Been reading the Six Feet Under bulletin boards for the past hour. Some more great comments on the show. I was gonna post one, but didn't want to give anything away.
I will say that last Thursday the Daily News ranked the SFU finale as the third best of all time, behind St. Elsewhere and The Bob Newhart Show. Honestly, I think they shorted it by two places. I have never been so completely satisfied by the ending of a series. What they did was so simple and so great, it's tough to figure out why no show had ever done it before.
Goodbye Fishers.
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I was going to do a post about this show today too. All in all I thought this season was really impactful, full of a lot of really shocking and emotional moments.
However, I really hated the coda to the final episode. I can understand the thought behind it but it was just unintentionally funny to me on one hand and disappointing on the other. It would have been best to leave the future to the imagination in my opinion.
Man, I thought the ending was amazing. Later, I remembered this season's teaser commercials had all the family members driving down a highway. Total closure.
I do agree there were funny parts to it, especially Billy and Brenda's segment.
See, that was good because it was meant to be funny. Billy talking Brenda to death (oh, spoiler alert by the way). I think it was the old people makeup and the futuristic decor that I found unintentionally funny.
(stop reading these if you haven't watched) I absolutely agree about the makeup. I was thinking they hired whoever did the six flags spots. And Ruth had kind of a Medusa thing going. Still loved it though.
My favorite moments were within the episode itself though. Ruth and Brenda's breakthrough moment while sitting on the stairs, Ruth insisting that Claire not make the mistake that she made, David's speech to the boys at the dinner table, the opposites attract romance of Claire and Ted, and ghost Nate finally showing his love and approval of the new baby. All beautiful moments.
I agree with Rich on the analysis of the final season, but thought the final episode was pretty perfect. Click here to see the trailer that was mentioned.
This is one of those times when I am thankful for a peaceful place on the Internet to release thought & feelings. Wow!
I just whatched the entire series (first time through) over the past three months. I was floored. What an amazing journey to say the least.
Focusing on the finalle, I absolutely broke down and lost it totally during that drive down the highway with Claire as she was listening to 'Breath Me' by Mia. Maybe it was the fact that she was officially and finally severing ties with childhood. As she was driving alone, sitting there smack in the middle of her private thoughts she was consumed by one of those rare moment in life when so many loose ends seem to come together to make life clearer, as if we might actually have gained some useful and meaningful perspective with which to understand the whole of life better.
What other artist has captured this so completely in their work?
Death does that, you know? Death offers us a porthole through which to experience our self, stripped completely and naked. How can we be anything but real during one of these occasions?
When we are visited by Deah's messenger, a level of reality touches us that so seldom shows its beautiful face. Unfortunately, I spend much of the rest of this life in denial of any other reality other than the hear and now, lost in my personal dramas.
::sigh::
I know that I too will die. I cherish that ability to catch whenever I can, a glipse of what my final days might be like when I too will drop. Sharing this moment with Claire in episode 63, seeing life through the 'Artist's Eye' was transforming and enlightening.
Good Show! Well worth the price to purchase the entire series and whatch in in the dark, alone and without the bullshit commercials that so often undermine the visual arts.
*applause*
*weaping*