He produced "Six Feet Under," one of HBO's early hits.
|
|
Why did technology not put movie theaters six feet under?
|
|
Because, I am afraid to go down six feet under.
|
|
But that's where a new Six Feet Under could work beautifully.
|
|
And I'll be alive in politics when they're six feet under.
|
|
It stars Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) as Jules, an aspiring actress.
|
|
Six feet under screams, but no one seems to hear a thing?
|
|
This thing was six feet under, and I think he's revived it.
|
|
Le Gallo's first role was as a teenage boy in Six Feet Under.
|
|
Much of Plaquemines lies below sea level—six feet under, people sometimes say.
|
|
To me, there were The Sopranos and then there was [Six Feet Under].
|
|
On "Six Feet Under," she and Claire learned how to be artists together.
|
|
Subterranean cemetery The solution is to go deep -- and not just six feet under.
|
|
There's a line from HBO's Six Feet Under I think about all the time.
|
|
The last episode of Six Feet Under is the single best episode on TV!
|
|
Her admission of feeling "lower than dirt" was very Six Feet Under finale-esque.
|
|
HBO struck deals with Amazon to supply it with programming such as "Six Feet Under".
|
|
I'd seen that happen already with other shows like "Six Feet Under," which was great. Sure.
|
|
It is written by Alan Ball, who wrote HBO hits Six Feet Under and True Blood.
|
|
But with The Sopranos, and two years later with Six Feet Under, something began to shift.
|
|
"If you think about, 'Six Feet Under,' well that was a pretty good finale," Bloys said.
|
|
Likely, when she's alive and all of her doubters are six-feet-under and missing ears.
|
|
And Sia made just about everyone in America ugly-cry in the finale of Six Feet Under.
|
|
Other shows, like Six Feet Under and Lost, were designed before anything like Netflix Instant came out.
|
|
More specifically, HBO doesn't need a new Game of Thrones; it needs a new Six Feet Under.
|
|
That's a lot of money, he thought, not to mention life-saving technology, buried six feet under.
|
|
One Mississippi has a lot in common with Six Feet Under, even though their premises are completely different.
|
|
Honestly, anything is possible, but I highly doubt he'll be six feet under when the finale picks up.
|
|
Most recently I ventured back in time to 2001 to binge on the HBO show Six Feet Under.
|
|
But does that mean we should forget about all the Game of Thrones hotties mouldering six-feet-under?
|
|
A personal favorite for Mr. Greenblatt was "Dexter," starring the former "Six Feet Under" star Michael C. Hall.
|
|
And as in Six Feet Under, the characters of The Leftovers don't know what to do with themselves.
|
|
"Six feet under [the standard elsewhere] is too deep for bacteria to break down the body," explains Mr Tulley.
|
|
"My doctor says if I sit outside in January, it likely will put me six feet under," he wrote.
|
|
"My doctor says if I sit outside in January, it likely will put me six feet under," he added.
|
|
Lauren Ambrose ("Six Feet Under") plays the urchin turned gentlewoman Eliza Doolittle, with Harry Hadden-Paton as Henry Higgins.
|
|
"Modern Family" is returning for its 10th season later this month, but apparently someone is going six feet under.
|
|
Unfortunately, Agent Einstein (Lauren Ambrose of "Six Feet Under") is rude, impatient, disrespectful, and not worthy of a younger Scully.
|
|
To the sadness of no one, Petyr Baelish, Master of Mustache Twirling for House Stark, is finally six feet under.
|
|
The D.E.C. has recommended drilling six feet under all crossings, but the company plans to "trench" through most of them.
|
|
Alan Ball, the Emmy-winning creator of "Six Feet Under" and nominee for "True Blood," is seeing dead people again.
|
|
Hence, while New Orleans is, on average, one or two feet below sea level, Plaquemines is literally six feet under.
|
|
And so the real trick to developing another Six Feet Under is in finding another Alan Ball to create it.
|
|
UNBOUND, which stars Rookie founder Tavi Gevinson and Six Feet Under actress Patricia Clarkson, will premiere on Thursday at 8 p.m.
|
|
The 35-year-old has been cast in Six Feet Under and True Blood producer Alan Ball's upcoming HBO family drama.
|
|
Hall, best known for his work on Dexter and Six Feet Under, is what some might call a "serious" stage actor.
|
|
Get ready to fall in love with the most beautiful doomed family on TV since the Fishers on Six Feet Under.
|
|
Eric -- who starred in "24" and "Six Feet Under" -- got the word Wednesday after the the request was denied in court.
|
|
The second was the family drama Six Feet Under, a sensation with critics and awards bodies and a solid ratings player.
|
|
As a teenager, I fought off suicidal thoughts after watching Claire go from hot mess to success in Six Feet Under.
|
|
In other words, Halt and Catch Fire landed on the Sopranos side of the Sopranos versus Six Feet Under series finale scale.
|
|
Contrary to widespread belief that bipartisanship is buried six feet under the swamp, we are bringing Midwestern sensibility to the policymaking table.
|
|
Nate Fisher from "Six Feet Under" was very difficult to play, because he was so at odds with himself all the time.
|
|
Harvey Milk is six feet under rolling in his grave at the Muscle Milk chugging Equinox clan that inherited his old neighborhood.
|
|
I've recently risen from six feet under, having just read a translation of THE DIRTY DUST, by the Irish writer Mairtin O'Cadhain.
|
|
Illeana Douglas, who later received an Emmy nomination for her role in HBO's "Six Feet Under," was introduced to Moonves in 1996.
|
|
Quick background: A brain tumor put my dad six feet under close to 11 years ago, when I was still a teenager.
|
|
When "Six Feet Under" ended in 2005, "somebody with a brain might've continued on in California to further one's career," she said.
|
|
The season has a serial arc, and Ms. Machado (previously of "Six Feet Under") handles the emotional material with a light touch.
|
|
Years ago, I dedicated hours and hours of my life to watching Six Feet Under and then I stopped right before it ended.
|
|
Lauren Ambrose ("Six Feet Under") stars, and if you like relationship-oriented dramas — and boy, do I — you are in for a treat.
|
|
"My doctor says if I sit outside in January, it likely will put me six feet under," Bush wrote to Trump on Jan.
|
|
Keep reading to find out if your No. 1 Netflix series is headed for the grave soon — or is already six feet under.
|
|
The series isn't all doom and gloom, but it doesn't sugarcoat the grieving process either — something fans of "Six Feet Under" would appreciate.
|
|
If you haven't ... RTK puts out a hit, murders and buries what everyone believes is a Lil Uzi look-alike six feet under.
|
|
These scenes feel like a direct homage to showrunner Kate Robin's past work on HBO's Six Feet Under, which used them to excellent effect.
|
|
While Vida might be six feet under in 2018, in this throwback of a video, she couldn't be more full of life — of vida.
|
|
The actor — known for his roles on 24, Six Feet Under and Haven — welcomed a baby boy with his wife Erin on Thursday, Aug.
|
|
Nonetheless, McConnell might decide to hold a vote on it, either to squeeze the holdouts or to put the whole saga six feet under.
|
|
"I want to fight for your rights from start to finish — until we put every dangerous idea and policy six feet under ground," he said.
|
|
He joined the band in 1995, replacing vocalist Chris Barnes (who went on to form Six Feet Under) in time to record 1996's Vile.
|
|
A new Six Feet Under could gain a lot of distance from its spiritual ancestor simply by changing up some of the key central elements.
|
|
Last month, Marvel announced that Scott Buck (who served as a producer on Six Feet Under and Dexter) would be Iron Fist's executive producer and showrunner.
|
|
In that role, he squired a few network shows and had a critically acclaimed hit with "Six Feet Under," Alan Ball's darkly comic funeral-home series.
|
|
In 2005, the final season of "Six Feet Under" was briefly moved to Monday nights before low ratings prompted executives to put it back on Sundays.
|
|
There's an easy pitch for upcoming drama Here And Now, HBO's latest collaboration with the man who gave us True Blood and Six Feet Under, Alan Ball.
|
|
And on Six Feet Under, it was the introduction of the person who was going to die and give the Fisher family a cadaver to work with.
|
|
We supported a proposal for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to require disclosure of corporate spending on politics, but that proposal is six feet under now.
|
|
Machado's career has spanned everything from ER's landmark 1997 live episode to a regular role on Six Feet Under to a short-lived sitcom starring Arsenio Hall.
|
|
Eric, who starred in "24" and "Six Feet Under," is in a heated dispute with his Venice neighbors, who tried to get a restraining order against him.
|
|
Nolan Gould is looking over his shoulder on the set of "Modern Family" ... because he's got a sneaking suspicion his character, Luke, could be going six feet under!
|
|
The Six Feet Under alum also discussed working on the show based on Gillian Flynn's book of the same name, and the anticipation of her second Globes nomination.
|
|
Justina Machado of "Six Feet Under" plays the ditsy best friend, and the Mexican actress Verónica Falcón is the cartel leader's wife who takes Teresa under her wing.
|
|
Ball scripted the Oscar-winning suburban lament "American Beauty," then created the classic family drama "Six Feet Under" and the less-classic vampire soap "True Blood" for HBO.
|
|
Six Feet Under "When Nate told Brenda he wanted a divorce I felt like he was breaking up with me," says CNN senior entertainment writer Lisa Respers France.
|
|
This board game, called Now and Then, is a bit less macabre than laying with your arms folded six feet under, but it's designed to do the same thing.
|
|
Since then, the network has built its brand around that same style of elevated programming, whether it's Six Feet Under, The Wire, Game of Thrones, True Detective, or Westworld.
|
|
There's Schiller's bathed-in-sludge soundscapes, and the unsettling chants and six-feet-under screams Ohara recorded in Japan and shot over to Barr to add into the mix.
|
|
But it would have been a great dynamic to watch her best friends navigate life (and handle A's threats) while under the impression that Spencer was six feet under.
|
|
"Six Feet Under" was not a perfect show, either, but it was an amazing one: a comedy about death, with great characters and a uniquely Californian embrace of decadence.
|
|
"It's like that old show 'Six Feet Under,' " he said, referring to the HBO series about a family-run funeral home in which each episode began with a death.
|
|
Rachel Griffiths ("Six Feet Under") and Yoson An star in this four-episode Australian crime thriller about a detective (Griffiths) and her trainee (An) after a colleague is killed.
|
|
Her other movie credits include "Titanic", "Fried Green Tomatoes" and "Midnight in Paris", while her work on TV has included "Six Feet Under" and the "American Horror Story" franchise.
|
|
" Working with other grim reapers, she must remove the souls of people and escort them into their afterlives — a sort of "Six Feet Under" meets "Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
|
|
Alissa: Personally, I hope Game of Thrones takes a page from Six Feet Under and ends with us seeing every one of the characters die, set to a Sia song.
|
|
Whether I'll be six-feet under, sprinkled into the sea, or eaten for Sunday dinner ancient Amazonian style, I'll be gone forever, and that's not an easy thought to confront.
|
|
Since his departure from The New York Times in 2015 to join a food start up, Mr. Bittman has had the unsettling feeling that people think he's six feet under.
|
|
And it goes without saying I will always have a soft spot in my heart for HBO going back to the rewarding experience I had producing Alan Ball's Six Feet Under.
|
|
Lauren Ambrose ("Six Feet Under") stars as Jules, who as an adult still feels like a lucky guest at the Interestings' party, even though she's as enmeshed as any of them.
|
|
Twin Peaks: The Return shares this view of life with The Leftovers, but its view of death comes straight from Six Feet Under, just with the amp cranked up to 13.
|
|
Strangely, the first thing I really remember making me feel okay was an HBO show: Six Feet Under, a truly melodramatic and over-the-top show that was entirely about death.
|
|
Good news from the world of online security: Oracle, developer of the Java plugin that has been making browsers insecure since 1995, has finally announced that it's sending it six feet under.
|
|
I've been begging my friends to watch Six Feet Under for years, but have found that a grim HBO drama about a family who runs a funeral home is a tough sell.
|
|
Michael C. Hall seems to often take on roles surrounded by death — whether as an embalmer ("Six Feet Under"), a serial killer ("Dexter") or an avatar for David Bowie's swan song ("Lazarus").
|
|
In 2005, buoyed by a song called "Breathe Me," which appeared in the series finale of the HBO show "Six Feet Under," Sia went on a long tour of the United States.
|
|
Pair it with SIX FEET UNDER, on HBO Go and Amazon, a dark drama starring Peter Krause and Michael C. Hall about a funeral home and the troubled family that runs it.
|
|
The showrunner behind Inhumans is Scott Buck, whose previous credits include work on Six Feet Under (which was good-great) and Dexter (which, while starting off strong, ended poorly under his run).
|
|
Six Feet Under mastered this technique in their finale, showing how the characters died (and, by extension, how they lived) in the same manner that was used throughout the show on inconsequential extras.
|
|
Lauren Ambrose ("Six Feet Under") and Toby Kebbell play Dorothy and Sean, a well-to-do couple -- she's a local TV newcaster, he's an accomplished chef -- whose marriage has been tested by tragedy.
|
|
Now that the zombie American Health Care Act seems to be six feet under again — for the time being — we can get back to policy discussions about the real effects of health reform.
|
|
As a respected and award-winning producer he was awarded the Golden Globe and Peabody awards for HBO's classic series Six Feet Under; and he has two Tony awards for his work on Broadway.
|
|
The truth is, not much will happen quickly to a corpse or anything organic if it's buried six feet under the soil's surface, because the diversity of decomposers drops off the deeper you go.
|
|
That's actually one thing that Six Feet Under did well: showing the absurdity that's knitted into the tragedy of death, and how people just do irrational, emotional, silly, foolish things to deal with it.
|
|
This "Day" dawns not only in a different era, but with a new ethnic flavor, starring Justina Machado (perhaps best known for "Six Feet Under") as the daughter of Cuban immigrants, and an Iraq veteran.
|
|
All but one of his characters ends up six feet under by the time this daffy, inspired musical concludes, but his brilliant performance deserves to be immortalized in Broadway lore for some time to come.
|
|
The Stockham family thought they'd buried Thomas the cat over six weeks ago, so it's understandable they were shocked and thrilled to get the call that their beloved kitty wasn't six feet under after all.
|
|
" But HBO not only produces a roster of the best-made shows today, it's also home to decades of culture-defining programming, from "Game of Thrones" to "Sex and the City" to "Six Feet Under.
|
|
"I really didn't want to end up six feet under," said Esai Torres, who joined the Dukes at 343, beating up rivals and following in the footsteps of his father, a leader on the streets.
|
|
Six Feet Under, meanwhile, reaches a place where the characters are mostly okay, and the flash-forwards to their deaths in its finale indicate that, for the most part, they stayed in that place of okayness.
|
|
Six Feet Under could feel like it had a strong center but was in search of supporting ideas to go with it, and I remember complaining about that fact while the show was on the air.
|
|
As 240 ended, headlines showed that the east coast was baking in record-breaking summer-like temperatures; large swaths of northern England were six feet under water; and African nations like Namibia were suffering unprecedented droughts.
|
|
When people describe the late '90s and early 2000s as the beginning of the Golden Age of Television, they're usually referring to the impact of smart, cerebral dramas like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, and The Wire.
|
|
The most famous woman to speak out against Moonves in either of Farrow's articles is the character actress Illeana Douglas, best known for her role on Six Feet Under, for which she was nominated for an Emmy.
|
|
Hall, of Dexter and Six Feet Under fame, has starred on Broadway before, in both the Bowie musical Lazarus and Cabaret, though as far as we can tell, this is his first foray into branded sugar theater.
|
|
I always think about Six Feet Under when I watch any film or show about death, but watching Endgame, I thought even more about something else: HBO's searing drama The Leftovers, which concluded almost two years ago.
|
|
Even with safeguards, though, there's a sense services like these could mean we may feel less inclined to rebuild bridges with friends and family, knowing that you'll be able to do it when you're six feet under.
|
|
While these electronic dalliances and post-production choices signaled the band's intent to make an album that sounded like an LSD-addled party, it was in "The Six Feet Under Swindle" that McCabe outlined Ink & Dagger's true intentions.
|
|
Silk dresses were a mainstay of the red carpet in the early aughts, and Patricia Clarkson wore a dark purple one for her first Emmys in 2002, where she was nominated for her work on "Six Feet Under."
|
|
He also indulged his passion for filmmaking, by advising set designers on a pilot for "Six Feet Under," the HBO series about a family-run funeral parlor, and playing an undertaker in a mini-series starring Sally Field.
|
|
All this plays out in the context of an ensemble family story — think "This Is Us" or "Six Feet Under" — about the comfortable Lyons siblings, who become, as the world grows more chaotic around them, progressively more uncomfortable.
|
|
Michael C. Hall has built a career playing characters who spend their lives trying to tamp down their darkest secrets, from the repressed undertaker David Fisher in HBO's Six Feet Under to the titular serial killer in Showtime's Dexter.
|
|
Everyone from David and Keith in Six Feet Under to Mitchell and Cam are able to begin their family because they have the kind of financial stability necessary to prove they're "worthy" of adding to their household, no matter their sexuality.
|
|
Moira RosePlayed By: Catherine O'Hara, prolific actress and comedian known best for Home Alone, Beetlejuice, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the Christopher Guest classics she co-starred in with Eugene Levy like Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show.
|
|
Aside from her six-season run on the hit Fox series Glee as guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury, Mays has credits in The Millers, Heroes, Six Feet Under, How I Met Your Mother and The Smurfs movie, to name a few.
|
|
The former President notably sent a letter to then President-elect Donald Trump in January 2017 saying he couldn't make the inauguration due to doctor's orders ... joking it would put him "six feet under" to sit outside in the cold.
|
|
In addition to piles of bud and the talents of new guitarist Ray Suhy (Six Feet Under), the band is powered by Hall and his twin brother, drummer Josh Hall, which makes for an unending array of "seeing double" jokes.
|
|
That sounds halfway compelling, and with Scott Buck, who won a Peabody for his work on Six Feet Under, serving as showrunner, it's reasonable to expect the show to reach a high bar of quality, at least on a technical level.
|
|
When the show killed off Gordon this last season (a breathtakingly executed passing reminiscent of the final run of "Six Feet Under"), it gave him a final victory fit for an engineer: repairing the office air conditioner with his own hands.
|
|
The setup recalls the premise of series from "Six Feet Under" to "One Mississippi" to "Queen Sugar": adult children settling family business after the death of a parent, in the process reopening the family's emotional books, too, reassessing old debts.
|
|
"Goodwill," written by series co-creator Christopher Cantwell and Zack Whedon, acts as an elegy not just for Gordon (who pulls a Six Feet Under by dying suddenly at the end of the previous episode) but for the whole series.
|
|
HBO's new family drama Here and Now — from Alan Ball, who created the original HBO family drama, Six Feet Under — is kind of a dud, at least through the four episodes (out of 10 total in the first season) that I've seen.
|
|
Frankly, it all goes back to how much I loved loved loved "Six Feet Under" when he was the producer, and it was on HBO, and I used to just design my whole Sunday ... Was that the best finale of all time?
|
|
If you happen to be an Amazon Prime customer, many of HBO's first wave of prestige shows are on the service, including Sex and the City, The Sopranos, The Wire, True Blood, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Oz, Enlightened, and Game of Thrones.
|
|
In other words, the President, and Republicans in Congress, deliberately pulled the rug out from under the "group of six" proposal, in the most definitive of ways (with Friday morning's presidential tweets attempting to bury it six feet under for good measure).
|
|
Sia, pop's enigmatic chanteuse and go-to songwriter, languished in the years following her work as vocalist for electronic outfit Zero 7 before her song "Breathe Me," featured in the series finale of Six Feet Under, helped to fuel her later revival.
|
|
What's more, the show does a lot of what I didn't like about Six Feet Under, especially in Six Feet Under's later seasons, wherein it focuses on dreaming up horrible things that can happen to the characters instead of creating actual interpersonal conflict and drama.
|
|
Foster has acted consistently over the past 20 years — most notably with roles in films like 3:10 to Yuma, The Messenger and Hell or High Water, as well as for his run as Russell Corwin on HBO's early-2000s hit Six Feet Under.
|
|
For an appropriate example of this game, in micro, we look to the video above, where LeBron tried to bury the rim, the basketball, and the hopes and dreams of the fourth largest city in North America six feet under the Quicken Loans Arena.
|
|
After making a sardonic splash as a bathroom-trapped high school senior in the 1998 teen flick, "Can't Hardly Wait," she spent five seasons in the early 2000s on the prestige cable series "Six Feet Under" as Claire Fisher, the surly, sensitive art student.
|
|
Six Feet Under, in contrast, ended with a beautiful montage that revealed exactly how every one of its main characters died, long after the concluding action of the finale, which involved the Fisher family's baby sister Claire riding off into the sunset to pursue her dreams.
|
|
After all, I wrote back in 2016 (shortly before HBO picked up the series) that the network needed not another Game of Thrones but another Six Feet Under, a drama that would engage with life as it's lived in the United States at this moment in history.
|
|
It was, in part, their wry essay imagining the ignominies of being Courteney Cox's assistant, which include making an appointment to bleach a certain area of the actor's anatomy, that kick-started Mx. Soloway's career as a television writer (on HBO's "Six Feet Under," among other series).
|
|
This Georgia-born writer's series "Six Feet Under," after all, was a dark comedy about a diversely dysfunctional funeral home family, while his "True Blood," based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries novels by Charlaine Harris, combined elements of fantasy, horror, bodice-ripping ardor and — why not?
|
|
Whether it was Sia's "Breathe Me" on Six Feet Under, or "Zou Bisou Bisou" on Mad Men, or that infamous OC scene with Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek," a well-placed song can amplify the emotional intensity and resonance of a moment, elevating it to fame.
|
|
But Six Feet Under survived its visits to Misery Town, and that was because it had a rigid, clean structure; no matter the depths of darkness it would plunge its characters into, it could always come back right away the next week with the promise of something new.
|
|
In what was certainly the second best closing sequence in a television show after Six Feet Under, Kristin Cavallari tearfully bids Brody Jenner goodbye in The Hills series finale — just before the Hollywood sign behind him is pulled away, revealing they have been on a set the whole time.
|
|
As played by Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under) in the show's second season (premiering Friday), President John F. Kennedy is still a charming leader who can deliver an inspiring speech (a scene where Kennedy describes a divided nation and calls for healing leadership seems particularly on point).
|
|
We are allowed to pine for that simpler time before swaddle blankets and sleep cries, when time was still our time, unplanned and marvelously flexible, when we could watch an entire season of "Six Feet Under" in one sitting because … well, what else were we going to do?
|
|
The creator Jill Soloway's work on "Six Feet Under" has some clear echoes here, particularly in the primacy of the relationships between adult siblings, and while the Pfefferman family members are not exactly admirable — everyone's self-absorbed and at least sometimes mean — there are some upstanding secondary characters.
|
|
Reminiscent of the brain condition that gave Peter Krause's character visions in "Six Feet Under," this story strand provides some reason to watch, along with Mr. Robbins's affable performance and the overall polish always supplied by Mr. Ball, who wrote the first two episodes and directed the first.
|
|
Best known for her role in HBO's "Six Feet Under," Ms. Ambrose was Mr. Sher's surprising choice to play Fanny Brice in a production of "Funny Girl" that would have marked the show's return to Broadway for the first time since it made Barbra Streisand into a superstar.
|
|
The fact that I didn't like the finale of How I Met Your Mother doesn't erase the enjoyment I got from the show's best episodes, just as the near-perfect finale of Six Feet Under doesn't erase the weird storytelling missteps the show made along the way to that finale.
|
|
Not surprisingly, pay TV could explore such material more boldly -- and certainly more explicitly -- than ad-supported television, from movies and miniseries like HBO's "And the Band Played On" and "Angels in America" to the dramas "Six Feet Under" and Showtime's "Queer as Folk" (2000) and "The L Word" (2004).
|
|
As I watched Endgame, I wondered briefly if it would go the way of The Leftovers, or even Six Feet Under, and spend a lot of this behemoth of a movie letting the characters deal with grief, and maybe not even make it all come out right in the end.
|
|
By focusing so much on trans people, the shows have introduced many Americans to a concept they may not have been familiar with in the past — much in the same way shows like Will and Grace, Queer as Folk, and Six Feet Under exposed Americans to gay and lesbian people.
|
|
The remix of the band's 1998 track "One Week," created by SoundCloud user edes421, replaces every instrument (except the drums) with former BNL frontman Steven Page's starter pistol of a lyric, "It's been..." The result is a surreal, stuttering thing, like a chatbot re-creating the numb arm scene from Six Feet Under.
|
|
"I used to say, 'It would be great if we could put him in a concrete chamber six feet under the ground with plenty of air and water, and he'd be safe there,'" Mr. Basham, the former Secret Service director under George W. Bush, said, repeating an often-told joke among his peers.
|
|
Illeana Douglas, an actress known for her roles in the show Six Feet Under and multiple Martin Scorsese films, said that in 1996, Moonves "violently" kissed her and pinned her down on the couch in his office during a private meeting Douglas understood to be about her role in a show called Queens.
|
|
With shows like Ellen, Will and Grace, Queer as Folk, and Six Feet Under, there were more and more media examples of gay folks just being human that helped show the rest of America that this isn't a group of people you have to fear or treat unfairly in social situations or through the law.
|
|
"Here and Now" crashes to the shore on a glittering wave of high hopes, with an A-list cast that includes Hunter and Tim Robbins; it's made by the beloved showrunner Alan Ball, the creator of the much missed "Six Feet Under" (and also the less missed but still fun and filthy "True Blood").
|
|
I talked to a number of different showrunners and writers for this article — some on the record and some on background — and the number of people who suggested The Sopranos and Six Feet Under as twin poles on a massive sliding scale of series finales got me thinking about the two as opposite endpoints on the same spectrum.
|
|
Alan Ball, the auteur behind HBO's True Blood and Six Feet Under, has created Here and Now, the story of two families: One is a white couple (Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter) with adopted (now-adult) children from Vietnam, Liberia, and Colombia (Raymond Lee, Jerrika Hinton, and Daniel Zovatto, respectively), and one younger biological daughter (Sosie Bacon).
|
|
Bronn had to know he was never gonna get that castle :/ You should probably say goodbye to these characters: Bronn Gregor Clegane Sansa Stark Bran Stark Sandor Clegane As Game of Thrones approaches its televised conclusion, we're all wondering who will come out on top, and who will end up six feet under (my colleagues certainly have their share of predictions).
|
|
Director: Antonio Campos (Afterschool, Simon Killer) Cast: Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Gift), Michael C. Hall (Showtime's Dexter, HBO's Six Feet Under), Tracy Letts (The Big Short, Showtime's Homeland) Distributor: None yet The underrated Hall gives a powerhouse performance here as real-life Sarasota TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who in 1974 shot and killed herself live on the air.
|
|
The pair reunited after Elena woke up from her permanent slumber thanks to that quick little moment when Bonnie's heart did technically stop — all about the details, those death loopholes — but their time together, at least as we would see it, remained brief: Vampire Diaries pulled a Six Feet Under and fast forwarded to the couple's death, showing both reuniting with their families in the afterlife.
|
|
Other notable nominees fans might recognize include comedian Amy Schumer (for Steve Martin's play Meteor Shower); Andrew Garfield (Angels in America), Laurie Metcalf and two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson (both for Edward Albee's Three Tall Women); Michael Cera (Lobby Hero); Nathan Lane (Angels in America); Six Feet Under alum Lauren Ambrose (My Fair Lady); and Oscar winners Denzel Washington (Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh) and Mark Rylance (Farinelli and the King).
|
|
And because the world and the business went on, others were able to step forward, through shows as varied as Will & Grace, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Queer as Folk, Six Feet Under, Brothers and Sisters, True Blood, Glee, Modern Family and Sunday's American Gods — a Starz soft-core fantasy that takes us way past those first-step Will & Grace days when characters could be homosexual as long as no sex was involved.
|
|
I typically recommend it to people who love "Six Feet Under" — it does not lack for grief narratives or poetic pauses — but if you like sibling conflict, family secrets, growing pains, teenagers getting into scrapes where not all the adults agree on the best course of action, and characters who each remember childhood a little differently for good reasons but in ways that deeply affect their adult perspectives, this is your jam.
|
|
"From the start of the show Kelly [Bishop] named herself my TVM, or TV mom, by which she meant she was taking her character's role seriously, beyond the pages or sets and out into the real world … In a maternal, protective way, she found most of my boyfriends at the time lacking, and once told me I needed someone who was more my equal, like 'that wonderful actor on Six Feet Under,' " Graham, 49, pens in her new book, Entertainment Weekly reported.
|
|
Loses his best friend and has to wonder if his wife is a KGB spy all in one fell swoop.) I dare not go on too much longer — except to point out that this series finale falls on the Sopranos end of my "Sopranos to Six Feet Under" series finale scale — because there's a lot to talk about, and I want to get your very high-level thoughts on the episode before we dig into the nitty-gritty (and let a few of our colleagues offer their thoughts as well).
|
|
Maisel (Amazon) The Mindy Project (Hulu) Narcos (Netflix) The Office (Netflix) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Outlander (Netflix) Oz (HBO Now, Amazon) Parks and Recreation (Netflix) PEN15 (Hulu) Pose (Netflix) Queer Eye (Netflix) Riverdale (Netflix) Schitt's Creek (Netflix) Sesame Street (HBO Now) Sex and the City (HBO Now, Amazon) Shameless (Netflix) Shrill (Hulu) The Simpsons (HBO Now) Six Feet Under (HBO Now, Amazon) The Sopranos (HBO Now, Amazon) Stranger Things (Netflix) True Blood (HBO Now, Amazon) Twin Peaks (Netflix) The Wire (HBO Now, Amazon) 30 for 30 (documentary series) (ESPN+) Avatar (Disney+) Bambi (Disney+) Big Hero 6 (Disney+) Coco (Disney+) Fantasia (Disney+) Flight of the Navigator (Disney+) Free Solo (Disney+) Frozen 2 (Disney+) Hillary (four-part documentary) (Hulu) The Irishman (Netflix) Jeanne Dielman ,23 Commerce Quay 1080 Brussels (Criterion Channel) The Marvel Movies (Disney+) Pinocchio (Disney+) The Pixar Movies (Disney+) The Star Wars Movies (Disney+) WIRED is providing unlimited free access to stories about the coronavirus pandemic.
|
|