Shameless

[Sue]

Funny. Touching. Guardian gave it a bad preview. Why?

[woofmarkthedog]

Because it's had it's day

W**F

[Sue]

I thought it was good - but then I was late catching up with it, as so many things :-$

[Pickle]

I haven't seen last night's episode yet, but it's far and away my favourite show on TV. There was one series (3 maybe, can't remember) that lost it's spark a bit, but I really enjoyed the last series.

[wee quinnie]

Is it just my imagination, or is Frank looking a bit less rough in this series?

[SimonM]

I am still struggling to get to grips with the idea of Mrs Doyle as a sex siren leaning provocatively against the mantelpiece...

[Brendan]

Me too. Truely the most bizarrely incongruous image I?ve seen so far this year.

While I?m on the subject I saw Jamie McGuire on Lordship Lane the other day.

[hairyjayne]

I saw him today! Spotted near North Dulwich station.

[sniffy]

Sue Wrote:

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> I thought it was good - but then I was late

> catching up with it, as so many things :-$

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Sue, it's still good!

Great even. Relatively speaking, given the crap on offer!!

Woofpuppy is just one opinion.

Of course, as is my opinion.

So that's at least 50/50 ;)

[SimonM]

This week's episode was pretty bleak though...

[Roll Deep]

For me the arse fell out of it when Lip left, along with Kev and Veronica. It seemed that the writers tried to disassosiate the show from what was one of it's key crowd pleasers, living up to the reputation of how the taxpayer percieves dole cheats and the consequences that come with the lifestyle such as resorting to scams to make ends meet and visits from social services.

Now there's too much sympathy for the characters that was over explored in Karen and Jaime's rocky marriage and the other, more entertaining characters were sidelined. Basically, I want to see Frank fall down a flight of stairs whilst drunk and hurt himself badly, or end up sleeping with a dog, which was often the sort of thing that made my ribs ache into the next day.

From series six onwards I haven't made much of an effort to catch any episodes, where as before I'd often structure my evening around them.