Parent reviews for Shameless

Okay so I’ve seen so many parent reviews I thinks it’s really funny but y’all need to calm the heck down. Y’all really sensitive about this like saying it’s bad for kids and crap. Take a joke!! It’s a TV Show. I mean younger kids below 14 shouldn’t watch it but it’s a good laugh! It’s funny to watch with your teens above or 14. Just skip scenes. Y’all act like you’ve never seen a dick or vigina or breast. I bet your kids seen it. Y’all so

Uh...at 38, *I* can barely watch this show. While I am a fan and it is beautifully acted and I do root for the success of the Gallagher kids, there is simply NO way would I allow any of my kids to watch this. EVER. (How the parents of the child actors on this show remain ok with their kids being on this show is a mystery to me, frankly.)

Definitely a lot of nudity, drugs, and swearing. However, in this day and age with the access kids have to the internet, it’s most likely nothing they haven’t seen before. Overall, it has a great message. There’s a lot of extra comedic antics and drama, but it’s actually a pretty good depiction of the struggles of poverty in the city. Touches on a lot of important issues. If your kids are pretty mature, I recommend letting them watch it.

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 have never gone through such extreme measures to rate and inform others of a show or movie like I am for this show. Honestly this isn't even something I would recommend for adults over the age of 18. The content, weight and value of the show is ridiculous. It has no substance and sadly it is made so available to your adults (teens) to watch. I don't want the characters to be out of a job but I truly think that this show should be discontinued and no longer made available. It goes against moral standards, teaches things that are not okay to society to become okay. I am extremely disturbed by this show, mindless well call it porn and hate training for kids.

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!

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

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