![]() Shameless showrunner John Wells has explained why Emmy Rossum did not return for the shows finale. While Rossum didn't get a finale Shameless appearance, Wells has some idea about what Fiona's up to now. Shameless spoilers, including for season 11, episode 12 Father Frank, Full of Grace follow. We put it up on the writers' room board and then took it down a few times." "The travel was such a mess that we never got to the point of my actual writing it. "The idea was with Frank's dementia being discovered, there's a call and she comes back to help everyone figure it out and that she would come back and be involved at the end with what to do with the house and all that," Wells said. The series finale saw Frank die from a combination of his diagnosis and COVID-19. Macy), was diagnosed with alcoholic dementia. All of the ideas, though, centered around Fiona coming home after her father, Frank Gallagher ( William H. I’m exhausted.- William H.Wells noted that, to him, "not being able to work that out" was the "biggest disappointment" of the series finale because "we all wanted it to happen." He called the circumstances "a very minor but sad result of everything that's happened in the pandemic."Īs for what Rossum's return would've looked like, Wells said he and the other writers "had about 20" ideas to get her back onscreen. If a spinoff is ever on the table, there are plenty of options to pick the story back up with anyone except Frank. Tami might be pregnant, Carl and Arthur might turn Alibi into a cop bar, Lip might sell his house, Ian and Mickey might adopt a child together, and Debbie might move to Texas. Given that this is the finale of an 11-season show, the rest of the Shameless characters are afforded a pretty open ending. Season 1 Frank goes missing and turns up in Toronto, tries to embrace sobriety, and bends the law to protect his disability checks Fiona falls for a player with a lot of money and a big secret Ian embraces his sexuality. And, of course, the amount of alcohol in Frank’s corpse later causes a small explosion in the crematorium. After being diagnosed with alcoholic dementia and surviving a massive overdose that was meant to be his suicide, Frank ultimately died when he contracted COVID-19 from wearing a discarded mask. I sure as hell did.” He and his barstool then float up into the sky, because we’re somehow expected to believe he is not headed down to join Lil Nas X. The opening scene of the Shameless series finale has the entire Gallagher family gathered around a barely alive Frank on the living room couch. The final season of Shameless also incorporated the coronavirus pandemic into its story, culminating in Frank Gallagher's death in the series finale. ![]() Don’t fucking waste it,” he says, raising a beer. ![]() ![]() Actually, the Gallagher family does bear a striking resemblance to to that put-upon frontier clan. Not With That Face.' By snicks Ma/ 1:35 AM Double the nightmare fuel Welcome back to Little House on the South Side. “We tried to find some way to make it Frank-like and fun and let him hold on to who he always was in the last moments.” In his final scene, Frank floats over the city in his medical gown and gives his family some parting advice (though he can’t resist a few final insults first). 'Shameless' Season One Finale Recap: 'You Do Not Want To Do Time. “So, we had to show that there were some consequences,” Wells said. ![]() Perhaps showrunner John Wells had Miss Rona on his mind after she made a cameo on the Shameless set? Speaking on Frank’s fate, Wells told Deadline that it felt wrong to let the man completely off the hook for the damage he has done to his body over the years. After 134 episodes, the Shameless series finale left troublemaking patriarch Frank Gallagher dying in a hospital from the virus he called a hoax in a previous episode. COVID-19 has done what a failing liver, alcoholism, drug abuse, dementia, being tossed in the Chicago River in the winter, and a suicide attempt could not do: kill Frank Gallagher. ![]()
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