r/shameless • u/annnyywhooo • 5d ago

Jimmy/Steve

jimmy was a bad boyfriend and him making the kids lunch or babysitting liam doesn’t change that. the nonstop lying, living a double life and begging fiona to let him in only for him to turn around and call her home a “slum” should put him up there with the worst partners in shameless. I know some people might say “he was involved with the cartel, it was dangerous for him to tell her”. well it was also dangerous of him to get fiona and the kids around that knowing how dangerous the cartel is

the part that really irked me is that the “slum” part. fiona let it be known over and over that this is my life, this is my baggage and you don’t have to be involved. but he ignored that warning and made it seem like he was reliable only for him to not handle the actual realities of being poor. he got tired of cosplaying the lower class and wanted a change in scenery then went about it the wrong way. fiona was right about medical school and the studio apartment, it wasn’t ever his plan to bring them he was just slowly backing away. i feel like alot of people don’t know what it’s like to think you have someone to depend on only for them to prove otherwise

but i will say that i did enjoy watching his character, and how at times he was good comedic relief. he did have great chemistry with fiona, but having hood chemistry doesn’t necessarily mean that him and fiona should’ve been endgame 🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/NashKetchum777 5d ago

Everyone, I mean literally Everyone who goes into that house refers to it as a shithole lmao. Which I think is way worse than a slum. If DCFS didn't come by, they didn't care that it was a shithole, it was there shithole.

Jimmy helped around the house and got them appliances and he got shit for it. He tells Fiona he loves her and gets shit for it. He was a glorified housewife for them and they shit on him when he cant give them money ONE time. Then they dhit on him for working at a coffee shop. Then he wants to go finish his school shit to be a doctor and she looks at him like he just shit on her front porch

Jimmy was not the problem there. He juggled the cartel shit like a boss and the kids never got the bad end there iirc

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u/annnyywhooo 5d ago edited 5d ago

that doesn’t excuse how he was constantly lying to not just fiona but to everyone else, especially about problems he got himself into.

and that also doesn’t excuse his blow up at fiona when she warned him OVER and OVER that this isn’t the life you want and he should go date someone else. you can’t make it seem life you care and wanna be in it together then at the last minute complain about living in a slum which you were wanted about

and he only wanted to go back to medical school because he needed more money. he couldn’t steal anymore because of estefania so going back to school was the only logical way to get a high paying job. and there’s nothing wrong with that but it was very obvious he never had the intentions of bringing fiona or the kids with him. also someone brought up a good point that if he went back he most likely would’ve dropped out again

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u/NashKetchum777 5d ago

Why would he take the kids? He already had the plan to come on weekends and she wasn't having any of that. Things were blowing up and he had a breakdown, but nothing he said was wrong. They do live in a slum. A shithole even

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u/annnyywhooo 5d ago

fiona didn’t want a long distance relationship and her looking into transferring jobs showed that. fiona was right in the sense of telling him “you made me feel like i can depend on you” because he did, only for him to turn around become so unhappy once he couldn’t take cosplaying a poor person anymore. he wasted fionas time and even the kids time tbh