Why wrap the show without answering any of those questions? The finale doesn’t offer any resolution about whether Lip sold the house, what happened with Debs (Emma Kenney) and Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) and Liam (Christian Isaiah) - or if Kev and Vee sell the Alibi and move to Louisville.
You love them as adults but, man, you can never really fully replace that love you feel for your kids when they’re little. ( Laughing.) As the light fades for us, I think and hope we will remember the things that bring us joy, and a lot of that would be parents remembering their children. Was he proud of his parenting in those moments? Or was that a way to get Emmy Rossum back onscreen, even for a second?
On his deathbed, Frank sees visions of his family from early in the show’s run. Even when he was dogging his own kids in his own suicide note, he’s still making us laugh because he’s still Frank. To make you appalled and make you smile at the same time. And Bill playing the part was such a huge part of that. Frank can still make you smile even as he’s dying. What do you hope viewers take away from those scenes?Įven for Frank there can be a grace and joy in the passing, at least that’s what I hope - that we can go out a little more gracefully. Not that there’s ever a good transition after that, but focusing on the episode … Frank rises above the South Side on his bar stool, beer in hand, looking back on his life.
'Shameless' Cast to Reunite for Post-Series Finale Panel It seemed unrealistic to do something about the South Side of Chicago and people living barely above the poverty line and not have anybody succumb to this horrible pandemic. It’s not like we took out the healthiest individual you’ve ever seen. It could have been one of many things it was the last thing that pushed him over the cliff, but he was barely hanging on. With all the comorbidity that Frank had, Bill and I both talked about it and said, “It would be unrealistic to not have anybody in this community actually suffer severe consequences of the pandemic.” And Frank seemed like the logical choice. We arrived at alcoholic dementia and had written more than half the season when we shut down. Bill and I had always made deal that there would have to be consequences for all of Frank’s abuse to his body, between the drugs and alcohol. We planned on alcoholic dementia when we were only a few days from shooting when everything shut down in March. What went into the decision to kill off Frank - with COVID - after he was diagnosed with alcoholic dementia?
Below, Wells talks with THR about Frank’s fate, why he loves open-ended finales, what would have happened with Fiona and, yes, the mandatory spinoff question. That Shameless would end without providing resolution for what happens to the Gallagher children comes as little surprise, as Wells has said for years that he was drawn to a sense of life going on for the characters. Original star Rossum departed Shameless in season nine, with barely a mention of her character since. The pandemic also prevented Rossum’s return to reprise her role as former leading lady Fiona Gallagher when travel bans amid a COVID surge eliminated that possibility. 'Shameless': How COVID Upended the Final Season of the Showtime Hit
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