Althouse: Did you watch "Six Feet Under"?

July 24, 2005

Did you watch "Six Feet Under"?

If so, go in the comments and talk about it!

UPDATE: Narm!

AUGUST 1ST UPDATE: Oh, noooooo! Go here to talk about the new episode.

12 comments:

Ann Althouse said...: SPOILER ALERT!!!; 7/24/05, 8:59 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I'm in a state of shock! Nate is dead???; 7/24/05, 9:00 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Here's my post from last week, saying that characters were going to need to start dying soon, with the end of the series so near. But I didn't guess that it would be Nate, although someone said to me later (a commenter?) that Nate had that brain ailment which was important last season, but that had not been made much of this season.; 7/24/05, 9:04 PM
Ann Althouse said...: And let me say that Peter Krause is a terrific actor, incredibly subtle. Several times when I couldn't even see that he was doing anything special, I've broken down at cried at some little thing.; 7/24/05, 9:05 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I'd just like to say that I was pleased to see that Claire has freckles on her arms. They've never displayed them before. I would have remembered!; 7/24/05, 9:20 PM
Sreekesh Menon said...: new here and feeling rookie!; 7/25/05, 12:00 AM
Rick Lee said...: It might be that Nate is not dead, but that he's had a massive stroke. He's probably dead though.; 7/25/05, 12:04 AM
Ann Althouse said...: sreekesh: Well, do you have an opinion on whether Nate is dead?

Personally, I think he's got to be dead. He had dead eyes in the end. One doesn't snap out of that, right? But there are four shows left in the series: can they really do without one of the lead actors? They don't need to: he can participate as a dead person, like his father and his first wife. With three main characters in the afterworld, they can do some major things together!; 7/25/05, 6:45 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Grumpy: Good guess. I'd hate to see it just turn into a Schiavo commentary, but there's good room here to go through the issues that came up when Nate was acting like he couldn't stand to take care of a disabled child. He wanted Brenda to get an abortion, so now that he's disabled, she, as his wife, would be in a position to "abort" him. Lots of material there! Maybe Maggie would want to care for him. And then Maggie and Brenda could bond. Or whatever.

And those dead-looking eyes that made me think he had to be dead. They kind of were "Terri Schiavo eyes."; 7/25/05, 8:37 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Effern: Fabulous catch about how the written request is for cremation. This is a perfect theme for the end of the show. It nicely matches the story around Lisa's death, with the family wanting cremation and Nate carrying out a green burial.

The scene with David, Nate, and Rico each getting behind a different approach to body disposal was central to the funeral home theme of the series, and it ought to play out in the last four episodes, somehow.

As I wrote in last week's SFU post, I expect Durrell to die.; 7/25/05, 10:43 AM
Banjo Jones said...: ...OR, Nate "lives" but only via respirator while Durrell kills Keith and David while they slumber; Brenda pulls the plug on Nate and marries Rico, becoming, inexplicably, the totally compliant "Mexican" wife for which he longs; Claire marries the lawyer and moves to the O.C. to have babies; her mom becomes completely liberated, turns to motivational speaking for bisexuality.; 7/26/05, 1:41 AM
Ann Althouse said...: They tried everything they could to make us hate him before they killed him, but it didn't work, did it?; 8/1/05, 9:07 AM