Parent reviews for Shameless

I thought portraying underage sex was illegal? Does this show skirt laws laws like Moonshiners and those psudo-reality shows that ACTUALLY SHOW ILLEGAL alcohol stils and crimes and portray it for TV? I've heard that Archie Bunker promoted racism, according to today standards, what does that say about this show? And William H Macey, used to love him as an actor, not anymore. His wife, (in real life) snookered him out of a lot of money for his kids.....College Admission scandal, and he plays a real life dirt bag on TV? #metoo..... in 50 years ANYTHING will be broadcast on TV, there will be no ratings..... I am supposed to get excited about underage kids having sex????? How can that be? Great societies eventually erode and rot from within.

Definitely not appropriate for small children, but teenagers can watch. They speak and swear in a true to life form - overall it does have positive messages and shows the strength of the family.

After hearing so many glowing reviews about what a phenomenal show this is, I finally rented the first season and sat down to see what all the excitement was about. I forced myself through the first thirty minutes of the pilot episode and turned it off.
I, as a grown woman who went to public school, am not overly sensitive to the alcohol, drugs, and swearing elements (middle school kids have comparable mouths on them these days), but the *literal* pornographic content was so, so overkill. Whether it's 'realistic' or not (every kind of horrific thing is 'realistic' somewhere in the world) constant graphic sex scenes, crude sexual conversations, and scenes of kids viewing pornography are not things that any kid should be absorbing. It was all so gratuitous that after I finished showering and felt clean again, I couldn't even take the show seriously.

I Started watching this show a month ago and i'm only on season 6 and I started looking away from the screen in the first episode, i'm 19 years old and I feel like this show is getting way out of hand, not only do it show and tell viewers that its okay to have a baby at a young age, but it also tell viewers that its okay to be on berth control at the age of 13.

Let me start off by saying this is a masterpiece show but definitely not for kids or teens of any age. Every curse word you could possibly think of is used constantly in every episode. Constant nudity and sex is graphically shown in many episodes as well as sexual dialogue throughout. Violence isn't big but some disturbing bloody images and violent dialogue is shown, other than that it is nothing more than fist fights on the streets. One of the main characters and dad of the family is a drug addicted and alcoholic and is shown doing, heroine, meth, crack cocaine, and more. Other characters under age are also shown drinking and smoking pot. Entertaining and exciting show but nothing for kids under at least 16 and even that is a little young for this show obviously made for adults.

Let me tell you that this show is not that great. In contrast to what positive comments people will tell you, this show is garbage. There's too much sex for even the most mature person out there to see. I don't like the number of gratuitous sex scenes the show spews out not because they're inappropriate, because that is all the content the show offers and does not even try to develop its characters and flesh out the story telling to keep the show going. Obviously i do not recommend children under 17 to watch but on the other hand I think what shameless fails to do is what Game of Thrones succeeds. Yes i know there is sex and violence in that show but it does not glorify needless vice behavior compared to shameless, it shows that in GoT, needless sex and violence has severe consequences and at times more often punishes the characters than reward them. Some of the GoT characters actually began to flesh out from these experiences and become better people that can reflect real life events in history, plus is set in the middle ages where there was more rampant vice like behavior than today so it's kinda educational. Shameless on the other hand is set in the present day and it's much more dirtier and degenerating than GoT, the characters in that show engage in WAY too many sex scenes than GoT characters and GoT has other stuff than just sex. Shameless is nothing more than glorified porno that does not reflect real life circumstances compared to GoT that was based on real life events and people and also plays with the basis of human nature and challenges our views for story telling, shameless offers nothing innovated or challenging other than pander to the Lowest Common Denominator crowd. Sorry for long review but I hope it helps.

If you want your teenage girls to think that oral sex is the way to show a guy she likes him, let her watch this show! There are no boundries, lots of graphic sex and zero values! They try to make you believe is a “real life situation” for a vulnerable disfunctional family but it is not like that, people can do better in real life, there is cero hope in this series. I am 39 and I couldnt watch anymore after few seasons! Parents! SET PARENTAL CONTROL NOW ON NETFLIX!

Fantastic show! Really addicting and there is always something good doing on! Recommend to everyone!!

I decided to watch the show because everyone at my job is always talking about the show here's my opinion I just watched Shameless from season 1 until season 2 this show it's very disgusting very disgusting very disgusting this is why I stopped watching the show watch the show very disgusting every five minutes there is sex scene and there's a lot of gay sex in this show every 10 minutes there is a sex scene in the show very disgusting to not let your teenager teenager and your kids watch TV show this show needs to be taking off this show needs to be taken off of American television because so many kids are watching the show whoever made this show needs to be in jail because this is very disgusting to watch