Breaking Bad is the only show that comes close to this IMO

gnilttbs I honestly don’t understand why people think that using language like this makes them look smart. This made me cringe so hard that it actually hurts

gnilttbs Do you derive some kind of sick satisfaction from emptying Roget’s Thesaurus in every comment you post, while also belittling others at the same time?

Drake Lang he may not know the definition, but I bet he can give you several words that mean the same thing

@gnilttbs ...Quentin Tarantino literally is an auteur. You don't seem to know what "auteur" means. You're probably smarter than 90% of the people in this comment section (which _really_ isn't saying much since SFU seems to attract holier-than-thou airheads and religious crazies) but you should still make sure you know exactly what the fuck you're talking about before you make an ass of yourself by throwing around words like "philistine".

Bruh 😂

Bruh I'm dead

For real!!

I LOVE ❤️ David as Dexter!! 😂

@@paperchasindude6578 so is nate😂😂😭💀

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It was so nice that Nate got a final dying moment with David even through his dream. They were both so grateful for the time they had to reconnect after their dad's death. Life is beautiful.

Sam Loomis this scene made me 😢

revelating

Ecotone - where Nate and Davids dream intersect

Laura Sevilla me neither

Me either! Omg!

Laura Sevilla me neither :'(

Laura Sevilla I hated Nate and was so glad when he died. How did you like his character? He was such a douche.

Its now 14 years. Such a great show.

hbo got more masterpieces like true detective, band of brother, curb your enthusiasm, boardwalk empire its countless.

And Oz

The Deuce too...maybe, not too popular. The ending is epic.

Spot on. Own the DVD set and I’ve watched it at least 5-6 times

Real

10 years later..are you still alive and good?

@@kamen6009 3 years later... Are you? Let's keep updating this thread lol

I didn't until I read your post.

I didn’t notice until now. Every time I rewatch this scene I notice something new.

Actually, the ocean (and water) has always symbolized birth/rebirth. Never death. Maybe Nate chose reincarnation as his afterlife and this is how they chose to symbolize it.

loved this analysis u got a lil too cute at the end there tho lmfao

It was the worst thing about this show. Imagine contemplating which character was hallucinating. You'd never know as every single character was psychotic.

It was a shared dream

Your take sounds right on! ✅️

i felt like that too. it was absolutely heartbreaking and i miss him so much.

There's an underlying point to it also. That's what David would have been if he'd lived his life like Nate. He didn't. He formed relationships with other people. He sacrificed some of his freedom to join the human race. Nate never did. In the end scene, David grows up and goes on to marry and have a family. He dies surrounded by family at a reunion. Nate's life ended as a 40-year-old man-child foolishly using one person after another.

Christopher James same!

@Drake I like the way you think! Agree with every word of this. (Also, it comes as no surprise that a 6FU fan would gravitate towards The Leftovers; they always felt like spiritual siblings.)

@@tachycardia2224 leftovers is Six Feet Under mixed with Lost lol. That's why I love it so much.

I just finished this show and it blows my mind that more people don't talk about it, makes me wonder what else I've been missing out on that flew under the radar.

@@isaiahromero9861 It surprises me that no one ever talks about it. It seemed quite popular when it was originally aired, but now it's like no one even remembers it. Another show you should check out is Enlightened, also from HBO. Unfortunately it only ran for two seasons because of low ratings, but it did receive a lot of critical acclaim. People just didn’t know what they were missing with that one, it was amazing and a great story from start to finish. The good thing is that it concluded perfectly, so we aren’t left with an unresolved cliffhanger.

We all die alone.

@@pdxtim97209 not if you are lucky enough to be surrounded by family.

True, but we're still the ones who have to actually go through the experience of dying​@@STMARTIN009

Oh absolutely! That kills me every time😢

Just some background here: Nate was a narcissist. He didn't actually go through much of anything in his life because he refused to deal with anything. If you notice, he talks about being a fantastic father, but it's Brenda who's always dealing with Mya. He talks about loving Lisa, but when she was with him, he cheated on her and wanted her to go away. He works at the funeral home, but only when he wants to, and he comes and goes as he pleases, leaving everything with David. Even when he does something nice for someone, he acts like he parted the red sea and other people don't normally... help others? Listen? Care? The writers wrote him as a narcissist. If you fell for the illusion, they wrote him right. Narcissists weave a path of destruction all through their lives, but at the end of the day, they're always the victim. Even on his death bed facing death, he guilt trips his pregnant wife, is happy with himself for cheating, and has caused unending grief to Maggie, a person he barely knew. Brenda is a borderline and has her own issues, but she called him out in that last scene the way the writers intended him to be: You're a narcissist. And he doesn't care about people. He's just looking for the next one to make him feel like a better man than he really is. Even up to the end of his life, he's self-absorbed. He's not worried about his mother. His pregnant wife. The stranger he hurt. The fact that she might be pregnant too. He's not worried about saying anything to comfort anyone. Nothing. No introspection, no accountability.

Nate went through so much, 100% of it his own doing and/or fault. The show was written to make him unsympathetic, perfectly so.

​@@ko7577 he was very self-centered and struggled feeling what others felt... He needed a show of mourning and sadness to call them things genuine

​@@ko7577 the fact that Brenda is a psychologist at that point in the series puts it in perspective.

The Simpsons

@@AdamThoba...Huh?

I have been waiting for someone else to make that comparison for so long now! I wished that I had read this eight years ago.

⁠@@dougmiller3398if only I had been there 3 years ago to be there with you

@I am Jean Pierre, the Evil Puppet! he spent his whole life living for others expectations. Nate sr, his mom, his brother, Lisa, brenda, they all expected so much of him and he was torn between sacrificing his own dreams to fulfill others, or chasing his ultimate happiness. It was hard for him to choose

@@soulemnthegreat9557 well put. In life unless you are given a massive inheritance you have to have a job to pay bills to survive but you also have to have fun also. Work hard. Play hard. Just don't drink and drive.

Nate was trapped by his own choices.

Nate was a narcissist unable to connect with human beings, empathize with them, or find meaning out of life because that. Most of one's satisfaction from life comes by being able to connect with other human beings. Because of his narcissism, he couldn't do that. People who can't grow up tend to die early in their hearts.

​@@ko7577exactly

I felt like a lost a brother. When i finished the episode i went to make myself some food and i had the exact same feeling a have when i lose someone in real life. It took me a second to realize that Nate is a fictional character

Nate died lonely and miserable. He never grew up. The actual lesson of the show was freedom is its own prison. Self-absorbed adult children don't meet happy ends.

Ha!

I came hoping someone made this joke, and I was not disappointed

Bojack Horseman

Every episode is like a movie. The camera. The music. The storyline. Fantastic ❤

@I am Jean Pierre, the Evil Puppet! give examples

And oz !!

But...if they made a 6th season: I'd be so stale. David and kids, argument with Keith everytime, Ruth masquerading her time between George and helping her sister. Claire marries Ted, the folks get older, Maya (the Tosh sisters) would be given more time to reflect on her dad. I just wouldn't work. Everything has been done.

*It would be so stale **it just wouldn't work..

This show destroyed me and it proved my emotional walls bear no strength when it comes to the beauty, finality, mystery, and journey of death and how we all go through it. "Everyone's waiting" It tore me. Knowing our claire was 98 and looking back on everything. How much she went through. From gabe to ted, and it just hits me seeing old David knowing at such a young age he lost his dad, his brother, then lost his mom, his lover, and how "everyone's waiting" means so much because death is not the end. Our lives are but a vapor in the wind, the real journey begins when we leave this place. And when by the time claire was ready to pass, we know that everyone is waiting for her

Fax

@@soulemnthegreat9557 very well said, and if I may expand, I think American beauty is almost like a mission tastement of what SFU explores in such detail

yeah like by his deadly illness

@@mizusecond lol

@@pdxtim97209 ? Lol? Now I see how stupid you are. What happened to the second law of your favorite person Issac Newton? Dumb piece of shit

@@AdamThoba... You're embarrassing to the point where mocking you would be a disservice to your sheer fucking stupidity; congrats, I guess, you beat the system.

No the are not sharing the dream it's just you would never know who was dreamin .

He is only in their imagination, but was rude in all encounters with his family. September 92nd 2019 12:28pm aka November 25th 2019 12:28pm

In the end he becomes nice, holding Willa in his arms and saying how much he loves her.

Real.

@@lukec6d9so real

2, 100 days ago 7 years ago The score was so excellent. I'm season 5 the final ending was great. ( In reference to the audio only in opening credits)

Yeah, I'd say being the world's most notorious TV serial killer would put MCH up there, if not more famous than Peter.

That's really sad, hope everything turned out okay for you lady, if not i hope seeing you on the other side

You comment is awesome on so many levels

lulubeloo I

DCUniverse Domain who the fuck are you?

I was thinking this cover and saw this comment kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdWhf7to0dvScXU.html

Did you say anything? Or just play it cool lol

This happened to my grandmother, she ended up in the hospital and sedated for days, we didn’t think she’d make it. Woke up out of it and seemed on the mend, laughing, going through the hospital menu like at a restaurant, having nice conversations about life. Then boom got the text from my mother the next morning she passed in the night.

He looks like Shaggy

David was abrasive but he had a sense of responsibility and grew up. Nate never could. Nate's idea of "being free of all repression" was to use one human being after another, none of which he could connect with. The writers outright said Nate was a narcissist. He wasn't a good person. He was just pretending to be. And when the façade started to fall, he just found another sucker.

What song is this?

Strawberry Letter 23 by The Brothers Johnson