New Television: Six Feet Under: TV therapy

Monday, August 11, 2014

Six Feet Under: TV therapy – 20minutos.es

During the month of August will be on vacation, after an intense year of work. But that does not mean that the blog rest. To join my days off and continue running this, I have asked several friends that I have are what their favorite series and why. So, incidentally, we give another go to what is often read here. That you enjoy.

This text is Jaime Domínguez

In the fullness of life we are dead.

Gone are the days when television shows were pure entertainment. When you simply told stories of different worlds that we moved to a new universe, or so commonplace that easily connected with our own routine. However, television has evolved so much and so fast in the last decade is not surprising that neither one thing nor the other. In fact, they are series that go a step beyond and away from mere hobby which become history as true television prowess and are remembered not only for what they say or how they do it, but for what they have come to mean to all those who have fallen into their networks.

Six Feet Under (2001-2005) comes by definition of that group. It is no coincidence that it was issued within the programming of the Golden Age of the HBO (or television in general, for many), where he never fit at all but served as a perfect complement to their large police and historical dramas counterpoint. Alan Ball, the creator, went out with this project, which followed American Beauty and preceded this monster report became True Blood . His idea: a dissertation on life and death through the story of a family that he had nothing more peculiar than his own humanity

Six Feet Under masterfully develops his art based on a more dramatic concept carpe diem canvas. In a world where death or rejected or glorifies, Series Alan Ball is recreated in this farewell as a consequent to life inherent natural state , and where the dead have names and surname, a past and a story. All this just in the Fisher Funeral Home, the family that followed the steps for five seasons.

death is precisely the starting point of this story. The death of the patriarch Nathaniel Fisher brings profound consequences for the rest family: the stretched and depressed mother Ruth, Nate lost the corseted David and Claire rebel. The Fisher and those around them, as Brenda, Keith Rico or continue their lives from this point, with death at their heels but leave space to tell their own stories, make your decisions and live what have to live .

is where Six Feet Under work their magic: telling human nature and the complexities we face along our existence through a set of characters really believable (and an exceptional cast) and their personal conflicts, which literally commune with what we as individuals have to live : the pursuit of happiness, loneliness, fear … Life, in other words

Dura, realistic and outside stereotypes, Six Feet Under thus became not only a great family drama, but in a study of all mankind; forcible therapy and highly enjoyable 63 episodes achieved, as well as entertain, open the mind of the viewer and offer another perspective about life and death. The latter is also the end of this story, but the epilogue is not worth reading, but I enjoyed, suffered and assimilated.