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.
I don't think I've ever enjoyed saying anything in my life as much as those children enjoy "*FUCK* you, you cheese-faced bitch!" Unless I could pay a bunch of them to call up, say, Ann Coulter's house.
On a more substantial note, I almost feel that I won't be able to take it if Pres gets surprised in the supply closet again...hurts to watch. But I don't want to punk out or anything.
Man, I laughed like hell at that line.
So, looks like Carcetti might be thinking about pushing Daniels up to Commissioner. Can a mayor do that?
I watched the first season of six feet under a couple of years ago, and while I enjoyed it entertainment-wise, it was definitely a show that I was doing other things while I was watching. I liked--and I say this about the show, definitely not in RL--watching the people die at the beginning; it was a clever way to approach the fact that they were going to be dealing with a dead body every episode without making it trite, like every cop show ever.
Also, Gus is totally right WRT the series ending. I watched the last, like, ten minutes on YouTube, and by the end I had shed a couple tears, despite the pixelation. Excellent.
