Rico's eulogy, while short, was very heart wrenching. If you remember earlier in the series when Rico became a partner and started doing intakes, he wasn't empathetic enough cause he was used to the embalming part of the business where he said himself works for him because the dead don't speak. However, deep down he envied Nate's ability to connect with ppl in their darkest moments & admitted it actually inspired him. That hit me hard because they would see each other everyday & Rico never got the chance to tell Nate that himself.
I bawled my head off when Nate died and up until the end of the final episode. SFU was and is an awesome show. The chemistry between the actors is real. I am binge-watching it again.
the death of nate is foreshadowed in the first 20 minutes of the pilot episode. Six feet under is master storytelling, wether it's the camerawork, the soundtrack (PLEASE release Richard Marvin's haunting score already) or its script.
When Rico started crying and talking about how Nate knew what to say to people when they're grieving and how he would know what to say to them RightNow I completely lost it. Not just watery eyes but full blown sobbing. This is one rare show where I genuinely loved and cared about all the characters.
3:35 I just adore George because he always has a way of saying the right thing when it's most needed. Credit to Mr. James Cromwell for bringing to life such an intelligent, sweet, and humanly flawed character.
Same, I had a huge soft spot for George. He was a good man who was permanently scarred from a VERY early age and made some bad decisions because of it. But because he cared so deeply for the people he loved, he was able to redeem himself later in life; making amends with his estranged son, finally receiving therapy, and eventually settling down with one woman.
The exchange between David and Claire at the beginning is a breathtakingly perfect representation of sibling dynamics, no matter what the circumstances, your sibling can still just annoy you in that unique way.
This is the part that had me sobbing like a baby. Rico's eulogy was so sad, and George's eulogy was such a kind and genuine to say about Nate. I loved this series so much.
the insightfullness of this show, and how its basic premise is applicable to life, is like free therapy. I can recommend, with passion, to anyone to watch the full 5 seasons and digest the matter. Nate's funeral, amongst many other moments, stand out. Way to go Nathan Ball (thanks for True Blood also)
@@greenstone85 nates funeral episode had me curled up crying for most of it. Even still does on rewatches (when I watch the series every few years). And the ending where Keith dies then David years later sees Keith young happy playing football right before he does too, also gets me. This is such a beautiful and profound show. Way more than just entertainment. It's just beautiful bittersweet.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 the episode after Nate's death destroyed me. I was literally all the episode crying. That seemed so real and Nate was so relatable...
@@calandula2007 it was. David was always the strong one who held the family and the business together yet now we see him shattered from Nate's death. I also loved how George came thru for the family when they needed him the most.
For me, it was this scene, and the scene at Nate’s burial. David finally breaks down while throwing in the dirt and has to stop. Rico sees this and immediately grabs a shovel to help, which prompts the others to do the same.
That little convo at the beginning is so powerful. When my father died I didn't even know if I would make it to the funeral, I just couldn't face it. I ended up turning up in normal clothes and carried him whilst everyone else was dressed nicely. I knew i couldn't live with myself if I decided not to turn up or carry him into the church but getting dressed just wasn't in the books...it wasn't a priority, just being there was hard enough. Thankfully nobody made a comment about it as I'm sure they understood, but I could see myself reacting exactly like Claire here, just completely drained, don't care about winning, have everything you desire because every fuck I have in my body is being utilised to just being here. Editing this. My brother took his life 2 weeks after I posted this. It hits twice as hard now. I didn't even turn up. I don't regret it. I was simply unable. The rest of you win.
I'm sorry for whom you've lost. I hate it when people criticise others for not attending a funeral. A funeral is a ceremony to help the living grieve. I personally need that ceremony, but if others don't, let them grieve in their own way
Me too. It forever "tainted" Dylan's masterpiece song for me and I am perfectly fine with that. I know it's just a TV show but I am forever grateful to have known the Fisher Family.
I watched this episode in a highrise apartment block in South Korea in 2006. I had illegally downloaded it. Or maybe I had bought a pirate dvd from the electronics market at Yongsan. I can't remember. I do remember that I watched the episode in tears from beginning to end. I had to stop it multiple times (3?) because I was crying too much to watch. This scene was the worst. George's intervention. I had responded so much to this show as I watched it over 5 months during the year I spent living in South Korea. Its human wisdom, its humour, its lightness of touch. I don't always respond to shows like this. I was reading Anna Karenina that same year I lived out there and in truth I loved that book but never could find one thing it did that made it more of an artistic achievement than Six Feet Under. Still one of the great shows tv has ever made.
He really truly stepped up for his wife and stepkids at the time they needed him the most. He was even willing to raise Maya along with Ruth and it was nice to see that despite living separately that Ruth and George remained a loving husband and wife until her death.
Loved Nate's character the best He was so natural as a person The mistakes that he made the friendships and relationships I love the mums sister she was always a blast The character who plays her always brings alot to the character
I can't imagine anyone but Peter Krause and Patricia Clarkson pulling off those roles! But I feel like I could say the same for every actor on the show. Casting was perfect. Down to the little girls who played Maya.
i hated him soo much for treating brenda like shit. cuz of that pos Maggie. Still cried like a lil bitch tho ,not for him but for everyone else ,ruth david claire and even ricos reaction made me cry soo much
I think it's the best episode of all times, such an amazing acting, editing, writing, directing, I had finished this one from 2 years, and never felt like that neeever
I really disliked George initially because of how many times it seemed like he wasn't really taking his life with the Fisher's seriously. In season 4 they go to great lengths to potray George as someone who sets up shop with new family members, and the second things get a little difficult he packs it all up and starts over somewhere else. He was particularly unlikable to me because how much we saw Ruth struggle to find a new partner after her Nathaniel died, and to see her marry George to cope with Lisa's death felt so gross. The "pep talk" he gives to Nate felt like George just paying his due lip service and that he wasn't attached to Ruth or her kids. Once the show started tackling his mental issues, it began to feel like he wasn't even lucid anymore. Then Nate dies. Immediately without even thinking about it George springs into action to help the Fisher's through this awful time in their lives. Shockingly to me he gives the most accurate and resonate speech about Nate's life at the funeral, completely confidently without wavering like David and Rico. "Nate was my Stepson." George did love him. Back when Lisa died George's speech to Nate was 100% ernest. The man seriously was planning on raising Maya. If the ending flash-forwards are canon, George stayed with Ruth for twenty more years. I realized that it's not like George doesn't care about his wives, or children, he cares very deeply. He unfortunately had to experience such a confusing loss at such a young age. Leaving everything behind his the only way he knew how to survive. I think the reason he knew Nate so well was because he has the same exact pathos. Nate's always running away. When the situation called for it, George completely conquered his fear of commitment and worked through the hardships of his mental illness to help his family, something that is nearly impossible for most people, especially in that stage of their lives. He learned the lesson from Nate's life, how that giving up and starting over, over and over, leads to nothing but pain, and successfully applied what he learned to his own family. After finishing the series recently, I gotta say one of my favorite character progressions has got to be George.
@KH-sn2sj Thank you 😊 yeah I love this show. It's so true to how real people behave, I can't help but get lost analyzing all the little character moments.
The portrayal of David’s PTSD was perfect, with that quick a glimpse and such sinister sound. That’s exactly how it feels. Any trigger and you’re taken to the darkest place. You try so hard to resist. But it’s just there. When I first saw this show I could only imagine. Now I know how it feels.
I like how the writers aged him more than the others during the flash forward epilogues, someone who's had to deal with so much death is bound to lose their youth more quickly.
When I started watching SFU I was constantly listening to KOHD by Bob Dylan and I’m still overwhelmed by the fact that they played it at my favorite character’s funeral 🥺🥺🥺
Patricia Clarkson as Ruth's sister, if anybody hasn't saw it I'd check out HBOs adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects where Clarkson plays the mother Adora. She plays a very good frosty southern Belle I have to say.
So this has been one of my top five favorite shows for almost 15 years. I told my co-workers who are gen z to watch it bc it was a masterpiece, but they refused bc it was old along with the sopranos. Said neither show could be very good. But they all raved about the netflix show Sex Life being riveting. Lol.
George's speech summoned Ruth to accept him again. Nate Sr, Nate Jr and Claire are all heartbreaking Egomaniac s who"needing perfect normal significant others to play off of" David and Ruth are the same as in they both need a strong man in their life"
David was always the one who Ruth and Nate Jr. and Claire depended on the most because he held the family together and the business together. My heart broke for David seeing him hurting in this episode. It was so sweet the way Keith was there for him on his knees holding David and comforting him.
This entire episode gutted me. I had to look away at times because my eyes were filled with tears and that's everytime I rewatch the series every couple of years.
She was a horrible person, up until she wasn’t and the writers turned her around. She had such a redeeming arc by the end. But horrible she was, as a written character, she was superb
Brenda was a very troubled woman... She was given an IQ test that declared her a genius, her parents get loads of $$$ from Dr. Feinberg in book royalties, she's witnessed her swinger parents sex parties as a small child as did her brother, she's had to take care of her brother and sacrifice her own education and dreams, she was cruelly lied to by her parents about the brother, and most damaging of all, her brother tries to chase away every boyfriend Brenda gets because Billy is jealous of them. And finally, was there an incestuous relationship between these 2 siblings? Hints were thrown, but I never heard a confirmation, except for when Billy blurts out, I'm in love with you! She's a complex and fascinating character, and became adds addict out of all that pain and trauma. She probably has CPTSD. Plus she's agnostic or atheist, and feels like everything is meaningless.
Rico's eulogy, while short, was very heart wrenching. If you remember earlier in the series when Rico became a partner and started doing intakes, he wasn't empathetic enough cause he was used to the embalming part of the business where he said himself works for him because the dead don't speak. However, deep down he envied Nate's ability to connect with ppl in their darkest moments & admitted it actually inspired him. That hit me hard because they would see each other everyday & Rico never got the chance to tell Nate that himself.
I bawled my head off when Nate died and up until the end of the final episode. SFU was and is an awesome show. The chemistry between the actors is real. I am binge-watching it again.
the death of nate is foreshadowed in the first 20 minutes of the pilot episode. Six feet under is master storytelling, wether it's the camerawork, the soundtrack (PLEASE release Richard Marvin's haunting score already) or its script.
What is the foreshadowing?
When Rico started crying and talking about how Nate knew what to say to people when they're grieving and how he would know what to say to them RightNow I completely lost it. Not just watery eyes but full blown sobbing. This is one rare show where I genuinely loved and cared about all the characters.
I don't know which episode was better this one or the finale either way it was the best way to end it after a disappointing season 4
3:35 I just adore George because he always has a way of saying the right thing when it's most needed. Credit to Mr. James Cromwell for bringing to life such an intelligent, sweet, and humanly flawed character.
I was so happy that he and his wife Ruth found a way to be in each other's lives until death did them part. 💕
Same, I had a huge soft spot for George. He was a good man who was permanently scarred from a VERY early age and made some bad decisions because of it. But because he cared so deeply for the people he loved, he was able to redeem himself later in life; making amends with his estranged son, finally receiving therapy, and eventually settling down with one woman.
The exchange between David and Claire at the beginning is a breathtakingly perfect representation of sibling dynamics, no matter what the circumstances, your sibling can still just annoy you in that unique way.
Claire took it the best of all of em
@@trucuzz100 She spiraled after the funeral tho.
This is the part that had me sobbing like a baby. Rico's eulogy was so sad, and George's eulogy was such a kind and genuine to say about Nate. I loved this series so much.
the insightfullness of this show, and how its basic premise is applicable to life, is like free therapy. I can recommend, with passion, to anyone to watch the full 5 seasons and digest the matter. Nate's funeral, amongst many other moments, stand out. Way to go Nathan Ball (thanks for True Blood also)
@@greenstone85 nates funeral episode had me curled up crying for most of it. Even still does on rewatches (when I watch the series every few years). And the ending where Keith dies then David years later sees Keith young happy playing football right before he does too, also gets me. This is such a beautiful and profound show. Way more than just entertainment. It's just beautiful bittersweet.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 the episode after Nate's death destroyed me. I was literally all the episode crying. That seemed so real and Nate was so relatable...
@@calandula2007 it was. David was always the strong one who held the family and the business together yet now we see him shattered from Nate's death. I also loved how George came thru for the family when they needed him the most.
I’ve never been able to watch the last show. Watched every episode faithfully on Sunday night, but still can’t bring myself to watch the finale.
In all it's vexing, beautiful forms.
I love that line.
Anyone here after Succession 4x09??? That episode really reminded me of Six Feet Under
This was Rico’s best moment
The Fisher brothers had their differences with Rico at times but his speech here shows that he ALWAYS loved them and saw them as family.
For me, it was this scene, and the scene at Nate’s burial. David finally breaks down while throwing in the dirt and has to stop. Rico sees this and immediately grabs a shovel to help, which prompts the others to do the same.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529til he quarreled with David with eitger buying the business or being bought out.
Not very family-like imo
That little convo at the beginning is so powerful. When my father died I didn't even know if I would make it to the funeral, I just couldn't face it. I ended up turning up in normal clothes and carried him whilst everyone else was dressed nicely. I knew i couldn't live with myself if I decided not to turn up or carry him into the church but getting dressed just wasn't in the books...it wasn't a priority, just being there was hard enough. Thankfully nobody made a comment about it as I'm sure they understood, but I could see myself reacting exactly like Claire here, just completely drained, don't care about winning, have everything you desire because every fuck I have in my body is being utilised to just being here.
Editing this. My brother took his life 2 weeks after I posted this. It hits twice as hard now. I didn't even turn up. I don't regret it. I was simply unable. The rest of you win.
I'm sorry for whom you've lost. I hate it when people criticise others for not attending a funeral. A funeral is a ceremony to help the living grieve. I personally need that ceremony, but if others don't, let them grieve in their own way
Holy fuck. Don't blame yourself and I'm sorry that happened.
😢 praying for your emotional healing
Dude, am so sorry man.
Its never easy to deal with death in any form.
I am so sorry for your losses :'(
Most beautiful show ever created
Yep.
Yes, true. At first when i seen ot shich was years ago. I thought it was strange and scary, but i grew to liking it and continued to watch.
It truly is beautiful. I actually get more emotion from this series than I did American Beauty the film.
Tears, every time. Ever since 2005, I think of Nate every time I hear “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”. Greatest show ever 😥
Me too. It forever "tainted" Dylan's masterpiece song for me and I am perfectly fine with that. I know it's just a TV show but I am forever grateful to have known the Fisher Family.
I like how the flower arrangements are wild and free, unlike at the beginning of the show.
Oh gosh, Nate's passing was awful but David's PTSD was so haunting and terrifying.
I watched this episode in a highrise apartment block in South Korea in 2006. I had illegally downloaded it. Or maybe I had bought a pirate dvd from the electronics market at Yongsan. I can't remember. I do remember that I watched the episode in tears from beginning to end. I had to stop it multiple times (3?) because I was crying too much to watch. This scene was the worst. George's intervention. I had responded so much to this show as I watched it over 5 months during the year I spent living in South Korea. Its human wisdom, its humour, its lightness of touch. I don't always respond to shows like this. I was reading Anna Karenina that same year I lived out there and in truth I loved that book but never could find one thing it did that made it more of an artistic achievement than Six Feet Under. Still one of the great shows tv has ever made.
I agree. This series really captured the human spirit and what we could all hope to get out of our short time on this planet.
George's speech was fantastic.
He really truly stepped up for his wife and stepkids at the time they needed him the most. He was even willing to raise Maya along with Ruth and it was nice to see that despite living separately that Ruth and George remained a loving husband and wife until her death.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529indeed.
Beautiful but flawed human like all of us.
Loved Nate's character the best
He was so natural as a person
The mistakes that he made the friendships and relationships
I love the mums sister she was always a blast
The character who plays her always brings alot to the character
I can't imagine anyone but Peter Krause and Patricia Clarkson pulling off those roles! But I feel like I could say the same for every actor on the show. Casting was perfect. Down to the little girls who played Maya.
really? I couldnt stand him lol I hated his makeout scenes. So absurd lol I cried tho lol
Lol, I actually hated nate in the end, but still cried at his death
@@juliasvyrydova7222 same
i hated him soo much for treating brenda like shit. cuz of that pos Maggie. Still cried like a lil bitch tho ,not for him but for everyone else ,ruth david claire and even ricos reaction made me cry soo much
I always cry during this scene but Brenda's mom makes me stop to chuckle for a second lol. Classic narcissist!!
That details make six feet under such a great show
And she laughed at Bern's funeral..
For me it’s Brenda raising her eyebrows, like “Here we go” hahahaha
Classic narcissist.
Man i couldnt stand her ass!
She really fuqed up.Brenda & Billy man.
@@wowwow75aint that somethin??
But i think it was her coping mechanism so she wouldnt fall apart.
I think it's the best episode of all times, such an amazing acting, editing, writing, directing,
I had finished this one from 2 years, and never felt like that neeever
I'm a grown ass man and I cried at the end of this show
Same here.
Yesterday
Did the same today. Oh man, it hurts everytime you see it.
This scene is pure emotional power.
Rico's eulogy was so heartfelt
I use variations of Lauren's comment "the rest of you win" whenever I'm sick of someone arguing uselessly.
We have the whole series on DVD and have watched it at least five times through. Best show ever.
Do we?
@@StoobieB no. you don't.
Nate the greatest character on television ....ever ....period...
Wow. Just rewatched after it 1st came out. So sad. Great show. Nate was a flawed character like all of us but meant the best
I really disliked George initially because of how many times it seemed like he wasn't really taking his life with the Fisher's seriously. In season 4 they go to great lengths to potray George as someone who sets up shop with new family members, and the second things get a little difficult he packs it all up and starts over somewhere else. He was particularly unlikable to me because how much we saw Ruth struggle to find a new partner after her Nathaniel died, and to see her marry George to cope with Lisa's death felt so gross. The "pep talk" he gives to Nate felt like George just paying his due lip service and that he wasn't attached to Ruth or her kids. Once the show started tackling his mental issues, it began to feel like he wasn't even lucid anymore.
Then Nate dies. Immediately without even thinking about it George springs into action to help the Fisher's through this awful time in their lives. Shockingly to me he gives the most accurate and resonate speech about Nate's life at the funeral, completely confidently without wavering like David and Rico. "Nate was my Stepson." George did love him. Back when Lisa died George's speech to Nate was 100% ernest. The man seriously was planning on raising Maya. If the ending flash-forwards are canon, George stayed with Ruth for twenty more years. I realized that it's not like George doesn't care about his wives, or children, he cares very deeply. He unfortunately had to experience such a confusing loss at such a young age. Leaving everything behind his the only way he knew how to survive. I think the reason he knew Nate so well was because he has the same exact pathos. Nate's always running away. When the situation called for it, George completely conquered his fear of commitment and worked through the hardships of his mental illness to help his family, something that is nearly impossible for most people, especially in that stage of their lives. He learned the lesson from Nate's life, how that giving up and starting over, over and over, leads to nothing but pain, and successfully applied what he learned to his own family. After finishing the series recently, I gotta say one of my favorite character progressions has got to be George.
Damn that makes so much sense I loved how you broke that down. My goodness this was an incredible show.
@KH-sn2sj Thank you 😊 yeah I love this show. It's so true to how real people behave, I can't help but get lost analyzing all the little character moments.
Underrated comment, I enjoyed reading your perspective very much and I think you’re right.
Hit the nail on the head. George summed up Nate very well
Read it word for word.
Deep man.
See George in a whole new light now
What is with James Cromwell killing funeral speeches at the ends of HBO series?
frrrr lol, this automatically made me think of succession
When television becomes an artfom
My mother God rest her soul turned me on to this show it became our show this reminds me so much of her very hard to hold the tears back
The rest of you win!
The portrayal of David’s PTSD was perfect, with that quick a glimpse and such sinister sound. That’s exactly how it feels. Any trigger and you’re taken to the darkest place. You try so hard to resist. But it’s just there. When I first saw this show I could only imagine. Now I know how it feels.
I feel bad for David. He always had to be the strong one. I remember when he flipped out and said “I LOST HIM TOO!” He couldn’t take it anymore.
I like how the writers aged him more than the others during the flash forward epilogues, someone who's had to deal with so much death is bound to lose their youth more quickly.
When I started watching SFU I was constantly listening to KOHD by Bob Dylan and I’m still overwhelmed by the fact that they played it at my favorite character’s funeral 🥺🥺🥺
This is Soooooooooo hard to watch still to this day. I severely felt so bad for Brenda
Patricia Clarkson as Ruth's sister, if anybody hasn't saw it I'd check out HBOs adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects where Clarkson plays the mother Adora. She plays a very good frosty southern Belle I have to say.
Love this actor she is brilliant
Chris Messina was also in Sharp Objects (he played Ted on Six Feet Under)
Goddamn this show! It’s way too close to life. The emotions, personalities and situations are all so real.
I clicked on this and nope....still not ready to watch it after all these years. It is the only episode I have never s÷n.
So this has been one of my top five favorite shows for almost 15 years. I told my co-workers who are gen z to watch it bc it was a masterpiece, but they refused bc it was old along with the sopranos. Said neither show could be very good. But they all raved about the netflix show Sex Life being riveting. Lol.
George's speech summoned Ruth to accept him again. Nate Sr, Nate Jr and Claire are all heartbreaking Egomaniac s who"needing perfect normal significant others to play off of" David and Ruth are the same as in they both need a strong man in their life"
David was always the one who Ruth and Nate Jr. and Claire depended on the most because he held the family together and the business together. My heart broke for David seeing him hurting in this episode. It was so sweet the way Keith was there for him on his knees holding David and comforting him.
I cried the whole episode, and still crying everytime I see it
This entire episode gutted me. I had to look away at times because my eyes were filled with tears and that's everytime I rewatch the series every couple of years.
I cried for a week after this episode
Saddest scene in the show. Gets me every time
I just saw this scene and the burial today and was crying like a baby. I can't understand why I cried so much.
Because it's very sad and this show captures life and death and love and loss and grief like no other ever has.
Cuz its powerful raw human emotion
George’s eulogy. 💙
George I love you so much
I love Claire
I should be working, but instead I'm crying at clips of Six Feet Under
Death is so sad it's beautiful
I wish I found out about this series before my mom died.
She would have loved it
Such a difficult time for Brenda, all that layers of sadness and frustration and disgust
What is it with the red hooded figure? Is it David's hallucinations?
It's like hallucination representing his PTSD ever since he was abducted and almost burned alive by that maniac.
Alguien sabe dónde puedo ver esta escena en Español Latino?
Nate didn't die. He changed his name to Adam, married a woman named Christine, and had an autistic son named Max
Brendas mom
Well the rest of you win
Your picture reminds me of Ziva David from original NCIS Season 3-12 (i think)
I just keep waiting for Dexter to snap. The business would make a killing.
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Muy parecida a la muerte de Federico.
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Lalo garza.
Lol Garza sucks
This show could be so dramatic and I think Brenda's character was horrible... but overall it was a good show.
She was a horrible person, up until she wasn’t and the writers turned her around. She had such a redeeming arc by the end. But horrible she was, as a written character, she was superb
Brenda struggled with what many smart women struggle with. And the way she had to fight off Billy was just rough on her.
Brenda was a very troubled woman... She was given an IQ test that declared her a genius, her parents get loads of $$$ from Dr. Feinberg in book royalties, she's witnessed her swinger parents sex parties as a small child as did her brother, she's had to take care of her brother and sacrifice her own education and dreams, she was cruelly lied to by her parents about the brother, and most damaging of all, her brother tries to chase away every boyfriend Brenda gets because Billy is jealous of them. And finally, was there an incestuous relationship between these 2 siblings? Hints were thrown, but I never heard a confirmation, except for when Billy blurts out, I'm in love with you! She's a complex and fascinating character, and became adds addict out of all that pain and trauma. She probably has CPTSD. Plus she's agnostic or atheist, and feels like everything is meaningless.
Funerals are stupid. Bunch of people trying to out-mourn each other.
I understand that James Cromwell glued his hand to Nate's picture and demanded Starbucks lower its prices.
Rayos X con rayito?