'Shameless' season 9 episode 11 review: Fiona is back on the bottle, but Lip has stepped up...again
This may contain spoilers for Shameless season 9 episode 11: The Hobo Games.
As Emmy Rossum's nine-year-long run on the hit Showtime dramedy comes to an end, any hope of redemption for her character Fiona Gallagher seems to disappear because she keeps falling farther, and farther away from the firm, grounded, sensible matriarch she had been all along. Yet somehow that isn't the most surprising addition to the Gallagher family's story this week.
To start off with Fiona, as her own words so articulately put it: “I’m just in a really f—ed up place. You ever been in a f—ed up place?” One would think binge drinking on the roadside with hobos, and getting shoved into a cop car for ganging up and punching a racist neighbor would be peak rock bottom, but Fiona's personal rock bottom just reaches new depths in every new episode. From waking up on an empty pizza box and stealing random pills lying around to get her sister Debbie (Emma Kenney) off her back, to spiralling back to her drinking days in front of a boy celebrating his 100 days of sobriety - it's not hard to deduce just why Lip (Jeremy Allen White) - the sibling closest to her - lashes out at her so intensely, asking her to leave the Gallagher household.