# So I started watching Six Feet Under...\[Possible spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2015, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-started-watching-six-feet-under-possible-spoilers/722427 "2015-06-13T08:41:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-started-watching-six-feet-under-possible-spoilers/722427/41 "2016-06-10T00:38:12Z")
I just did a binge to end all binges, watching the entire run for the first time ever in eight days. I think I might need to check into a psych ward for a few days to decompress. I hadn’t planned on watching it so quickly, but I didn’t really have the DVR space to hold the entire run, and the HBO2 marathon was a solid 65-hour block so the first couple days (last weekend) I just watched it nonstop from waking up to going to sleep, a season per day. After the first two days I had enough DVR space to hold the rest but those first two days turned me into a crack addict, so I watched half a season per day after that. As mentioned, I’ve never seen the show before, though I did watch the final season when it first aired. But nothing since. And I’d totally forgotten what happened in that last season. For my money, this show is spectacular. I don’t really get emotionally affected by shows, so I didn’t find it depressing at all. Just interesting. Until, of course, season 5 when…[spoiler]…Nate dies. That was fine, but the following episode when they held Nate’s funeral it just devastated me. I was actually crying, like full on crying. For the entire funeral. Just killed me. Then I recovered during the dopey “David’s paranoia” scenes, which totally killed the mood, so I thought I was fine. But then the scene where they buried Nate just totally destroyed me again. And then the finale, for some reason I just totally lost it when we flash-forwarded to each character’s death. Each title card on white I just sobbed. This is remarkable to me, as I generally don’t get worked up over tv or movies like that. I don’t remember the last time I cried; it may have been decades. But this show just slayed me.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-started-watching-six-feet-under-possible-spoilers/722427/42 "2016-06-11T01:58:47Z")
Thank you, \*\*Idle Thoughts \*\* for recommending this show. I vaguely remembered it being on TV, but never watched it because if was on a premium channel. I just found it, though, on Amazon and it is one of their Prime TV series. I just watched the first episode today; it is pretty strange, and I hope it continues being so. Bob ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-started-watching-six-feet-under-possible-spoilers/722427/43 "2016-08-10T18:18:41Z")
Almost at the end of season three. It’s starting to be a little slow again. I find myself wishing the episodes would go faster. ---
**Author:** ![Meursault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Meursault](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meursault)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-started-watching-six-feet-under-possible-spoilers/722427/44 "2016-08-10T23:11:12Z")
Those characters start to feel like family after a few seasons. Great slow burn. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-started-watching-six-feet-under-possible-spoilers/722427.md?page=2)