Six Feet Under - The Complete Fifth Season
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Actor: Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Mathew St. Patrick, Michael C. Hall, Peter KrauseBrand: HBO Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 780 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 93144
Studio: HBO Home Video
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Color; Closed-captioned; Dolby; Dubbed; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Six Feet Under - The Complete Fifth Season
Movie Review: A Post Mortem on the final fates of the flawed Fishers & Friends
Summary: 5 Stars
For me there were two key moments that defined the dynamic of the fifth and final season of "Six Feet Under" for me. The first was in "Singing for Our Lives" when Keith has once again sent Durrell to his room for going on a joy ride and Anthony explains his brother's philosophy of having all the fun you can while you can, because you are going to be sent back to the foster home. The key moment is when Keith suddenly understands what is going on and for him everything changes with those two boys the rest of the way, even if David is slow to notice. The second comes in the following episode, "Ecotone," when Nate ends up in the hospital having emergency brain surgery when he is felled by AVM seizure after sleeping with Maggie. There he is laid up in a hospital bed, his head swathed in bandages, having returned from death's door, and he tells his pregnant wife of nine episodes that their marriage is over. Ten minutes later he ends up back on the other side of that door because at that point he deserved death more than he deserved happiness. Two men make two choices, one is right and one is wrong.
The characters on "Six Feet Under" make a lot of significant choices that final season, although they are not always aware which one is more important. David thinks the decision to adopt Durrell and Anthony is the important one, but it is facing the internal demons that terrify him that is more important. Keith's decision to love Durrell no matter what is important, but it was set up by that moment in the office of the foster home where he did not bat an eye at the fact that Anthony had an older brother. I must admit that I always cared about David and Keith more than I did about Nate and Brenda, so the way things played out did not upset me as much as they might have otherwise. The big surprise with Nate and Brenda turns out to be that he was ultimately more self-destructive than she was, but still the basic irony that was except for their initial encoutner in that closet at the airport, these two were never really on the same page ever again. That is why the nadir of the season for me was not Nate's death, but his final confrontation with Brenda and it was not until Brenda's dream in which Nathaniel introduces himself, noting that they have never met, that the nightmare of his final act finally ends. But then Nate's death and the grief it brings is what allows each of the Fishers to move on.
Clearly people come apart so that they can be put back together in these twelve episodes. It is Frederico's bitter declaration to Vanessa that he knows his affair has cost him everything, that makes it possible for them to go on. As Vanessa tells him, they cannot go back and indeed they do not. He cannot forgive himself for having destroyed his family and she cannot forgive herself for still loving him, and that provides the common ground they need to go on. The reconciliation that I cannot really explain is Ruth and George. Not because George does not deserve to come back into her life given the support he gives Ruth in the wake of Nate's death, but because there is no real rhyme or reason to George's transformation beyond the idea it provides a grace note. At least the stability that Billy shows over the final episodes can be readily attributed to drugs. But Ruth's relationship to George is a minor concern as she copes with the death of her first born and the painful sight of her depositing a shovel of dirt on Nate's body in his grave.
In the end the show comes to Claire, not just because she belts out that infamous ode to panty hose, "You Ride Up My Thigh," but more because she is the one who drives off into the future at the end. Of course it is Claire. She has the most talent, but she also has the most future and there is a sense in which what is ultimately important in the end is not love, but time. Claire might not deserve to live a hundred years when others do not, but it is certainly a sweet deal if you can get it. Besides, I think of her as Ruth's surrogate and that she is heading down that open highway not for herself, but for the rest of her fatally flawed family. "Everyone's Waiting" was a brilliant final episode that redeemed the faults and failures of the final season. Of course Alan Ball had to show us the deaths of the entire cast and fade to white to tell us when they died. I lost count as to how many times I had to listen to Sia Furler's "Breathe Me" before the end sequence of the haunting series finale "Everything Ends" was exorcised from my mind, but it took at least a week. Fortunately I had the CD so that I could at least get away from rewatching the episode's end over and over again. Still, those words become the benediction for "Six Feet Under":
Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I'm needy
Warm me up
And breathe me
Summary of Six Feet Under - The Complete Fifth Season
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