Shameless: The Complete Tenth Season Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		4.0
Audio		4.0
Extras		1.0
Overall		3.5

Shameless: The Complete Tenth Season Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman January 12, 2026

Note: Evidently based at least in part on complaints from Blu-ray consumers who wanted a "complete collection" of Shameless, Warner Brothers is finally releasing both this season and Shameless: The Eleventh and Final Season in standalone sets as well as part of Shameless: The Complete Series. This review is based on the discs included in The Complete Series set which are presumably the same as those offered in the standalone releases of individual seasons.

When did families on television become almost unapologetically reprehensible? That very quality is alluded to none too subtly in the very title of this long running series, but when assessing the Gallagher clan, it may be salient to document the slow but steady rise of "bad behavior" in various small screen kin. Relatively early television families like those shown on Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver and The Donna Reed Show almost invariably portrayed upright, honorable folks whose kids sometimes went momentarily astray, but where a secure and steady moral compass tended to ineluctably guide things. It might be argued with the advent of The Addams Family and The Munsters things went a bit haywire in at least some ways, but it might not be until the advent of All in the Family, and then later "fellow" abrasive comedy Married with Children along with interstitial dramas like Dallas and Dynasty, that there were overtly misbehaving adults on display (in abundance in some cases). All bets were ultimately off with the arrival of more prevalent cable fare, and everything from The Sopranos to Game of Thrones to Succession to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to The Bear certainly portrayed often out of control family dynamics (and it's interesting to note how these depictions can span everything from epic historical drama to more contemporary sitcom adjacent ambiences). Which brings us to the, yep, (partially?) reprehensible Gallaghers.

For our reviews of this series’ previous seasons on Blu-ray, please click on the following links:

Shameless: The Complete First Season Blu-ray review

Shameless: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray review

Shameless: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray review

Shameless: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray review

Shameless: The Complete Fifth Season Blu-ray review

Shameless: The Complete Sixth Season Blu-ray review

Shameless: The Complete Seventh Season Blu-ray review

Shameless: The Complete Eighth Season Blu-ray review

Shameless: The Complete Ninth Season Blu-ray review

As "stuck" as several (most?) characters in this series seem to have been literally for years, this tenth season picks up in the wake of a pretty epochal change for the Gallaghers, the exit by Fiona (Emmy Rossum) and her unexpected gift of 50K to tide her siblings over in her absence. It's six months later, give or take, and Debbie (Emma Kenney) is now very firmly in charge, attempting fitfully to maintain order in an expectedly chaotic home environment while also managing Fiona's windfall and continuing with her outside career, all of which give that character some new energy. Other main characters may frankly be showing aspects of "same old, same old", notably Frank (William H. Macy), though even he shows occasional signs of actual humanity, especially with regard to a burgeoning friendship with Mikey O'Shea (Luis Guzmán). That said, Frank's seemingly genetic predisposition toward grift and larceny is fully on display, actually with some smarmy shenanigans with Mikey aimed at Debbie.

Having already seen this series' final season, it can be stated without offering any really substantial spoiler material that while Frank's "arc" this season may arguably take a back seat to some other characters', there are several salient "hints" dropped in this season as to what is ultimately going to occur for this obviously troubled and troublesome character. In terms of those aforementioned other characters, though, there is the typical glut of machinations involving all of them in various doses. Lip (Jeremy Allen White) shows both positive and negative traits, with the former evidenced by his attempts at being a nurturing father, though like so many characters have recurrently experienced in the series, the minus side of the ledger shows up since old habits may die hard. Ian (Cameron Monaghan) is still in stir for much of the season, with his character's vignettes often including cellmate and romantic partner Mickey Milkovich (Noel Fisher). Carl (Ethan Cutkosky), arguably one Gallagher who may have learned a lesson or two along the way, manages to make it through military school. Liam (Christian Isaiah) works strenuously to both connect to his racial identity as well as to unravel his actual biological history.

Shameless: The Complete Tenth Season Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Shameless: The Complete Tenth Season is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Warner Brothers Home Entertainment with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.78:1. This continues the series' always competent if never really amazing high definition presentations. This season has a perhaps unusually large (even for this series in general) amount of "jiggly cam", and that can make detail levels have at least the perception of variability, since the image is darting to and fro so much (it actually made getting relatively decent screenshots a bit of a challenge at times). The palette is very nicely suffused, especially in the outdoor material, but there's at least a hint of the same yellowish quality in some of the interior material, notably the Gallagher house itself. Close-ups can offer really substantial fine detail on weathered faces (we're looking at you, Mr. Macy) in particular.

Shameless: The Complete Tenth Season Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Shameless: The Complete Tenth Season features another nicely immersive DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track like the previous seasons' Blu-ray releases, and in fact this season has some of the better uses of source cues and ambient environmental effects which help to regularly engage the side and rear channels. The show is of course predominantly dialogue driven, and so surround activity is definitely variable. All spoken material is delivered cleanly and clearly. Optional English subtitles are available.

Shameless: The Complete Tenth Season Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Disc One

• Deleted Scenes (HD; 1;48)

Disc Two

• Deleted Scenes (HD; 8:18)

Disc Three

• Deleted Scenes (HD; 4:31)

Shameless: The Complete Tenth Season Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Maybe others who have endured the slings and arrows of the outrageous Gallaghers for years may understand what I mean when I say it was actually probably a good thing that there was a multiyear break between me having to binge the ninth season and then this season in preparation for writing reviews. The Gallaghers and the extended characters in Shameless may well be prime examples of folks best in smaller and potentially discrete doses. There are some great moments for just about all of the major characters here, and longtime fans should find sufficient content to propel them through to the series' final season. Technical merits are generally solid, and even without much in the way of supplements, Shameless: The Complete Tenth Season comes Recommended.