Six feet under toujours plus haut

Je viens de terminer de voir la 5ème et dernière saison de Six feet under, confirmant que c'est sans doute la meilleure série télévisée faite à ce jour. La qualité d'écriture, de jeu et de réalisation est digne des meilleurs films et tous les thèmes essentiels de la vie (et de la mort) sont abordés avec originalité, humour, beaucoup d'émotion sans perdre de réalisme. Cela peut paraitre paradoxal pour une série qui fait parler les morts, mais c'est justement le "tour de force" réussi des scénaristes. Les trois derniers épisodes sont des chef-d'oeuvres du genre et les dernières 10 minutes où on découvre le destin final de tous les personnages est complètement bouleversant.
La vidéo en lien au-dessus est la campagne promotionelle pour la 5ème saison. En fait, toute l'histoire de cette saison est très habilement et subtilement codée dans ce film mais on ne peut s'en rendre compte qu'après avoir vu la fin !

En bonus, quelques phrases de dialogue piochés dans différents épisodes et tirées de leur contexte mais qui résument bien l'esprit :

Maggie Sibley: I know that if you think life's a vending machine where you put in virtue and take out happiness that you're going to be disappointed.

Claire: If we live our lives the right way then everything we do can become a work of art.

Nate: Why do you treat me like shit all the time, Brenda?
Brenda: Because I've had a really fucked-up life and I need sarcasm to hide how ridiculously miserable I am!

Officer Keith Charles: [talking to his gay friend David about marriage] You're in my will, I'm in yours. We basically are married, even if the law refuses to recognize it. But then again, I refuse to recognize most of the Bush Administration. I guess it all evens out.

Marc's Boyfriend: [of a blaring car stereo] Hey, so, does bad music make people deaf or do deaf people just have really bad taste in music?
Marc Foster: Well, there is Beethoven...

Margaret: Ruth, it isn't the '50s anymore, no matter how you dress.

Claire: So how have you been with your art?
Russell Corwin: I've been good. Been really really good. My work has gone to some amazing places since I got hit by a car.

Edie: I really like your penis. To bad you're attached to it.

Claire Fisher: I wish I was gay.
David Fisher: Ohh, no.
Claire Fisher: Well, then I wouldn't have to deal with unfamiliar sex organs!
David Fisher: They're all unfamiliar unless they're yours.

David Fisher: I forgot to pray. Can you believe it? I totally forgot to pray.
Claire: That's OK. God saved you anyway, right?

Ruth Fisher: I want to know why your other wives left you!
George Sibley: Because they asked too many fucking questions!

Nate Fisher: None of this turned out the way I wanted it to. I wanted to love you. I did love you. And I just felt like we were beginning to... I know we were. I know it in my heart. I feel like I had this once-in-a-lifetime chance and I fucked it up.
Lisa Kimmel Fisher: Nate, I'm not a chance. I'm a person.


Nate Fisher: [witnessing his open-casket funeral] Damn it, David, I told you I wanted to be cremated.

Nate Fisher: Will you hurry up? I don't want to be late for my funeral.

Claire: Let's just sleep together!
Edie: Now?
Claire: In a second. I need to brush my teeth

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