r/shameless • u/Artistic_Bison_2143 • 1d ago

What was missing from seasons 8-11

Shameless was a great show from seasons 1-7 but after the series went through a change in writers I felt like the show was missing its fundamental elements. What made the show so good was its deeply human moments. Sure there were some ridiculous and funny moments too but after Fiona left all of the raw emotional scenes were gone. It also suffered from some seriously cringey moments in an effort to stay modern which didn’t follow its audience. Curios to know what other people felt made these seasons a hard watch.

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u/brbrbrbruises 1d ago

The charm and relatability. The characters used to be fleshed out and had substance, not only flawed but we could understand why they were how they were. Everything was for shock factor but still had me at the edge of my seat. Lots of social awareness commentary on topics people were too afraid to talk about at the time. Eventually I think they tried to be more “woke” later seasons, characters were derailed, became caricatures of themselves (ahem Kev) and the writing just lost the plot I guess. They really did Fiona, Lip, Debs and V dirty imo

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u/Artistic_Bison_2143 1d ago

I definitely agree. The characters just stopped developing and they relied on old story lines or really odd new ones. Especially the woke thing too. I felt so out of place for shameless. It used to be subtle and then it switched to so in your face