Six Feet Under: Everyone's Waiting
2 updates on hidden messages/scenes below.
Best series finale in years!
It starts with Brenda giving birth to a preemie with Ruth holding her hand. We then see
WILLA FISHER CHENOWITH
2005 –
Claire is not answering her phone until Ted makes a joke and she decides to call back. David is moving out because he still is having problems sleeping and dealing with his new family. The boys are worried.2005 –
Claire feels better after doing Ted and we see his naked backside, unfortunately the series is over and Claire never got naked.
Rico and Vanessa are making plans for their share of the business.
Ruth is so depressed she watching Just Shoot Me, twice, and doesn’t know why.
While visiting Maya Billy creeped out Ted.
Dead Nate is feeding into Brenda’s baby fears.
Then a turning point in the show, David confronts his demon which is Nate. Claire and Ruth patch things up as Claire goes to NYC. Nate Sr., Nate Jr. and Brenda also meet and settle things over their love for baby Willa.
Claire loses her New Image photo job but Nate encourages her to go to NYC anyway.
By the time Claire leaves it is December and Rico and Brenda were bought out by Keith and David. Kathy Baker’s character said the house looks great and such a gay kitchen. They transformed the ugly house into a home.
The day of Claire chose to leave we see a video of Nate singing. After an emotional goodbye Claire takes her new car to NYC driving through deserts. We see a montage of their lives in the future.
Ruth gets a dog-sitting business. David is teaching one of his sons the family business. Willa celebrates her first birthday with Brenda. David and Keith get married in the wedding we see Brenda holding some guys hand with her two daughters and pregnant again.
The deaths follow.
Ruth dies in a hospital with her family and George by her side.
RUTH O’CONNOR FISHER
1946-2025
Keith gets shot to death by two criminals while unloading an armored car.1946-2025
KEITH DWAYNE CHARLES
1968-2029
Ted and Claire get married in her wedding David is alone and his two foster boys one has a son and a pregnant non-black wife and the other is holding another an Asian mans hand lovingly, Benda is there with her husband and Rico still looks young.1968-2029
David dies at a family picnic next to an old man.
DAVID JAMES FISHER
1969-2044
Rico dies on a cruise ship while walking away from his wife.1969-2044
HECTOR FEDERICO DIAZ
1974-2049
Brenda dies while talking to Billy.1974-2049
BRENDA CHENOWITH
1969-2051
Claire dies at home with a nurse surrounded by photos and blind.1969-2051
CLAIRE SIMONE FISHER
1983-2085
1983-2085
They through in a lot of extras in those flash forwards. The only question they left hanging was that Maggie was at the doctors and we never find out why.
Great episode the ending was perfect. Watch it in slow motion for the little extras tell me if you spot more.
Update: I'm asking if anyone else saw that David's two kids grew up and one is gay and the other has a biracial kid. Rico was young until he died and Brenda got remarried to a man that I've seen before, but I can't recall from where. I was hoping someone could clarify this for me.
The name of the song was "Breathe Me" I think this is it on MP3.com
Update2: Mark Rabinowitz said...
Actually, Eric a., the armored car company was Charles Security. Keith's last name is Charles. I am guessing it was his company and wasn't ready to retire!
I just rewound and noticed that I knew Keith wouldn't be reduced to a wage-slave job thanks Mark.
That is the kind of hidden stuff I meant.
Anonymous said...
If I remember correctly, Maggie worked for a pharmaceutical company before she ever came into the Fisher's lives.
This could be why Maggie was in the clinic. True but I like to think it's an abortion clinic.
Here is a quote from Alan Ball in the Aug 22, 2005 New York magazine.
"I hope the audience finds the ending as gratifying as it ws for us to create it." He also used birds to help usher death.
WHAT WAS THE SONG PLAYING DURING THE DEATHS??
ReplyDeleteThe song is Breathe Me from their album.
ReplyDeleteI saw those extras they weren't that hidden. Did you see something else?
ReplyDeleteThat is what I'm asking is that all the extra stuff or was their more hidden things. Sorry for the confusion.
ReplyDeleteVirginia Heffernan of the NY Times said that Claire "let her mind wander" while driving away, imagining how the others would live/die. Until finally we see that Claire lives to be 102. While watching it, I hadn't thought of the last 10 minutes as being anything but the camera/narrator showing me how it would all end for the rest of the characters. Judging from most of the comments and reviews I've read this evening, that seems to be the consensus. Nevertheless, one woman's imagination while driving across 3,000 miles is also an apt way of viewing it, and perhaps more realistic .
ReplyDeleteWhy was Keith working for an armored car business at the age of 61, I guess that raised retirement age i read about in USA Today does happen!
ReplyDeleteHere is a quote from Alan Ball in the Aug 22, 2005 New York magazine.
ReplyDelete"I hope the audience finds the ending as gratifying as it ws for us to create it." He also used birds to help usher death.
eric a. garcia I thought it was strange but remember no more social security, I think that was a little joke by Ball.
Actually, Eric a., the armoured car company was Charles Security. Keith's last name is Charles. I am guessing it was his company and wasn't ready to retire!
ReplyDeleteYes, Keith does not seem the type to retire.
ReplyDeleteYour post on the finale is similar in some some respects to this one.
Eric, Keith was not just working for the armored car company at 61, he was the owner of Charles Security.
ReplyDeleteIf I remember correctly, Maggie worked for a pharmaceutical company before she ever came into the Fisher's lives. I just assumed that (at the point Ruth called her on the cell phone in the waiting room) she was back to her old job selling drugs to doctors.
ReplyDeletegood point about Maggie--did she have her 'sample' bag with her? Was it all women in docs office? Leaves it open-ended for us to guess--same with 10 minute wrap--was it portent of what's to come or merely Claire's mental meanderings? Very Ball-esque I reckon.
ReplyDeletegood eye, fellas...good eye.
ReplyDeleteWasn't Maggie @ a gyno's office? Was she pregnant?
ReplyDeleteYes, this was one of the best series finales I've seen. I thought it would be apropos if everybody died at the end in a show about death, but I also thought it would have been stupid if they just died in one big explosion or something. I LOVED the way that they did show everybody dying. It was perfect and that song playing in the background was just great. Thanks for letting us know what the name of the song was.
ReplyDeleteWhen David confronted his demon, wasn't it himself he saw and not his brother Nate?
ReplyDeleteYes but his brother has always been the kind of guy David always wanted to be.
ReplyDeleteNoticed a little something at the end during David and Keith's wedding. Seated behind Rico and Vanessa (i believe) is Executive Producer/Director Alan Poul. Wouldn't have caught it if I had not watched the extras on the DVD.. and then rewatched the last episode.
ReplyDeleteCap1.. not all women in the doc's office when Maggie was on the phone with Ruth. It was a mix of people, and not one woman looked prego.. does make you wonder though. I thought she might have been prego as well.
ReplyDeleteMan.. I'm not so sure about that. Sure David looked up to his brother, but he ultimately had to confront himself. We all have a bit of self loathing within ourselves. We usually are our own worse enemies!
ReplyDeleteYou should rent the last episode and watch it with Alan Ball's audio commentary on. Great stuff!
I might just rent it. It was one of the last shows I looked forward to watching.
ReplyDeleteLately the only show I look foward to is Grey's Anatomy.