Every Death From Six Feet Under

Favorite series ever.

Favorite death = the jogger and the mountain lion. Awesome, really fast and unexpected.

It was a great show but it was so affecting that I could never watch it a second time.

The only one I remember is the woman on a girls’ night out. She stuck her head out of the limo sunroof and it was smashed against a bridge overpass. I think.

Cried like a baby at the ending of SFU, and still do each time watch it again....

The ending was great!

Ending scene where David Fisher (Michael C. Hall) recalls first time he saw his future bf/partner/husband (Keith Charles) as a young man playing football just before he dies, just gets me.

Yes, r1!

I watched that entire video just to get to the mountain lion.

[quote] Favorite death = the jogger and the mountain lion. Awesome, really fast and unexpected.

I used to jog every afternoon in the exact same spot in Griffith Park where that was filmed. I was forever freaked out after I saw that episode.

The death that scared me was the woman who choked on a piece of fruit while eating at home alone.

What a Sunday night line up. I would watch Sex and the City, then The Sopranos, then Six Feet Under.

Wasn't there an episode where a naked corpse was actually a real actor because it was cheaper than having the prop department making a full human cast?

I'm r 1 and am doing the hated double post.

Some of my girlfriends were miffed that I had no interest in Sex and the City.

They came over (6 of them) and made me watch its' season premier. I hated it.

As they were ganging up on me the t.v. was still on.

Ignoring them I was staring at the screen behind them.

On came Six . I was hooked and I still hate SatC as should everyone.

Good things can come from bad things. We still laugh about it.

Why was that one guy getting stomped on the dark street?

Bullies.

R13, every episode began with a person dying, in any one of the myriad ways people die. The Fischer funeral home would handle that person's final arrangements during the episode. Sometimes the corpse would participate and talk to David and give him insights and realizations about life. (Sounds hokey, but it worked.) Each opening death was different.

They bullied a guy to death?

R17

No, they beat the guy to death. Happens all the time (sadly). You've never heard of some poor soul attacked because he or she was black, gay, trans, or whatever minority? That and or person or persons simply had a beef with particular person and beat the shit out of them.

Don't even get started on numbers of children past, present (and sadly likely) future who are beaten and die of their injuries.

Good song choice for the video.

Remember the episode when the friends of the dead person - I think it was a porn star - decided to snort her ashes? That grossed me out.

I still have nightmares about the one where the man was basically cut in two by an elevator. (have chills just typing about it...)

Did they have any particular reason they chose him R18?

As I remember, he's a homeless person and a band of bullies beats him to death for kicks.

R22 et al

It was a gay bashing assault. Two gay men out on the town stopped at an atm when two other men (attackers) armed with lead pipe and chains set upon them. One man was able to get away and summon LE (911), the other, well you can see what happened to that poor soul.

It was as stated in R18.....

List of all SFU episodes and background to associated deaths.

By the way, the porn actress is one seen in clip who dies in bathtub, and her "friends" decide at memorial service to snort some of her ashes....

R10, that one stuck with me as well, but I thought it was a piece of steak! I googled how to perform the Heimlich Maneuver on myself after watching that episode.

I just started watching this series last night, first 3 episodes. It's so wonderful I don't mind any spoilers in this thread.

Also, the SaTC show never appealed to me in the slightest, and I never watched it. 6FU, I never watched because I was busy. I'm not busy any more.

R4's link doesn't show the entire ending. Here it is, in two parts, though I wish it included the minute before Claire leaves.

Part 2.

Loved that show. Agree with r2 r10 r11

R24 - it's not the porn actress, who indeed died in the bathtub, whose ashes was snorted by her friends. It was the starlet who overdosed on the premier night of the horror film she was in.

Dorothy Sheedy and the floating sex dolls was the funniest death.

I love this show. I think it's the best show ever made, and I would like to hear about more thoughts on it—especially as it has now mostly aged two decades. I've watched it in full at least 7 times since it was on the air, and each time my favorite character shifted.

How do you think it holds up? And what's the behind the scenes gossip? Don't give me DVD supplement dregs…

How about the elderly gent who willed himself to die sitting in his car in the driveway of the funeral home shortly after his wife had died. He pre-arranged his funeral with aforethought. Powerful.

My favorite show ever. The characters feel like real people in a way that is so uncommon in television shows or movies.

To be true to life though on the intros they’d need a lot more elderly people dying mundane deaths in nursing homes and hospitals and fewer accidents and young people.

These are brilliant. A genius way to see http each episode!

Great show. Each of the siblings is a very different, carefully worked out but absolutely compelling character. It struck me at the end that Claire outlived her sibling by 80 years (!). David and Keith were a good gay couple, each in his own way very different to the standard portrayal of gay men at the time. It was interesting to watch them try to make it as a couple while trying to balance their relations with both gay and straight society. And Rachel Griffiths is amazing.

I liked the imaginary conversations the living characters have with the dead as a plot device. Favourite intro deaths were the mass shooting (some fun misdirection where you think it's going to be the guy on the phone, struggling at the same time to light a gas fire, who hears it happening in the office he has just called) and the wife who snapped and brained her husband with a frying pan.

I haven't watched it for years but there are bits that stick strongly in my mind. About a year ago I had to go and choose a coffin for a deceased relative and I remembered the scene where the normally very serious David gets breathlessly excited and slightly queeny because some old lady had ordered one of his favourites in her 'pre-need' documentation: "Oh GOOD, she wants the Our Lady of Guadeloupe casket! I LOVE that one!"

Joanna Cassidy deserved an Emmy for her role as Margaret. She was such a hilarious batshit crazy mess, I wish they'd used her more.

[quote]And Rachel Griffiths is amazing.

Rachel Griffiths as Brenda is one of the finest performances I have ever seen from an actor. She was fucking brilliant.

Never get tired of it. Once a year I binge watch the whole series. Still want Eric Balfour to fuck me into a coma.

Inspired by this thread, giving it a rewatch. Loving the florist's assistant, Robbie, from Series 1-2. He is like if Datalounge took human form.

Also, why did they call her Brenda? Smart, darkly funny, engaging female character, great actress, and they call her that. Literally any other name would have done.