99 Words About … The joyful wrongness of Showtime’s ‘Shameless’
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They do more wrong in 60 minutes than Wall Street, Congress and the Lohans. Combined.
An underground fight ring. Illegal day care. Betting on Little League. Selling weed to teenagers from an ice cream truck. And that’s just the printable stuff from the season premiere of “Shameless” (9 p.m. Sunday, Showtime).
They’re the Gallaghers, TV’s most lovable degenerates.
As their passed-out patriarch, William H. Macy is having a blast.
And Emmy Rossum is mesmerizing as the oft-naked daughter who keeps the sprawling brood together.
Plus, you could learn something from their work ethic.
Assuming you can overlook the felonies.
— CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE
