Last night's SIX FEET UNDER

[Ryall]

Wow, that was maybe the hardest hour on television I've ever sat through. What an amazing, and amazingly depressing at times, show.

[BrianLynch]

I agree...it was an amazing season finale for an amazing season. I honestly don't think there was one weak episode this time out. And it has the best cast on TV.

[Denyse]

I was involved in the filming of this episode and therefore, I knew what would happen...That said, I still cried my eyes out through the whole hour. I'm consistently amazed at the level of talent of everyone involved, from the cast to the writers to the production team. I'm heartened to know that my admiration for them extends to others whose opinions I respect...

[Razorback]

I was glued to the TV... it is still the best show on TV.

RB

[johnbamforth]

a good show yes but its not even the best show on the channel the sopranos is a lot better may i dare and say sex and the city maybe

[Ryall]

"...may i dare and say sex and the city maybe"

Hey, everyone, JohnBamforth is, like, a chick and stuff! That show hasn't been good since before the baby and the marriage and the Samantha-settling-down and the "I don't want to see any of these four naked except for maybe Kristen Davis and oh, okay, Sarah, too, even though it'll never happen and Kim Cattrall looks good even still and Cynthia Nixon is good but not for me." It's overstayed its welcome. Marry Mr. Big and move on.

What's the story on this new HBO show they mentioned, CARNIVALE? I don't even know what it's about and I'm in. Unlike THE WIRE, which I don't watch but probably should.

[DarthMaulRat]

Geez, everyone subscribes to the paychannels these days. I feel like a minority. In the days of old you only needed a descrambler, but now its much more complicated.

Seriously, is Six Feet Under good enough to pay for? The channel that hosted both Chris Rock and Dennis Miller never seemed like a deal to me, but the more Sopranos and SFU I hear about, the more I feel the pressures of conformity. Is this a good conformity, or an 'I love MTV' here's my money I have no opinion conformity? Am I now blabbering? Yes. Will I stop? Probably not.

[Denyse]

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What's the story on this new HBO show they mentioned, CARNIVALE?

[/ QUOTE ] Since you asked...
The series takes place mainly in a 1930's carnival atmosphere where some of the "freak show" participants have special/supernatural abilities. They're otherworldly, let's put it that way. That's the A-story. The B-story happens at the same time in a small town in California named Mintern, where our villain resides. It's a sort of Grapes of Wrath environment, a small, agricultural town, migrant farm workers, the works. The series will follow these two stories in parallel for quite a while, but they're thematically related and related in story and eventually they will intersect. It's a huge show, very ambitious. HBO themselves say it's the most ambitious thing they've ever attempted. It's an enormous production, an enormous cast. It's got a complicated mythology, ongoing story. It's pretty cool. It's genuinely unlike anything else I could compare it to on television. On a positive endorsement note, some of the Six Feet writers and directors have crossed over to work on this piece as well.