“My sympathy for [Nate] has fluctuated in inverse proportion to his lack of empathy for anyone other than himself, and let's just say I have less sympathy for Nate right now than I do for Kenneth Lay.”
-Liane Bonin, from EW.com’s weekly “Six Feet Under” review. As usual, last night’s episode was good on the surface but I had four or five major problems with it. First of all, hasn’t the writing of Nate just been all over the place this year? First he thought Lisa was still alive, then he forgot about that by the next week, and now he’s back working at the funeral home/sleeping with Brenda? And wasn’t that whole Brenda’s-fear-of-commitment-symbolized-by-vision-of-falling-bedspreads thing something that would have happened on “Ally McBeal”?
I also loved the “Magnolia” homage that had Claire and her stoned art pals singing along to Death Cab For Cutie. Would an anarcho-punk radical feminist/lesbian like the Mena Suvari character even be caught dead listening to such an MTV-friendly band?
And finally, here’s an Andrew Sullivan reader who has also noticed the below-the-surface Bush-bashing on the last few episodes of “Six Feet Under.” Yea, when Claire made that reference to “how many evildoers do we have to kill before we become them,” I just about gagged.
Posted by Stephen Silver at July 26, 2004 06:15 PM