That (“All Things Must End”) was the tagline for the final season of the HBO series Six Feet Under. Used in that context, the old saw cut brilliantly in two directions: In its fifth season, the show itself was coming to an end; and the show, throughout its run, treated death as its core theme. [...]
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All Things Must End
Posted in Reflection, Television on 9 May 2007 | 1 Comment »
Nota Bene
Posted in Quotation, Television on 4 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
TV makes you stupid. It’s not an original insight, but back in 1980 the writer George W.S. Trow wrote an essay in the New Yorker that cast a particularly cold and waspish eye on the subject. Television, he suggested, had settled on the land like a slow, soft apocalypse, laying waste to every force in [...]
