WARNING: Spoiler Alert! If you watch Six Feet Under and have not yet seen this weeks episode, close your browser now. I'm about to give this week's episode away, and it's a big one.
I thought they handled Nate's death in an interesting way, both the circumstance leading up to it and the actual consciousness of death in which he runs into ocean, with his brother and his father watching him. I especially thought it was clever the fact that they presaged it by making him into even more of a dick than he normally is. When he told Brenda he was leaving her, I literally thought to myself, "god, he deserves to die." There is a very satisfying tension to having him fall in love with a Quaker and be so taken by her peace and goodness, that he initiates and series of terribly destructive choices that would have in the end proved disastrous for him and his family. He thinks he is moving forward, never realizing he is continuing in his same self centered pattern of always wanting something different than what he has. When he was with Brenda, he wanted out, when he was with Lisa, he wanted Brenda. When Brenda fell in love with the cute french horn player, he insinuated himself back into her life and then after they get married, he wanted Maggie. I really think the whole last season is about us getting to watch all of those characters continue to make the same mistakes over again, or repeat the mistakes of their parents. This is with the exception of Claire, who has improved markedly after getting away from her art school buddies. As I am writing this, I am realizing there is probably a bit of double entendre in the last conversation between Nate and Brenda. He didn't say he was leaving her for Maggie, he just said he didn't want to continue, so perhaps he knew on some level that he was going to go. I guess one of them had to die after all, since the show seems to be all about the never ending presence of death in life.
Any other Six Feet Under fans? Discuss.
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