![]() ![]() She had a passionate romance with the oldest Gallagher brother, Lip, but the two went through a messy break-up involving a love triangle and a hit-and-run. After finding out that Ian was gay, Mandy's crush on him instead became a close friendship. Oooh, oooh, ooooh.But what happened to Mandy Milkovich on Shameless? Emma Greenwell took over the role from the Mandy Milkovich season 1 actress, appearing regularly in seasons 2 through season 5 of the show, and returning briefly in season 6. It's funny, but I'm not sure it's meant to be. Actually it was mainly down to their stupidity that they didn't survive and we did.Īnyway, in spite of all the experts on hand to impart their expert knowledge, it's hard to take any of it very seriously because of the laughable "drama" – semi-naked people running about grunting and bashing each other over the head with big rocks. So starting again, Planet of the Apemen: Battle for Earth (BBC1) tells the fascinating story of the battle for survival between Homo sapiens and these other ancient upstanding hominids, and how the eruption of a super volcano contributed to their downfall. Jesus, I've turned into Daniel off Angry Boys (which I hope you're watching by the way – it's very silly but very funny). Not just the Neanderthals in Europe but with Homo erectus, dudes with hard-ons who used to run around Asia. We used to share this place, Earth, with creatures a bit like us. But, beyond the initial curiosity, I can't see much reason for us Brits to watch. OK, so maybe it's fine that it got remade. What about subtitles? No, I don't think they like them very much. Can they really not understand our accents? Maybe not, especially when Frank's wazzed off his tits. Otherwise it's hard to see the point of it and why it was made. Perhaps it will, like The American Office, which also started almost exactly the same as its British parent, veer off and become something excellent in its own right. ![]() But it's just not as good (watching the original pilot was a nice reminder of how brilliant Shameless was in the early days). This one's not bad – nothing that follows the original so closely could be bad. It was more real and more touching because of it. The message was the same in the original, just not so obvious. So Debbie puts a pillow under Frank's head when he has crashed out in a stupor on the floor – to make him more comfortable and to ram home the point: hey, these people may not have much money, but that don't mean there ain't no lovin' going on. ![]() Whereas there's some pride in poverty over here. Perhaps it's because they simply can't face up to poverty over there, they don't want it on the television sets. The set too – the Gallaghers' house – seems lovely to me, and enormous if that's poverty I wouldn't mind some of it, especially if it includes Rossum. And it's the same with all of them: their teeth are too good, they're too damn glam – look at Emmy Rossum (it's hard not to, to be honest) as Fiona, she's perfect. He simply doesn't convince as an alcoholic – he's too polished, too Hollywood, not shambolic and hopeless enough. So what about them, the cast and the set, the production? Well, Macy may be a big star but he's not nearly as good as David Threlfall. I'd say the script is about 80% unchanged it's like watching a different production of the same play, so only the cast and the set is new. I rewatched the pilot of the original straight afterwards, and it's virtually the same, down to the scene, almost down to the word. So Lip is no longer "a bit of a gobshite", he's "smart as a whip" (I think the Lip/lippy thing may have been lost in translation) he doesn't get "noshed" by Karen under her kitchen table, he gets a "hummer" (I think – is that after the big car?) the nightclub bouncer isn't a "fat twat" but a "fat prick" etc.Īnd that's really about it for differences, as far as the script goes. ![]() And the English idioms have been jettisoned somewhere over the north Atlantic. The Gallagher family has been uprooted from the Chatsworth estate in Stretford and relocated to the projects of Chicago, with a new cast led by William H Macy as Frank. It's Shameless US (More4), the American remake. Sound familiar? Ah, but this isn't Shameless. And he says they all know the most important thing in life, they know how to party. To me and my kids who I'm proud of, 'cos every single one of them reminds me a little bit of me." He then goes through the kids – Fiona, Lip, Ian, Carl, Debbie and Liam – listing their virtues. 'N obody's saying our neighbourhood's the Garden of Eden," says Frank Gallagher. ![]()
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