionally helped, more often hindered, by
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DVD Review: With An American Version Imminent, It's A Shame Not To Catch Its Truly Original Predecessor
Summary: 5 Stars
Few things make me more nervous than when someone has the bright idea to adapt one of my favorite British TV programs into an American version. For every successful translation ("The Office"), there are dozens of failed attempts ("Coupling"). So when I heard that Showtime was preparing to drop "Shameless" with William H. Macy, Joan Cusack, and Emmy Rossum--I got very very scared. Not because of the cast, but because, to me, "Shameless" is a quintessentially British show. The original version is an absolutely lunatic bit of brilliance that has all the elements to be a crashing disaster and yet balances them so adeptly, so audaciously, and so precisely. Instead of pushing into nightmarishly precious, overwrought, and quirky territory--somehow the show succeeds spectacularly. Don't get me wrong--the show is precious and overwrought and quirky--but every bit of it is in a good way.
Chronicling the lives of the Gallagher family, "Shameless" introduces us to a wastrel father and his brood of six kids. With mom out of the picture, oldest daughter Fiona has taken up the slack for a largely absent and altogether alcoholic father. This is a show of survival as the Gallaghers eke out an existence in lower income England. With the assistance of her new boyfriend (a charming James McAvoy), this dysfunctional family unit triumphs despite itself. That's what is, ultimately, so surprising about "Shameless"--as over-the-top ridiculous as this group can get, they are still quite believable as a loving family. There's much drunken debauchery, plenty of illicit sex, fair amounts of stealing, fisticuffs galore, and even an odd kidnapping--but with a smart and sexy screenplay, the Gallagher family never alienates the audience.
"Shameless" is simply and undeniably hilarious. Not worried about "good taste" or "political correctness," Paul Abbott's ingenious creation is a modern family unit unlike any other on contemporary TV. With a stellar, and massive cast, even the supporting characters shine and are fully developed. Season One only consists of 7 nearly perfect episodes, but the other Seasons have yet to receive a US release. It's a shame, really, as you'll be dying to see what comes next. Fast-paced, loud, irreverent, crude, disturbing and yet oddly touching when necessary, I absolutely adore "Shameless." And while I wish Showtime's adaptation well, my greatest hope is that is raises the awareness and profile of its truly original predecessor! KGHarris, 12/10.
Description of Shameless: The Complete First Season
Meet the Gallaghers. Mum went AWOL years ago, Dad stayed at home with the six children only to hit the bottle ... and sometimes the kids... Blisteringly funny, offbeat drama following the rollercoaster lives and loves of an anarchic family from Manchester. The real head of the family is big sister Fiona, who looks after Carl, Debbie and baby Liam. She is occasionally helped, more often hindered, by streetwise 'Lip' and the actively gay, but very private, Ian. Welcome to the hectic world of sexual adventures, triumphs, love, scams and a fair bit of crime on a rough Manchester housing estate, where wheel-less cars are the norm and the moving ones are stolen.Running Time: 342 min.
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