Over The Summer I Started Watching

The show Shameless captures the dysfunctional and chaotic Gallagher family. It centers around the lives of Frank Gallagher and his six children, Fiona, Lip, Ian, Debbie, Carl, and Liam. Due to Frank’s alcoholic and drug addiction, his eldest daughter Fiona has taken the parental role of the family by taking care of her younger siblings and providing financially for the home. Every episode revolves around a crazy situation that Frank or one or more of the children have gotten themselves into. It is hard to maintain a stable lifestyle since they live in the South Side of Chicago, but somehow this family is always able to come back together with the exception of the father. Frank, selfishly will go to any extent to provide for himself and does not care about the destruction that he causes within society or his own home.

The entire story centers around three main characters: Uncle trash and the two brothers. Although the boys’ mother and father are mentioned briefly in the beginning, the mother comes off as unstable and out of her right mind, causing her to run away and the father going after her, both leaving the kids behind not taking into consideration that they are too young for the responsibility of independence, much less their living conditions are barely enough to support a decent quality of life. Despite Uncle Trash being given the responsibility to look after the boys, he’s not necessarily one to care for much of what goes on outside of a bar, especially the boys well being since upon his arrival his first

The character Scott an upper-class individual son of a mayor, in the (sexuality) hustling business created a false identity to bother his father. A two-face who first hanged out with Bob’s group first and then went back to his real life. Then through the character Mike a young man who suffers from narcoleptic seizure; condition in where he falls asleep deep anywhere and at any time. A character who keeps looking for his personal identity. He misses and starts to look for his mother. On the road, he always says like he has been there before. Through the words, he understands his own value and repeats

The movie begins with Tracy, the main character, as a normal teenager whose life seems from the outside “ok”. However, even at this point in the movie, there are hints of Tracy’s inner pain and discomfort or distress with her world. Tracy lives a tough life. Her parents are separated, and do not have a good relationship. Tracy lives with her mom and brother in a suburban low to middle class neighborhood. Her mom, Mel, is a recovered addict, who works as a hair dresser. Her dad, Travis, is a somewhat rich executive, who works all the time and barely

Through mom’s, Stef and Lena, relationship with their children, complicated issues are normalized in the context of the show. It is not only a massive shift from traditional notions of a TV Family, but also gives

The two small but clever children befriend Shelly and She decides to help them just to get even with Dusty. The kids got so far into helping their dad, it almost caused them their life. After the arson, Dusty muleman decides to rebuilt the coral queen , but this time bigger and better and guess who decided to sneak in? Noah and abbey underwood on the rescue to help their

The series follows the lives of the Foster family, consisting of an interracial lesbian couple raising a blended family of biological, adopted opposite sex latino twins and two foster siblings who had been thrown around from foster homes to foster homes.

From the tone of Mick’s voice, the alcohol acts a sedative to numb the pain from his past. This motive for drinking is also evident through Lisa’s brother, Jimmy, after he loses both his girlfriend, Adelaine, and his goal in becoming an Olympic swimmer. The legacy of residential school is also manifested in Trudy and Tab’s mother-daughter relationship. Tab becomes the victim of her mother’s psychological and emotional upheaval that is a result from her childhood. In the grip of alcohol, Trudy often mistreats Tab. Removed from a family environment and placed in a reformation school, individuals return not only emotionally and psychologically scarred, but also unable to reestablish their own functional family. Tab confesses to Lisa that she wishes she had a mother like hers, saying, “You’re lucky. You’re really lucky that your dad was too young to go to rez school. [...] Just Mick and my mum went and it fucked them up” (Robinson 254). Trudy’s sister Kate also notes that Trudy “thinks Mother’s dirt, while she goes out and parties and treats Tab worse than what she blames Mother for” (Robinson 285).

In sociology, the term deviance refers to behaviors or attitudes which go against certain cultural norms. It is evident that deviance is a fascinating topic not only for sociologist, but for television industry and its viewers, as well. In recent years, increasing number of shows begun to feature individuals violating every kind of social norm from folkways to taboos. The Secret Life of the American Teenager, an American television series on the ABC Family television network, is one of the many contemporary shows that portray deviant behaviors on national television. It’s intended for the target audience of teens and their families who are trying to cope in a culture where teen girls and boys are sexually active.

The main character Micheal Oher’s, who is introduced to us through his rough life growing up. Micheal never knew his father and his mother was a drug addict. HIs mother gave birth to a total of fifteen children, who of course due to her drug addiction raised themselves basically. Michael spent his teenage years running away from a string of foster homes and situations. Michael got tired of foster care

The Reality TV Show I chose for this assignment is The Bachelor. This TV show is very dramatic and definitely leaves you on the edge of your seat. The Bachelor is about one man who is looking to find love, and approximately 20 women competing for his love. In the season I chose to watch, Sean Lowe is the bachelor. Each week he sends another women home until he is left with his future wife. The three episodes I chose to watch were the last three of the season. Which included the home town dates, the final two, and then the finale, where Sean picked the women he wants to spend the rest of his life with. This show is definitely odd; however, it is extremely entertaining. The audience for this show is typically female teenagers and

I shouldn't have watched that show because of the content of the show some of the big reasons are the extremely crude and sexual humor and violence, alcohol and drug references and just overall a terrible show and I knew I shouldn’t have watched it in the first place but I ignored my conscience and watched it anyways and that makes me feel terrible.

Do you have a favorite television show you watch as a new episode airs each week? NBC’s show, This Is Us, comes on every Tuesday night with another tear-jerking episode. Beginning from the 1980’s, This Is Us narrates the lives of Jack and Rebecca Pearson as they raise their triplets Kate, Kevin, and Randall (“This Is Us”). This film unravels the past and current lives of the Pearson family as they witness “how the tiniest events in our lives impact who we become, and how the connections we share with each other can transcend time, distance and even death” (“This Is Us”). In our society, we tend to become overwhelmed with the idea of a “perfect family” or the “ideal life,” but This Is Us shows its viewers that such an irrational situation does

Frank Gallagher is the father, and legal guardian of his six children: Lip, Ian, Carl, Liam, Debby and Fiona. He is a raging alcoholic and an absent and neglectful parent who leaves Fiona, the eldest daughter, fully financially and socially responsible for the rest of his children, while he disappears on alcohol induced benders for weeks at a time. When he is present at the home, he is constantly drinking, using drugs, and even gets brought home by the police for public intoxication. He receives an undeserving welfare payment, once a month, for a fake injury but spends it solely on alcohol. As an ill-equipped twenty-one-year-old, Fiona tries her best, but the younger kids are still seen drinking, at as young as eight years old, as well as using recreational drugs. They are constantly tardy to school and are always under an enormous amount of pressure to provide money for their family, just so they can scrape together enough funds to pay the electric bill. Additionally, the youngest sibling, at only four years old, is mainly taken care of by his ten-year-old sister, who is forced to bring him along to elementary school with her

The Goldbergs is a television sitcom depicting the life of a family in Philadelphia, in the 1980’s. The family is made up of a father, a mother, the oldest child, Erica, the middle child, Barry, and the youngest child, Adam. Murray, the father in the family is not very emotionally supportive of the kids constantly calling them “morons” but he still shows his love for them in his daily actions. He shows his affection for them by working hard to provide for them and making sure that their childhood is better than his was. Beverly, the mother, is over-supportive in every way. From nicknames like “shmoopy” to leaving scars of fear in the school staff because her “little shmoos” were struggling in school. Most of the time her overprotectiveness and over-support is not wanted by her children. Erica is a teenager, who is somewhat of a rebel because she does not want to become like her parents. She makes bad decisions and often gets herself in