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Did Six Feet Under change your life?

Peach Pie

13:51 / 14.05.07

After watching the closing dialogue of series 4 of 6fu (the encounter between David and Nathaniel, where David considers that anything might be possible) I felt enormously moved. I felt (however narcistically) that the show belonged to me, but also felt pleased that other viewers might feel the same way.

After watching the end of series 5, I felt maybe my response had been a little naive. *I* (and everyone else) belonged to *it*, to life and death. I felt my earlier appraisal had failed to do it justice.

Ordinarily, I find that the rare movies that make me cry do so only once. When I watched series 5 again, I cried more, because David and Claire and Ruth felt like real characters in my life, and I missed them.

I've never had these feeling from a TV show before. I still think of Claire as a real person in New York, zipping around building her career right *now*.

What did Six Feet Under mean to you?

Seth

14:27 / 14.05.07

So is this a SFU love-in or do you mean it when you say we can post about other series that have changed our lives? Don't want to derail your thread.

Peach Pie

14:36 / 14.05.07

Any shows, yes. on the advice of Boboss, I think. 6fu was the natural choice for em personally.

Spaniel

14:54 / 14.05.07

But, but, but with reference to Fly's warning in the other 6FU thread, could we keep lists out of this 'un, i.e. delete any that rear their stupid heads?

If you want to post about a show in this thread you need to put some effort in. One line posts will not cut it. I would also like to encourage people to acknowledge others' posts and respond thoughtfully to what people have written - that should help get some discussion going.

Dexter Graves

10:34 / 18.05.07

When Nate died I felt like I'd lost a friend. It was a tragic but artistically magnificent way to end the series. The final four episodes haunted my imagination for months after the finale.

Cosmo!!

15:56 / 27.05.07

I just finished watching Six Feet Under, about half an hour ago. I wept buckets. Feeling like characters in TV shows are a part of your life, or are speaking to you on a level far beyond that of the script and narrative - it's an odd thing. I suppose some people would regard it as trite; and even for me now, it feels a little that way.

But, wow. Nate posthumously kicking Claire up the backside, urging her to follow through on her ambitions and to fly the nest (or her comfort zone) really struck a chord with me. The closing sequence is going to stay with me for a long time, too. I feel like I need a drink after all that, but more importantly, I feel like I've received the same kick - like I've been implored to get the fuck on with my life. I hope this feeling of urgency is going to be with me a long, long time.

Would anybody like me to pass them a bucket?

Spaniel

16:25 / 27.05.07

trite

• adjective (of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse

Er, no.

Peach Pie

22:02 / 27.05.07

The closing sequence is going to stay with me for a long time, too. I feel like I need a drink after all that, but more importantly, I feel like I've received the same kick - like I've been implored to get the fuck on with my life. I hope this feeling of urgency is going to be with me a long, long time.

i find that interesting because i too related to the closing sequence... it was as if it was like some buddhist meditation on death. not unlike the fourth season finale, but ultimately, much more fundamental (and for me, less comfortable).

So i think there's a commonality there, but with the caveat that i... can't... hmm, this is one of the most important pieces of television screened (IMHO).

PatrickMM

22:18 / 27.05.07

Definitely, that final sequence was intensely satisfying, giving the series so much more scope, we saw a snippet of these characters' lives, but they'll go on to do more. My favorite season is the third, but I think the fifth is in many ways the most important. At times during the fouth season, I felt like the show lost touch with any kind of overall arc, but year five brought everyone to really interesting places and united everything that had happened previously on the series in a wonderful conclusion. There are few images in any work as heartbreaking as Brenda sitting alone in the Quaker surface while Nate is off with Maggie. And pretty much everything from that point on is just superlative.

Peach Pie

21:09 / 01.06.07

Absolutely. Her growth was quietly but positively courageous, while Nate's inability to see beyond his own preoccupation with the new and exciting had tragic consequences. It's particularly poignant that he used religion and spiritual growth as an excuse for dumping his pregnant wife.

Was season 3 the one where Brenda became particularly promiscuous?

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