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I really got sucked into the world of Carnivale but felt it unspooled too slowly and to too little effect. Still, it had a handful of really great moments.
Including two of the episodes of TV I have EVER seen. Thinking about the ending of one of the episodes still freaks me out, and I suspect it always will.
I spent half the first season of 6FU hoping Claire would make good her promise to join the Army so they could teach her to kill, Kill, KILL! and then return to practice those skills on the rest of her family.
Cool. Just wondered if you ever did, not hoching. Even though I can be "The Wire likes West Baltimore carrots." But it did cement my obsession. With Baltimore, you know. And you're gonna love the boys hanging on the orange couch; they talk about food as much as you! Still feel a little embarrassed about the punk-assed letters I wrote to HBO cause I think they were to the effect that "My life sucks, we lost the election, and my dog died. Please give me my show back." But maybe my pathetic worked?
Thinking about the ending of one of the episodes still freaks me out, and I suspect it always will.
I'm sure I know the scene, it's the one that ends with the ghost of the girl who was killed, naked and surrounded by the vengeful ghosts who claim her and pull her back into the shadows. Eeep! Makes my skin goosebump even just typing that.
Yep, that's the one. Possibly the creepiest moment in television, ever.
Damn. Now I want to see it.
Disliked Alan Ball's influence at times, but generally throught the writing was strong.
I found Ball's episodes to be the weakest; I'm the same way with Rob Thomas and Veronica Mars.
ETA. Which is funny since they're the creators.
All the characters on 6 Feet Under made me want to smack them. A Lot. And that's why I hated it.
This. There was not a single character I cared about, even a little.
TOTAL. I felt the same way about American Beauty , too.
There was not a single character I cared about, even a little.
I'm not sure just how bad a show would have to get before I ceased to care about characters played by Lauren Ambrose, Peter Krause and Rachel Griffiths, but 6FU wasn't bad enough. In large part I cared more in spite of the writing than because of it, but still and all I couldn't not care about them.
Jilli, I knew exactly which scene you meant too. And, oh, that moment is so mournful and heartbreaking and deeply, deeply creepifying.
Yep, that's the one. Possibly the creepiest moment in television, ever.
Yeah, it's up there with a few select Twin Peaks and X-Files moments for sheer creepiness, but it's sadder and more haunted. Really devastating.