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Watched the final episode of 6 Feet Under again and I have to say the show went out on top. The triumph is the end song music video--Breathe Me by Sia (whoever that is) -- where the fate of all the principal parts are shown through 2084, when Claire dies at 102, interspersed with scenes of Claire driving to New York. It's theme is that we all will die. (Got it. Thanks.) It also seemed inspired by the micro-biographies interspersed throughout Run, Lola, Run. If you look close, you can see that one of the boys adopted by David and Keith is gay in later life, Brenda takes a Latin lover but is bored by him, in the future all older women will have great clouds of white whispy hair on their death beds, and, yes, as we always thought possible, Billy actually manages to talk his sister to death.

Before that there were a series of touching scenes of forgiveness and connection with building family bonds seeming the leitmotiv. One thing that was puzzling is the transformation of Nate's ghost. In life he was a pretty mellow dude who usualy was calm and helpful but in the first part of the last episode he was just an asshole--major negative waves generally directed at Brenda to prey on her (and every parents') fears about the baby being OK. Then Brenda has a dream where he tells her he will always love the baby and Nate is everafter restored to nice guy. He offers good advice to his sister and helps usher her out on the road. Cue Sia. Great editing. Series ends.

I'll miss it, but I doubt I'll ever watch reruns of it.