# "Six Feet Under" vs. "Weeds" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [October 16, 2020, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-feet-under-vs-weeds/923096 "2020-10-16T09:59:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-feet-under-vs-weeds/923096/21 "2020-10-17T18:59:04Z")
I watched both and really liked Weeds at the beginning, but it took a really dark turn when the Mexican mobsters got involved. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-feet-under-vs-weeds/923096/22 "2020-10-17T19:04:47Z")
Weeds just got _stupid_ IMO. I liked it in the beginning, but I couldn’t watch past the 3rd-4th season. I liked SFU when it was New On Cable. Then I lost HBO and never finished. Tried to get back into it, but it seemed really dated and un-subtle. Same with _The Wire_. ---
**Author:** ![McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-feet-under-vs-weeds/923096/23 "2020-10-19T15:40:50Z")
Ooh I have disagree with you about “The Wire”. I just re-watched it over the summer and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Some of the technology is a little dated, but the story lines and characters more than make up for it. I also re-watched “The Sopranos” in the last year and it was also really good. Coincidentally I’m listening to Podcasts on both shows where the hosts break down each episode: - “Talking Soprano’s” with Christopher and Bobby Bachlia - “Way Down the Hole” - It’s a “Ringer” podcast with a couple of their hosts MtM ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-feet-under-vs-weeds/923096/24 "2020-10-19T16:12:08Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > I liked SFU when it was New On Cable. Then I lost HBO and never finished. Tried to get back into it, but it seemed really dated and un-subtle. Same with _The Wire_. Huh, you know I was wondering why “The Wire” didn’t grab me that much when I watched it for the first time this year (I found it good, but not great and didn’t get the hype for the show). It could be that it was just too dated (and yeah, pretty unsubtle a lot of the time). ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-feet-under-vs-weeds/923096/25 "2020-10-19T16:26:45Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Huh, you know I was wondering why “The Wire” didn’t grab me that much when I watched it for the first time this year (I found it good, but not great and didn’t get the hype for the show). It could be that it was just too dated (and yeah, pretty unsubtle a lot of the time). yeah, I’m not saying it was a bad show. It was very decent, and I get the hype for _what it was at that time_. It was a relatively complex and nonjudgmental look behind the scenes of the drug trade, street life, politics and policing, the press, labor unions. Wasn’t a lot of that out there before, at least not of that caliber. The thing is… given that there’s a lot more awareness of those topics nowadays, I found myself very irritated by the endless expository “as you know, Bob” dialog. Yes, in the year 2020, I actually do have a lot of familiarity with the subject matter, please stop explaining street slang and burner phones to me. Takes me out of the story. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-feet-under-vs-weeds/923096/26 "2020-10-20T16:46:13Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I just finished watching _Six Feet Under_ for the first time. I thought it was good, but not great. Certainly individual episodes are great. The acting is superb. There are a few twists I did NOT see coming. But with certain characters I just got tired of their bullshit after a while. > > I get the feeling that it was groundbreaking in its time, but a lot of its quirkiness doesn’t feel all that special in 2020. And with all the fuss about the ending, I expected something amazing. It ended about how I thought it should. Good, but not great. > > One other note: SFU gets _dark._ It is not a feel-good show so much as a meditation on life and death. I pretty much agree with everything in this post. The acting was very good and there were a lot of good episodes. I watched it to the end, but I didn’t enjoy the last few seasons, and I’m probably one of the rare people who didn’t really like the finale, although I recognize its merits. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-feet-under-vs-weeds/923096/27 "2020-10-20T16:49:44Z")
One thing about Six Feet Under; it helped me to appreciate the work done by morticians, particularly in the scenes in which Federico explained what he had to do to make the deceased presentable. ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-feet-under-vs-weeds/923096/28 "2021-07-07T21:12:50Z")
I just binged all five seasons of SFU (for the third time, I think) in the last five days, and it really held up. I liked the characters, like Billy and his mom, who were irritating AF but very well portrayed. I wouldn’t mind reinitiating this discussion if anyone is up for it (not so much on Weeds, tho–I watched one season of it and gave up. Blah.) The central conflict, seemed to me this time around, is between Brenda and Nate, who meet in an airport closet to have anonymous sex, and proceed for five years (and marriage to each other, and a kid) to have casual sex with strangers. Not sure how large a social issue this is, or was, or if I’m overstressing its importance in the series. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-feet-under-vs-weeds/923096/29 "2021-07-07T21:30:49Z")
We watched it for the first time last year. Nate went from being my favorite character to least over the course of the series. There’s a problem when a character doesn’t show growth and it’s the same retread of the same conflicts over and over (I’m looking at you, _Supernatural_). _looks upthread two posts_ I guess I already covered that. ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-feet-under-vs-weeds/923096/30 "2021-07-08T09:22:44Z")
This theme, of self-destructive sex with total strangers, permeates the show–not only do Brenda and Nate wreck their lives through promiscuity, but all the other major characters suffer from having incessant casual sex with horrible people: David and Keith, for example, seem to have the impulse control of rabbits in heat, and even Claire and Ruth persist in “falling in love” with idiots whom they barely know. Strange that I never thought about this as the show’s major concern, but this time it just jumped out at me. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-feet-under-vs-weeds/923096/31 "2021-07-09T19:58:55Z")
I would recommend both with SFU being the better of the two. As others have said, Weeds went downhill over time, but I did watch the whole thing. An interesting aside regarding Weeds. Vince Gilligan has said that if he had known about the existence of Weeds he wouldn’t have made Breaking Bad because it wouldn’t have been unique. Of course it turned out that there is no comparison between the two, with breaking bad being _far_ superior and in no way a rehash of Weeds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-feet-under-vs-weeds/923096.md?page=1)