Shameless
For the last nine year , audiences have watched the Gallagher family pilot their manner through the pitfall and triumphs of life in South Side Chicago . After airing its 11thseason in late 2020/2021 and being the longest - running series on Showtime , the US version ofShamelesswill be get along to a close . Since it pop , the show has keep a relatively ordered note regardless of miss many hold up character from the early seasons along the style .
cash in one’s chips into season 11 , the effect cast still stay with the elision of Fiona Gallagher ( Emmy Rossum ) , who departed at the end of the ninth time of year . There have been some season , overall , that are stronger than others , mainly due to the use of characters and the overarching storylines . Below are seasons 1 to 10 ofShameless , ranked agree to its ratings onRotten Tomatoes .
Season 10 (40%)
Season ten ofShamelesshad the tremendous project of prove the show could still be good withoutFionaat the center . The entire cast stepped up to take their all which also saw Ian and Mickey brought back into the Gallagher household after being released from prison .
The season also sees Lip tackle fatherhood with him and Tami raising their tike in an RV , Debbie date stamp an honest-to-god woman , Carl rail neighbourhood watch cadets and Franks gets carry captive by a mysterious cleaning woman . It is deserving noting that without Fiona around , Kevin and V become less intertwined with the Gallagher ’s .
Season 9 (70%)
This season sawFionago big with an investment chance and then presently after , everything comes crash down . After finding out Ford on the QT had a wife and baby that he still lived with , Fiona also stop up lose her apartment edifice to devote for her investment . Meanwhile , Lip gets involved with Brad ’s sister in law Tami , lead to pregnancy , and Frank , of course , continues being Frank .
After being buy out by her investing partner Max , Fiona ends up with $ 100,000 in her pocket . She give $ 50,000 to the Gallagher household and with the residue of the money , leaves South Side Chicago for secure .
Season 1 (70%)
This is where we are first preface to the Gallagher family and their neighbors Kev and Veronica . The first time of year ofShamelessmostly focused on Fiona ’s relationship with Steve ( Justin Chatwin ) , who is lie about who he really is . Another major plotline is Ian being a closeted homo and having an affair with his matrimonial boss .
Local cop Tony , who has a crushed leather onFiona , and loses her virginity to her , evolve a distaste for Steve out of jealousy . When he finds out about his vicious story , he open him an ultimatum , go to prison or go away . Steve / Jimmy is forced to leave alone but tries to win over Fiona to go with him but she refuses .
Season 7 (88%)
At the end of the last season , Frank observe himself being throw over a bridge after running Fiona ’s wedding . He then renounce everyone in the family except for Liam and turns an heart-to-heart house into a homeless shelter , where he adopt a substitute Gallagher family . Meanwhile , Fiona , now the manager of Patsy ’s Pie ’s and disheartened from her break up with Sean , turns to Tinder for fooling hookups .
This time of year introduce the grapheme of Sierra who ends up dating Lip on and off over the next few season . Another major plotline require Monica returning to reveal she has terminal encephalon damage and only limited time left .
Season 5 (92%)
Post prison house Fiona continues to work at the diner Patsy ’s Pies and commence a relationship with musician Gus , who she marries soon after . Fiona ’s plan are rocked when Jimmy returns after a obtrusive absence seizure and reveal where he ’s been . After hooking back up a duet of time , Fiona see her time with Jimmy is over and they farewell .
Other major plotlines for the season include Kevin and V splitting up , Ian come across he has bi - polar , Lip begins a relationship with a college professor , Carl becomes a drug dealer and Frank begins a kinship with a young doctor have terminal cancer .
Season 3 (92%)
Jimmy has been live at the Gallagher theatre for some time now , whilst continue to remain in a forced wedlock with Estefania . Lip dates Mandy Milkovich but difficulties arise when Karen return , which leads to Mandy dispatch Karen with her auto , do psyche scathe .
The Gallagher kid are forced into foster care , so Fiona force Frank to clean up his act and talk to tike services , with Shelia pretending to be Monica . The season include Kevin and Veronica ’s attempts to get pregnant , where they enlist V ’s mother to help them conceive when Veronica is told she is unconvincing to get fraught .
Season 8 (100%)
Fiona renovates and maintains an apartment construction as an investiture follow the sale of the launderette . Frank returns from a monastery with a newfound look on life and makes attempts to be more involved in his children ’s lifetime , even getting a job to pluck his weight .
The major plot line that occupy the season is Ian running a movement to stop braw spiritual rebirth therapy and advocate all - inclusive love . Lip ’s prof ends up crashing his railroad car into a house and due to former DUI ’s is send off to prison house , later dying from a seizure whilst behind bars .
Season 6 (100%)
At the beginning of the season , Debbie reveals that she ’s fraught , which leads to Derek leaving without a trace . Near the end of the season she commit birth to Franny against Fiona ’s advice , Fiona on the other hand , gets an abortion and later gets engaged to Sean .
Sammi and Mickey are both in jail from attempting to kill each other , so Sammi ’s mom Queenie comes to the Gallagher house to wait after Chuckie , eventually taking him to live in her commune . Frank and Debbie go with them for a brief period before return back to Chicago .
Season 4 (100%)
This season was less lighthearted than the previous three as it grapple with more serious storylines such as Fiona trying to move on after the disappearance of Jimmy and then going to jailhouse for possession of cocain , which lead to Liam in the hospital . Frank ’s alcoholism catches up to him and he requires a liver transplanting . When Fiona refuses to donate part of her liver to Frank , he unwrap he will require his oldest daughter , Sammi .
When Frank recovers from his post - mathematical operation delirium , he finds out that he has married Sheila and adopted a group of aboriginal American children . Meanwhile , Mickey come in out to his acquaintance and folk , much to the discouragement of his father Terry .
Season 2 (100%)
Police ship’s officer Tony now inhabit next doorway to the Gallagher house after strong - arming Steve to provide town . However , Steve returns through the season hook up with to Estefania , the girl of a drug dealer whom he married out of fear . Karen now has a new partner but uphold to be familiar with Lip and when she falls pregnant , he usurp he ’s the sire .
Grandma Gallagher arrive at the house after being released from jail due to ill health and force Frank to be her caretaker . He blow over the sawhorse to Sheila and Jody , where they become inner with each other . Grammy convinces the duet to rush her dying by smothering her with a pillow and her death leads to Frank reconnecting with Monica , the mother of his shaver .
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