Shameless
After more than a decade of Gallagher kin bedlam on Chicago ’s South Side , Shamelesshas come to an end with its season 11 finis , " Father Frank , Full of Grace " - but is there any hope ofShamelessseason 12 , or perhaps a spinoff series ?
establish on the UK drollery - drama series of the same name , Shamelessdebuted on Showtime in 2011 and still has most of its original core cast members . Emmy Rossum ’s Fiona Gallagher , the eldest of Frank Gallagher ’s children and the de facto parent to her younger sib , left Chicago at the destruction ofShamelessseason 9 , and in January 2020 it was announced that the show would end with season 11 .
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Though aShamelessrevival or reboot might one twenty-four hours materialize , for nowthere are no design forShamelessseason 12 . Speaking toThe Hollywood Reporterlast year , showrunner John Wells said he was " a niggling disappointed but not dreadfully upset , " and that the show was ending because " Showtime felt the timing was right for the final season and I ’m happy to go along with that . " He has also shut down the theory of making a spinoff focusing on just one or two of theGallagher siblings , or on neighbors Kevin and Veronica . Prior to the show ’s cancellation he toldTHR,“I’ve never been a handsome fan of spinoffs , " and in last year ’s audience he was unfluctuating about his intention to create a definitive ending :
" We have n’t given any mentation to it . I have n’t been large on reviving any of the show or continuing show . They have a innate ending . I do n’t require to talk inauspicious of anybody else ’s attempts to bring something back but there is something about the first metre they are on that ’s kind of magical . It was a show that people loved and you campaign the risk of undermining that . We are really lofty of what we ’ve been able to do with Shameless and the stories we ’ve been capable to tell and honestly that Showtime allowed us to secernate . So , never say never but we have n’t had any conversations about it . "
monition : SPOILERS ahead for theShamelessseason 11 finale .
Shamelessseason 11 has been spent wind up the fundamental character ' stories and sending them off in different directions . Kev and V made the decision to leave Chicago and move to Louisville , Kentucky , in search of a adept life . Meanwhile , Lip convinced ( most of ) his sib that it was time to sell the Gallagher house and use the money to move into their own homes . From a exclusive nigh - crumple family unit , the Gallaghers have recently begun starting family of their own and are just about quick to strike out on their own .
The net season ofShamelessalso incorporated the coronavirus pandemic into its story , culminating inFrank Gallagher’sdeath in the serial publication finale . After being name with alcohol-dependent dementia and live a massive overdose that was meant to be his suicide , Frank ultimately died when he contracted COVID-19 from bust a discarded mask . William H. Macy ’s painful yet magnetic family paterfamilias was arguably the heart of the series despite impart his kid to mostly arouse themselves , and Frank ’s death is an apposite way of life of tell hearing thatShamelessreally is over .
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