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Since I missed the last couple of seasons of Six Feet Under when it ran originally due to not having HBO those years, finally, FINALLY, on on-demand, the final season has been running a few eps at a time, the last couple of months. My only rant here would be, when a show has completed, "on-demand" should mean ALL the episodes are offered. I've had to wait over a year since getting digital on-demand cable to see the final episodes of this great series!!
What a GREAT finale! I finally was able to watch it this week. You get to see how everyone died, which I had heard about, but no specifics. I had to tape the ending sequence just to watch it over again to catch all the people in the frames and scenes to see what they were doing, since it's a montage and moves pretty quick. It was interesting that none of the deaths were nearly as dramatic as each of the people who died at the beginning of each episode. Ruth died in a hospital bed of natural causes, and I loved how she saw her late husband and Nate waiting for her. Keith getting shot coming out of his security truck was violent and ironic, and David presumably having a heart attack when he had a hallucination of Keith playing football at a family reunion years later was pretty consistent with his earlier neuroses. Sorry to see Rico dying on a cruise from a heart attack, but he and his wife were finally happy. And I'm wondering if it was meant to be funny that Brenda keeled over in her 70's just from listening to Billy's incessant yammering! I loved how it was played over Claire leaving home for the first time, making her peace with the death of her brother Nate, who she had just begun to really know, and setting off on a life of her own...the angry little girl artist finally growing up to live her life and seek happiness.
A few things I noticed: at Claire's ever-avant-gard "wedding" (if you could call it that, as it was a plain white room some time in the future with no one actually officiating), David and Keith's oldest adopted son was gay, holding the hand of his Asian partner, and the younger adopted son was married to an Asian woman and they had one son. Earlier at David and Keith's wedding, it looks like Brenda finally found love with a new, unidentified (hot) man, sitting together with her growing daughters. At the family reunion, I had to review it several times to see who Brenda was sitting with, as it looked like Claire but I concluded it was one of her daughters, because Claire was much older by then. Guess Lauren Ambrose played the adult daughter of Brenda, there. Claire evidently died at the age of 98 in a highly computerized modern home, with a nursemaid by her side, surrounded by the photos she took as a young artist, including the pic of her most normal boyfriend ever, the love of her life, Ted, on the ceiling, looking down on her.
An amazing finale--as you can see, it really sticks with you. I miss that show. For all their dysfunction, they were a family who stuck by each other in the end.
Posted: 11/22/07 at 3:10pm
Since I missed the last couple of seasons of Six Feet Under when it ran originally due to not having HBO those years, finally, FINALLY, on on-demand, the final season has been running a few eps at a time, the last couple of months. My only rant here would be, when a show has completed, "on-demand" should mean ALL the episodes are offered. I've had to wait over a year since getting digital on-demand cable to see the final episodes of this great series!!
What a GREAT finale! I finally was able to watch it this week. You get to see how everyone died, which I had heard about, but no specifics. I had to tape the ending sequence just to watch it over again to catch all the people in the frames and scenes to see what they were doing, since it's a montage and moves pretty quick. It was interesting that none of the deaths were nearly as dramatic as each of the people who died at the beginning of each episode. Ruth died in a hospital bed of natural causes, and I loved how she saw her late husband and Nate waiting for her. Keith getting shot coming out of his security truck was violent and ironic, and David presumably having a heart attack when he had a hallucination of Keith playing football at a family reunion years later was pretty consistent with his earlier neuroses. Sorry to see Rico dying on a cruise from a heart attack, but he and his wife were finally happy. And I'm wondering if it was meant to be funny that Brenda keeled over in her 70's just from listening to Billy's incessant yammering! I loved how it was played over Claire leaving home for the first time, making her peace with the death of her brother Nate, who she had just begun to really know, and setting off on a life of her own...the angry little girl artist finally growing up to live her life and seek happiness.
A few things I noticed: at Claire's ever-avant-gard "wedding" (if you could call it that, as it was a plain white room some time in the future with no one actually officiating), David and Keith's oldest adopted son was gay, holding the hand of his Asian partner, and the younger adopted son was married to an Asian woman and they had one son. Earlier at David and Keith's wedding, it looks like Brenda finally found love with a new, unidentified (hot) man, sitting together with her growing daughters. At the family reunion, I had to review it several times to see who Brenda was sitting with, as it looked like Claire but I concluded it was one of her daughters, because Claire was much older by then. Guess Lauren Ambrose played the adult daughter of Brenda, there. Claire evidently died at the age of 98 in a highly computerized modern home, with a nursemaid by her side, surrounded by the photos she took as a young artist, including the pic of her most normal boyfriend ever, the love of her life, Ted, on the ceiling, looking down on her.
An amazing finale--as you can see, it really sticks with you. I miss that show. For all their dysfunction, they were a family who stuck by each other in the end.
"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had the practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." --Alice in Wonderland
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