Six Feet Under - Static
It’s been an emotional time with the Fishers over the last few episodes ever since the death of Nate Fisher. This past Sunday’s episode was called “Static” and it builds on the emotional tidal wave caused by the death and how it has effected everyone in and around the family. You can read the entire synopsis of the episode over at HBO.com here.
The Fisher family has been tearing itself apart since Nate’s death with:
- David having more and more flashbacks of his kidnapping/mugging experience from a year earlier
- Claire getting high, drunk, and angry at virtually everyone in her path
- Brenda not being able to deal with Nate’s infidelity combined with being a mother to Maya
- Brenda and Ruth fighting over the custody of Maya
Through it all, every member of the family has their own personal interaction with Nate through a dream sequence. Perhaps the most telling moment was Nate’s dialogue to Claire in the middle of the episode when he starts talking about “Static”. With Claire seemingly falling apart at the seams (she eventually crashes that green hurst of hers), Nate reminds her to “stop listening to the static”. What does he mean? Everything in this world (life, death.. everything) is connected and surrounded with static - almost as if there was this constant stream of something-ness all around and through us. It’s easy for us to fall into the trap of everyday life.. of being caught up in the void that is around us especially when it comes to the death of a close loved one. However, if you spend too much time listening to the “static”, it’ll “f*ck you up” as Nate so eloquently puts it.
I suppose that’s the heart of Six Feet Under in a nut shell folks - the show reminds us that death is perhaps the only real guarantee in life and we must spend our waking moments appreciating everything that we have around us - whether it’s family, friends, our job, our hobbies.. anything. Thus it’s important that we acknowledge that death is a real culmination to our lives and to our loves one’s lives and we should live and enjoy the moment that we have now and not think about the “static” that wraps everything.
For there will never come a time again…
