![]() Indeed, it’s up to Debbie to plan Fiona’s revenge on Ford for being a two-timing, pretentious prick-kind of like how most audiences interpreted him last season-while Fi dealt with the detonation of her three seasons of growth. Still, this is only a mid-finale, so maybe it’s fitting he worries about his own stuff to do. For it’s Debbie who finds Fiona hungover and hung out to dry in her apartment with a black eye and nigh broken arm, and it is Debbie who rallies Lip to show at least passing concern for his sister. This likewise follows traditional Shameless finale formulae where the Gallaghers band together (how we like them best), even if in this case it is primarily just the sisters. Maybe it’s the show indicating she’s growing out of teenage stubbornness, or just Wells seeing dynamics need to shift without Ian around, but it’s a welcome change that Debbie inexplicably wants to help Fiona out. But several seasons back, beginning with her fixation of wanting to have a baby, Debbie has primarily been depicted as self-absorbed and oblivious to her siblings’ own perspectives. Once upon a time, Debbie was quite invested in the trials and tribulations of the other Gallaghers. In and of itself, this should not be a surprise. Yep, what also marked this as a quasi-finale by Shameless standards is that Debs, of all Gallaghers, became genuinely concerned for Fiona’s absence from Ian’s sendoff last week. And to be sure, there were quite a few highs tonight. Yet it also makes how they play her fall from grace crucial, given this finale left me a lot like the character: resigned to the destiny of being a Gallagher. If in addition to Ian reverting to his worst bipolar tendencies, season 9 becomes the season where Fi revisits her lowest point from season 4, it is perhaps understandable that Rossum sees it as time to make her exit stage left. Her defeat, in essence, is the only thing that truly makes this feel like a finale, and therefore our last “normal” one with Fi-one in which she seems to be set on the path of Frank once more. She has lost her apartment building, her upward mobility, and frankly her sense of purpose. For this episode is very much about breaking Fi down in the most cynical, yet in many ways believable fashion. It is still somewhat ambiguous how long showrunner John Wells knew that departure was coming, but it was clearly not visibly on the horizon when this mid-finale was broken down. When season 9 finishes its run in early 2019, it will now inadvertently serve as the final farewell to Emmy Rossum as Fiona Gallagher (or at least so far as being a series regular). ![]()
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