Ok, Six Feet Under people: Why don't I feel the love? Apart from(Sorry, Gus) thinking that PK is hot.(Casey, maybe it *was* the hair) It's dark, it's twisted, and it's got a brainy teen girl in it. So why can't it pull me in? I like it well enough...watch one and tell it "That was fun. We should do it again soon." But I don't. Months go by and I don't even care that much. People love the shit...what's wrong with me?(Uh, okay, maybe I shouldn't open the floor *quite* that much.)

My wife loved that show, but I never got it, either.

Ok, so, we can rule out that I'm a braindead. Maybe it's something about Simon fans...one of those diagrams from logic. One circle"Wirefiends", one circe 6FU fans and a tiny intersect(possibly only Mrs. Corwood)

Ok, Six Feet Under people: Why don't I feel the love?

Six Feet Under is the greatest show I've ever seen but that has less to do with it being generally successful and more to do with it striving in directions I think important.

When it was at its best, it eschewed almost all the trappings of high-brow and low-brow fiction so it could have fidelity to the character's interior lives as its first, last and middle concerns. Like, Claire's arc in season two is, when you strip away the specifics, identical to her arc in season three. So, by letting the characters become victims of habit, then have them wake up to it, then having them become victims of some slightly different habit that degrades in the exact same way and by asking 'But why? But why? But why?', it shaded in some pretty ugly psychological mechanisms that all people share. Like the unavoidable tendency to objectify and the almost unavoidable tendency to romanticize people we're in relationships with. The character-up approach to writing is optimum, I think, because if you stick close to it, dogma can't get in and infect it. When it got philosophical and started up offering answers to their characters' predicaments, I cringed but it was expert at elucidating the problems.

huh. Interesting thought. I do generally like the acting.

I'm in erika and Corwood's corner re: Six Feet Under. GF didn't care for it either. We just didn't give a shit about any of the characters.

Six Feet Under people: Why don't I feel the love?

Although I watched it off and on througout its run I never loved it either. It always seemed like it was trying to hard to be cool. Plus all the characters bugged the shit out of me and I wanted to slap all of them. a lot.

There wasn't a single character on 6FU that I cared about.

And a few that were insufferable.

6FU had the greatest series finale. Ever.

Tom, me brother... You are doing that cynic thing, with the hyperbole thing.

C'mon, peoples! New Wire.