six feet under

[tuffy109]

wow. tv at its best.

this show seems like the only one that puts together stories that happen in everyday life that no one else goes near.

i fell asleep before ali g.

[Woodsy]

this has beeen a fav of mine for years,
it seems to be regaining form.
Love nate's coping mechanims( or lack thereof) cuz they resemble mine.

didna like the long david carjack last night it took up too much time. the show is best when focussing on all the charecters not just one.
Cant wait for Claire's hot lesbian action !

[tuffy109]

Originally posted by Woodsy

Cant wait for Claire's hot lesbian action !

after they ran the teaser, i told ms.109 that next week's episode looks really good. before i finished my sentence, "you just wanna see dykefest with the american beauty girl" was already shot at me.

i like it when they keep focus on characters for a bit. it changes things up nicely.

[Woodsy]

Originally posted by tuffy109


i like it when they keep focus on characters for a bit. it changes things up nicely.
I guess it is how its done, I mean David is soo pathetic. That dood was such a wanker & he just took it.

after he knocked hi down he shoulda pounced on him let out hs rage or at least run into the store. It just went on too long.

[tuffy109]

yeah, i'll give you that one. if they had to have a "he almost gets away" situation, they shouldn't have had one that wasn't done very well.

he coulda stomped him, grabbed the gun, whatever. he also coulda fucked the dude up when he was smoking crackers.

now i hate the episode, thanks dick.

[yogachik]

Last night's episode made me vow not to watch it again. I wanted David dead at the end after they made me go through that predictable story. Plus, David had about 3 openings to get away, notably the time when the crack robber got out of the van to get rid of the dead body, got out first... beat... then david got out. David shoulda hit the gas - end of episode.

Or - why didn't David pick up the gun after it was knocked out of the robber's hand after being hit by the back door of the van?????

[CantDog]

I was going to start a thread on this last night..

That was hands down the most disturbing thing I've ever watched on tv or in the movies. Reservior Dogs ranks up there, but this blew the door open.

[tuffy109]

anyone ever done AMT?

[CantDog]

Dammit, I wanna see some lesbian action already! They've been playing it out for a few weeks, time to get down to business.

[Woodsy]

Originally posted by CantDog
Dammit, I wanna see some lesbian action already! They've been playing it out for a few weeks, time to get down to business.
is AMT a real drug?

DMT I've done but never even heard of the stuff they were all goofed on.

gettin old I guess.

realy liked Sundays episode, back in buisness.

Charlotte light & Dark is gonna be Charlotte whos the father of my baby!

[tuffy109]

from what i've heard, it is a legit drug.

rico is hysterical.

[Woodsy]

rico is a stone cold liar, man did not even blink when he spun that church tale

as to AMT
dea report (http://www.dea.gov/pubs/intel/02052/02052.html)

tuffy, these people (http://boards.hbo.com/index.jspa?categoryID=4)
are saccharin sweet & horribly boring, we should go inject some life?!?

[tuffy109]

i don't like boards that are focused on only one thing, like skiing or whatever.

[tuffy109]

hahahaha "i'm pretty fucked up, let's get on the internet!"

[optics]

Me and me-julie just got into this a couple weeks back. Serious TV crack.

Problem is, we rented and marathoned the first 2 seasons, leaving us utterly confused at the current season.

Anybody have a DVD burner, a Tivo with season 3, and a friendly disposition (or paypal account)?

[tuffy109]

nettypot

[Woodsy]

I'ma lonely little petunia in an onion patch, an onion patch

[xboat]

some freaky shit going on in this show, wow.

nate needs to stay far, far away from that psyco-freak brenda. wtf is he thinking?

that "entorage" sp? show has my attention for the time being. not bad...

[Woodsy]

yo c, hows the knee?

the nate & brenda thing is funny, he knows she is bad news but ieasy no questions asked action is hard to say no to, ( esp with those yum yums, damn) funny stuff going on, bummed the sarge David encounter is recounted sweat & bulging necks & all but Caire & Edddie all we see is eddie with a hand in her pants
phht

keith tagged the pop star sweeet
funny.

like how all this is going on @ once & how Joe just told Brenda that that is it & did na fall for her psychobabble

[13]

I liked 6 ft. Under more when Ball was running the show.

I might be the only one, though.

David makes me want to strangle him in just about every episode. Goddamn.

[tuffy109]

does this mean that michelle trachtenburg (celeste) isn't gonna be on the show anymore?

i loved the end.

[xboat]

"You were walking by and just happened to fall in her vagina?"

[Woodsy]

"Grinding the Corn"

heh

ya think they could at least have brenda know how to take a proper bong hit being such a long term stoner & all.

[tuffy109]

no shit.

i liked the "someone in here reeks of marijuana". i always get the feeling i'm gonna hear that someplace public.

[tuffy109]

"yeah, but i was high"

kings of convenience made a cameo.

[xboat]

wow, there's some crazy shit going on to wrap up the season. can't wait for the next.

[tuffy109]

word, that was quite heavy.

nicole richie?

[Woodsy]

that was a great episode, but I really dont care for Ruth & what his names problems....

Claire was great all "high" & mighty.....
didnt some one warn her Billy is nuts>!??

strange & sudden end to the Lisa thing.

great end to the season, now what do I watch.

realized yesterday watching the Mighty Vikings win that normal TV sucks ass.

[13]

I dunno about you guys, but the show got a little too heavy-handed with the drama as the season progressed.

I'm all for a couple plots running at once, but for fuck's sake, I don't watch soap operas and I felt like I was last night.

I'm sticking with The Entourage from now on.

"It's like R. Kelly at recess." :cool:

[tuffy109]

bump

5678910

[Woodsy]

yep,
still an addict.
left a girl at the bar right after seeing layer cake to et home and watch it last night.
wish they spent more time on Nate & Brenda, Claire and Billy, and less on Ruth and crazy pants.
but Nate is soo gonnna fuck Daughter of crazy pants.

speaking of Crazy, Rico's taste in womyn is beyond the pale.
ugh.

[Woodsy]

oh and the return or whatever its called with Phoebe from friends is definately the worst show ever on HBO, if not possily the worst show on TV

[Black Market]

its called the comeback...and i agree it is a complete piece of crap. i can't believe it bumped 6 feet under from its sunday night time slot. ugh.......

[Woodsy]

last night was truly sublime television.
on all levels, what a show.
Billy and George chatting on the steps wasa highlight, esp. when the broke into a Johnny Cash duet

[tuffy109]

"all my clothes feel too heavy"

great episode

[freshies]

"all my clothes feel too heavy"

great episode

you know billy is gonna go off the deep end before its all over....

[Woodsy]

you know billy is gonna go off the deep end before its all over....
oh yeah, but who is he gonna take with him, that is the question.
I predict Brenda and unborn child, leaving Nate adrift in the universe.

[tuffy109]

leaving Nate adrift in the universe.

leaving Nate w/ crazy pants' daughter

[Woodsy]

leaving Nate w/ crazy pants' daughter
still waters run deep.
OH YEAH!

[xboat]

"gettin' high in the morning, huh?" :cool:

[Woodsy]

"so mom do you guys like need papers or anything?"
cant believe claire is getting sucked into cube hell....

[Woodsy]

Madre de Dios.
How do you explain that.
Brenda is gonna go full mental.

[yogachik]

narmm

I know spoilers. If anyone's interested...
They're going out with a doozy or two or three

[meatdrink9]

"Yeah, I know I'm only a worm...and well I've only been alive for 10 days now, but even I think 6 feet under is pretentious." - quote from a worm living in the stomach of Brian Griffin (the dog) from last night's family guy.

[Woodsy]

nate dropping dead after banging crazypant's daughter was a doozy already.
I assume Claire gets fired for supply closet sex.
David sells out to Rico to pursue his singing?
Nates funeral episode should be kick ass, I am sure him and dad will be walking around analyzing it.
or maybe a vegtable.
so as his wife do you keep the veggie dad of your fetus even though he died banging his mom's exhusband's daughter?
damn it is a soap opera.....
I dont want spolers, last night would not have resonated so much if I had known.

[tuffy109]

didn't open this till i saw it.

whoa. what an ending.

[Woodsy]

ok I admit it,
I cannot wait to see what happened tonight

[tuffy109]

i think he deserved to die.

[xboat]

i would have rather seen some other characters die off.

nate was good shit.

[Woodsy]

yeah but giving him 1 day to put all his shit in order personally was weak.
and it seems Republicans aren't all heartless bastards, who knew?

[xboat]

wow. scrubbing your brothers/sons body up, wrapping him in a blanket and burying him yourself...that's heavy shit mang. [/shudder]

[Free Range Lobster]

truely fucking core this season.

i bet claire and ted get it on and take maya

[yogachik]

Without Nate as his anchor to sanity, I think David will totally lose it.

Favorite line: when David said something about how at least Claire could've dressed for the funeral because they all managed to dress she said "You win".
Other favorite line: Brenda asking Maggie if it's a "Quaker thing" to fuck a woman's husband to death and then bring quiche.

[tuffy109]

the red sweatshirt guy is starting to freak me out as well.

you could see that maya stuff happening a mile away.

[freshies]

good stuff, so bummed there are only 2 left....think they will kill anyone else off? and when does the new Sopranos start? This fall, or is not until next year? My Sunday nights will be empty..sniff..sniff....

[Woodsy]

that one was
wel
a lot to digest.
I think Ruth is the craziest one in the family ( which Nathan Sr. alluded too...)
cant imagine too many more big bombs, they only have 2 hours to wrap this all up.
What's Keith gonna do now?

[Free Range Lobster]

Plenty more bombs to drop.

Who's gonna get Maya
Are Ruth and George gonna get back together
Will Keith's boss take him back
What will Brenda do now that she's become as much of a fruit bat as Lisa was
etc.

[yogachik]

okay, that was way more intense than last week, I thought. And creepy too.

favorite line: arnold schwartzenegger and maria shriver are actually brother and sister.

[Free Range Lobster]

aaaaaahalkjsdfghha


75min final episode.
so much still left open.

[Woodsy]

booooo
too mach drAAma.

Davids probs are hard to fathom, is he scared of therapy too?
incest is creepy, even in dreams
CFCFNR
heavy handed forshadowing of Rico running the buis.
we are only now unraveling crazy pants and Maggies old turmoil?
bad feelings about how this ends.
feeel an anticlimax coming on

[Free Range Lobster]

Billy & Brenda incest dream sequence:

"This is what your penis would feel like if you had been born a boy."
"I was just thinking the same thing..."


lakjsdlkfjalsdjf WHAT THE FUCK

[tuffy109]

loved claire's rant at the mom and sister. sad that this is probably reality that we just don't know/hear about.

[xboat]

favorite line: arnold schwartzenegger and maria shriver are actually brother and sister.

hahaha! i about fell off the couch.

i think it went something like this -
"brenda, i'm pretty sure arnold schwartzenegger and maria shriver are actually brother and sister and it's working for them"

anyone else finding Entourage to be pretty damn funny?

[slim]

I feel like they should have just ended the season with the burying Nate episode. This one was just a let down afterwards with the introduction or reintroduction of too many diverging plot points to really wrap this thing up.

[slim]

anyone else finding Entourage to be pretty damn funny?

Entourage is HBO's best current show... it's basically become the new sex and the city. I wonder if it'll start off funny like sex and the city did and then end up with all the characters talking about their feelings and becoming completely drab.

[Woodsy]

Entourage is HBO's best current show... it's basically become the new sex and the city. I wonder if it'll start off funny like sex and the city did and then end up with all the characters talking about their feelings and becoming completely drab.
30 something professional single women in NYC as opposed to rockstar partier 4 best friends for life in LA.
I dont think so.
although the "smitten playa" Vince thing is interesting.


& slim i am soo with you on recent 6feet episode, wrap up the storylines you have, dont create more.
If next episode starts with the baby as the death, i will be disappointed

[Free Range Lobster]

If next episode starts with the baby as the death, i will be disappointed

If that happens I'm sure Brenda will kill herself.

Predictions....
Claire: alone wandering off into the world to sort her shit out
Brenda: possibly suicide
David: alone because he needs to sort his shit out
Ruth: with George & Maya
Billy: back in the loony bin or mutual suicide with Brenda (think 1st season)

[tuffy109]

i think claire takes over where david left off so rico can't steal the whole shebang. and make art out of dead people.

[yogachik]

See, I liked this last episode better than the funeral episode. Alan Ball has always said that he created a show about death because everyone dies. But the 2nd to last episode showed how death completely fucks up the living. The dead go on to a peaceful (non)existence (ever seen Nate so peaceful? no.) but the living are shattered.


edit to add this:


http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et-ball15aug15,0,5004362.story
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Sorrow is sweet as show dies
The creator of "Six Feet Under" is pleased with what his series has said about death and grief.

By Greg Braxton
Times Staff Writer

August 15, 2005

The mourning has finally broken. Alan Ball is contemplating life after death — five seasons' worth.

Ball is coping with the final throes of HBO's "Six Feet Under," his black-humor-laced drama about a family-run funeral home that will end its run Sunday. "Six Feet Under" is one of the flagship components, along with "The Sopranos," "Sex and the City" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm," that have made the pay-cable network a critical favorite and powerhouse.

The 48-year-old Ball, who scored an Oscar for writing "American Beauty," is very much alive and kicking as he prepares to tackle new projects, including a play, a couple of screenplays and a novel he is adapting for a film he hopes to direct later this year.

For Ball, who says his characters are so real to him they haunt his dreams, fading out "Six Feet Under" is a mixed blessing.

"It's like having seven kids, and they all go off to college at the same time," Ball said in an interview. "This show is very dear to me. I'm letting go of something that felt very safe and familiar. It's definitely bittersweet, a growth experience, and not without some pain. But I'm really excited about moving on and doing something different."

The show's signature opening sequences — the mostly untimely demise of a future client of the Fisher family mortuary — spotlighted its exploration of how the living deal with the complicated layers of grief. The dramatic odyssey of "Six Feet Under" has been sprinkled with generous doses of sex, violence, surrealism and emotional turmoil.

Throughout the series, Ball and the writers did not shy away from pushing the envelope. One installment last season revolving around the brutalization of David, one of the Fisher brothers, provoked such outrage that some fans swore never to watch the series again. And Ball saved his most shocking twist for this season, killing off one of the series' lead figures — Nate Fisher (Peter Krause), the handsome, conflicted co-director of the funeral home — with three episodes left in the season, no less.

Fisher collapsed into open-eyed unconsciousness just minutes after cheating on his pregnant wife, Brenda (Rachel Griffiths). His subsequent death and the Fishers' grief in burying one of their own — their emotions ranging from tenderness to rage — has fueled emotional discussions in TV chat rooms and around water coolers.

Addressing the overall theme and meaning of "Six Feet Under," Ball paused.

"What the series is all about is: We die," Ball finally said. "So while we're here, let's live fully. There are lots of things that masquerade as having the key to life — religion, culture. But ultimately we have to make decisions on our own. And we will make mistakes. And that's OK, because we're human. It's a struggle to find meaning, but that struggle is the meaning."

Much of Ball's inspiration for the series was based on a painful adolescent memory. His sister was killed on her 22nd birthday in a traffic accident while driving the 13-year-old Alan to a piano lesson. Ball recalled the funeral and how his mother reacted as she approached his sister lying in an open casket.

"My mother leaned forward, kissed my sister on the forehead and started to weep," Ball said. "One of the funeral directors gently guided her away from the casket and took her behind a curtain. The implication was that grief is ugly and shouldn't be seen, it's so personal. But we need to know that everyone feels the same way."

A TV veteran, Ball previously wrote for series such as "Grace Under Fire" and "Cybill." But "Six Feet Under" evolved in ways that surprised even him.

"When I wrote the pilot, I was in an intense state of mind," he recalled. "I had had another show canceled, and I was exhausted. I knew HBO was interested in a show about a funeral home, I was two years into my TV deal, and I didn't want to write another network sitcom. I wanted to exorcise some demons while opening as many doors as possible. Although I had some ideas about what this show should be, it really became an entity of its own. I had to realize where the show wanted to take us and get out of its way."

Killing off Nate was part of that process. In Ball's mind, the character was doomed since the third season when he became afflicted with arteriovenous malformations, a brain disorder.

"Nate was always moving a step closer toward his own mortality. I got a lot of resistance from the other writers, but I always felt that nothing was as organic or as appropriate as Nate dying. And I didn't want to do that in the final episode. I wanted to have the Fishers grieve, to have them go through that loss and come out the other side. Life isn't about happy endings."

Despite the show's devoted fans, continuing bravos from critics and a mountain of Emmy nominations, some observers believe it has been overshadowed by its HBO brethren.

Tim Brooks, co-author of "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows," said, "The audience for 'Six Feet Under' is very loyal, but the show has never had the breakout appeal of 'The Sopranos' or 'Sex and the City.' "

Brooks noted some of the criticism from fans last season for the episode in which David picked up a man who claimed to be out of gas and needed help. Though David thought his passenger might be game for some casual sex, the man turned on him and proceeded to terrorize him — robbing and beating him, forcing him to take crack, putting a gun in his mouth and threatening to set him on fire after dousing him with lighter fluid.

Instead of backing away from that episode, Ball has continued to refer to it in subsequent installments, notably the one with Nate's funeral, when David was nearly paralyzed with fear by visions of his assailant.

"I try to reflect life as much as I can," Ball explained. "When you are traumatized, it stays with you the rest of your life. To gloss over that would be a disservice. People don't want to look at what's painful. But it's dysfunctional to deny the impact."

Putting together the final episodes was a cathartic experience for the cast and crew, Ball said. "Yes, it was painful, but all of us love these characters so much it wasn't hard to access the feelings we needed to do the shows. Lauren Ambrose [who plays Fisher sibling Claire] told me that I made it possible for her to grieve the end of the show. All of those feelings were right there."

Fans hoping for revivals of "Six Feet Under" would be, well, dead disappointed. Ball promises that the end of the show really will be the end.

"I don't think you'll be seeing a Fisher family reunion or 'The Fishers Go to Hawaii,' " he said. "This is the final chapter."
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[lost]

Entourage is HBO's best current show... it's basically become the new sex and the city. I wonder if it'll start off funny like sex and the city did and then end up with all the characters talking about their feelings and becoming completely drab.
Best show on tv, have been watching this like it is my life. Love it, if it was only longer. Best line, "marijuana is a gateway drug," says drama."your smoking it and the next thing you know you walking down sunset blvd giving a hand job for a $10 rock of crack." "oh yeah, which one of you did that?"
Classic