City Just be 'Shameless'

MUST-SEES: LAUGH AT HUSTLES ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS

- Hein Kaiser

The big news of the week is not that there is a brand new show on any of the streamers or on linear television. Nope. The exciting tidings are that Shameless, yes, the hilbilly festival of sex, drugs, scams and whatevers, is now available on Netflix. All 11 seasons are there.

Shameless, in short, introduces viewers to the dysfunctional family headed by drunk dad Frank Gallagher. He's a dad of six, and he spends his days getting drunk and high.

All this while Fiona, Phillip, Debbie, Carl and Liam are growing up through a haze of their own demon-making years.

There's an endless roll call of swindles, affairs, petty crime and, well, life on the wrong side of the tracks. Literally. It's Chicago, its poverty, its life's gigantic hustle.

The show wrapped in 2021, and it used to be available on DStv, some of it, anyway. Because somewhere during the pandemic Shameless just vanished. If memory serves, there were about three seasons that went missing in action.