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6 Feet Under continues to be wonderful here in its last season, but, man, how dark it is getting. And what is the matter with Claire that she doesn't know that Billy is skipping his meds? Stevie Wonder knows he flushing the Lithium. I really like George's daughter. Does anyone see her hooking up with Nate after crazy old Brenda dumps his ass? Besides me, that is. Here's the official site, here. Not all that helpful except for the spellings. And it was good to see Illeana Douglas again after a few years. Wanted to see more of her this episode if you catch my continental drift. Do you think she's playing herself more here or is it a real stretch? The thing about her is the size of her eyeballs--they are the size of tennis balls, I swear. Compared to her everyone else's seem the size of grapes. Also is it troubling to any of the heterosexuals watching (like me) that the most stable and loving relationship (lately) on the show is between the gay men, who have settled down from their swinging ways and want to have a family? Just asking. In all the Armistead Maupin serial books (Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Nothing but Tales of the City, damnit--OK I made up that last one) all the heterosexual relationships are shallow and transient while the homosexual ones are true love and lasting. Just the opposite of real life--or so I'm told.
I think the show has done a lot for the pro-life movement. Nate is surrounded by 6 or 7 children, one time, who turn out to be the ghosts of the aborted fetuses of the women he got pregnant. Claire has an abortion at Planned Parenthood and it is a nightmare of banal, industrial death. Later the dead wife played by Lili Taylor promises to take care of Claire's aborted child in the afterlife, if Claire will take care of the surviving Maya. I know it doesn't seem like it will help but we need Hollywood to help (and ever more detailed sonograms) if pro-life forces are going to get the decision back to the people. More on abortion later.
6 Feet Under is so dark lately that even the smallest kindness or triumph will stand out. Maybe that's what they wanted to do.
Finally, it was good, in a way, to see some non-sexual mother abuse after all the tales of father (sexual) abuse of the women on Deadwood (Trixie and Alma). It puts the World back in balance, kinda.