More like Shameless

Siblings bound by a painful shared history navigate love and betrayal with the same raw, unguarded intensity.

A mechanic fighting to keep his daughters, scraping by while the court system works against him.

A man's compulsive self-destruction and the sibling who stirs up buried pain mirrors Shameless's unflinching look at family wounds.

Children surviving an abusive father behind a respectable facade, the domestic darkness the Gallaghers live with openly.

A child bounced through foster homes whose hidden nature makes every new family his next victim.

A man blind to what he takes for granted until a disruptive newcomer forces reckoning.

A character carrying excess baggage with dark humour intact — the same tone Shameless uses to make pain bearable.

A woman determined to spare her child the alienation she endured — fierce, flawed parental love.

A darkly comic play about a dysfunctional family on a failing farm, with the same bleak wit.

An unlikely man stepping up as father for a child no one else will take — reluctant parental love.

A woman whose sperm bank mixes up donors suddenly finds herself entangled with a billionaire's family.

A girl cycling through foster homes who builds connection on her own terms, echoing the Gallaghers' self-made resilience.

Siblings abandoned by their parents surviving on wit on a rough Manchester estate — the British original.

A privileged man sentenced to community service confronts the kind of struggling families the Gallaghers know from the inside.

A Chicago family dramedy whose working-class household shares the city and the scrappy domestic energy of the Gallaghers.

A father juggling responsibility and his own immaturity, the push-pull that drives every Gallagher kid to grow up fast.

A single dad who moves his teenage daughter to the suburbs, struggling with his own overprotective judgment.

Parents whose most important job is raising their kids right, the earnest counterpoint to Frank Gallagher's spectacular failure.