But in the last few episodes, Ian Gallagher (Cameron Monaghan) and his on-again, off-again boyfriend, Mickey Milkovich (Noel Fisher), have been throwing the heavyweight acting punches. Earlier in the season, Lip Gallagher (Jeremy Allen White), the family genius, pulled focus with his heart-wrenching struggles to make it through college. Macy) largely out of commission, and Fiona Gallagher (Emmy Rossum) hitting rock bottom, the show has really allowed some of the rest of the Gallagher clan to shine. With spotlight stealers like patriarch Frank Gallagher (William H. But somewhere in the cracks, Shameless has built a cast of believable, sympathetic, dirt-poor characters struggling to escape circumstance, genetics, and self-destructive behavior.Īrmed with a steadily growing fan base, Shameless is now wrapping up its fourth and strongest season.
Sex, violence, addiction, and depravity are the show’s rallying cry. Shameless often gets written off as a guilty pleasure-glance over at the television while someone else is watching and you’re likely to see a debauch of some kind or another.
It lacks the polish of Mad Men and the out-and-out insanity of Game of Thrones. Shameless often gets lost somewhere in the glut of prestige Sunday-night television.
