This episode was swiss cheese with limburger filling. There were some golden moments but a lot of holes are filled with the stinkiest of cheesy writing.
So ok Emmy Rossum (Fiona) left the show but did she burn some bridge on the way? I figured she left the show to 'sync' with the English version, but there must be a darker reason.
Regardless Fiona should have made a cameo (someone suggested as a savvy realtor selling Southee properties) - but she wasn't even mentioned in Frank's suicide note. How the frank does that make any sense?
There are some great moments as Frank stumbles about reliving his life and the clips of the younger kids were great to remind us of how much they grew on the show (some of us skipped the stupid clip show filler episodes).
We see a lot of character arcs left uncompleted. This is good if they want to do spin-offs or some continuance of the show without Frank. That part was ok.
But on to the end... the hospital tests dying Frank for COVID and he dies shortly after the results are positive. (maybe a FALSE positive even?) Uh...so the whole family, out celebrating has been exposed? And the people they're in contact with and so on and so on...what crap.
And the whole rising up to heaven on the bar stool was really cheesy. They should have ended that on Liam and Frank exchanging glances across the astral plane.
Now, what COULD have saved this last episode would have been Frank returning from the dead just before they slide him into the oven. The final shot being a closeup of his shocked face., that would have been epic and a little redeeming.
The exploding crematory oven gag was SO stupid, so many things wrong with it technically but they could have saved THAT scene if after the explosion it's revealed one of the workers blown back was Fiona.
Did Shameless go full Dexter? Almost.
So ok Emmy Rossum (Fiona) left the show but did she burn some bridge on the way? I figured she left the show to 'sync' with the English version, but there must be a darker reason.
Regardless Fiona should have made a cameo (someone suggested as a savvy realtor selling Southee properties) - but she wasn't even mentioned in Frank's suicide note. How the frank does that make any sense?
There are some great moments as Frank stumbles about reliving his life and the clips of the younger kids were great to remind us of how much they grew on the show (some of us skipped the stupid clip show filler episodes).
We see a lot of character arcs left uncompleted. This is good if they want to do spin-offs or some continuance of the show without Frank. That part was ok.
But on to the end... the hospital tests dying Frank for COVID and he dies shortly after the results are positive. (maybe a FALSE positive even?) Uh...so the whole family, out celebrating has been exposed? And the people they're in contact with and so on and so on...what crap.
And the whole rising up to heaven on the bar stool was really cheesy. They should have ended that on Liam and Frank exchanging glances across the astral plane.
Now, what COULD have saved this last episode would have been Frank returning from the dead just before they slide him into the oven. The final shot being a closeup of his shocked face., that would have been epic and a little redeeming.
The exploding crematory oven gag was SO stupid, so many things wrong with it technically but they could have saved THAT scene if after the explosion it's revealed one of the workers blown back was Fiona.
Did Shameless go full Dexter? Almost.