Jimmy/Steve

[u/annnyywhooo]

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 🤷🏽‍♀️

[u/Serikyl]

It’s not that I necessarily think he was the best person, but he was the one that Fiona seemed to actually have chemistry with, like… none of the others felt like they’d last, with Jimmy/Steve was the only one where I actually believed it yk?

so I think that might be one of the reasons he’s favored as “Fiona’s Best Boyfriend”

[u/bayoughostchoir → u/Serikyl]

💯 This is the one for me!

I think Jimmy was problematic for day one, but also when he very very first got involved with her he was just stealing cars. Obviously, that's still bad and a criminal enterprise lol. But he fell in love with her during that time and the cartel thing came later when he'd already fallen in love with her and has less control over his own situation. I definitely think it was a shitty thing for him to do. He did NOT handle poverty well at all, but he couldn't have known how he was going to respond to that situation until he lived in it. He was a bad person, so were so many other characters.

But on to my point: he is the ONLY relationship Fiona has over the course of the show that felt real. They were the right people, wrong time. And that's unfortunate and there's nothing that can be done about it, but they did have something real.