In January 2011, Showtime debuted a show focusing on a poor family on Chicago’s south side, headed by a deadbeat father and an older sister who holds everything together.  10 years and 11 seasons later, Shameless wrapped up its run this past April as Showtime’s longest running original scripted series.

Adapted from the long-running, British television drama of the same name, the show starred William H. Macy and Emmy Rossum as father and daughter of the Gallagher clan.  Rossum left after season 9 in 2019, and my interest waned soon after that.  I think I’m two or three episodes into the 10th season, with the rest of the series sitting on the DVR, so I hope I’ll find my way back at some point in time.