Following the daily lives of a morally bankrupt, self-absorbed, clinically insane, often irredeemable foursome who own and operate a bar in Philadelphia, Sunny is the kind of series that delights in refusing to let its characters grow as people. How rare it is to find a show that can out-shame Shameless, but It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia does a pretty excellent job. Macy) and Monica ( Chloe Webb) in Tara, and it's not hard to find parallels between the ways her kids, Kate (a pre-Marvel Brie Larson) and Marshall ( Keir Gilchrist), struggle to balance their acceptance of their mother's condition with their desire for a "normal" family, and the ways the Gallaghers have learned to process their parents' failures over the years.Ĭharlie Day, Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny Devito, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Patrick McElhenney/FXX There are echoes of both Frank ( William H. The show is sensitive about Tara's increasing frustration with her alters and her complicated feelings about frequently losing and regaining control of her mind and body, as well as the impact it has on her family. Toni Collette gives one of the best, and most underrated, performances of her career as Tara, a wife and mother with dissociative identity disorder who frequently transitions between her multiple personalities, which include a prim '50s housewife named Alice, a brash Vietnam war veteran named Buck, and a flirty teenager named T. John Corbett, Toni Collette, Keir Gilchrist, and Brie Larson, United States of Tara Showtime and is worth a watch for die-hard fans who are curious about the roots of Shameless. It's a completely different series that deals with completely different themes, but it was pretty highly acclaimed in the U.K. The series, which also ran for 11 seasons, is set in Manchester instead of Chicago, and takes its characters to places fans of the American adaptation probably wouldn't recognize the character of Karen Jackson (played here by Rebecca Atkinson) is a much bigger, longer-lasting presence in this Shameless, while Fiona ( Anne-Marie Duff) and Steve (a pre-international fame James McAvoy) depart after the second season. But aside from character names, their portrayals of poverty, and both shows having essentially identical first seasons, the British Shameless is very much its own separate animal. Did you know Shameless was originally based on a British show of the same name? Yup, there's a whole other unhinged Gallagher family in the U.K.
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