Shameless is set to address the coronavirus pandemic.The upcoming episodes, set to be the show’s final season, will see the Gallagher family “at a crossroads, with changes caused by the COVID pandemic, gentrification and aging to reconcile.”The full Showtime description for season 11 reads: “The final season of SHAMELESS finds the Gallagher family and the South Side at a crossroads, with changes caused by the COVID pandemic, gentrification and aging to reconcile.“As Frank (William H.
Macy) confronts his own mortality and family ties in his alcoholic and drug induced twilight years, Lip (Jeremy Allen White) struggles with the prospect of becoming the family’s new patriarch.” It continues, nodding to further characters on the show: “Newlyweds.