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‘Shameless’ Series Finale Tops 1.5 Million Viewers Across Multiple Showtime Platforms
Gallaghers go out with a bangTony Maglio | April 13, 2021 @ 9:43 AM Last Updated: April 13, 2021 @ 9:53 AM
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No shame in these numbers: The series finale of “Shameless” drew 1.511 million total viewers across multiple platforms, according to Showtime. That’s a season high, 29% better than the Season 11 premiere (1.2 million viewers) and +41% from the comedy’s penultimate episode (1.1 million).
It
is a shame, however, that the long-running show is over. The 11-season “Shameless” was Showtime’s most-watched and youngest-skewing comedy. When you factor both of those claims in, it makes sense that “Shameless” was Showtime’s most-streamed comedy series of all time.
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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.