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August 21, 2005
Six Feet Under Finale
Tonight is the series finale of Six Feet Under and I'm bracing myself for the end. I know it's silly to become attached to a tv show, but this wasn't just any show. SFU gave us something we had rarely seen before on television: death portrayed in a real way. Other shows just gloss over it. Even a show like ER, which features people dying on a regular basis, does not really portray death. Six Feet Under did that.
My favorite characters were Claire, Billy, and David. All of the characters on the show were so incredibly messed up but they all had redeeming qualities. It would be easy to hate any one of the characters on the show, but the writers made it so that we all saw a little bit of ourselves in each of them.
Salon has published an interview with Alan Ball to mark the end of the series. ("An Alan Ball postmortem") It's a great read. I love that as a writer and producer he's taking chances and trying new things. He isn't afraid to jump from movies to television to theater. If only more writers today could be like him, we'd have so much less crap in movie theaters and on tv. On second thought, maybe it's better there aren't more writers like him, because then we'd have too many things to distract us from real life. I never felt like I was wasting my time watching Six Feet Under because I knew I was watching great art, and you can't just turn your back on that.
So rest in peace, Six Feet Under. Thankfully, you'll be entombed on DVD where we can visit you whenever we like.
Posted by Tracy on August 21, 2005 06:10 AM
