Six Feet Under got its last rites on Monday, with HBO airing a best-of clip show to help prepare us all for this week’s series finale. I’ve got my Kleenex all stocked up, especially since we all know series creator Alan Ball isn’t a stickler for happy endings. He tells the New York Post (registration required), in fact, that ”there was a lot of resistance in the writers’ room to Nate dying” earlier this season, but he couldn’t see another way.
Yet while Nate’s death made sense to me from a dramatic standpoint, I wonder if viewers’ rocky relationship with the maddening Fisher clan will be the only thing that dies come Sunday night? After all, when we last saw Brenda, she was delivering her daughter two months early and shouting, ”Is my baby okay?” to eerie silence from the hospital staff. And Keith and David’s relationship looked headed for life support, too, thanks to the latter’s emotional breakdown following his brother’s death.
To which I say, ”Hell to the no!” If David and Keith split up, or Brenda’s baby dies, in the series finale, I am seriously going to pretend it never happened. Hey, I did it when Carrie ridiculously ended up with Mr. Big on the Sex and the City finale, so I’ve got plenty of practice. And if denial is one of the stages of grief, there’s no rule saying I can’t stay stuck there.
Is there any potential Six Feet Under storyline you won’t be able to accept? C’mon now, just let it out.
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Carrie ending up with Big was the ending that most of us hard core, never-missed-an-episode fans wanted. I sat in a room full of people who swooned and cried hysterically when it happened. So you may not have liked it, but most of us non cynical, non meida types did.
I won’t be able to accept the death of Maya. For some reason I belive that that might happen due to the high feaver she had because of the ear infection. I think it will be very sad if that happens and if it does I won’t be surprised.
i think the end of six feet under is going to be a bummer for everyone. i used to live for this show and now i can’t bear it. i understand alan ball has a vision, but why such a bleak one?
nothing would surprize me in the finale, no matter how horrible and nasty.
While I’m skeptical of what will happen in the finale, I find it troubling that fans such as kjones forget that Alan Ball arrived with the film American Beauty, which didn’t exactly have any sort of happy ending…..I predict some real dark moments
I hope SFU takes a chance and gives us a bleak ending. Not to be negative, but so many of the characters on SFU are so emotionally damaged that they will be caught in their destructive cycles that it will be difficult for them to find true happiness — which makes it so realistic!
As for S&TC, the ending with Carrie reuniting with Big was so regressive and appalling, it almost wiped out everything the show had built in its previous seasons. Here was a show about a successful independent smart woman with a great career…and all she wanted was “true love” with a guy who had led her on for years. If that’s a “happy ending”, it’s pathetic.
Personally I think Six Feet Under and its creator, Alan Ball have changed television. This show has been groundbreaking since day one. Anybody that has seen it has some sort of opinion, good or bad,it really makes you think about your own life. People have been so divided in the last few seasons but ultimatley isnt that a sign that people care enough to form an opinion…..This last season has been incredible. in particular, Nate’s funeral…definitely one of the best epsiodes of TV ever to air… For a person that rarely watches TV to see every episode is quite telling…Once the last episode airs, many people will feel like their Sunday night family has just abandoned them.
I don’t think it’s going to be a bummer. The show, yes, is about death. But it really examines life, and dealing with death. I don’t think another person will die. I can see Brenda having a miscarriage, but I don’t believe anyone else with die. I think it’s going to be about how they are going to deal with the loss they’ve just suffered. That’s what the show is about, dealing with things. Life is short, make the most of it before that endless, dreamless sleep. Personally the show is the most brilliant show I’ve ever seen on television. The show has gotten better and better, and I know it’s lost alot of fans over the years because people can’t deal with how liberal and political it is, but I think we’ll be pleased with how it ends. I’m very sad it’s ending. It’s funny but I feel like I’m part of the family, because I’ve been so involved with their lives since 2001. That’s why Nate’s death was so devastating to me, I’m hurt that he died, but it just shows you how valuable life is.
I disagree, Patrick…some of us never really bought into Carrie and Big as a “happy ever after” couple.
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Is it too much to ask for a happy ending??
I really would be upset if something’s wrong with Brenda’s baby! Or if David and Keith break up. Or if Claire becomes a misguided drug addict again. I mean, I’m sure there won’t be a happy ending, but I hope its not a miserable one either.
As long as the show doesn’t end with Nate in the shower thinking it was all a bad dream, I’ll like the finale, HA!
It cheats the viewer when the show creators mess with the reality of a show to shake things up. Carrie chooses a guy who’s been treating her badly for the whole series, even marrying someone else at one point. Josh is turned into an idiot on the West Wing as they play musical jobs. it’s not quite as bad as St Elsewhere, where they all seemed to have split personalities. You invest time into a show and a character, and deserve more than Bobby in the shower(OK, that one was fun).
Finally, someone else (Kareem) other that me suggested that Maya might die from her so-called ear infection. The season 5 shoot trailer, still viewable on HBOs website, suggest that Nate and Maya will both die. I assume Ball will somehow make her death relevant to the end of SFU…. I have no idea how he will do this.
I could barely handle the death of Nate. It was really too much. I feel like one of the Fisher family and I sat there and sobbed. I could barely function the next day. That’s how effected I was. You have to admit, the writing on this show is incredible, as well as the acting. I hope Nate’s death was one, bad dream. But, of course, I doubt it. I hope Brenda’s baby is normal. Claire needs to straighten out and I guess David and Keith will stay together. It looks like the crash of the lime green family hearse is a sign that the Fishers are soon to be out of the funeral business, now that Nate is gone. Rico and Vanessa will probably buy that other place and continue-on as a funeral home, catering to the Latino comunity. Ruth and George will stay apart, but get along. As for Maggie, she’s history and Billy is a constant… This show has really moved me. I will miss it dearly. Good-bye Fishers….and Nate.
I think people are putting too much importance on that pre-season trailer. It showed Claire driving off in her hearse and that can’t happen, so I don’t think that Nate holding Maya means that they’re going to kill off Maya. The only ending that will make me unsatisfied is if David and Keith don’t end up together. They’re my favorite couple on the show and they’ve shown the most love and commitment (except for a few minor indiscretions).
As far as Sex and the City, I loved that Carrie and Big ended up together. Both of them behaved badly over the years, but it was clear that they loved each other and if they’d stop fighting it, they could be happy together.
I have heard rumors that the final episode will show how all the Fishers die by giving us peeks into their futures.
For the fans to lose Nate was such a shock-the burial episode was particularly heart -wrenching- I cried-
what a fantastic ensemble of actors on this show-
The writing is so “now”-so real-
I can’t wait for the last episode-anything can and will happen-I only ask 2 things-dont kill Maya or the unborn infant.
I agree that SFU is a great show. It is intelligent, never predictable, and deals with the much ignored if not avoided subject of death. What surprised me in reading all the comments about last weeks’ show is the lack of commentary on the other much avoided subject-incest. Didn’t anybody else see that part? It made me extremely uncomfortable watching it. I kept saying outloud “no, don’t do it”. Never mind Maya dying, I don’t want Brenda and her brother to end up together in any permanent sense on the last show. Yuck. For me the sign of a good show has always been it’s ability to make me think, AND feel and the feelings don’t have be good ones. Bring it on…There will be hole in TV when the show ends.
I heard a rumor that the last episode will use flash forwards showing how each cast member eventually dies. I could live with that, especially if it provided some insight as to how their life turned out.
I heard they all end up with Mr. Big… oh wait, no. Wrong HBO show. My bad.
I would like to see the last episode be comic, with each main character meeting a sudden, ironic death.
Brent….. Claire wasn’t driving the green hearse in the trailer. She was driving an old Mustang. Ruth is seen driving by the hearse, which is abandoned off the road.
The fade-to-white endings to the scenes after Claire’s crash and Brenda’s childbirth suggest to me that both Claire and the baby didn’t survive — it’s the same pattern after every death on the show. But Claire’s alive you say? Well, are we sure? One thing the show hasn’t tried to do yet is to show us what it’s like on the “other side.” Or maybe it suggests the damage done, like it was to Nate. Either way, I have a feeling she met an untimely end.
One one of these boards, someone suggested that Brenda was actually Nathaniel Sr.’s daughter – which puts an interesting twist on the incest “teaser” (sorry). Also interesting in that the fact she and Nate were related may be why she had such trouble conceiving with Nate and why there’s a risk of damage to their baby?? Just another thought. Man, am I going to miss this show!
Don’t sell the season 5 trailer short…
Look at the following images from the
season trailer and decide if it’s
just coincidence…..
JUNKED abandoned green hearse
http://www.geocities.com/lewisvalente/sfu/sfu_01.jpg
David drives by Keith. Notice the white van
in Nate’s last dream during ECOTONE
http://www.geocities.com/lewisvalente/sfu/sfu_02.jpg
Rico and Vanessa together again
http://www.geocities.com/lewisvalente/sfu/sfu_04.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/lewisvalente/sfu/sfu_07.jpg
David and Keith happy together
http://www.geocities.com/lewisvalente/sfu/sfu__08.jpg
Claire happy on the road driving a Mustang
http://www.geocities.com/lewisvalente/sfu/sfu__09.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/lewisvalente/sfu/sfu__11.jpg
George and Ruth together again
http://www.geocities.com/lewisvalente/sfu/sfu_10.jpg
Maya with Nate in the SUV
http://www.geocities.com/lewisvalente/sfu/sfu_05.jpg
Two crosses on the road. Two deaths?
http://www.geocities.com/lewisvalente/sfu/sfu_03.jpg
Nate and Maya encounters dead bird on the road
http://www.geocities.com/lewisvalente/sfu/sfu_06.jpg
These last three images is what suggests that
Maya will die in the last episode.
Re: Six Feet Under…who cares? The writing began to suck big time last season and I’ve since stopped watching.
It’s still pretty taboo for a kid to be killed off; I can’t see that happening with Maya. And I’m with previous post — I can’t accept that happening. It’s been a great show, I can accept just about anything else happening, but not that. That would completely ruin it for me, even if she does end up with her daddy.
Why why why does it have to end? I hate to see a show that pushed creative boundaries. Six Feet Under’s absence will sure be apparent in HBO’s line-up. Again, why why why?!
Although it was painful that Nate died, it was good for this show in particular to do something like that. What this show does for us the viewers is face death in a very small way. The name of the soundtrack is “Everything Ends”. I think it’s powerful for a show to present loss to us so easily because when it happens in your life you often don’t get warning or preparation. I love the show but for the same reasons it has to end. I don’t think Claire dead at present,like Floppy said becuase of the fade to white. Don’t they do that between all scenes on the show instead of fade to black? Bottom line is on this show anything can happen.
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