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So sorry for your loss. My family can relate to that experience of not being able to say goodbye and not being there when it happened.

What do you hope viewers take away from those scenes? He had that great ability. And Bill playing the part was such a huge part of that. To make you appalled and make you smile at the same time. Was he proud of his parenting in those moments? Or was that a way to get Emmy Rossum back onscreen, even for a second? 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.

And even Frank feels that. Why wrap the show without answering any of those questions? I want to think what I want to think about the characters, where they end up and what happens with them and have the audience have those conversations with others over drinks. Shameless is obviously outrageously exaggerated, but we tried to ground it in a real world in which you felt like if you turned the right corner of Chicago, you could run across some Gallaghers and their whole world.

Their lives continue. And that makes me feel good as a viewer and a reader. I think I have an idea about what would happen over the next few months, but I have no idea what would wholly happen. In my mind, Lip gets a motorcycle shop and settles in and loses the neighborhood and becomes the new patriarch for that crazy family. But you can fill in the blanks however you want to fill in the blanks as a viewer. Whatever you think is right! I would have been interested in seeing the plight of this family without Frank and all that he brings hovering over their heads.

Everything is getting a revival these days. There is nothing planned. He later dies, with his soul slowly elevating above the Alibi and the celebration below, as we hear him read the undiscovered letter he'd written to his family. Read the full transcription below:. I know some of ya think ya hate my guts, and truth be told I never liked any of you much either. But we're all Gallaghers. My only advice is to stop worrying so damn much. You're supposed to ask people on their death bed if they wish they'd worked more or spent more time with their family.

Nobody ever said our neighborhood was the Garden of Eden but it's been a good home to us, to me, and you kids. I'm proud of all of you, because every single one of you reminds me a little bit of me, Lip, you're smart as a whip, you just can't seem to get out of your own way. You'll figure it out. Ian, industrious, incredible work ethic, not a clue where you got that from — got the mental illness from your mother. The only way I can understand how you ended up marrying a Milkovich.

Carl, I never could figure you out. Can't believe you betrayed the family and became a cop. I'm hoping you're already on the take. Debbie, you remind me of your mother, and not in a good way. Good luck in life, you're gonna need it. Liam, you're the apple of my eye, you handsome devil. Everybody says you look just like me. Oh, Kev, Veronica, you're overrated as friends, always sticking your noses in my family's business where they don't belong.

You're moving, I say good riddance. And me, Frank Gallagher, father, teacher, mentor, captain of our little ship. People say you can't drink your troubles away, I say you're just not drinking enough. I guess that's it. Not much left to say really. Except, time's precious, don't fing waste it.

To break it all down, EW chatted with Shameless boss John Wells about killing Frank, not bringing back Rossum , and whether the Gallaghers could ever return. For more Shameless final season, check out Kenney's personal behind-the-scenes photos.

Was this always how it had to end for Frank? We never thought we'd last 11 years, so we started these conversations maybe five or six years ago, that we didn't think we could let Frank off scot-free for his years of abusing his body with alcohol and drugs. So we were always intending to do the alcoholic dementia story because it's a real thing, and then as COVID came up, we'd already written in the alcoholic dementia and it seemed like it would be inappropriate to not address the subject matter in this community.

It's a very real thing that's torn through communities, so it seemed like the right thing to do. And we didn't really want to resolve everything in the show or do anything that gave the impression that everything was resolved.

So that really led us to this. The kids are still together as a family, they love each other; Frank's passed away, but they'll figure it out because they're the Gallaghers. While some viewers might not be too pleased about the scattered release schedule of normal Shameless episodes, the use of a clip show format makes sense. Not only is it a fun way to look back on the series, but it also gives the production team time to handle delays due to the coronavirus pandemic. With filming delayed for Shameless ' final season, the release date was pushed back.

The cast and crew could be working through jam-packed schedules, but this clip show series gives everyone involved, including Showtime, some breathing room to complete the series as it was intended. Kara Hedash is a features editor and writer for Screen Rant. From time to time, she dives into the world's most popular franchises but Kara primarily focuses on evergreen topics.

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