You should be ashamed of yourselves. This show is and always has been utterly appalling in the way it glorifies and romanticises our vicious underclass.
This from the current Channel 4 publicity campaign:
It's been a tough year for our Chatsworth residents: we've seen them survive benefit fraud, brothels, stints in jail, stings-gone-wrong, fake suicides, cold turkey, lesbian romps, lingerie parties, abandonment and a family torn apart and put back together again. What else could possibly happen?
What else could possibly happen? Howzabout: Your kids go out and nearly murder two other kids after subjecting them to an hour-and-a-half of torture, because cheating, prostitution, being in prison, fraud, drug abuse, public sex and general social dysfunction are humorous norms in your family?
After the Doncaster case, who the hell on here could possibly think Shameless is funny?
