# Shameless (US/HBO) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shameless-us-hbo/802623 "2017-11-24T20:38:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![busterpickle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@busterpickle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/busterpickle)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shameless-us-hbo/802623/1 "2017-11-24T20:38:30Z")
Surprised, no thread for the season? Any ways, I looked on another site where it’s just 500 or so posts of gibberish about 8x03, a topic comes up about Kev’s… [SPOILER] DNA test where they say he is from an inbred town in Kentucky, or a “Hollow” and I think [I found the source for this](https://www.reddit.com/r/shameless/comments/7e53lf/episode_discussion_shameless_8x03_god_bless_her/dq7gz23/): > **[Adirondack Hamlet Defies Time, and Help (Published 1993)](https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/12/nyregion/adirondack-hamlet-defies-time-and-help.html)** [‘The Hollow’: The inbred hillbilly hamlet where (literally) everyone’s related | Dangerous Minds](https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_hollow_the_inbred_hillbilly_hamlet) [/SPOILER] ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shameless-us-hbo/802623/2 "2017-11-24T21:57:19Z")
Nitpick, but it’s on Showtime, not HBO. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shameless-us-hbo/802623/3 "2017-11-24T23:06:10Z")
Used to love this show, but gave up on it a season or two ago as it just seemed to get way too outlandish. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shameless-us-hbo/802623/4 "2017-11-24T23:15:26Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Used to love this show, but gave up on it a season or two ago as it just seemed to get way too outlandish. I tailed off sometime in season 4 I think. Liked the first couple of seasons a lot, but after awhile the repetitive( and frankly at times unrealistically idiotic )dysfunction became wearing. Also even then it was becoming a bit outlandish. I’ve thought about checking back in from time to time, but so far the motivation just hasn’t been there. ---
**Author:** ![busterpickle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@busterpickle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/busterpickle)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shameless-us-hbo/802623/5 "2017-11-25T03:23:42Z")
I hear you, I hear you. They did what they do to most shows, and they become overly formulaic. Season 8 though, turning over a new leaf at the moment, I’d have to say you haven’t missed much that you couldn’t reasonably guess if you tuned out at season 4. But will it continue? I dunno, too early to say. ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shameless-us-hbo/802623/6 "2017-11-25T22:17:56Z")
> [@electronbee](#): > > Any ways, I looked on another site where it’s just 500 or so posts of gibberish about 8x03… Are not allowed to name drop Reddit on here?