I finally got around to watching a few episodes of "Shameless"

I finally got around to watching a few episodes of "Shameless" (American version) on Netflix, having heard it was well written and well acted, after surfing through and eliminating the huge quantity but few quality shows on Netflix.

Shameless is well acted and well written but in that postmodern way of using irony as if celebrating lewd garbage is equivalently opposite virtuous and heroic behavior.

All the actors are consistently good, which usually means the directer is good.  Except for William H. Macy, the father of the lewd brood, who gets caught in that old actor's trap of overacting and bungling the part of a drunk (hold back 50 percent William, 50 percent!).  

Shameless is "good'' but in the way the philosopher Plato describes artists as appealing to the basest desires while mocking and deriding everything.

Whimsical as it sounds in this age of bottom dwelling art, a good writer and a good story will show good people meeting good ends and bad people meeting bad ends, and do it with clever and brilliant writing. A bad writer and a bad story will show bad men profit and heroes suffer for their virtues, and will often also do it with clever and brilliant writing. There is truth and there is good and these are not relative things when based in the biological origin of social behavior---that cannot be intellectualized away. 

So as usually conservatives wait for brilliantly written moral art. Perhaps this will not come until the corrupt Big Media monopolies are broken up.