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Six Feet Under: Season Four

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

00:22 / 08.03.04

So, I've finally seen the first commercial for the new season (too early to open up a thread?) but hot damn that was exciting! Nina Simone!

After last year's incredibly down entire season, could Season Four be the epilogue to The Corrections we never got to read? Will Ruth really start living? Anyway. I doubt this thread will see any action for months, but when you're ready, it'll be here.

01:24 / 24.07.04

Oh god. Don't watch this season whatever you do, that way you'll only ever have happy memories.
Just watched episode 405 and I'll never get that time back. I'm sorry to inform all fans that Six Feet Under has now jumped the shark. Already second most voted for on the above website and when you consider that the episode only aired on Sunday...

Matthew Fluxington

19:20 / 24.07.04

I normally hate that "jump the shark" bullshit (I think it's kinda ignorant and dim, honestly), but in this case, it's probably true.

The episode wasn't completely awful, but it's set the show off in a bad direction that I doubt the writers will redeem, and shows that the producers are more interested in being "edgy" than writing strong stories about the characters.

00:48 / 25.07.04

I normally hate that "jump the shark" bullshit (I think it's kinda ignorant and dim, honestly)

Huh? That's a bit of a strong reaction. Surely everyone has an opinion on when a television series goes from good to bad? How can that be ignorant and dim?

Matthew Fluxington

12:39 / 26.07.04

Almost all of the stuff on that website is reactionary and hysterical. It's a very anti-art vibe over there, very unforgiving. It's just a lot of folks who seem to WANT to be disappointed in things.

Anyway, last night's SFU was quite good. With any luck, the rest of the season will be normal SFU fare, and avoid veering off into off the top melodrama from here on out.

13:16 / 26.07.04

Huh, whaddayouknow. I really liked it.
The art crit scenes on the other hand, hmmmmph, 'As if...'.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

14:36 / 26.07.04

I don't see how SFU is now in any danger of over the top melodrama, especially after Brenda took pains to have unprotected sex with two protagonists of the show on the same day.

Oh. Wait.

But, seriously, folks. Last night's episode was fan-fugu-tastic, from the fake out fake out opening death ("Ut, I guess the burglar's gonna slip on a --" BLAM!) to David/Claire, to that heartwarming little moment between Ruth & Keith, to, oh, just every damn thing.

I happened to really like last week's episode anyway. Sorry. That really happens to people. I refuse to bitch about bad Fisher luck when I've seen families in real life suffer from cancer, death by car accident, brain surgery, etc. This really isn't anything more than your average family has to deal with. If it seems over the top to you, consider yourself lucky.

"Jumping The Shark", and yes it's a pretty annoying and petulant little turn of the phrase, refers to, I figure, a show completely abandoning its premise. How anyone can claim that a sudden abduction somehow violates the ethos of a show that WITHOUT FAIL STARTS WITH SOMEONE DYING is just about the most ignorant thing on Earth.

But, carry on, please. I'll be singing along to some Death Cab For Cutie.

14:55 / 26.07.04

"Jumping The Shark", and yes it's a pretty annoying and petulant little turn of the phrase, refers to, I figure, a show completely abandoning its premise.

It's supposed to refer to the point in a show's life where the writers zoom off into the realm of the absurd in order to keep things 'fresh' - not so much abandoning the premise as abandoning all logic. Although, having clicked the above link, I can see why you'd come to that conclusion.

Matthew Fluxington

19:17 / 26.07.04

It's true that abductions/carjackings happen all the time, but it definitely seems as though the writers are going out of their way to be edgy and over-the-top, which is the major problem with the show in this season, aside from the million-miles-beyond-dull Rico subplot. I don't mind that it happened to David, because it's pushing the character in an interesting direction (I wasn't sure of it before the last episode - I was expecting the worst, like David becoming a crackhead or whatever), but the execution of "That's My Dog" was all wrong. It went way too far, it was too sensational. The tone was too far off from what they had built up over the past three seasons.

D Terminator XXXIII

09:57 / 20.06.05

but it definitely seems as though the writers are going out of their way to be edgy and over-the-top, which is the major problem with the show in this season, aside from the million-miles-beyond-dull Rico subplot.

1 - Edgy and over the top? Aside from the carjacking episode, it's as edgy and ott as it always has been.

2 - I think the ordeal that Rico went through in this season has humanized him more than in the previous rounds; the scene where he first goes to sleep where he works was startlingly sublime by eliciting amusement and sadness.

It was as a whole as strong as the 2nd - which is my favourite season.

Perhaps the loose end is answered in the new season, but does Barb's daughter, Michaela, know something else about Lisa and her fate?