Shameless season 9 episode 11: Where are Kev and V when Fiona needs them the most?
This may contain spoilers for Shameless season 9 episode 11: The Hobo Games!
If there's one thing showtime's hit dramedy 'Shameless' has been consistent with, it is how all the plots of the multicast show come together in each episode. Lately, however, there seems to be a little strain in that department. With the most recent episode 10 of season 10 airing, once again we got to see the sad spiral of Fiona's (Emmy Rossum) downfall, and her family reacting to it radically, and with absolute nonchalance at the same time, in equal parts. But the one person (technically, two) who seems to be completely aloof from the matriarchal lead's worries and woes as she swings like a pendulum between sobriety and binge drinking is her very own best friend, Veronica Ball (Shanola Hampton.)
For the last nine years, Fiona and Veronica aka V have been the pillars of strengths for each other. Granted there were breaches in the friendship like every regular friendship suffers, but the two only came back stronger each time, setting new ideals for the term friendship goals. This time, however, it's different. As Fiona - heartbroken and bankrupt - takes to drugs and alcohol as a comfort, V is almost absent from her side. She is barely in frames where Fiona is going through the utmost levels of crisis and it does raise the scope for doubts over their current dynamics.