For Six Feet Under Fans …
At the close of last week’s episode, there were previews of the season finale, during which Nate has a eureka moment looking at a photo of Lisa on the beach taken shortly before she died. Someone had to take the photo, right? And that person would be a suspect? Maybe Lisa didn’t die by misadventure or her own hand.
My theory, which came to me yesterday as I watched Ozzy in yet another fruitless squirrel pursuit at the lake:
Lisa was murdered … by Billy, Brenda’s wacko brother. Here’s the method to my madness. Billy is a photographer (thus the photo). He has tangled with Nate in the past. His incestuous feelings toward Brenda resulted in a major rift with her. In Billy’s twisted mind, he decides that if he kills Lisa he can get back near Brenda again. Lisa’s death paves the way for Brenda and Nate to get back together (which has happened). Basically, Billy decided that if Brenda is with Nate and happy, he has a better chance of circling back and re-establishing his relationship with her. A happy Brenda is a Brenda more likely to re-bond with Billy. And Billy has re-established his relationship with Brenda. Also, kinda interesting that Billy shows up as the new instructor for Claire’s class. Coincidence? I think not. Now Billy just needs to deal with Nate …
Or maybe my interpretation is as empty as Ozzy’s pursuit of the squirrel, which by the time I had hashed out my theory was dancing merrily in the branches above a frustrated Osbourne, taunting him wihtout pity.
5 replies on “Six Feet Under … my theory”
Hmmm, Billy as murderer of Lisa. It’s possible. It’s also possible that HBO is running deliberately deceptive promos for “Six Feet,” just as it does for “The Sopranos.” Another plot line I see gelling is that Lisa’s sister is going to sue the funeral home over Nate’s handling of Lisa’s remains. The season will end with the fate of the House of Fisher hanging in the balance thanks to the folly of the eldest son. Very Shakespearean, in an Alan Ball sort of way.
BTW, I was a Nate Hater early into the show, so I’ll send Billy cigarettes in prison if he kills the self-absorbed jerk.
Good point. HBO is pretty crappy that way …
And I completely agree on Nate. What a wanker. Maybe they should have Tony Soprano show up to whack him.
Actually, this entire season has gotten on my nerves. I’m not feeling terribly sympathetic to any of the characters. Maybe Six Feet has jumped the shark …
Alan Ball is a misanthropic SOB. It’s hard to care about the characters he creates when it’s so apparent that Ball hates them. He practically commands us to despise them. The season finale last night only furthered this mission of animosity. Lisa, a murder victim, is revealed to have been fucking her sister’s husband. The sister’s husband, last seen as a supportive spouse, is a killer. Lisa’s sister is a clueless chit who wasn’t able to see what her hubby and sis were doing. George goes from annoying nebbish to raving schizophrenic. Claire is devolving into a coke head.
I want my Sopranos and Deadwood back!
Not sure I agree. I saw several positive, uplifting themes in the final episode (didn’t see it till last night — praise Tivo). I did think the whole Lisa affair/murder thing was corny. I was laughing when the brother-in-law blew his brains out, and I still think it would have been much cooler if Billy had been the killer. I’m writing this storyline off to the need to have a stick of dynamite go off in the season closer. It just seemed so contrived …
But the season’s final images are really pretty uplifting …
Nate and Brenda seem to come to some sort of peace in their relationship.
Rico, in decorating and imposing order on his room at the Fisher’s, seems to be coming to terms with the end of his marriage.
And finally, David’s conversation with Mr. Fisher while the rain falls was incredibly affirming.
This season was a lot like “The Waste Land”. Lots of sterile, existential drifting pieces that end with distant thunder and the promise of rain and fertility. No promise you’ll get there. But there’s hope.
I’m not sure George’s issues really surprise me all that much. This really fills out his character. I mean, it was clear something bizarre was coming there. This guy is far from normal.
And Claire and Billy’s hookup might not turn out to be a bad thing. Jury is still out on whether Billy is recovered or still a timebomb. You’ve gotta leave some issues to resolve next season.
Pretty words aside, Nate, Brenda and Billy haven’t resolved their shared larger problem, which is that they are CRAZIER THAN THE MATRIARCH IN A TENNESSEE WILLIAMS PLAY. You can’t wish mental illness away, but it’s possible Alan Ball will try to write it away. After the convenient brother-in-law-is-the-killer plot twist, anything is possible. And I’m ticked that the revelation of the Kimmel family’s dysfunction has the effect of absolving Nate of wrongdoing toward Lisa. He’s OK because they’re not OK seems to be the message.
But yeah, the Late Nate-David conversation was affirming.