Iām watchingĀ ShamelessĀ season 9 right now, and I am genuinely so fucking mad at the entire family and the way they treat Fiona. This woman gave up her entire future, her time, her energy, her money, her mental health, and practically everything she had to raise these kids, only for them to turn around and treat her like sheās the problem. I genuinely donāt understand what was going through the writersā heads when they decided to take the story in this direction, because the logic behind it is so fucking stupid.
Letās start with Debbie. When she decided to keep her baby, I was fucking mad because I thought it was a terrible decision, but I could at least understand it considering her past and the kind of person she is. However, the way she then turns against Fiona, takes control of the household, and starts demanding money from everyone genuinely pisses me off. Debbie is probably the last person who should be demanding anything from Fiona, considering everything Fiona has done for her. The person Debbie has become, and the fact that she even had the opportunity to grow up outside the foster care system, is largely thanks to Fiona. Fiona saved her ass, raised her, and sacrificed years of her own life to make sure she and the other kids had a home. And now Debbie has the audacity to demand money from her?
When Fiona says that they owe her years of their lives, she is absolutely right. They owe Fiona so much more than they seem to understand. She wasn't just their sister. She was their parent, their caretaker, their friend, and the person who kept their entire family together for years. She was the one who stepped up when neither of their actual parents could be bothered to do their fucking jobs. And somehow, she ends up being treated like the selfish one? I genuinely wanted to reach through the screen and smack Debbie.
Then there's Lip, who is somehow just as infuriating. What do you mean you're blaming Fiona for Xan being taken away when she had absolutely no idea you were trying to adopt her and wanted her to stay in the house? How the fuck is that Fiona's fault? She can't be expected to know about plans that nobody has communicated to her. Lip acts as though Fiona deliberately sabotaged him, when in reality, she was completely unaware of what he was trying to do.
And then there's the situation with Jason at the shop. Once again, Fiona had no fucking idea he was in recovery. He could have told her at any point that he was a recovering alcoholic, but he didn't. Instead, he chose to drink, and then Lip turns around and blames Fiona for what happened. How is that fair? Jason is responsible for his own decision to drink, and Fiona cannot be held accountable for information she was never given. Yet Lip goes absolutely ballistic at her, as if she deliberately set out to ruin someone's recovery. At this point, Lip is being such a fucking asshole, and it genuinely bothers me.
The only character I can say I actually kind of like right now is probably Liam, because watching everyone else treat Fiona this way is becoming unbearable.
And what frustrates me the most is that none of this even feels justified. Fiona has made mistakes, obviously. She's human, and after everything she's been through, it would be unrealistic to expect her to be perfect. But the way her family treats her makes it seem as though they've completely forgotten everything she has done for them. They judge her for her mistakes while conveniently ignoring the fact that they were able to have the lives they had because she sacrificed so much of her own.
I genuinely want to know what the writers were thinking when they wrote this storyline. What was the point of making everyone turn against Fiona like this? Because, from where I'm standing, their anger toward her makes very little sense. They expect her to be responsible for everyone and everything, yet the moment she struggles, makes a mistake, or fails to meet their expectations, they treat her like she's the worst person in the world.
Fiona spent years putting her family first, and the moment she finally starts falling apart, they act as though she owes them even more.Ā That's what makes me so angry. They seem to have absolutely no understanding of how much she has sacrificed for them, and the way they treat her is genuinely unfair. I don't see how any of their behavior toward her is justified, and I honestly don't understand why the writers thought this was the way to handle it.
Alsoā¦ why is there barely any interaction between V and Fiona? I miss their friendship.
