Based on a long-running British drama, Shameless stars William H. Macy as the alcoholic ancestor of a big blue-collar ancestors in Chicago, the Gallaghers. The mother is AWOL, and with the alcoholic ancestor (Macy) usually anesthetized out on the living-room floor, their acute but capricious 18-year-old daughter, Fiona (Rossum), is tasked with befitting her bristles adolescent brothers and sisters on the beeline and narrow.
In the second-season premiere, afterward her breakdown with Steve, Fiona acreage a job disposed bar at a accepted bounded collective and makes a new associate in an active adolescent businessman. Meanwhile, Frank uses Liam as accessory for a bank debt; Lip takes bets on Little League games; and Kash leaves town, so Ian decides to booty over the Kash and Grab.
