Six Feet Under

Tonight's finale of Six Feet Under didn't really disappoint. After the last few episodes, I would almost glad that the series, one of my top-five shows, was coming to an end. It was just getting too hard to watch. As the season wound down, all the humor that balanced out the morose parts was drained, and each episode got more depressing than the previous. And the penultimate episode wasn't really depressing, just uncomfortable and really hard to watch. If it weren't for Entourage being on directly after it, I'd probably spend every Sunday evening terribly, horribly depressed. Moreso than usual, I mean.

But tonight's finale wrapped things up pretty well. In the Sitcom Finale Handbook, at least one of three things has to occur: A wedding, a baby being born, or, one of the major characters has to leave town, usually a East Coast to West Coast move or vice versa. SFU did not disappoint. What I was most curious about was how they would manage to end the series on a high note, or at least not something terribly depressing. But somehow they pulled it off. What was most impressive is that the ending was a montage of all the characters' future deaths, but it somehow all seemed very optimistic. It also, to me, lessened the effect of Nate's death, which had been the framework for the last four episodes, since you see everyone else's deaths as well. By lessen the effect, I s'pose I mean it just lessened the sadness of it, since you see all of them die. The only one that I felt got a raw deal was Keith, who was killed during an armed robbery of a armored car that he was riding in. It didn't seem right. Especially since the security company was apparently his own. If he owned the business, why would he also be driving the trucks?

I didn't quite know what to make if it as I was watching it. It seemed like just another episode. But for some reason now I can't stop thinking about it. I remember when the show first aired, I didn't give it much of a chance. I only started watching because there was no Sopranos and I needed something to watch on Sunday night. then we all got really into it, so much that some of my friends wouldn't even allow conversation while it was on. Still, it was often hard to watch. It made me really uncomfortable at times. I was never really excited to watch it, but I never wanted to miss it. I think of all the HBO shows that I've watched, I think I'll miss it the most. It was definitely the most real.