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!!

Truth.
This show is filled with sex, cursing, and "not a stumbling block for intelligence..."
It has its moment and when it has a plot, the plot is enthralling (if it is not sex obsessive).

There is better on the web\cable.

I'm waiting for #Ozark season 3.

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.

This show includes MANY inappropriate scenes as a 40 year old I still have to skip parts!