seen from China
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from China
seen from China
seen from Italy
seen from China
seen from Maldives
seen from China
seen from China
seen from China
seen from Netherlands
seen from China
seen from China
seen from Belgium
seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from China
seen from United States
15 YEARS OF SHAMELESS Shameless is an American comedy-drama television series developed by John Wells that premiered on January 9, 2011. It is an adaptation of Paul Abbott's British series of the same name. The series is set in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.
I'm so honest I could probably defend every single shameless character If i wanted to, like I generally understand so many of their actions to such a level
shameless + womanhood - dressed to suppress by metric
I don’t think I’ve spoken about this before, but i really do not like Sheila. I always see people saying she’s this amazing mother and lovely person and it’s so laughably untrue! Sheila shows how people can seem nice, act sweet and polite, but still do terrible, terrible things.
She not only allowed but condoned Karen’s relationship to a 30 year old man when she was 16 (i think, correct me if I’m wrong), to the point where she was criticising Karen for not wanting to be with him anymore and letting him back in the house after she kicked him out. A good mother would have called the police on him or dealt with him herself and definitely would have stepped in after he was blatantly harassing her by sleeping right outside their house.
THEN, she proceeds to get with this man herself. Then, when Karen wants to give her baby up for adoption (something she wanted to do the majority of her pregnancy, by the way), Sheila just takes it and chooses the new baby over her. It’s disgusting.
She’s also awful as a person, aside from as a mother, because she rapes frank. Frank’s a bad person in his own right, but she still rapes him.
So I really do not like her and am always amazed when i see how much love she has in the fandom.
I'm rewatching Shameless right now (more so background noise but i do keep getting sucked into watching)
and one of the things i will never ever understand about the people who love Shameless is how most people (especially Sheila lovers) completely miss the thematic point of Karen's household.
Because we have 3 different households we focus on in the show (not including Kev and V) The Gallagher's, The Milkovichs, and The Jacksons.
The Milkovich's are the extreme end of abuse and neglect in the home the worst of the worst violence. The Gallagher's are the middle ground. Their shit is rough as hell but there's still a cohesive structure to their household despite the poverty and chaos. And then you have the Jackson house. They are, for all intents and purposes, the dream the white picket fence two parents, etc. But Karen is still routinely neglected because of both her mother's illness and her father's misogyny and abandonment. And it's so overlooked because everyone loves to baby sheila because of her mental illness. But the mental illness does not remove the neglect Karen experiences. Which is why Karen continuously acts out for attention. The show is trying to show you three different lenses of abuse and neglect but everyone denies Karen's at every turn because her's is hidden under the veneer of the american dream. (at least the veneer of the american dream is the only thing that differentiates her from all our other characters who are imperfect victims as well.)
Like it literally makes no sense to have only 2 out of 3 houses they focus on be neglectful and abusive. Unless Karen's household was supposed to be a foil, but the differences aren't stark enough and they have too many overlapping elements to have Karen's house as the foil.
Don't even get me started on Karen's relationship with her mom as the story progresses. the older Karen gets the more sheila begins to dislike Karen outwardly because she can no longer control and baby her daughter and you see that clear as day once Karen get's run over and Sheila's reaction to the new state her daughter is in (aka a state in which Karen no longer has autonomy and is thereby desirable to Sheila again.)
i really do relate to Sheila, my anxious queen🫶🏼
shameless US: season 1, episode 9 // but at last came a knock
Sheila opening the door and saying "oh the twins!!" When Frank shows up at her door and he identifies himself as Ian and Lip's dad cracks me up.
Like. LIP AND IAN? TWINS?
Anyway, guess who finally decided to rewatch Shameless (for the very first time ever)?
