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Monday, July 25, 2005
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Last night’s Six Feet Under is an attention-starved watercooler’s dream. For those of you that missed it because you were out drinking on a Sunday night, might I suggest reassessing what it is you’re trying to escape from, and beginning where it no doubt hurts the most: Your childhood. For the rest of you out there that are like me, leaning against your husband (the stuffed kind that’s almost as good as the real thing) in mismatched socks, eating Triscuits three at a time, might I suggest keeping some water nearby? I had few close calls last night, and rather than getting some Crystal Lite to wash it down, I just spewed sawdust all over my floor and continued ad nauseum. But hey, at least I’m not married to that bitch Vanessa — Am I right? Am I right? Rico, baby, my pasta ain’t too salty, if you’re catchin’ what I’m throwin.
For those of you planning on corseting up later and HBO-Demanding this episode thanks to the wonders of dreknology (shout out to Mad Magazine), you may not want to spoil your soil by clicking ahead, you pussy.Seeing as this is the last season of Six Feet Under, I was surprised at how these past few episodes have been lackin zazz, zazz being a non-existent word for “plot-twists.” Well, last night I was zazzed so hard I can hardly walk today, not to mention create coherent metaphors.
So where are we so far in the season? Brenda is pregnant with a baby girl that will no doubt be born with fetal alcohol syndrome (no offense to longfaces reading this out there or my future children), Ruth dumped Crazy Old Farmer Hoggett, resident artiste Claire has fallen prey to reality and has turned corporate (what WHAT!), the gays have adopted two hoodlum sons who are being forced to suckle from non-lactating teets, Billy’s the missing link, and Rico’s wife apparently has a vagina made out of razor blades.
But rather than recap the episode, which is nearly impossible considering I’m at work and lack the proper equipment, let me pull up the major discussion points on my old fashioned “On Demand” system known as my brain and see where you stand, my lovely readers. Here are my thoughts.
First of all, is it just me, or did Ed Begley Jr. kinda jump out of the woodwork? I mean, I know he’s been on a previous episode, but the next thing I know he’s making out with Ruth. I found this highly suspect. Also, just when you think Begley’s career is on a post-”She-Devil” up-and-up, you remember his cameo on Arrested Development with a certain singer whose name is Liza Minelli.
Any reason to post this pic, folks, is a good enough reason.
Moving on, why is Brenda such a cunt? It was nice to see her boss finally tell her like it is, but seriously, Bren? Rinse your mouth out with douche and take a good look at your husband. You can thank the casting department for that, he’s way out of your league.
And while we all knew where his relationship “Nightmare Before Christmas” Maggie Sibley was headed. Even still, I literally covered my eyes with my blanket when they first began to make it. I do like them as a couple, however, so it was nice to see them consummate what wasn’t being said for so many episodes.
I find watching David’s parenting skills extremely annoying and uneffective. I find Keith’s parenting skills extremely satisfying and sexy. But maybe das becuz-a how I was raiiised.
Claire and the new boy? Me likey. Somehow, he absorbs some of her annoying habits with his Michael Douglas-like “I’m-following-my-cock-around” attitude, making the two of them tolerable.
Finally. The last scene.
Without giving too much away, I ask you, what is a narm? As in “Numb arm, Numb arm, Narm, Narm.” Was he, in fact, referring to his numb arm? Or was he instead trying to tell Maggie something about the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, or perhaps more appropriately the North American Registry of Midwives? Maybe he was suggesting that the two of them get away to the world famous North American Railroad Museum in Huntsville, Alabama. Did he mean to tell us about this picture, found when Google Image searched for “Narm”?
How dare HBO leave us with such a cliffhanger! And no preview for next week’s episode! I MUST KNOW WHAT NARM MEANS!
Also: Nate may or may not be dead. Sob. With all his faults and issues, I truly love Nate’s presence. He really grounds the show for me. Sigh. Not to mention, he’s The Hotness. Oh Nate. Please don’t gooooo!
And before you lay into me about what a superficial recap this is, please, save it. I literally wrote this sentence by sentence while jamming my small, childlike fingers into the photocopy machine’s parts so that it may spit out radiated papers with Nazi-like precision. No need to thank.
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I just finished watching Season 1 and correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Ed Begley Jr the man she had an affair with before her husband died, and then had a short lived (4 episode?) relationship with?
I vote NO on Claire’s new boy. He has a fat mouth. A FAT MOUTH. Seriously. Look at it. It’s so fat. What the hell.
Also, why is Brenda so ugly? She used to be all hot and shit and now it’s like she’s been pummled in the face by tiny little fists. I hate her.
But I continue to love Claire. I especially love that she is an office drone because it makes me feel better about my own meager existence. Yay for misery. And yay for Claire.
No, it’s a fact, Brenda has gotten way ugly. I’ve definitely had conversations with people about this very topic. I am shallow.
Maybe Nate was saying Narm b/c his brain aneurism has come back and he was having a mini stroke..huh, huh..howdya like that?!
Great episode, with that fantastic WTF scene at the end. And the spooky music over the end titles was suitably dramatic.
Looking back, there were so many hints of what was to come throughout the episode. So I think he’s dead.
I think the next four episodes will center on the aftermath. Judging by the promo photography for the series (and CD), Claire will take his body out to the desert to lay him to rest near a tree, as he requested.
I hadn’t noticed Rachel Griffiths decline, myself. Or maybe I subconciously put it down to both the actor’s and character’s pregancies. She and Krause seemed a realistic coupling at the start. But these days, if a woman doesn’t age well, any somewhat-hot-looking guy has a right to dump her saggy ass! It’s the L.A. way!!! So, piss off back to Australia, Ms. Griffiths, unless you can get the number of fellow-Aussie Nicole Kidman’s Botox wholesaler.
yes, hiram was ruth’s extra-marital affair while nathaniel was still alive. they carried on after he died. they were camping when ruth inadvertently took david’s X that he hid in the aspirin bottle. she was treating herself to a hair day, so she went back to hiram for a hair cut. not random at all!
Nate is hottttttt!
I have been thinking for the past few episodes with all of Nate’s past people dying that they might kill him, or that maybe he died way back in season 2(?) when he had the brain surgery…
I hope he’s alive, cause he’s hotttt! (Did I say that already?)
Thx Doctor Dan!
FANTASTIC!!! I was completely blind-sided by the ending. How can HBO end this series of great writing and eccentric character acting while force feeding us that crap called Carnival? Executive Dickheads!!!
Love Brenda, think she and Claire are the most levelheaded people on the show. What happened to Billy? Did he commit suicide? Loved how Ruth dumped her crazy, passive abusive hubby.
I hope David & Keith get their own show with Claire showing up periodically. Vanessa, what a bitch but I love how she mindfucks Rico, poor bastard.
ps. Forgot. Loved that whole scene at the art gallery when Claire’s ex had the fight with his ex blowjob.
Nate is a loser. I hate his character on the show- no redeeming qualities. He should keel over. Brenda’s character is actually getting more likeable. She is responsible, and has the best intentions. Nate is a cheat. Castrate the narm.
OMG!!! WTF!!! I can’t believe Nate’s AVM has come back! And, damn Brenda, LIGHTEN UP! You have a hot man who has impregnated you, given you an adorable little girl to raise, and seem to be somewhat rid of your wacko family, not to mention George. SO SHUT UP AND SCREW HIM!!!
Ruth is hilarious. Can’t believe she went back to Hiram, but, what the hell. Everybody needs to get some luvin’. Love Keith and David, even tho I want to slap David and beat the crap out of Durrell (that is the older boy, right?) And Claire, dear Claire, who looks so much like my daughter is is spooky. Sorry you had to come over to our side of the misery fence, but what’s-his-name ain’t too bad, and doesn’t seem to be nuts, so jump him!
Finally, Nate and Maggie….knew is was coming, but still kind of hated to see it.
So, now what??? Why no previews???? AAARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!! Damn you HBO!
1.Does anyone recall why Ruth and Hiram broke up?
2. What do people think of the idea that they’re going to do a Terry Schiavo thing with Nate? Exhibit A. Nate’s (weirdly superfluous) comment to Rico about parents not having a say over what to do with the body. Exh B. Nate mentioning, in conversation, to David that he didn’t want to be cremated (and us learning that he still had that in his will).
3. “Narm” = “‘Nam” – Nate is a lot older than he looks.
he’s totally dead. I think the next episodes are going to focus on the fight for maya (I’m sure Lisa’s sister is gonna be back in town) and brenda being a single mom to a retarded nate child.
RK, I think you hit the plotline right on the head. And if you’re correct you should get a co-writers credit & a piece of that Emmy. If they win.
So brilliant! I wondered why that creepy Maggie bugged me. She is TOTAllY the Nightmare before Christmas. Nate is hot, but was starting to bug me so I’m not so sorry he’s dead. Give Brenda a break. She’s trying to gestate her retarded baby, hold down a full-time job and raise Lisa’s pinched-face brat. Really, how developmentally delayed is Maya?
I would love to see next weeks episode start out with Maggie explaining to Brenda how Nate ended up dead(?) on her floor.
Maggie, in her most annoyingly calm voice:
“I’m sorry Brenda, but after we had amazing sex your husband had a stroke. If the stroke didn’t kill him his head bouncing on my hardwood floors surely did. So sorry again. Would you like to go to my Mormon church to see if God speaks to you?”
Brenda: “What…?”
In the episode when his first lover died, during the intake Rico said “these things happen in 3′s…” I believe that Nate died, as the third in the series. And, that sucks, btw…
well, AB & co. promised that there’d be some big surprises, and since SFU is calling it quits, it makes sense for nate to die or end up a vegetable. it all makes sense–the creepy ‘when i die plant me under a tree’ line, his callous aversion to the idea of raising a disabled child, etc. RK, i think you’re right–it would make perfect sense for SFU to wind up with a ‘right to die’ conflict. maggie definitely has a sort of ‘grim reaper’ quality.
frankly, i’m almost glad to see nate go. he’s been such a narcissistic creep lately, and it really feels like the writers just don’t know what to do with him–or anyone else, for that matter. i really like this show, but all of the characters seem to be adrift (with the possible exception of david and keith, though they too seem always to be on the verge of disaster)–they need something acute to jolt them out of their collective malaise, and the death of nathaniel jr. makes a perfect bookend to the series and a good denoument to help bring closure to the various storylines.
this show really arouses ambiguous emotions. there’s much to like about the characters (even nate), but i find myself constantly wishing i could reach through the screen and slap them. maybe they’re just too human–too accurate a representation of our hopelessly flawed nature. as much as nate annoys me, who doesn’t know someone like nate–a nice, well-meaning person who nevertheless acts uncosncionably with numbingly predictable regularity? you could tell four or five weeks ago that nate and maggie were going to end up bumping uglies, but it still made me roll my eyes and give the TV the finger. i will miss SFU, but it seems like the right time to close the book. i’m glad AB has enough integrity to bring it to a close before it drifts any further into soap-opera territory.
Nate is OK. I’m not sure what planet the rest of you are from, but in the real world, not fantasy-please-fuck-me-’cuase-I’m-a Loser world, Nate is an average looking guy. Not hot. Average. Sexy- maybe? But definitely not Hot. Get over yourselves.
It is impossible for me to read that comment without picturing a well-oiled, tanned, very gay hardbody typing with one hand and adjusting his cock-ring with the other. Cause only the gayest gay alive would say that. Which I could understand — I’ve never seen a gay man attracted to another man who wears thermals.
Nate is an incredible, selfish asshole that has what’s coming to him. Brenda can be annoying as a herpes outbreak, but she showed up to that Quaker church and waited for him. He’s a sleaze.
Did anyone see Family Guy this week? I don’t remember the exact context, but someone (Stewy, maybe?) ended up saying, “Even I think Six Feet Under is pretentious!” LOL
P.S. I agree that Nate is not much above average-looking, but he is very sexy, which makes him HOT! No losers here; I get plenty of action in reality.
Does anyone else wonder why anyone would invite Ruth out? That woman is always having some sort of inappropriate screaming fit – if any deserves a good slap in the face – that’s the girl for it.
I agree with posts 19 and 22, except I’d apply their comments to Ruth and Durrell as well. What is with all the obnoxiousness and mean-spiritedness this season? Makes me long for the simplicity of self-centeredness and self-delusions of Season 4.
Nate’s clearly dead, or dying. It now looks like the entire Six Feet Under series comprises the time Nate spent working at the Fisher Funeral Home…it started with his father’s death, and will end with his death.
Too bad he went out at his worst, cheating on his wife, getting sanctimonious about his “quaker faith” and generally being an unsupportive louse to his wife.
Notice how all the deaths have been more personal in nature this year – Ruth’s sister’s BF/Nate’s first lay, George’s mother….so Nate’s inevitable death makes sense and if the writers stick to what’s made this show so good – the reality of death – they’ll kill him off. But remember we thought he was dead once before…don’t be surprised if Nate looks into the light and Lisa and his father are standing there telling him it’s not his time. That’s some shit they’d do…you know it, I know it…and i’ll be pissed.
I like the post where the SFU run is Nate’s time at the funeral home – seems to make sense.
Does anyone recall a SFU promo where Nate confronted Brenda over the photo of Lisa where Lisa is leaning against her car and the car is parked in the spot where she disappeared. Nate is saying someone had to take the photo and Brenda admits it was she that took the photo. I do not remember seeing this resolved. If not resolved, then Nate is alive?
There have been many foreshadowing events to Nate’s death. His father has many times alluded to his early death when he appears to Nate.
His character completely transformed this season- from a man who is satisfied with his life and where it is (as shown when his high school friend showed distress at being 40), to a man who’s beliefs are “do it now while you still can.”
Perhaps his treatment to Brenda was due to effects from neuro problem- clearly, he is being the asshole, even before he cheated.
How about the bird that showed up at his 40th birthday? Again, and again-Nate first let the bird go, but finally lost it- and killed his omen.