Posted on 08/21/2005 10:43:13 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
HBO's Six Feet Under Ends In Emotional Drama
Douglas Maher-All Headline News-Staff Reporter
8-22-05 1:12 EST
Hollywood,California (AHN)-The series finale for the hit HBO series "Six Feet Under" airs Sunday night in an emotional climax that is destined to go down as a television classic.
With the Fisher family in turmoil after the passing of character "Nate" in the previous 2-episodes, the series' final episode left no stone unturned.
The episode showed the family going in seperate yet emotionally closer directions, giving viewers in the closing moments of the show a telescopic view into how each character lived their lives and wound up in death in a cinematic and sometimes humorous yet tearful view of how it all ended for the cast. The scenes were played out to the haunting music of Sia and her song "Breathe Me".
The funeral home remains intact as subtle messages of the importance of family and love are put on display to make the circle of life complete.
"Six Feet Under" wraps up after 5 successful seasons on HBO with numerous Emmy awards and nominations.
Weird but quite a good program.
this was a good series except for its excesses on the gay front with David, and a need to constantly dwell in sex with Nate as well. The acting was good, the basis of having a mortuary family as the center and the founder dying in the first episode but constantly haunting his family throughout the series was well done. Also the opening of each episode with a different 'death' and tieing into the business of the mortuary, was well thought out.
This show had its ups and downs...but tonight's episode and series finale was just beautiful. The irony in it all is this was a family filled with anger,hate,and wreckless behavior and always towed the liberal line. Hating the war, having gay family members and random sex all over the place, drug use,psychotics everywhere.
However,the irony in it is...the final episode brings home the true conservative values that always work in the end...family...love...trust..and oh yeah...the gay couple had adopted 2 black children and David learned that the power of prayer works...even at the dinner table after going on a hiatus from his family to fight his inner demons.
Amazing and beautiful ending to a twisted and dark series about the the great unknown which we all will find out one day.
Much like Twin Peaks, SFU started out interesting but got just plain stupid as time went on, albeit in the case of Twin Peaks it all happened in one season.
If you get a chance..check out the replay of the final episode from tonight...especially the last 15 minutes.
The ending did work surprisingly well. I've had an amazingly hard time watching this show because I couldn't sympathize with its narcissistic characters. I didn't like a single one of them and I'm not entirely sure I was supposed to.
Nate was a bastard to the very end...man..what a bitter character he was...even in death he was cruel. At least they softened him up in the last 5 mins.
Didn't see even one episode.
One of the best TV finales I've seen. The montage at the end was beautiful and brought closure to the show. For once we get a good look at what happens to the characters after the series ends instead of tacky goodbyes or unfruitful cliff-hangers.
I pride myself in never having watched a single episode.
I also never watched a single Sinfeld. /end pontification mode.....
It's finally 6 Feet Over.
I saw many episodes, not because I liked em
It was like watching a train wreck - you can't help but look.
My prediction came true, too... they killed all the characters in the final episode.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Well, I'll admit it, I cried during both viewings of the finale last night.
Plan on watching it again tomorrow, anticipate crying again.
I am going to miss this series ("Six Feet Under") but once Ned died, I knew the end was near. I'm somewhat relieved, since it can't go too much farther without becoming repetitive but what I liked very much about this finale is the many unanswered possibilities remaining. It inspires us to recall the Series with curiosity. Which is great.
I'm pretty eager to see "ROME" and the Sixth Season next year of THE SOPRANOS. HBO has a home-run in these recent and incredibly creative series.
So many aspects I find disagreable socially and morally, yes, but SFU has been enacted so incredibly well and written equally as well and it's been fascinating.
Very, very well done.
Ha, yes, I hear ya' on that last thing: I've often felt that the writers and creator of this Series intentionally offered up that which was repulsive to us viewers, that we were not intended to sympathize with most or even all of them at many critical points.
I remember having a similar conversation a while ago when "Lisa" character was first introduced and I said then (and correctly, given how things developed afterward) that Lisa was creepy, was the compromise, not someone we as audience were anticipated to care for well, easily or at all...and then look.
The Series DID make those challenges, you're right. It produced a love/hate response for me as viewer and I always ended up anticipating the next Episode, despite myself.
It shouldn't have lasted one episode. They cancel Carnivale after two seasons, but keep this crap running for, what, five years?
< but once Ned died >
Nate?
I keep looking back to see if even one character had even a shred of a redeeming quality. I'm still looking.
Me too.
By this season I hated all of them, it was the weirdest thing to be hooked on a show where all the characters got on my nerves.
But they redeemed themselves last night. I actually cried overe Clare, always my favorite. And the last car drive was amazing, just amazing. I was stunned.
I don't watch or subscribe to the liberal HBO.
The show was about a mostly democratic familly but to divide the virtues, fammily love and trust and work as republican virtues and psychosis, drug use, anger hate and reckless behavior as democratic virtues is so false. There are gay, psychotic, reckless, drug using republicsns I will suggest. And love of family, hard work and trust occur regularly among liberal democratics.
Everything doesn't have to be reduced to politics in every occasion on in such a falsely described way.
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