How does shameless end

At the end of the day, Ian is shocked to realize that Mickey has forgotten their one-year wedding anniversary, and he confronts Mickey about it. In the final moments of the finale, Mickey surprises Ian with a party at the Alibi, and the entire Gallagher family and their friends celebrate Mickey and Ian. During the final season, Kevin and V made the decision to leave Chicago and move to Louisville, where V's mother lives.

So, in the finale, Kevin and V are trying to sell the beloved Alibi bar. While Kevin wants to make sure the Alibi stays a bar, the real estate agent has other plans and thinks someone will want to completely change it. The series ends with Kevin and V not having accepted an offer for the Alibi and we're left to assume that they do eventually move to Louisville.

If you haven't watched Shameless in a minute, all you need to know is that Carl joined the Chicago P. He spends the final season trying to find his place among the police department and he becomes friends with fellow cop Arthur Tipping, who is played by Joshua Malina.

During the series finale, Carl is working as parking enforcement and doing his best to keep the South Side the same. In the final moments of the episode, Tipping tells Carl that the Alibi would make a great "cop bar," and he asks Carl if he wants to be partners and buy it from Kevin and V.

The episode ends before we know if Tipping and Carl have bought the bar. Debbie's ending is honestly quintessential Debbie. Throughout the last few episodes, Debbie was desperately trying to sabotage Lip's plan to sell their home, so now that the offer has fallen through, she's pretty content.

During the series finale, Debbie starts a somewhat relationship with Heidi, an ex-con who takes Debbie along on a day filled with smashing car windows, selling stolen vehicles, and more. In the end, Heidi invites Debbie to join her in Texas, and to bring Franny with her. The series ends before we know if Debbie accepts Heidi's offer. For a show that always concentrated on the bare-bones reality of living below the poverty line on the bad side of town — and the pluck and ingenuity of a large family struggling against the odds to survive — "Father Frank, Full of Grace" decided to lean on the metaphysical in the end, using its last 10 minutes to give audiences sad-eyed ghosts and family singalongs.

There was a hint of plot movement, and yet some of the characters settled into an odd sense of stasis, their futures wide open apparently via executive order. The most important change, though, finally brought to a close the longest pas de deux between a fictional character and death since Joe Gideon danced with Angelique.

Yes, after years of dodging the Grim Reaper by any means necessary, an all-too-common foe took down Frank Gallagher William H. But his family — too used to the endless hurricane force trauma that Frank brought into their lives on an unpredictable basis — barely took notice, as they dealt with their own drama.

The majority of the episode follows Frank's slow march toward death. After surviving an attempted suicide via heroin overdose, he wanders the streets in a dementia-induced haze. We get fleeting glimpses of how the world the show inhabited has changed — Patsy's Pies has been shuttered, for instance. A lonely, fitting conclusion for a character who always put his own wants and needs above his family.

But Shameless doesn't satisfy itself with poetic justice, choosing to give in to sentiment. In Frank's dying moments, he flashes back to a family breakfast table tableau from the first season, then appears at the Alibi in his hospital gown as a spirit, sipping from a perpetually refilling mug of beer while watching his family. As everyone in the Alibi leaves to taunt a rich person whose car has been set aflame outside an awkward metaphor for the class division that drove the show , Frank and his stool are lifted heavenward into a wide shot over the Chicago skyline in what is definitely the show's most bizarre visual, and the audience hears his suicide note in voiceover.

Frankly speaking, if any television patriarch has ever deserved to spend eternity in hell , it's Frank Gallagher. Ending his arc by having him float away to heaven on a barstool is both too out there for a show like Shameless, and far too sentimental a conclusion for a man whose presence generally meant nonstop misery to his family.

The less said about him being so soaked in alcohol that the hospital's attempt at cremating him resulting in a percussive explosion that blows the oven's doors open, the better. We kept tracking what was going on with the virus and how would it impact the show. We were writing about a community that would be really impacted, economically and health-wise, by the pandemic. How did you come to the decision that he needed to die in the series finale?

So we had always talked about doing some kind of alcoholic dementia story. We had written it actually, or most of it, when we shut down in March. We were just a few days away from starting to shoot. As COVID got worse and worse over the late spring and into the summer, we realized we were going to have to rewrite, because we needed to deal with COVID in this community, because it was hitting low-income and disadvantaged communities really hard.

When you have him die of COVID instead of drugs or alcohol abuse, how does that change the trajectory of the character? We tried to also have them talk about what all of his other problems were.

So they bring out all of his medical records, they talk about how terrible his health is, and then in the little tag, he has so much alcohol in his body that he blows up the crematorium. We thought we were kind of doing a little bit of all the above.

Was the idea to leave the door open for a spinoff or a revival? No, not really. I get to decide. We originally intended to get a little farther in the story and have Carl buy the bar from Kev and V and turn it into a cop bar and have Debbie work behind the counter. I would love to see Lip take over a motorcycle shop and really get himself firmly on the ground and become more and more the patriarch for the rest of the family.