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Shameless
Season 1
DVD Encompass
Starring	William H. Macy Emmy Rossum Justin Chatwin Ethan Cutkosky Shanola Hampton Steve Howey Emma Kenney Cameron Monaghan Jeremy Allen White Laura Slade Wiggins Joan Cusack
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	12
Release
Original network	Start
Original release	January ix (2011-01-09) – March 27, 2011 (2011-03-27)
Season chronology
Next → Season two
List of episodes

The offset flavor of Shameless, an American one-act-drama television series based on the British series of the same proper name by Paul Abbott, premiered on January 9, 2011, at Lord's day 10:00 p.k. EST on the Get-go tv network. Executive producers are John Wells, Paul Abbott and Andrew Stearn, with producer Michael Hissrich. The flavor concluded after 12 episodes on March 27, 2011. The show's season premiere was watched by 982,000 viewers, making it the network'southward biggest turnout for a series premiere since Dead Like Me in 2003. The episode airing Jan xxx, "Casey Casden", received i.45 million total viewers, making Shameless the best performing beginning-year drama on Showtime. The flavor finale scored ane.16 one thousand thousand viewers.

Plot [edit]

The starting time season of Shameless depicts the dysfunctional family of Frank Gallagher, a unmarried, alcoholic, and trashy male parent of six children in Chicago, Illinois. With Frank's bipolar wife, Monica, running away from Frank prior to the first flavor, the family has been run by Frank'due south eldest daughter Fiona, who raises her five other siblings: the extraordinarily intelligent Lip, goofy and strong-hearted Ian, the mature and grounded Debbie, the troublemaking and unruly child Carl, and Liam, who is mysteriously black (in the second half of the flavour, a paternity examination reveals Frank equally Liam's biological male parent). Oftentimes involved in the Gallagher's lives are their neighbors, Kevin and Veronica, who fake a marriage mid-flavor to obtain a substantial dowry.

The season'southward core story revolves around Steve Wilton, an affluent homo whom Fiona and Veronica meet at a trip the light fantastic toe club. Fiona begins a relationship with Steve and discovers that he is a high end machine thief. Fiona'due south childhood friend and police officer, Tony Markovich, expresses involvement in dating Fiona, though Fiona ultimately turns him downwards. When Steve leaves town to visit his family unit in Lake Forest, it is revealed that his real name is Jimmy Lishman; Jimmy, under the alias of Steve, comes from a wealthy family who presumes he is away at medical school. When Debbie discovers Steve'south hugger-mugger, she agrees to keep it a undercover from Fiona, just does notify Steve'due south real female parent about his double life.

The subsidiary plot throughout the season involves Ian, who is a closeted homosexual, his sexual orientation only known to Lip and a friend, Mandy. Ian pursues a sexual human relationship with his boss Kash, the adult owner of a local convenience shop. Kash is unhappily married to his wife, Linda, who discovers the affair through the store'southward newly installed security cameras; Linda blackmails Kash into impregnating her. Mandy's thug brother, Mickey Milkovich, openly shoplifts from the store and regularly insults Kash. When Ian confronts Mickey, the two unexpectedly take sex, and they begin a casual sexual human relationship. When Kash finds out, he angrily shoots Mickey in the leg when he attempts to shoplift. Mickey is arrested for attempted shoplifting and Kash is praised for his efforts. In the terminal episode, Ian comes out to Fiona, who is accepting of his sexuality.

Frank'southward eldest son, Lip, is in an open up relationship with the promiscuous Karen Jackson, though Lip wants to pursue their human relationship as more than a coincidental fling. Karen's mother, Sheila, is a nice merely kooky housewife diagnosed with astringent agoraphobia. Frank becomes romantic with Sheila and moves in with her, though he'due south mainly in that location to freeload and cash on Sheila's inability checks, much to Karen'due south dismay. Sheila's estranged ex-hubby, Eddie, attempts to reconcile with Karen by inviting her to a purity ball, a father/daughter event where girls pledge their chastity. When Karen delves into a detailed list of her sexual history at the ball, equally required past the brawl's program, Eddie angrily calls her a whore. Sheila furiously kicks Eddie out of her house, overcoming her agoraphobia in the procedure. In a cruder turn of events, Karen wants to get revenge on her male parent and rapes an incapacitated Frank, showcasing the incident on a video weblog that she sends to Eddie and his co-workers. Beaten over the video and past events, Eddie commits suicide past jumping in a frozen lake. Consequently, a guilt-stricken Karen breaks upwards with Lip. Both Frank and Karen separately apologize to Lip for the video.

In the final episodes, Lip and Ian are arrested later on beingness caught driving i of Steve's stolen cars, straining Fiona and Steve'southward human relationship; though Fiona, conflicted, admits that she may be falling in honey with Steve. Meanwhile, Tony discovers the truth about Steve's occupation. He attacks Steve and gives him an ultimatum—to turn himself in and exist arrested, or to leave Fiona and disappear without a trace. Though Steve tries to convince Fiona to accompany him in Republic of costa rica, Fiona declines his offer and takes up an office chore from a new friend, Jasmine, to further intendance for her family. Under obligation, Steve is forced to run off without the girl he expected he'd be with.

Cast and characters [edit]

Main [edit]

• William H. Macy as Frank Gallagher
• Emmy Rossum equally Fiona Gallagher
• Justin Chatwin as Steve Wilton / Jimmy Lishman
• Ethan Cutkosky equally Carl Gallagher
• Shanola Hampton as Veronica "5" Fisher
• Steve Howey as Kevin "Kev" Ball
• Emma Kenney as Debbie Gallagher
• Cameron Monaghan equally Ian Gallagher
• Jeremy Allen White every bit Phillip "Lip" Gallagher
• Laura Slade Wiggins as Karen Jackson
• Joan Cusack as Sheila Jackson (credited as "special guest star" in opening title sequence)

Recurring [edit]

• Tyler Jacob Moore as Tony Markovich
• Joel Murray as Eddie Jackson
• Pej Vahdat as Kash
• Marguerite Moreau every bit Linda
• Jane Levy as Amanda "Mandy" Milkovich
• Noel Fisher every bit Mikhailo Aleksandr "Mickey" Milkovich
• Vanessa Bell Calloway as Carol Fisher
• Jim Hoffmaster every bit Kermit
• Michael Patrick McGill equally Tommy
• Amy Smart as Jasmine Hollander
• Chloe Webb as Monica Gallagher
• Carlease Burke as Roberta
• Madison Davenport every bit Ethel

Episodes [edit]

Development and casting [edit]

HBO began developing an American version of Shameless after striking a deal with John Wells in Jan 2009.^[thirteen] By Oct 2009 the development had moved to Showtime. John Wells Productions filmed a pilot episode for the cable network in December 2009.^[xiv] William H. Macy stars in the lead role as Frank Gallagher.^{[ commendation needed ]} Also joining the cast were old Dragonball Evolution co-stars Emmy Rossum every bit Fiona and Justin Chatwin as Steve.^{[fifteen] [xvi]} Paul Abbott, whose semi-autobiographical telescript became the airplane pilot episode for the original United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland version, is credited as an executive producer on the U.South. version. In April 2010, Showtime green-lit the serial with a twelve-episode social club.^[17] In tardily August Joan Cusack was cast as Sheila, a romantic interest for Frank, replacing Allison Janney, who portrayed the part in the airplane pilot.^[18] A preview of the pilot aired on December 12, 2010, afterward the Season five finale of Dexter. The first season officially began airing on Showtime on Sun, Jan 9, 2011.

Production [edit]

Production began in mid-September 2010.^[xviii] It is filmed in the North Lawndale^[19] community area of Chicago^[20] and Burbank, California, at Warner Bros. Studios.

Reception [edit]

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the first season a 'Certified Fresh' rating of lxx% based on 37 reviews, with the disquisitional consensus "Shameless is a dark, urban dramedy that overcomes its leaps of faith cheers to fantastic casting, intriguing ambiance, and shock value."^[21]

DVD release [edit]

The Complete First Flavour
Set details [22]			Special features [23]
12 episodes 595 minutes (Region i); 940 minutes (Region ii); 925 minutes (Region 4) 3-disc set i.33:1 aspect ratio Languages: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surroundings) Subtitles: English, and French (Region ane) English, Castilian, Danish, French, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, English and High german for the Hearing Impaired (Regions 2 and 4)			Bringing Shameless to America – A expect at the procedure of reworking and repurposing a successful UK television series for an American premium cablevision audition. Bringing the Fun to Dysfunctional – Go behind-the-scenes of the show with key members of the cast and crew in this much-besides-brief making-the-series featurette. A Shameless Discussion Nearly Sex – Rossum and co-stars Steve Howey, Justin Chatwin and Shanola Hampton have a candid chat nigh the sexual practice in Shameless. Sound Commentaries – Two commentaries are available: "Pilot," which features a broad overview of the series courtesy of writer/director John Wells, executive producer Andrew Stern and actress Emmy Rossum "Frank Gallagher: Loving Husband, Devoted Father," a more than episode-axial runway with writer Etan Frankel, director David Nutter, and actors Cameron Monaghan and Jeremy Allen White. Deleted Scenes – A small selection of deleted scenes of the series. Episodes: ii, three, 5, eight, 12, 13, 14, sixteen, 19 Season 2 Sneak Peek – A look into season 2 of Shameless
Release dates
United States	United Kingdom	Australia
December 27, 2011 (2011-12-27) [24]	June 25, 2012 (2012-06-25) [25]	Apr 4, 2012 (2012-04-04) [26]

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• Shameless at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shameless_(season_1)

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