Shameless Fan Theories

Anyone who's watched Shameless knows that Frank is well spoken. He also miraculously pulls of the most insane, ridiculous schemes without getting in any trouble. These street smarts don't just come out of nowhere. As Reddit user s3hunnagbeTYBG points out, Frank is actually really smart. In fact, the show mentioned that he made it to his junior year in college. He even knows how to play piano and Lip calls him a "genius" during his college appeal.

The fan theory states that Frank is just like Lip. He had a tough upbringing but was actually on a really good path. When he met Monica, he developed alcoholism and started abusing drugs. That's when he dropped out of college and became the Frank that we know.

Fiona is the one Gallagher who's supposed to have it together, yet she consistently finds herself in trouble because of her relationships. This is because Fiona is addicted to sex. Her family is already prone to addiction because of Monica and Frank's alcoholism and substance abuse, and Fiona seemingly never turns down sex. Fiona even explores this topic with Robbie, who says she's just as prone to addiction as her father.

At first it seems like she's addicted to sex, but she decides she's actually addicted to "self-destruction." Surely, though, most of her self-destruction is revolved around reckless decisions made while chasing men. For instance, that time her three-year-old brother almost overdosed on Cocaine was deeply wrapped up in her risqué relationship with Robbie.

According to one Reddit fan theory, Debbie may not actually be Frank's child. Her father is Frank's brother, Clayton Gallagher. The evidence? Lip and Ian were the only Gallagher children who took a paternity test. Ian found out he was not Frank's biological child. Instead, he was a product of Monica's 1995 affair with Frank's brother, Clayton.

Both Debbie and Ian bear a striking resemblance and are the only red-headed Gallaghers. The theory alleges that Monica never ended her affair and had Debbie years later.

This fan theory suggests that Carl isn't actually fully a Gallagher. In the first season, Liam took a paternity test because no one believed that Frank could be the father of an African American child. It turned out that Liam was fully Frank and Monica's biological kid and that he was Black because Nana Gallagher had had an affair with a Black saxophone player. All of the Gallaghers are part Black - except Carl.

Carl took a blood test when he was joining the army because he thought he had African American ancestors. The blood test came back as Native American rather than African American. If Carl doesn't have African American blood but Frank does, could Carl really be Frank's son?

Svetlana, Kev and V have been a throuple for a while, but Kev and V had their doubts. A fan theory from Reddit user RLennon72 points out that Svetlana saved the bar in order to sort of force the couple to stay with her. Basically, she did it out of a twisted form of love.

Svetlana already does all the taxes for the bar. She watches Kev and V almost lose the Alibi and so she goes behind their back to save it. It seems like a dirty move to put the deed in her own name, but she never acts like it's solely her bar. She continues to act like it's a team effort. When V confronts her about getting the bar back, she says something like "and we'll be a throuple again," but V declines. It appears she was hoping that if she got the bar back, they'd all be together again.

Fiona's new tenant, Bahir, mentions that he uses "100 amps of power on his own," and works 70 hours a week. Reddit user timothyhiggins alleges in his own fan theory that Bahir doesn't actually live in the complex. Instead, he's using the new apartment's free electricity to mine bitcoin or another cryptocurrency.

According to timothyhiggins, mining cryptocurrency uses more electricity than the entire Republic of Ireland, and the electronics Bahir brought in the complex was possibly foreshadowing.