Six Feet Under

[ie]

The irony about this thread is that I won't be able to read any of it until I watch the rest of this series, which is shaping up to be quite good. One down...


The good Agent will be able to talk about this series with anyone else that's seen it, though. He's the one who recommended it to me.

[agentknight]

I'm about half way through the second season. This show is PERFECT! I would dig up my season one review but I'm lazy. It's in the "review the last film you've seen" thread somewhere.

[ie]

I cheated and looked in this thread.


That complete Six Feet Under box set doesn't look that bad now that I've seen an episode. Too bad it's $200 at Amazon, huh?

[ie]

Agent's review of the first season:

agentknight said:

No, it's an easy 10/10 from me. One of the best of the decade.

Anyway, I have written a review on Six Feet Under: Season One and I don't want it to go to waste so I shall post it here. Shut up! I just haven't seen too many movies recently!

Six Feet Under - Season One - 10/10

I know it's not a film, but I just got through the first season of the hearbreakingly beautiful show and I had to write *something* about it. The show's ability can be, at once, emotionally harrowing, consistently hilarious and incredibly addictive blows my mind. The performances are amazing all round, and each character is entirely unique. The delicate examination of of their individual struggles, which is obviously what the show is about, rather than an ever-going single narrative tying everything together, like Twin Peaks or The Shield, pertains precisely to each character, and thus, the whole in a way that makes every moment seem as important as the last (although, this does sometimes make the conflict seem melodramatic sometimes). At least three episodes in, the distance between the characters and the audience becomes so, so small that every punch the characters feel the viewer feels too. I love the surreal moment too, like the dance number, and the way dead "episode" characters become part of the character's lives, though by the end I wished Nate would just sit down and say to the family "I dunno about you guys, but I've been seeing dad everywhere," so that the audience just doesn't believe that they're all insane in exactly the same way. This is about as rich and truthful as anything on TV gets.

[agentknight]

Yeah, that seems pretty accurate.