Shameless

I had never seen a show like this before. The title fit it just perfect: Shameless. The show is about a dysfunctional family -the Gallagher- whose father is an alcoholic who constantly disappear and neglects his six children. The mother is bipolar and abandoned them all. 

Due to this, Fiona, the older daughter has to take care of her siblings. For this, she has to take really awful jobs forgetting about her own dreams. Each kid is different from the others, and each one has its way to help the family to pay the debts. But the show is not only about this family, their friends and neighbours are broken and they help each other out.

I love this TV series because when you're watching it you can't stop laughing and thinking 'oh my gosh' and you actually feel embarrassed by whatever they've done. Everything that happens it's so insanely ridiculous that you just have to like it. It feels like it's so unreal that it has to be true. It has already five seasons and I can't wait for the next one, it's going to be brilliant! 

So if you love comedy (but careful there... I've cried a lot with it) you can't miss this show. You'll be laughing so hard you'll end up stiff.

PS. You have to see Mike's evolution. Trust me.

"Warning", Jenny Joseph.

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple. 

                                                             —Jenny Joseph.

Right from the title the author is anticipating the tone of the poem. The speaker is going to express her opinion on something that could be controversial. The speaker is a middle aged woman complaining about how society sees old people. She says that she’ll loose all her fashion sense and she will pick flowers at other people's houses and all older people’s cliché. In short, that she will become boring. However, in the third verse she states that adults have to be a good example for children and they have to live a lay down life. I think this is a truly sarcastic poem because the author express the freedom of old people to do whatever they want with the excuse of 'hey, I'm old', but all this stuff that they do is usually tedious. Meanwhile young people have to be very responsible with what they do. Therefore they don't enjoy life at its fullest. So... both ways you will be disappointed and to avoid this you should do anything you want when you want it without thinking of what otther people would say about you.