He’s religious and lives at home and never has any sense of adventure. He joins the family business although he wanted to be a lawyer. Hall) is the perfect child of the family.

The characters in “Six Feet Under” are all stupid at some point or another, no matter how practical they can be. He makes us feel stupid because he writes exactly what we’re thinking and walks us through a timeline of how we will always fail to be exactly as we wish we were. His words are our words, idealistic and stupid. Those who follow exactly what their heart desires, as we all wish we could do, sometimes fail horribly. Their thoughts are pretentious but their voices are slacked and broken. His characters speak as normal people because Ball has a sense of how people talk. Extraordinary.Īlan Ball has a gift of writing incredible dialogue that you barely notice is there.

But it would not matter how ambitious the show was, with its fearless embrace of some of the most horrifying events of life and death, if it did not have such talented screenwriters. The show subtly and effortlessly ties together an incredible number of plotlines And the seamless transitions from theme to dialogue would be impossible without an outstanding cast of actors to perform them, making “Six Feet Under” one of the foremost examples of a top notch writers’ table and ensemble cast. The show embarks upon reaches and bounds which can sometimes be shocking in their flawless performance. They impact the viewer with great force but sneak up and scare rather than travel slowly from out of frame. “Six Feet Under” does not trip or falter on its abundance of themes.

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