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Title: Six Feet Under
Post by: buffcoat on June 15, 2009, 08:53:32 PM
Only five more episodes left.  Bataan must Have been a barrel of laughs compared to this.


Why would anyone watch this willingly? Why, buffcoat, why?
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: orator on June 15, 2009, 08:59:32 PM
 That abduction episode terrified me/made me ridiculously anxious. Am I the only one?

 And it's weird seeing that actor in a bunch of comedy roles.

 Kinda wish I stopped after the first season.

 Also, Nate's strokes evoked the same terrifying feeling in me as when similar things have happened in real life.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: todd on June 15, 2009, 10:32:01 PM
Six Feet Under was fucking horrible.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Matt on June 15, 2009, 11:40:35 PM
My arm's really numb...numb....arm...numbarm...NARM!
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: hugman on June 15, 2009, 11:52:25 PM
Only five more episodes left.  Bataan must Have been a barrel of laughs compared to this.


Why would anyone watch this willingly? Why, buffcoat, why?

i'm milling about in the art gallery in the episode where the girl takes a picture of the dude peeing on a wall and puts it in her exhibit (I haven't watched the show yet. I think I'm about to start).  That was back in my extra work days.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Trembling Eagle on June 15, 2009, 11:54:45 PM
Clair and the mom really do look alike
good casting.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Come on, Jason on June 16, 2009, 12:09:06 AM
I thought the first couple seasons were excellent,  but it started to turn when Rainn Wilson's "Arthur" showed up, and was in total freefall by the time poor Lili Taylor showed up.

I still cried during the finale, though, mainly because the best character wins! 

WINS AT LIFE!
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Ike on June 16, 2009, 12:10:52 AM
That abduction episode terrified me/made me ridiculously anxious. Am I the only one?

 And it's weird seeing that actor in a bunch of comedy roles.

 Kinda wish I stopped after the first season.

 Also, Nate's strokes evoked the same terrifying feeling in me as when similar things have happened in real life.


The abduction episode made me incredibly angry.  Just MAD.  I have no problem being "fucked with" by art--books, films, records, whatever.  But that was just an insane trip of unnecessary proportions.  If I'm remembering right I had a nightmare over it.  I also remember tuning out of that show shortly thereafter.  

I miss Sunday nights, though.  Nothing has really filled the void.  Obviously I mean Carnivale.  
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: buffcoat on June 16, 2009, 12:51:55 AM
My arm's really numb...numb....arm...numbarm...NARM!

That was the one I watched tonight.

During the "lisa is missing" arc, I stayed up till 2am watching consecutive eps until I realized THEY WERE JUST GOING TO KEEP ON FOREVER.  Someone involved with that show is real sadist.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Big Plastic Head on June 16, 2009, 12:56:37 AM
I watched most of the first season and I felt no connection to it or any of the characters. I know others really like it and...well...good for them. Just didn't take for me.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Sarah on June 16, 2009, 08:43:22 AM
Only five more episodes left.  Bataan must Have been a barrel of laughs compared to this.


Why would anyone watch this willingly? Why, buffcoat, why?

i'm milling about in the art gallery in the episode where the girl takes a picture of the dude peeing on a wall and puts it in her exhibit (I haven't watched the show yet. I think I'm about to start).  That was back in my extra work days.

There you go, buffcoat:  you watched it for that.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Pastor Josh on June 16, 2009, 02:29:28 PM
I love that show, except that I hate it, and I'll never watch it again, except I bought the whole series on DVD.  Probably some of the best television ever just for that reason.  And the abduction episode really haunts me, too.  I think that's a sign of what a good show it was.  If Will and Grace had a similar episode, it wouldn't have been hard to watch, because you'd know everything will be okay at the end.  It's the same thing I like about David Lynch--the idea that nothing might not ever be okay again.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Pastor Josh on June 16, 2009, 02:30:12 PM
Oh, and I liked protoDwight.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: buffcoat on June 18, 2009, 10:12:44 AM
I watched the last ep last night.  It really did change my view of the whole show, which I wasn't expecting.  I want to think about it before I pass final judgment.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: buffcoat on June 18, 2009, 10:14:26 AM
That abduction episode terrified me/made me ridiculously anxious. Am I the only one?

 And it's weird seeing that actor in a bunch of comedy roles.

 Kinda wish I stopped after the first season.

 Also, Nate's strokes evoked the same terrifying feeling in me as when similar things have happened in real life.


The abduction episode made me incredibly angry.  Just MAD.  I have no problem being "fucked with" by art--books, films, records, whatever.  But that was just an insane trip of unnecessary proportions.  If I'm remembering right I had a nightmare over it.  I also remember tuning out of that show shortly thereafter.  

I miss Sunday nights, though.  Nothing has really filled the void.  Obviously I mean Carnivale.  



You stopped having Sunday nights?
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: erika on June 18, 2009, 10:18:58 AM
I watched the last ep last night.  It really did change my view of the whole show, which I wasn't expecting.  I want to think about it before I pass final judgment.

That ending makes me sob.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Sarah on June 18, 2009, 12:05:20 PM
Me, too.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on June 18, 2009, 01:37:53 PM
I liked that show OK. I'm kind of like Nate, all self-absorbed, compromised, 40ish. And I run like him, too.

Sure hope I don't die.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: hugman on June 18, 2009, 02:07:13 PM
This thread has convinced me that I don't have the attention span to delve into this show right now.  Deleted from my Q.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Sarah on June 18, 2009, 03:58:44 PM
Don't get me wrong:  the show drove me crazy and I found just about every character annoying.  The first season I liked, but everything went steadily downhill from there.  Nevertheless, the last episode made me weep.  But then I'm a softie that way, so it's not much of an accomplishment, really.  I cried at the end of Chopped the other day.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: hugman on June 18, 2009, 05:36:12 PM
i'm watching kitchen confidential instead. i never gave it a chance when it was on tv and now i'm friends with one of the cast so that bias should carry me a long way.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: mcphee from the forum on June 18, 2009, 05:59:21 PM
I hated the weird puritanism of this show. If a character was ever having an emotional crisis, they immediately went on some sort of sex rampage. Even the mom.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: erika on June 18, 2009, 07:05:12 PM
That was the point. The whole family was full of bottled-up emotional basket cases living in a funeral home.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Julie on June 19, 2009, 07:36:57 PM
I haven't  seen that show since the season when what's-his-nuts came back from the dead. I lost interest. Should I go back and watch it all again?
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Matt on June 19, 2009, 07:50:13 PM
That was the point. The whole family was full of bottled-up emotional basket cases living in a funeral home.

I guess you could call them...CASKET cases? Am I right?
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: MattJohnson on June 20, 2009, 02:07:37 AM
I'm in the process of getting one of my friends to watch this, but before that I got him to watch The Wire so I'm preparing myself for the inevitable disappointment. Plus he's far less sentimental than I, so I'm not sure the finale will put it over the top for him like it did for me.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: ~L on June 21, 2009, 11:58:42 PM
That actor from SFU really shines as "Dexter", though.
Title: Re: Six Feet Under
Post by: Sarah on June 22, 2009, 10:53:38 AM
Huh.  He's one of several reasons I gave up watching Dexter.  I liked him much better on SFU