Everyone's Waiting
We recently finished up a month-long, daily screening of Six Feet Under. For those uninitiated, it's an American television drama created by Alan Ball that was originally broadcast from 2001 to 2005 on the amazing HBO network, about a family living and working in a funeral home.
I had watched episodes here and there during its rather sporadic airing on Australian television, including the heart-wrenching finale, back in 2005, but it had always been a television show I wanted to revisit, and watch 'properly' - which in our home means, hire out all the box sets and watch it from start to finish with no other television shows in between if we can help it. James had not seen it, so it was also a bit of a thrill to watch it with someone who had no idea how it all ended up. What can I say: the ensemble is perfect: the acting, set design, dialog, the arch of the storyline, the makeup = all film quality. No show has gripped me and held me in quite the same way as Six Feet Under, and I feel really grateful I'm in an age where such a show was able to be made. The season finale, as many have said before me, is a masterpiece, and the perfect end to the show.
On a lighter note, we're now super huge fans of Richard Jenkins: for his work as Nathaniel Fisher Sr. and for giving me the best (allegedly improvised) monologue I've ever heard relating to dinosaurs.
I had watched episodes here and there during its rather sporadic airing on Australian television, including the heart-wrenching finale, back in 2005, but it had always been a television show I wanted to revisit, and watch 'properly' - which in our home means, hire out all the box sets and watch it from start to finish with no other television shows in between if we can help it. James had not seen it, so it was also a bit of a thrill to watch it with someone who had no idea how it all ended up. What can I say: the ensemble is perfect: the acting, set design, dialog, the arch of the storyline, the makeup = all film quality. No show has gripped me and held me in quite the same way as Six Feet Under, and I feel really grateful I'm in an age where such a show was able to be made. The season finale, as many have said before me, is a masterpiece, and the perfect end to the show.
On a lighter note, we're now super huge fans of Richard Jenkins: for his work as Nathaniel Fisher Sr. and for giving me the best (allegedly improvised) monologue I've ever heard relating to dinosaurs.
Labels: six feet under, television
