SPOILER ALERT: Watch “Father Frank, Full of Grace” on Showtime Now!

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Father Frank, Full of Grace,” the series finale of “Showtime,” available on-demand now. After 11 seasons of debauchery, drinking, and downright denial, “Shameless” and the Gallagher crew said farewell in the April 11 series finale, “Father Frank, Full of Grace” with an expected ending and more than a few lingering questions about the surviving characters. Only Liam (Christian Isaiah) had any insight as to his dad’s mental health status when those heroin needles reappeared, but rather than call an ambulance, the family collectively decided to grab a cup of coffee and carry on with their day as they waited to see what would become of Frank.

For Debbie (Emma Kenney) that meant falling for the woman who, just last week, threatened to shoot her daughter. So when Heidi suggested blowing Chicago and hitting the open road, Debbie seemed amenable to the idea, despite previously warring with Lip (Jeremy Allen White) over his attempts to sell their family home. Ian (Cameron Monaghan) and Mickey (Noel Fisher) were the opposite of that, as they pieced together the furniture for their new lives outside of the Gallagher residence.

Fans will never know for sure, as this couple’s storyline wrapped with the one-year anniversary of their wedding, which was celebrated with a mask-free surprise party at The Alibi. But, fan fiction following their adventures to adopt to take in one of the neglected Milkovich brood, which Ian posed as an option, will surely be in abundance. However, after Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) spent the episode doling out parking tickets to rich folks who were abusing disabled persons parking spots, he and his new police bud Arthur (Joshua Malina) mused about what a great cop bar the place could be.

Then there was the Lip of it all. (The series failed to resolve whether Tami, played by Kate Miner, truly was pregnant, let alone what they would choose to do if she was.) Arguably, things were looking a bit brighter when an old friend from the neighborhood expressed interest in buying the vacant lot next to the Gallagher house and Lip asked him how much he had for his house, too.

No one was alerted to his status, just as no one found the note he’d left before shooting up in the penultimate episode. Have a good time. And while the finale left many questions concerning the fates of the remaining Gallagher clan, one thing viewers know for sure is that these characters are no longer constrained by the addicted man who was without a doubt more of a dead weight than an anchor.

Which Season Of Showtime’S Shameless Was Far From Perfect?

This final season of Showtime’s Shameless was far from perfect. As film critic Matt Zoller Seitz wrote for Salon when it first premiered, the show isn’t about showing viewers that we can lift ourselves up by our bootstraps whenever we want, rather it’s about feeling a great weight on your shoulders every day but resolving to carry it around anyhow, drinking, screwing and cracking wise to take the edge off. The eleventh season of Shameless was at its best when the characters were tasked with unfurling their place in a neighborhood that was rapidly changing around them — and what it would mean for them if they, in fact, contributed to or personally benefited from that change.

This is an obvious, though pretty tidy, vehicle for some monologuing from Frank, which is reminiscent of the opening of the series itself. Yeah, this is our Chicago, Frank says at one point. That dichotomy between observing loss and deriving enjoyment from — or in spite of — change also serves as a neat way to categorize some of the main players and their motivations this season.

The newlyweds quickly become disillusioned with sharing a house with the rest of the Gallagher clan, especially once Mickey’s racist and violently homophobic family moves next door, and after scoring a high-paying gig doing security and armed transport for a now-legal, trendy dispensary, the couple contemplates securing a place of their own. Lip determines that he could do the same updates to the Gallagher family home and sell, and the siblings could split the funds equally to start new, better lives (there’s a big plot hole in that the season never explains who actually owns the house and how that would impact the paperwork on day of sale, but that’s just another continuity gripe). Put simply, he wants a come-up like Fiona.

The developer ends up just buying the house down the block, leaving him with nothing. His death in the final minutes of the show was heavily teased throughout the season, like when he commissioned an oversized Do Not Resuscitate tattoo on his chest. In some ways the final season of Shameless bore some similarities to the Netflix series, Gentefied, which was one of my absolute favorite shows of 2020.

As I wrote last year, it’s a beautiful show about people trying to play a game in which they don’t make the rules. Gentefied hits the question of who should benefit from gentrification harder and more poignantly than Shameless does. Gente is the Spanish word for people and, as Uribe told Los Angeles Magazine in 2014, he believed that if gentrification is happening, it might as well be from people who care about the existing culture.

Who Decided To Take The Gallagher’S Finances Into Her Own Hands?

Debbie decided to take the Gallagher’s finances into her own hands and has been giving her siblings $100 a week to work with on debit cards this season. In addition to all of this, Frank has taken it upon himself to contribute to the family as well by getting a job.

Which Shameless Showrunner Explained Why Emmy Rossum Did Not Return For The Show’S Finale?

Shameless showrunner John Wells has explained why Emmy Rossum did not return for the show’s finale. The Showtime series aired its final episode on Sunday night (April 11) after 11 seasons onscreen, with the finale failing to bring Rossum’s character Fiona Gallagher back into the fold. The actress departed the show in season nine but viewers did get to see old footage of her character in the finale in the visions conjured by Frank (William H Macy) before he died.

She’s been in New York with [husband] Sam [Esmail], where they live, and right about the time where we were talking about putting it all together was when the additional lockdowns kind of hit again, and it just didn’t feel safe or practical for her to come back. So I think it’s with a great deal of regret that we couldn’t do it but it’s just more minor casualty of our year of COVID. Leon Bennett/WireImage Getty Images Related: Shameless’s Jeremy Allen White says Emmy Rossum is never going to be replaced Wells also reflected on the show’s decision to not share any updates on Fiona’s life away from the South Side, saying that any references about her life off-screen may have come across as too cheesy.

Showtime Related: Shameless’ Emmy Rossum had a very unusual technique for directing episodes He added: A lot of times for the actors and the writers you go through a huge tearful goodbye and then you write them back and it’s probably a little anti-climactic; it feels a little too beholden to what fans may want. Seasons 1-9 are available to stream on Netflix in the UK. Read every issue now with a 1-month free trial, only on Apple News+ .

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