The British are much more adept at social commentary than America. It is why their “Shameless” went on so far 8 seasons, and that pathetic HBO ripoff of American “Shameless” is so inept and downright unoriginal.
They’ve taken off from their first two seasons - who knows when they’ll be back, probably to go find some new writers who won’t rip off the original “Shameless” so badly we are left thinking they hired those drugged up assholes that were responsible for “Lost”.... Hollywood needs to get a new game - they are so lazy now, you’d think they were Democrats.
The American “Shameless” is on Showtime. We do rip off an awful lot of their programming, but Britain has their own “Who’s the Boss?” and “Friends,” so there’s that. I can buy that they’re better at it than us, though I’ve seen my share of bad British tv. What’s the difference between good tv and trash tv, really? More like six of one and half a dozen of the other than Shakespeare and my elementary production of Tom Sawyer.