Six Feet Under is an American television series that depicts the lives of the Fisher family, who run a funeral home in Los Angeles. The series, created by Alan Ball, ran for five seasons on HBO between 2000 and 2005
The great Catherine O'Hara
It's so easy to forget all of the amazing actors that have appeared on SFU. Catherine O'Hara in season 3 is always a joy to witness. Given her history with Second City and Christopher Guest, I'd be surprised if at least ONE of her lines wasn't improvised. Does anyone know? I suppose the only way to find out would be by reading the scripts of the episodes, which must be tedious. Just curious to see if anyone has any insight. Do you have your cake towel?
I love her in everything (especially Curb Your Enthusiasm) and it was great seeing her here. She also prompts a great response from Lisa, one of my favorites, "my humanity just rose up"
Loved her and her cake towel.
Yeah I think the Lisa/Carol relationship/dynamic is one of the great pairings in the show that had no bearing on the main storyline. . Their scenes together were really memorable.
I agree, but I think it did have significance, especially considering where it was placed. Lisa is a patient, kind, and gentle person who doesn't even want to kill ants invading her home. Carol is so extreme and Lisa takes it and takes it and takes it until... SNAP. She loses it and quits on the spot.
This is not a healthy way to deal with things. You set boundaries, you tell people how you feel, what you will deal with and what you won't, rationally, instead of taking it until it becomes unbearable. Lisa follows this exact pattern with Nate (which is why the placement is great - she moves right on into taking it until she breaks with him). She's actually a great Fisher, because she's just like them (and I think they even hint at this with Ruth and Lisa standing in a similar way, smiling at a very unnerved Nate).
There aren't a lot of shows that do things so purposefully, and Six Feet Under rarely spells it out for you, so I've spent a lot of time thinking about it lol. Sorry to bombard your comment with this novel reply, but I CANNOT HELP MYSELF.
Your take on Lisa is interesting because it is very different from mine. She is one of the more controlling, suffocating and manipulative people in the show. I love Lili Taylor and think she is fantastic in the part because she made me have empathy for a character I found to be difficult.
I love Lili Taylor, too. Her switch ups between earth mother Lisa and bitch wife Lisa, and her reappearance in the dream sequences were so well done. A fun actress to watch. You could feel the tension!
No, I love this! I never thought of it that way but it gives new context to the character relationships and development. At first, I thought Nate's whole Oedipal dream (which is fucking hysterical, Ruth doing the Homer Simpson sex noise kills me) was a typical, nearly sitcom-esque troupe. But it really does seem now that they are portraying Lisa as maybe an alternate realty perfect fit into the Fisher family. We know that Nate and Lisa never got a chance to grow, but it feels like they were going to if she hadn't disappeared. I'd also add that her "humanity rising up" HAD to happen as it feels representative of her "selling out" (being in LA, which she describes as godless in Driving Mr. Mossback). At the root of it, she moved to LA for Nate, though she may have not even admitted that to herself. She sold out for love.
How about when Lisa gave Ruth a foot massage and Nate nearly came out of his skin? But then again, didn't we all?
I don't know if they would have grown. Six Feet Under likes to rob of us of Happily Ever After and keep things real as hell. I mean they had all that time in Seattle, too, and they didn't grow together. Lisa wanted the charismatic but brooding, bright guy who could seduce anyone and she wanted to be the special one he chose above every other woman. She fell in love with the facade and was disappointed when it fell away. Careful what you wish for, Lis.
Nate is perpetually searching for more meaning, the next thing, the new thing. Peace, maybe. Lisa, like his mother, puts him on a pedestal, takes him back no matter what, and desperately wants him to stay. But she is more than that, as we see at her funeral, all the details about her personality we never see because NATE never saw them either. She's fun. She had people who loved her. She's the kind of woman who would sleep with her sister's husband. Nate is familiar with the Ruth dynamic, but what makes Lisa comfortable to him is exactly what repels him. He doesn't want to turn into his father and he doesn't want to feel like he's wasting his life. Or worse, TRAPPED.
In the end, they both make the mistake of not knowing what they want or who they married.
I never understood what she was doing with that cake towel, lol. What is that?
I loved the cake towel because when my husband and I used to live in a studio with no dining table we ate in bed and had a “food blanket” lmao. For the purpose of keeping crumbs and food off the bed.
I think wiping hands and face lol. Serious business, cake eating.
YES and there is a great, quick shot of the soiled cake towel and half-eaten cake a few scenes later. I'm pretty sure this is the scene where Lisa quits!
She's fantastic in Curb!!! And in everything lolz
Oh my god I had NO idea that was her!