Shameless US Episode 3

This is weired to say after only three episodes of a new TV show but, I'm getting bored with this one already.  Anyone else?  I would normally watch this on Thursday night and give you the review on Friday, I recorded it last week and am only getting around to the review now having not watched the show until Sunday.  Even then I didn't really want to watch it I just thought I better if I was going to do the review.  Of course you can't base a TV show on one boring episode so I will give it another go this week and I'll go from there.



Sorry guys! She got back with her boyfriend.

 Last week the Gallaghers where presented with a bit of a problem, the disability cheque people popped around to see an Aunt, I can't remember her name that's how much attention I was paying.  The lady needed a signature from this aunt as her disability cheques are always being cashed but they don't know who by.  We soon find out that the aunt they want to speak to has been dead for 7 years and Frank (William H Macy) has been cashing the cheque whilst not informing anyone of the auntie's demise.  So most of the show went from there really they visited the local old peoples home and kidnapped one for the week to act as an impostor, they return her days later with no one any the wiser, is that likely?  I don't think so.  Not here in the UK anyway.  The police never even investigated it again not likely, and where was this woman's real family and why were they not worried about her whereabouts?

The youngest Gallagher boy Lip found himself in some trouble this week to, as we know he's gay and last week he fended of the advances of a young girl who's name I can't remember, anyone see a pattern here?  The girl didn't take to kindly to being let down so she decided to get her brother to beat Lip up, unfortunately they couldn't find him so his older brother took the "beat down" as they called it.

Emmy Rossum had her chest out as Glen from 1Man. 365 Movies promised us, that's when she was sleeping with a police officer in his patrol car outside a church full of school children, likely?  Again I don't think so.  As nice as her chest was It's really not enough to make you watch the show every week, at least for me anyway.

Frank is still living with that woman, and no I can't remember her name either, she is the nympho I referred to last week who had Frank walking a little funny following their bedroom antics.  Some of that may be worth watching some more but other than that I think Shameless US may have lost my interest.

Shameless US Episode 2

I said last week that I would give this show another go as from the first episode I really wasn't to sure what to think but like everything you should give it a second chance.  I'm pleased I did this episode was a lot better than the first and funnier to.  William H Macy really stepped up this week in his portrayl of Frank Gallagher and hopefully it is a sign of things to come.


Last nights episode saw Frank go missing, as we know he is just a layabout alcoholic who has never really been anywhere outside of Chicago.  Frank started the show visiting his local bar and got headbutted off the father of the a young girl who his son had been using shall we say, this forced Frank to go home and headbutt one of his sons.  Fiona's boyfriend reacted badly to this and went toe to toe with Frank only to be stopped by Fiona.  Not getting his own back he kidnapped Frank put him in the boot of his Bentley and drove him to Toronto in Canada.  The funniest bit of the whole headbutt incident in the bar was the fact that Frank had almost a full pint of beer, and guess what?  He didn't spill a drop, now that's a true alcoholic.



Frank ended up in a Canadian Jail

Frank returned to Chicago eventually hiding in a fake wall in the back of a camper van as he has no passport to cross the border, he went back to the bar and spoke with the guy who headbutted him leaving quickly hoping to get some action from the guys now single wife.  That worked out pretty well for frank and he got some action but maybe not what he was expecting.  The guys wife Sheila (Joan Cusak) turns out to be a bit of a nymphomaniac and has a rather large instrument that I can only imagine went up franks rear end as he was walking pretty funny, however he seems to like it and looks like he will be moving in with Sheila.

I don't know about America but here in England the first two shows have been on for an hour and a half a little to long if you ask me, an hour would suffice.  Good thing we have Sky+ (DVR in America) so we can forward all the ad breaks.  The series showed real promise last night and gave some great laughs, a taste of things to come would be Emily Rossum with her top off quite a bit, and also the Gallagher's next door neighbours, they are pretty raunchy to.  That's a little scoop from one of my readers Glen, Stateside who runs the blog 1Man365Movies, be sure to check it out.  I'll be back later today with this blogs first guest post written by regular reader and commenter Ruben who has provided a catch up from season 4 and the first episode from season 5 of Dexter.

  

Shameless US Episode 1

I am really putting this out in order to gain a perspective on what the US thought of this show, it premiered here in the UK last night 23rd June 2011 and is of course a remake of the highly popular Channel 4 show Shameless.  I will have to admit that I was not the biggest fan of the UK show as I didn't see it from the start but, I got into the last few series of it and laughed my ass off for weeks on end.

The US version of the show has now aired on UK TV, like I mentioned above and stars William H Macy as Frank Gallagher a single father who is drunk most of the time whilst dragging up his six kids.  I thought this show would have to be worth a watch especially as I run this blog, how did it do?  Well for now I feel like it was not the best one hour 30 minutes I have spent in front of the TV, it did have it's funny moments but for me it just lacked that bit edge that the British show has.

The show went out in America back in January and also stars Emmy Rossum, Cameron Monaghan, Justin Chatwin, Joan Cusak and Steve Howey.  I'm guessing that the US audience have already seen the show and would like to know does it get any better, I know like the UK version it's not based purely on comedy but I don't think it pulled off the comedy element quite as well.

The US version seems as if it's going to be based more centrally on the Gallagher family, where as the UK version was based on a fictional Chatswoth Estate in the suberbs of Manchester following more than one family.  Frank Gallagher and his family where very central to the story in the first series and it was based mainly on them but, as the show progressed more and more characthers and familys were introduced.  I suppose that sort of Happaned here with Ian Gallagher working in the local store and also Fiona's boyfriend Steve bringing in the element of the Mcguire family. 

I can't really say to much on Macy's part as Frank Gallagher as he spent most of the first episode asleep, only waking up in maybe the last 25 to 30 minutes.  For me he is a strange choice for this role and I don't know why, maybe it's just the times I have seen him before he plays a more serious sort of character, or maybe it's just that David Threlfall plays the part on the UK version so well.  Whatever it is I don't know but I would like an opinion as to weather the show will be worth watching every week.

I will watch again next week just out of curiosity, you can't really base a show on it's first episode anyway.  I think between this and new show Falling Skies the latter will be my new favourite.