Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Shameless Indeed
It seems this ghastly woman might have got the idea for faking the kidnap of one of her numerous progeny from Channel 4's underclass 'comedy' Shameless. This is startling news. I'd always assumed that Shameless was there to indulge the nostalgie de la boue of the educated middle classes, providing them with easy laughs and transgressive thrills. But no, it seems the very kind of people portrayed in Shameless also watch it - just as, I've been told, rural populations listen to The Archers to learn how to be 'country folk'. It puts me in mind of The Sun, back in its 1980s heyday, when it had been roundly denouncing prison rioters who'd climbed out onto the roof and refused to budge as 'scum'. Noticing that one of them had a copy of The Sun up there with him, the paper promptly came up with the inspired headline 'Even the scum read The Sun!'
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
I was brought up on a council estate in Manchester and think I'm relatively worldly. I'm surprised by how low-life (and lauded) Shameless is. I used to think it a caricature, but was assured by colleagues that it wasn't, and this lifestyle is surprisingly real for many more than one might think. It makes one yearn for a return to the 1950's. Even Howard Brenton is praising Harold MacMillan these days. Truly, we never had it so good.
ReplyDeleteWas all of that real? I thought it was a rerun of the Munsters.
ReplyDeletei used to work with someone who now acts in Shameless. She had a strange way of typing letters, rather sloppy. There, my claim to fame, i corrected letters written by a Shameless star.
ReplyDeleteWhen people lose all sense of self-worth ...
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