http://www.thebestshowsyourenotwatching.com/in-remembrance-of-six-feet-under/ The best TV shows you're not watching Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.thebestshowsyourenotwatching.com/in-remembrance-of-six-feet-under/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Kev Moore Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:55:43 +0000 http://www.thebestshowsyourenotwatching.com/?p=402#comment-12 Six Feet under was simply inspired television, and thank goodness it was allowed, unlike many of the Fishers' customers, to run its natural course. Because the final episode is without question one of the finest pieces of television ever made. It reached me in such a deep, profound and shocking manner, it affected me for days, and I'm not sure I could ever watch it again. It brilliantly, brutally, exposed our fragile mortality for what it is, and was all the more effective (like the ending of Blackadder goes Forth) for the gentle comedy that pervaded the series. Tragedy and Comedy are powerful, if uneasy, bedfellows. I don't know what awards it garnered as a series, but it should have swept the board. Six Feet under was simply inspired television, and thank goodness it was allowed, unlike many of the Fishers’ customers, to run its natural course. Because the final episode is without question one of the finest pieces of television ever made. It reached me in such a deep, profound and shocking manner, it affected me for days, and I’m not sure I could ever watch it again. It brilliantly, brutally, exposed our fragile mortality for what it is, and was all the more effective (like the ending of Blackadder goes Forth) for the gentle comedy that pervaded the series. Tragedy and Comedy are powerful, if uneasy, bedfellows.
I don’t know what awards it garnered as a series, but it should have swept the board.

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