So if you’ve watched six feet under you know everyone on there is pretty much crazy … Or if their not … Their dealing with crazies heh.
I find myself comparing real events that happen in my life to things that happen in the show.
Question is … Does watching a show about mental illness somehow make you feel like you have a mental illness? Or you compare your real life to the show so much that you come to grow annoyed of certain things in your life?
I think that you have only watched a few episodes in which some crazy people attend a funeral service.
That is not what most of the show is like. Most episodes do not involve funeral services or crazy people.
The show is generally far more balanced and comical and if you continue to watch, I feel safe in predicting you will find most of the episodes are quality entertainment and overall, you will find the show to be highly entertaining and well worth watching.
Best wishes and enjoy the show.
P.S. Welcome to the board.
If you don’t get a lot of response to your questions about SFU, it is probably because very few people have watched it or discussed it for a very long time.
I’ll second Charlie Wayne. The little you see of crazy is really quite endearing, I think. Mostly you see the struggles of the Fisher family and friends, and how they deal with their lives. And some very weird death-scenes. As in most peoples lives, there are moments of crazy, but not really as a big element of the show. I hope you watch it to the end, as it is well worth it. The finale is one of the best endings to a TV-show I’ve seen.
I believe I may be the only human alive who did not completely enjoy Six Feet Under. I thought all of the characters were insanely unlikable. I don’t know why I feel the need to have someone to root for in a show, but I’m sure that is a big part of why this series fell a little flat for me.
I watched the show when it first came out but lost track after a year or so. I had to start tuning in about 10 minutes into the show, because I didn’t want to see the death that began every episode.
As for the general question, when you see mental illness, do you start to see those symptoms in yourself? Absolutely yes.
This is a common pitfall for psych students in college, especially when they get to the abnormal psych course.
My husband and I were glued to the tv when the show was on. Of course the conceit of the death at the beginning was contrived but the story surrounding it and how the Fishers coped was just a little bit of brilliant. I liked the characters they were flawed, unromantic, egotistical but in the end just human and needing affection.
The finale is one of the best ever.
I thought Six Feet Under was great. It’s one of my favorite shows and I think it’s some of the best stuff ever done on TV. As others have said, the final episode is one of the best endings in TV history.
I just recently started watching cause my boyfriend had watched when he was younger and said it was great. On to season 4 now and I think its great so far … Wish Brenda wasn’t in it, as there is really no need for her character but shows is good overall.
I only asked this question cause my boyfriend started acting weird after seeing some characteristics in some of the girls in the show … Started picking at things that I did comparing it to some of the characters which I thought was insane.
Oh well, enjoying the show overall. 10/10.
P.s thanks for the welcome lol glad to be here.
You’re pretty far into it, but I think, of the main characters, Brenda is the only one that’s really crazy (not counting the rest of her family).
I just started rewatching it, but I’m only about 4 or 5 episodes into it. The last time I watched it was a few years back (plus I watched it while it was on) so I don’t remember a lot of the details. I don’t remember anyone else being too crazy. Everyone has their issues, much like any other family, or at least any other TV family. I mean, a normal family would be boring on TV, but toss in a fiery red head, an emotionally repressed gay brother and a mother who just lost her husband and it becomes a much more interesting story.
But like I said, I think the Chenowith family are really the only crazies on the show and I think they add a lot of, um, flare. You could take them out, but the drama they add is important. Where would you be without them? Think about everything that Brenda adds to the story. She helps push Nate to do what he wants to do instead of what he thinks he has to do to keep everyone happy.
It is as if the writers were given a lot of extra time to come up with a quality final episode for the ending of SFU.
IMHO, it would be wonderful if other shows put the same kind of quality into their finales. It is so sad when a show that the audience has come to enjoy very much is cancelled - sometimes in mid season - and the writers have to slap together a final episode without much thought or planning. The result is often extremely disappointing.
If only other shows would put the same kind of time and effort into their finales that SFU put into theirs, I believe most fans would walk away with a much greater appreciations for the show.
I don’t know how it works financially, but my guess is they would certainly sell more DVD box sets if people came to expect a quality ending. I would guess someone has to profit from those extra sales and if I’m right, I sure would like to see that influence the decisions as to how to end a series.
Watching Monk made me more aware of some quirks I already had, like counting my steps and needing art on the wall to be perfectly level. I can’t recall ever feeling like a movie or show caused me to feel mentally ill, not even One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
As to comparing real life - in retrospect I am extremely annoyed at Cinderella. I grew up thinking everybody found their Prince and lived happily ever after. I read my daughter The Frog Prince instead, only in my version she throws the frog against the wall and makes her own way in life first. 
My feelings exactly.
Your a great dad for doing that. I grew up thinking life should be a fairytale … But life has other ways of doing things.
I happen to be female, but I am basically both mom and dad to my daughter. 