Parent reviews for Shameless

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.

This is the most vile celebration of the complete breakdown of human society (and the American family), where they promote and trivialize alcoholism, human trafficking, willful sexual exploitation, premeditated murder, child pregnancy, exploitation of children in extreme adult themed sexual scenes (with minors) and extreme acts of domestic abuse and slavery. And lets not forget children smoking. EVERY SINGLE scene has a child character smoking a cigarette!

This content is SO dark and twisted, anyone who has ever been victimized by any of the above situations would feel their heart break by watching these vile and inhumane reenactments of the worst parts of the human element. Only you can't actually call any of these acts human. Pure vile garbage - anyone who participated in this show should be banned from TV.

Flip over to the children who rated this - 13 year olds saying it's the "best show ever..." Should be a wake up call for Hollywood - for a 13 year old to say how great this show is, when it depicts pre-teens giving oral sex to boys just so they would be liked. So much for the "me too" movement. Hypocrites!

Every season just gets better and better. Cant take my eyes of the screen.

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

I LOVE SHAMELESS

I think it's a great show I believe teens should see it to learn about life and all the hell people go threw I don't think young kids should see it because of all the nudity and inappropriate language

This show is amazing and has a good story that gets me hooked but i would never let my child watch this show unless hes with me so i can skip some parts. Lemme say something which is what i said to my son when he begged to watch the show "If you wanna watch porn go ahed and watch shameless." and he obviously didnt say ok then continued playing his video games. There is FULL frontal male and female nudity as a 30 year old i even look away at some parts. But i am glad they are open with LGBTQ2+