--- product_id: 11949992 title: "Shameless: Season 1" brand: "james mcavoy" price: "£9.90" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/11949992-shameless-season-1 store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Shameless: Season 1 **Brand:** james mcavoy **Price:** £9.90 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Shameless: Season 1 by james mcavoy - **How much does it cost?** £9.90 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/11949992-shameless-season-1) ## Best For - james mcavoy enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted james mcavoy brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Product Description Shameless: The Complete First Season (BBC/DVD)Meet the Gallaghers. Mum went AWOL years ago, Dad stayed at home with the six children only to hit the bottle ... and sometimes the kids... Blisteringly funny, offbeat drama following the rollercoaster lives and loves of an anarchic family from Manchester. The real head of the family is big sister Fiona, who looks after Carl, Debbie and baby Liam. She is occasionally helped, more often hindered, by streetwise 'Lip' and the actively gay, but very private, Ian. Welcome to the hectic world of sexual adventures, triumphs, love, scams and a fair bit of crime on a rough Manchester housing estate, where wheel-less cars are the norm and the moving ones are stolen.]]> .com This "top (effen) notch" BBC series is set in a Manchester, England, public-housing project where the Gallagher clan gets by with a little help from their friends and each other. They certainly can't count on Frank (David Threfall), their on-the-dole dad, whose time around the house is mostly spent drunkenly passed out on the floor. Mom abandoned them years before. That leaves Fiona (Anne-Marie Duff), the eldest daughter, to be surrogate parent and help make the best of their hardscrabble lives in a place that, Frank observes, will never be mistaken for the Garden of Eden. The seven episodes that comprise the first series are a riot of family dysfunction. Cheeky oldest brother Lip (Jody Latham) discovers his younger sibling, Ian (Gerard Kearns), is gay and is having an affair with the local Muslin grocer. He enlists his girlfriend, Karen (Rebecca Atkinson), to initiate Ian (to no avail). Karen's agoraphobic mother, Sheila (Maggie O'Neill) is married to a religious fanatic, who abandons them after he discovers his daughter's sinful ways, opening the door for Frank to move in (and juggle clandestine affairs with both mother and daughter). Meanwhile, Fiona meets Steve (James McAvoy), a nice guy and prosperous car salesman (too bad the cars are stolen). Lending the Gallaghers a hand is neighbor Veronica (Maxine Peake), fiercely loyal and protective and a ferocious force of nature. One of her sidelights is ironing topless for the benefit of horny Internet viewers. Frank says it best when he asks at one point, "Is anyone around here normal?" Written by Paul Abbott, Shameless has the same gritty setting and generous spirit as Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet. Prodigious use of the F-word and some fleeting full-frontal nudity notwithstanding, Shameless, would feel at home on American basic cable. The optional subtitles are recommended to make better sense of the thick accents and slang. --Donald Liebenson ## Product Details - **Genre:** Comedy, Drama - **Format:** Closed-captioned, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Widescreen - **Contributor:** James McAvoy - **Language:** English - **Number Of Discs:** 2 ## Images ![Shameless: Season 1 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81kP5z5ntML.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I laughed, I winced, I got teary eyed. *by B***T on April 26, 2007* I ordered this DVD without having seen or heard anything about the series, and I was more than pleasantly surprised. It was thoughtful, funny, and generous, even while maintaining a gritty realism. Whenever an episode or storyline started to drift into the ridiculous or melodramatic it was quickly intercepted by a brutal but honest (and hopeful) reality. And even when their characters were at their most unlikable, the actors brought to them a warmth and passion that kept you involved. (In my opinion episode six is one of TVs best examples of the diversity of emotion that can be explored in under an hour.)Basic plot: Single father Frank Gallagher [David Threlfall], whose wife disappeared about three years ago, lives (sometimes) on a council estate in Manchester (England) with his six children (Fiona, Lip, Ian, Carl, Debbie, and Liam), aged 20-3, respectively. Other central characters include the children's neighbors, a young couple named Kevin and Veronica, and Fiona's well-to-do boyfriend Steve [James McAvoy]. Together they deal with relationships, poverty, abandonment, their father's alcoholism, debt collectors, and the local police. It's not an easy life, but the family is determined to enjoy it whenever and however they can. There *is* some violence (fist fights), nudity, drinking, lots of swearing, and even one extremely inappropriate, even illegal, sexual relationship, but it is addressed and responded to reasonably (though definitely not in the PBS-broadcast sort of way). The younger children/characters really seem to peak in the second half of the season, as they become more integral to the plot. Their additional screen time is well-deserved, as they are all exceptionally talented actors.As for the DVD itself, it is, of course, Season 1. Although Season 4 recently finished airing, this is the first installment to be released on DVD in the US. Disc 1 consists of episodes 1-4 (45 min. each) and Disc 2 contains episodes 5-7 and two bonus features: a brief "Meet the Cast" and an interview with Paul Abbott. Suffice to say this is a bare-bones DVD release for this day and age, but the show's quality warrants the purchase. Also note, subtitles are on by default for anyone who has trouble with the accent. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Oh, oh, oh, buy this DVD. You will love it. *by M***R on May 30, 2007* I bought this DVD because I thought James McAvoy was tremendous in "The Last King of Scotland," where hekept up with his co-star's showy, scenery-chewing performance (for which he won an Oscar). McAvoy had toplay it close to the vest in this film, because of his part--that of a young man drawn into the vortex of aninsane, volatile dictator, and McAvoy doesn't miss a beat. He was marvelous.So I bought "Shameless," and it is wonderful in every department: the writing, the directing, and primarilythe acting were all spectacular. I laughed, and then, once, I was brought to the point of damp eyes. Man, thisDVD is worth the money. I can't wait for the other three seasons. (Also, I've read that McAvoy is cast in thefilm version of "Atonement," Ian McEwan's stunningly good book. Twenty stars for this, if possible. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Accents *by @***6 on November 30, 2012* As the show is really really good note that the accents are really really thick. Sub-titles could be needed. 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