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<em>Shameless</em> boss on what to expect in final season, and whether Emmy Rossum will return


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SOURCE: https://ew.com/tv/shameless-final-season-preview-john-wells/
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Summary

Sadly, it&apos;s time to say goodbye to the Gallaghers.After 11 years of hilarious debauchery, Shameless is returning on Sunday for the final season of Showtime&apos;s hit series.To catch you up on the Gallaghers, here is where we last left them: Fan favorite couple Ian (Cameron Monaghan) and Mickey (Noel Fisher) tied the knot, Kev (Steve Howey) and V (Shanola Hampton) finally got engaged, the cops are looking to arrest Debbie (Emma Kenney), Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) is hoping to become a cop, and Lip (Jeremy Allen White) fell off the wagon after a fight with Tami (Kate Miner) over his refusal to move to Milwaukee. We felt that on Shameless, because we see the show as a raucous comedy that also is a satire, we’re trying to satirize what is going on in the country all the time, so it seemed essential for us to address what was going on for communities all over the country that were bearing the brunt of the financial consequences of what was happening. We eventually had to start shooting, so we picked a moment in time and we continued to write to what is going on, as best we can knowing full well that we’ll be several months out of sync by the time it airs.There has been a big debate over whether shows should be incorporating things like the pandemic into story lines. So I’m with your dad; there are sometimes where I think it’s the right thing to do and sometimes where I think it’s not, but Shameless felt like one of the shows that really required it.I’ve seen the first episode and the pandemic definitely plays a big role, but another 2020 element that I was curious if you’d be tackling was the Black Lives Matter movement and what happened in the aftermath of George Floyd&apos;s death. The end of last season was busy for him, between falling off the wagon and getting a house without telling Tami.We’re really using Lip and Tami to explore how hard the financial implications for working-class people have been during the pandemic, and how that impacts their relationship and their hopes, and how much it sets them back. We’re trying to use Kev and V to show how everything that is going on is ultimately impacting small business owners and people who are just trying to hang on. But would love her to, I think she would like to, not sure it will be possible.Wrapping up, what can you say fans overall should expect as we prepare to say goodbye to the Gallaghers?A bit of what I already intimated, which is it’s going to be the show that you’ve seen in the past and if you liked it then you’re going to continue to like what we’re doing.

As said here by Derek Lawrence