Six Feet Under - Mother's Day

Cafe Society
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I’m suspicious of the Cromwell character. He’s too perfect.

I loved the contretemps (sp?) between Claire and Olivier. They both made good points about each other’s hangups, but they were both so extreme, the bits of truth might not sink in.

Totally shocked to hear the C word on this show. Must be a first.

A friend insists that Lisa killed herself, that she just walked into the ocean when she realized that she would never be Nate’s grand passion. But how could she leave Maya behind, especially with Brenda still in the picture. If she didn’t want Brenda looking at Maya, no way she’d open the door for Brenda to play a big role in her life.

I don’t understand how we can have such different ideas about this character. We both must be reading stuff into the character that the writers did not intend to be there.

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Great episode. I was also wondering what could be considered “foul play” as far as the car goes.
I have a feeling Lisa may not show up again this season. I am also in the ‘Lisa did not commit suicide’ camp, the baby being the main reason.

Things seem to just barely not make sense, which still brings me back to the first episode coma/dream thing. When Mr. Su was talking about his wife “One minute she was there, then she is gone, like she was never there at all” (or something to that effect). They are dropping hints about something, or maybe just to keeping people guessing, I don’t know. But a great episode, great cast, very emotional. It will suck having to wait for a new season.

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I could agree with this. . . except for the missing backpack. One doesn’t usually walk into the drink wearing a backpack. Makes me wonder if she could have gone off for a little hike somewhere (without cellphone & wallet cuz she might have thought she wouldn’t need them on her little hike) and fallen and hurt herself or something. Did we see any woods near the ocean where the car was parked?

Or perhaps she’s just a total mental case and thought she might need her backpack on her walk into the ocean.

This show asks many questions and gives few answers!

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Lisa goes hiking and a big rock falls off on her arm and after 5 days she she decides to cut it off…

I didn’t watch the episode where she leaves until Monday night. I got an email Monday morning from someone who talks about the show with me and she said “Did you watch SFU? Where’s Lisa?”

So I had that going in. Something clicked when she was saying goodbye. She said about Maya, “I don’t want her to see me leave”.

I also like Arthur. I don’t like Russell. Something’s creepy about him. He has that Billy Idol sneer thing. Olivier became a cliche. He just says the opposite of what you say and his accent makes it sound more intelligent. I liked David and Keith being together. They had issues but who doesn’t? The Brenda/Billy thing was just thrown back at us. I don’t see the relevance of that story line. Nothing’s moved forward.

A side question. Do people really talk to the funeral directors like that when making arrangements? It’s almost like therapy.

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And something clicked with me when Nate and Lisa’s last phone conversation ended…the call on the cell phone got to be full of static and then was dropped. Nate’s last words were “Lisa, I’m losing you…”

Yep, I agree.

Lisa’s will just be missing, and we will not get an explination for it. Nate will mourn, come to terms with it, and next season move on…hook back up with Brenda. Then Lisa comes back.

Also, for as much as Claire has been a doormat throughout this series, in this episode she had two good instances of telling people off who deserved it (Oliver and Russell). Good to see.

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I don’t recall exactly what’s the deal with her, and it seems like there’s a split of opinion and some murky memories going around.

One thing’s for sure, the sister-in-law is bitter and trying to wreck her sister’s marriage. She is such a jerk. “Look at this place!” Yeah, coz we all know that when you make a little money you have to move out of the apartment and start filling some frickin’ palace with big screen TVs, or else everyone starts getting clinically depressed :rolleyes: The wife should consider herself lucky Rico accepted the partnership in the first place, it’s clear that the extra responsibilities are really bothering him. She probably does appreciate Rico, but sister-in-laws are second place only to psychiatrists in wrecking marriages.

The first thing I thought when I saw Claire puke, due to TV conditioning, was “pregnancy”, which is just what they wanted me to think. But I wonder, there are other reasons women throw up in real life, right? And how early would the puking commence, she couldn’t have been pregnant long? We didn’t even get the TV-standard “OMG, I’m late for my monthly bleeding thing, oh no!” scene. Maybe the father’s that guy she screwed in the first episode of this season, and not Russell.

And please, please, somebody find a way to kill off the stupid, stupid, stupid, worthless, lousy Brenda before they reunite her with Nate. To resort to an “Enoch Arden” plot device with Lisa showing up alive after he gets back with Brenda is just too cliched. That, and Brenda sucks.

And there’s no way Claire keeps the baby. That kid’s getting miscarried, or if the show wants to be controversial the kid’s getting RU486’ed (if it’s still early enough for that?) Of course, they’re in California, so she can get an abortion pretty much as late as she wants it, if the show goes that route. If she keeps it, she’d always have a connection to the father, which she won’t want. So the unborn baby dies or the father does, most likely.

Lisa’s car does look suspicious, but surely the cops can’t devote resources to investigating a potential homicide solely on the evidence of a soda can? Taking the backpack is explainable if she went off into the woods or something.

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Clare - I’m assuming she’s going to have an abortion - from the preview for next week she is asking Brenda for a ride somewhere. I can’t see her keeping it.

Brenda - I really don’t want to see her and Nate get back together, Brenda is really screwed up and I can see her falling back into her super slut pattern as soon as she’s comfortable in a relationship again. Not good for Nate at all.