Shameless 11X12: Father Frank, Full of Grace

Well we did it. We made it to the end. And, while I did get emotional towards the end, I don't really think this episode was a great series finale.

So it turns out, Frank really did try to overdose, but his body is just so used to drugs, he couldn't make it happen. For awhile, everyone just stands around to see if he'll wake up, but not long after, everyone goes about starting their day. Eventually, he wakes up, realizes he's not dead, and just starts to wander aimlessly around the city.

He ends up in a church where he thinks he's an alter boy who has missed mass, but the priest seems to understand what's happening and they call him an ambulance. When he get to the hospital, they find out he's got Covid and between that, the drugs in his system and how horribly he's treated his body for the last 30 years, he dies pretty quickly.

Debbie continues to see the crazy girl who just got out of prison, and continues to steal cars (apparently with Debbie's help now). Carl pulls up her arrest record and it's a mile long.

Lip ends up delivering food to people who he's smarter than, but Brad seems to think they can start to work as mechanics again, and Lip seems pleased about that. Tami thinks she's pregnant and neither of them know how they feel about it. He ends up getting an offer of only 75K for the house. But it's a guy from the neighborhood and it seems like Lip wants to take it. It only works out to 15K each, but it's 15K more than they all had yesterday.

Ian wants to have a baby, but Mickey is worried that he'll be a terrible father. I mean, his fears are not unfounded, he had Terry as a dad. But all the Gallagher's had Frank and they are all surviving. Not thriving, for sure, but they are making it through. And speaking of Ian and Mickey, Ian seems sad that Mickey hasn't remembered it's their wedding anniversary, but Mickey planned a surprise party for him at the Alibi. It's delightfully sweet.

While they are all at the Alibi, Frank is dying in the hospital (after Liam spent most of the episode wandering around trying to find him. Before he dies, he seems to have some happy memories of the kids. But, after he dies, and he reads the letter we never found (that Franny drew all over) he says looking back on his life, he wished he'd partied more. But, at the end of his life, he was thinking about his family. I think it's interesting that when he planned to die he thought about that, but when he was actually dying, he thought of his family.

Dead Frank is busy hovering over the Alibi while everyone else is busy watching and laughing at a guy whose Telsa went up in flames outside of the bar. It actually seemed like a very fitting way to end.

Oh, and in the post credits, we see that Frank had so much booze in his body that the he exploded while in the crematorium oven. That also seems like a fitting way to end.