Six Feet Under - The Complete Fourth Season | Frances Conroy, Peter Krause

Six Feet Under - The Complete Fourth Season | Frances Conroy, Peter Krause | New to SFU, this season snagged me

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highly recommended

it's not sex, it's betrayal, that's your addiction...

Marathon-watching the fourth season again in several months, what strikes me most is that it's not as dark as I remembered it was. It has many moments of a subtle humor, not exactly a "dark humor," more of a "joco-serious" kind readers of Joyce find in his works. For instance, in "Terror Starts at Home" episode. Claire and two other friends from the art school make graffiti/art on a wall, when Claire says "How many evil-doers do you have to kill before you become one yourself?" and Edie (Mena Suvari) replies, "Totally." I remembered this scene to be darker. A giggle at the absurdity perhaps, but essentially a painful glimpse into Claire's growing pains, her wondering why she has to hate everyone and everything so. Watching it this time, it felt much more light-hearted. And I had more than a giggle, especially at the way Edie says "Totally."

Another such "joco-serious" moment comes during David's birthday party in the same episode. Claire is completely stoned at the table, making everyone uncomfortable. Finally Ruth asks her to help her "clear the table," to which Vanessa stands up to help, and Claire sarcastic-in-a-stoned way says, "Only women are clearing." Hearing this, Rico and Keith stand up to help, and Claire goes: "Only women and people of color are clearing." SFU fans would see why these moments are so funny and funny in a--I don't know, American culture's self-reflective, self-deprecating way? I don't know how to put this, but one reason I just love SFU is that, in it, even really small moments in the mundane life of the Fisher family can be taken as wider, American, cultural moments. Maybe this is an over-reaction on my part, as a student of American literature and culture.

If the viewer has been ruminating why Brenda keeps being self-destructive, one definite answer is to be found in this season, which is in the triangle she forms with Joe and Nate. While in a relationship with Joe, she repeats what she did when she was with Nate and sleeps with him. To Brenda who insists that her behavior is partly Joe's fault, Nate retorts: "No, it's you. I of all people should know that. I used be Joe." When Joe finally walks in and see the two about to have sex, he memorably sums up what makes Brenda so essentially an insecure person: "What do you call a person without integrity, without honesty, without loyalty? I call it a f**king waste of my time." To Brenda's excuse that it is all about sex, his answer: "It's not sex, it's betrayal. That is your f**king addiction."

Watching it again, I enjoy and cherish all these moments. Overall, the fourth season was even better than I remembered it to be.

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New to SFU, this season snagged me

Being home sick for a week, there were several episodes from season 4 on "On Demand" for free. I watched "untitled" first and started back at "Terror Starts at Home". I was absolutely sucked in, drawn in, consumed. I was expecting intellectually grotesque, but its more grotesquely intellectual.

I bought this season the following Saturday and have now nearly finished the season. Not sure whether I should start with season 3 next, or season 5. This is the first time I've been drawn in to a show since the X Files or the beginning seasons of ER.

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Love the show

Six feet under was the best thing that HBO could have done. If you never seen it you HAVE TOO!!!

Are you better off dead?

When David is taken hostage and raped repeatedly, it shows that it can happen to anyone. But the PTSD that he suffers is very realistic, and makes one think that he might be thinking he was better off dead. When he told Keith he didn't want him to accompany him to confront his attacker, that was the turning moment. Then he confronts his attacker, and comes out appearing to be stronger for doing it.

This season runs the gamut

Not every episode was great, but it is still a statisfying series. David and Keith finally become a couple without the extremes in their personalities dominating the scenes. Finally their faults are more normal and not way out there like Keith's anger and David's self destruction tendencies. Nate is still self centered but at least Brenda has grown up. Claire is starting down the wrong path at least she has some self awareness. The show has always had bad episodes and very good ones. The characters are always engaging though so I would recommend this show if you like character driven shows.

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