George R.R. Martin Names Best TV Finale of All Time, And It’s Not Game of Thrones (Duh)
This forgotten gem deserves your attention, as it totally lives up to Martin's praise.
Author and screenwriter George R.R. Martin was featured in Vanity Fair's article on the best television episodes of the past 25 years, which included the Blackwater episode of Game of Thrones.
Martin, who wrote the episode, thanked the publication for the praise. He noted that he wrote a total of four episodes for the show, based on his own series of books. He revealed, that Blackwater is his favorite one, but he also likes The Lion and the Rose from the fourth season.
In addition, the writer stated that Six Feet Under had the best ending on television ever. He considers the last episode of the show to be perfect, though he likes it less than other TV series mentioned in the article:
“I cannot say I loved it [Six Feet Under] as much as I loved Rome or Deadwood or Fargo or a few other shows missing from the list, but that last episode was far and away the best finale in the entire history of television, and I cannot imagine how anyone could possibly do better.”
Six Feet Under is a dramatic comedy with elements of dark (sometimes very dark) humor. The plot centers on what at first glance appears to be an average middle-class American family that, due to the peculiarities of the family business, is confronted with death every day – the head of the family, Nathaniel Fisher, is the owner of a funeral home.
The series raises existential questions about life and death, fear and loneliness, seasoned with a moderate amount of cynicism and humor. Almost every new episode of the show begins with the death of a man who later becomes a "client" of the Fishers.
The entire list of deaths – be it a banker, Santa Claus, or a baby – illustrates that the end can come at any moment, and no matter how you live, the end is always the same.
And it's really hard to argue with Martin – the finale of Six Feet Under is not only shocking and touching, but also fully reveals what the show's creators have been saying all along – death comes for everyone.
Source: Not A Blog