SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of the series finale of Shameless tonight.

After 11 seasons, it was truly last call for Frank Gallagher tonight on the series finale of multiple SAG Awards winner Shameless tonight.

Emmy Rossum tweeted about the finale last week and there’s some flashback footage, but why didn’t she appear in the series ender.

WELLS: You know, she very much wanted to, and we wanted her to.

She lives in New York, and you know, we were trying to make it work, but there were quarantine setups that were in there if she came out to LA.

DEADLINE: In that vein, we all know how hard series finales can be, even when you have the luxury of planning one out like you guys did.

WELLS: Well, the original idea was that we would see Kevin Bell leave and that we’d also see Carl purchase the bar that he was going to turn into a cop bar, and I never quite got there, And, of course, wanted to do something else with Emmy, which ended up with the Fiona character, which we ultimately weren’t able to do.

We wanted to do more years of this.

WELLS: Bill Macy and I talked about it a lot of times over the years, which was it would be wrong to let Frank completely off the hook for living the life that he’s lived and doing the damage to his body, that he had done to his body over all these years?

DEADLINE: There’s this scene in the finale at The Alibi where Ian and Lip are talking about the future and maybe selling the house and divvying up the sale and Cameron’s Ian says to Jeremy’s Lip, and of course I am paraphrasing, he says “you can have share, our $15,000, and you do whatever you want to do because you’re as close to a dad as any of us had.” That’s a very powerful moment there, and a lot of the series is in that moment.

WELLS: Dominic, I’m really going to miss it, because, as you said earlier, we’re able to kind of Trojan horse into a lot of satirical conversations about what’s really going on in the country.

You know, over the years, the writers rooms have been very lively.

Certainly, we’re looking for outrageous things to do, but we’re also trying to comment on this notion that there isn’t really a meritocracy in this country about income and equality and how difficult it is to live just hovering around the poverty line.

I’ll miss being able to go into a room with only the writers and talk about those issues, and we’d, you know, go over the newspapers and talk to social services experts and you know, all of those things that make up making the show.

I’m going to really miss that and talking to those people, and feeling as if we had a way to get our messages across while you were still laughing?

But, look, it’s been great to be able to make this show, our show and that we could get 11 years out of it?

When we started, we couldn’t get anybody to make it for almost seven years.

WELLS: You know, you’re dealing with all different kinds of feelings.

You’re know you’re saying goodbye to a lot of friends when you’re writing it, and so it’s hard not to get emotionally involved.

DEADLINE: So, one last shot – do you think you did that with the Shameless series finale

I’m going to miss everybody

Really thankful to Showtime for all of their support all these years when nobody else wanted to make the show when we started, and you know, just it’s been a great experience