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Shameless Series Finale: Why Emmy Rossum Did Not Appear As Fiona Newsweek 1 hr ago
Shameless Season 11, Episode 12 brought the Showtime series to an end in dramatic fashion (
spoilers ahead).
One Gallagher did not appear to say goodbye to the show in the finale of
Shameless. After months of speculation about whether Fiona would return one last time after Emmy Rossum exited the show, the actor did not make an appearance in the finale episode, titled Father Frank, Full of Grace.
The show had initially planned to have Fiona appear in the finale, but showrunner John Wells revealed to TVLine why Emmy Rossum could not film a last appearance.
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.
Fans hoped Emmy Rossum would return as big sis Fiona for the series finale â hey, you canât always get what you want â but this was as good of a substitute that viewers could expect.
As Frank wandered Chicago for the last time, his storyline paid homage to the eldest sibling. This included pit stops at Patsyâs Pies (shuttered), where Fiona had been a manager once upon a time ago, and the church where she was supposed to marry Sean (Dermot Mulroney) in Season 6. Later on, Frank mistakes one of the nurses for Fiona, remarking how beautiful she is as he lays dying in the hospital. That might feel like a throwaway nod to Rossumâs character, but itâs actually quite sincere and poignant once you know that the actress playing Frankâs nurse is William H. Macyâs own daughter, Sophia Macy.