I stopped watching the show after the Brenda-stoner-threesome sequence. Don't get me wrong--I'm a superfreak--but if nothing else, a threesome shouldn't be fucking depressing.

Right there with ya.

I liked the show a lot for the first season or two. It was new, it was fresh, it was interesting.

Then I realized it was always going to be that depressing.

Yeah, I know-- big surprise (they *work* in a funeral home!!!). Still, the show was so oppresively depressing that after watching it, *I* wanted to visit a funeral home, and not in the "enjoy the hot coffee" way, either.

I will give them credit for having the gumption to kill off a main character, but whatever. I stopped watching a while ago.

Where the hell is that new season of the Sopranos already??

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Another show that women love and men wonder what the f**k is so interesting about it. Gimme Carnivale any old day. Hell, even Battlestar Galactica (the new one) has better writing, acting, and stories.

I guess the chicks like Six Feet Under because it's all about relationships, don'cha know. Which is just a chick code-word for "boring people nattering at each other about their feelings".

Not sure which I relished more, ACE, Jeff's witty post or your delicious turn of phrase (i.e., "... the frisson of a great catharsis").

Monty--

"Even" Battlestar Galactica?

Don't be frakkin' badmouthing my show. . .

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Dave,

Peace, brother. BSG is one of my favorite new shows -- never miss.

Whew. Okay, just had to clarify. . .

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Dave, you want to be careful. It is possible to take Battlestar Galactica too seriously...

utron:

It never ceases to amaze me how even the crappiest of television shows always have fans who scream bloody murder when the series is canceled. I guess it's more common now that the Internet has made this kind of thing more convenient for the kooks, but it really took off with the Star Trek nutters.

I've known people who were married in Klingon ceeremonies (where the language was Klingon!). I knew a gal in high school who attempted suicide because her parents wouldn't let her go to a Star Trek convention. There's a cult that revolves around the Star Wars universe somehwere in California (where else?).

What can you say, man? Some people just ain't too tightly wrapped.

And I hasten to add that BSG is not a crappy show; just making a point. Like I said, me likee the show belly belly much.

Wow, and here I thought Mazes and Monsters was bad.

"The father said he learned about four years ago the boy had been sniffing gas with friends so he sent him to a psychiatrist."

Gee, like that's never a warning sign.

"I really should have tried to get him into a gifted chldren type situation," Seidel said. "But it's too late to look back and say I should have."

Ya know, I always loved this line of reasoning-- the kids who kill themselves (or others) are always sooo bright, the smartest of the bunch. If only we hugged them and gave them free time in class to sketch out their bomb drawings, we'd never have this problem in the first place.

And I say this as someone who *was* a "gifted child."

Lamest ass school I ever went to. I had to skip out on Honors classes in high school in order to get *any* street cred back in my life. I met more skanky easy chicks in my "regular" Economics class than I did in all my Honors classes combined.

Didn't learn shit about the Laffer Curve, but who cares when you're getting booty in return? Hell, I *still* know more about econ than Krugman.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Monty, that story dates all the way back to the original cancellation of BSG, back in 1980 or thereabouts. These days I'm sure the kid would have found a net-based community of similar obsessives and gone on for years drifting from convention to to convention.

And I couldn't agree more: Battlestar Galactica isn't a bad series. I think suicide is a rather extreme reaction to the end of the series, but not as embarrasing as killing yourself when Manimal went off the air.

If you want to see how a funeral home operates in real life I would recommend Family Plots on A&E.

I could care less about Manimal, but the loss of Automan and Misfits of Science still haunt me to this day.

There is only one character on Six Feet Under that isn't a shallow, self absorbed neurotic: Claire's new boyfriend. He is the only openly thoughtful, conservative character. Last week he came off as a decent, supportive guy during a tough time and he forcefully and intelligently defended the War in Iraq and President Bush.

Let me go on record with a prediction: He will be exposed as either a serial-killer/torturer or as a child molester or some other depraved deviant.

Because in today's Hollywood, you never see a decent conservative. Ever.

I don't mind Keith (David's partner), though I expect my tolerance for his character has more to do with the hope that one day, he;ll beat David to death with a blunt object.

I don't mind Rico - he's a genuine screw-up.

Of course, I wouldn't mind if they all were eaten by a cougar.

Speaking of cougars, why oh why didn't Kim Bauer ever get eaten by one?

Like, say, in the third season. While she was working at CTU. Like, step into the bathroom to argue with Chloe, and then a cougar jumps out of a stall and mauls her to ribbons.

Oh, and as long as I'm on the subject, The Girl Next Door is the biggest cock-tease this side of Dora the Explorer.

Man, how I hated that film.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Yay, another tv show I'm glad I don't watch.

Thankfully, Deadwood's second season was not a disappointment.

POSEUR AWARD NOMINEE: "Larkin's rip on his wife's favorite show has the frisson of a great catharsis." - Ace of Spades, reviewing a review of a TV show, August 2, 2005.

At some point after the second season they stopped paying any attention to the funeral home aspects of the show. That and the fading away of the Late Nate turned the show into just another soap opera.

And it hasn't been nearly as enjoyable since Aaron stopped doing the TWOP recaps.

"the frisson of a great catharsis"

I smiled wide when I read that.

Ace: it would be nice to put a spoiler warning on that link. We're watching the show on DVD, not HBO, and that link just gave away the ending.

I agree that the show jumped the shark after the 3rd season, but still watch to see if the late father Nathaniel will show up. The guy is as hard - boiled as they come, offering up sentiments like, "What, you supposed Heaven was some kind of playground? Hey, Buddy Boy, when you die then you just die. Don't look for any meaning in it. Just be glad you're still living!"

He's great because he slices right through the living character's narcissism and self - absorption. Wish they'd used him more ofter.