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Ranking Every Season Of Shameless From Worst To Best
By MICHAEL BOYLE
10. SeasonS 10 and 11
What's truly disappointing is how empty the Ian and Mickey relationship is, compared to how vibrant and exciting their dynamic was in the show’s early seasons.
The final season's saving grace is that it gives Frank something meaningful to deal with, as he realizes that death has come for him after he cheated it seven seasons earlier.
9. Season 8
Every character is either experiencing a zany plot or living out a storyline that feels like something we've seen them do before — only worse.
One of the few saving graces is that season 8 mostly follows through on Fiona's ambitions to finally escape poverty, and Frank manages to go sober for a surprisingly long time.
8. Season 9
This was Fiona’s final season, and her arc is basically what she went through in season 4, only this time without any of the realism or nuance to make it work.
Season 9 also unconvincingly ruins a Gallagher's love interest, but at least other characters' storylines, while not technically good, weren't particularly bad either.
7. Season 6
Season 6 gives Debbie a level of sociopathic buffoonery that few characters on the show have been able to rival. It isn't just frustrating; it's unbearably depressing.
On the bright side, season 6 gives us Sean, who was almost the best of Fiona's boyfriends, and it leaves us on a compelling new low for Frank and Fiona's relationship.
6. Season 2
Season 2 expands on everything that season 1 established and fixes almost everything that didn't quite work. Maybe most interesting is the way this season handles Frank.
Unfortunately, season 2 also gives us the first example of the writers butchering a love interest's characterization as a convenient excuse for a Gallagher to dump them.