Wednesday, August 30, 2006
I've been watching Six Feet Under on DVD probably for a year now. I watched seasons 1-3 in San Francisco, then took a break when i moved, and then finished seasons 4 and 5 now. Well, i'm about to finish this week.
I pretty much always liked the show, with seasons 1-3 being great, season 4 sorta sucking, and season 5 being incredible. Gary always told me it was a great show, and he has said numerous times that the last two episodes of season 5 (the finale) are really incredible and he wants to buy the whole series because of them.
I just watched the third to last episode of the show (so *not* what Gary was talking about) and I think it was the best hour of TV I have ever seen in my life. It was incredibly sad and moving. It's possible that I cried a little bit :). The difference between this show and all the others on TV is the characters are all real people with very real problems. And after following them for 5 seasons (even though I watched them in a row, more or less) you really get attached.
This episode ended with Nirvana's "All Apologies" playing in Claire's bedroom. The end of that song has some lyrics which I could never understand, and I never looked up. But as it was playing during the show it was instantly clear to me, "all alone is all we are." I looked this up online later and while this is one interpretation, it doesn't seem clear to anyone what Kurt Cobain was saying.
It's trully unbelievable that a TV show can pick a song for a scene that is *so* appropriate that you are able to tell what the lyrics are even when you normally wouldn't be able to.
Right now I'm chatting with misterpat online and he's telling me to get ready for the last 15 minutes of the show, the best show finale he's ever seen.
I pretty much always liked the show, with seasons 1-3 being great, season 4 sorta sucking, and season 5 being incredible. Gary always told me it was a great show, and he has said numerous times that the last two episodes of season 5 (the finale) are really incredible and he wants to buy the whole series because of them.
I just watched the third to last episode of the show (so *not* what Gary was talking about) and I think it was the best hour of TV I have ever seen in my life. It was incredibly sad and moving. It's possible that I cried a little bit :). The difference between this show and all the others on TV is the characters are all real people with very real problems. And after following them for 5 seasons (even though I watched them in a row, more or less) you really get attached.
This episode ended with Nirvana's "All Apologies" playing in Claire's bedroom. The end of that song has some lyrics which I could never understand, and I never looked up. But as it was playing during the show it was instantly clear to me, "all alone is all we are." I looked this up online later and while this is one interpretation, it doesn't seem clear to anyone what Kurt Cobain was saying.
It's trully unbelievable that a TV show can pick a song for a scene that is *so* appropriate that you are able to tell what the lyrics are even when you normally wouldn't be able to.
Right now I'm chatting with misterpat online and he's telling me to get ready for the last 15 minutes of the show, the best show finale he's ever seen.