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Shameless Boss Explains the Surprising and Open-Ended Series Finale
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Showrunner John Wells talks with The Hollywood Reporter about the ways the pandemic changed the series finale and how travel challenges prevented one long-awaited reunion from happening.
[This story contains spoilers from the series finale of Showtime s
Shameless.]
After 11 seasons and 134 episodes, Showtime s
Shameless wrapped its run Sunday with a series finale that was directly impacted by the global coronavirus pandemic in two key ways.
Ultimately, Frank s (William H. Macy) past catches up with him as a combination of COVID-19 and the effects of alcoholic dementia prove to be more than he can handle and the character dies alone in a hospital.
Frankâs Fate
We all saw it coming and in a series that doesnât pull punches, how could things have ended any other way? Yes, weâre talking itâs the end of Frank. But first, the episode, which takes place over the course of a single day, opens with the Gallaghers leaning over him to see if heâs alive, with only Liam truly worried. V determines that heâs hypoxic, but after noticing the drug paraphernalia around him, they decide thereâs a possibility heâll wake up over time. Frank does finally wake and stumbles out of the house, wandering the streets. He stops at the boarded-up Patsyâs Pies, keeps going and enters a church, where he heads to a back room thinking itâs mass and heâs an altar boy. The priest has a parishioner call an ambulance to take Frank to the hospital.
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Major spoilers below for anyone who didn t watch Shameless series finale on Showtime, so be warned!
After eleven seasons of boozed-up, dysfunctional mayhem from the entirety of the Gallagher family, Showtime s longest-running drama
Shameless came to its bittersweet and darkly comedic conclusion with its series finale titled Father Frank, Full of Grace. Fans had tons of expectations going into that finale, with the largest one hinging on Emmy Rossum returning as estranged daughter/sibling Fiona. That didn t happen, sadly, and the finale also surprisingly left things pretty open-ended for a variety of main characters. Well, except for William H. Macy s Frank, of course.