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Shameless (U.S.): “Los Diablos!”

Every time I'm tempted to write this show off as just one long exercise in bad taste, it manages to come up with surprising sharp -- if not always subtle -- social commentary. For example. it seems to be the one show on TV right now which seems to show a little sympathy for the people who have seen their jobs disappear due to changing technology and in this episode, it actually bothered to tackle the very controversial subject of interracial prejudice -- specifically black-on-Hispanic prejudice -- without the usual PC rationalizations. So, good job.

Granted, it might have been nice if the writers had come up with a better solution than having the nice brown-skinned people just go away but I suppose it could have been worse. At least, they tried to depict the problem in a relatively honest fashion without the usual pretenses about how such a problem would never occur in an all-white neighborhood.