And finally, Federico Diaz (Freddy Rodriguez) decides to move on and create his own funeral home using what he has learned at Fisher and Sons. Claire (Lauren Ambrose) decides to move to New York to attend NYU and begin a photography internship. Patrick) finish the process of adopting two young sons, take over the business, and cement their relationship. Brenda (Rachel Griffiths) finishes college and begins raising the two young girls left to her. It’s such a cataclysmic event, that it shakes the Fishers out of their torpor, setting them off on new paths to the future.ĭuring the course of the following episodes and spinning off into the future past the show, Ruth (Frances Conroy) gives herself over to reconciling with second husband George (James Cromwell) and letting go of her old home. In one of final episodes of the program before the finalé, viewers were confronted with the shocking death of Nate Fisher (Peter Krause), and how the emotional fallout of his death leads to the other characters being freed and able to move on from that moment. Because Six Feet Under took place in a funeral home, the deaths brought the viewer into Fisher and Sons along with tying itself to - or spurring on - whatever was happening in the ongoing plotlines or themes of the show. The deaths, besides working as a cold open for the show, also tied into the episode itself, a commentary of sorts on the main action. These deaths were sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and sometimes just plain weird, and generally the body made its way to Fisher and Sons Funeral Home.
By giving us these deaths, Six Feet Under aligns itself closer to a novelistic form rather than that of a standard television program.Įvery episode, excluding the very last, of Six Feet Under began with a death. One could argue that we are not given the final fate of everyone we came to care about, that there are a few lose threads, but those characters that were in every episode from the first - the Fishers and those closest to them - are given a finality not often seen in long form television programming. It’s so simple, and so effective, that one can’t help laugh at its obvious perfection - if you can laugh through the tears. In an emotionally charged masterstroke of a finalé Alan Ball, the creator of the show, and his writing staff show the audience the deaths of every regular character. For viewers of Six Feet Under, there was no such ambiguity. Viewers might feel that plotlines were left unfinished, or that the fates of characters are needlessly ambiguous.
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For many television fans, when a favorite series ends, there is no genuine sense of closure.
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