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Though
he’s fairly certain that his vision of an ideal career doesn’t
include attending to dead people – after all, it’s a large part of
the reason he took off from home as soon as he hit eighteen -- at
thirty-some years old now, Nate’s feeling a little lost, like he still
doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life. While Nate struggles
with the dilemma of how to do right by both himself and his family,
responsible, reserved, uptight David, always the good son, can’t help
but resent his brother for feeling entitled to making choices at all.
David’s whole life thus far has been devoted to trying to make his
father happy, all the while repressing his own hopes and dreams – of a
career as a lawyer, and a life spent with his secret boyfriend, Keith.
Then again, David’s not the only one with secrets: prim and proper mom
Ruth has been having an extramarital affair with a hairdresser she met
at church, while little sister Claire, a rebellious loner who doesn’t
fit in at school, finds herself making one bad decision after another
with regards to boys and drugs. The characters are quirky, funny, and
deeply, deeply, sympathetic, their relationships simultaneously
difficult and simple – when it comes down to it, they’re family and
they love each other – deep, and very real. Serious drama with a
seriously humorous streak – of the dark sort, of course –
Six Feet Under might center around death, but underneath it all,
there’s actually a subtle – and rather optimistic – rumination on
what it means to really live your life. Which may explain why a show
that opens each episode with someone’s demise never fails to leave me
feeling all lovey and warm and fuzzy inside.
sex and the
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I
am not a terribly girly girl – or, at least, it’s not a stereotype I
generally like to find myself falling into. I am not eagerly
anticipating the next fluffy Reese Witherspoon romantic comedy; I do not
spend my free time getting pedicures and giggling with a gaggle of
girlfriends; it takes me about thirty seconds
to “do” my hair, even when I’m going out. So it took me
awhile to get over the fear of girly overdose enough to rent the first
few episodes of Sarah Jessica Parker’s hugely popular show,
Sex and the City. Maybe I’m just girlier than I like to admit, but
after watching the first disc, I was completely hooked – by the ample
wit, the gleefully irreverent humor, and yes, all that very frank, very
down-to-earth, girl talk. Sex and the City
follows the lives of four beautiful, single, 30something Manhattan
career women in their seemingly never-ending quest for the perfect man
to go along with their otherwise perfect lives. Sex-and-relationship
columnist Carrie Bradshaw makes her living by obsessing over the dating
and mating trends of New York singletons – like her best friends
Charlotte, a marriage-obsessed gallery owner, Miranda, a cynical,
career-driven, workaholic lawyer, and Samantha, a nymphomaniac pr
executive who believes in disposable boy toys rather than real
relationships. Each of the characters is completely neurotic in her own
very special, unique way, and as we watch the four of them date and
discard just about every man in Manhattan, it’s hard not to notice
that though they might be great at their jobs, they’re pretty lousy at
the whole love thing, victims of their own self-sabotaging insecurities
more often than not. Still, even if the glossy, privileged, big city
lives of Carrie and Co. aren’t something you can personally relate to,
there’s something addictively, frothily fun about watching the ups and
downs of their crazy, crazy love lives. But the best thing about the
show is that every episode is like a roundtable discussion about a
different aspect of love and sex from the female perspective. While the
characters may sometimes be guilty of being shallow, the issues at hand
frequently aren’t. Bawdy, bold and provocative, Sex and the City shows that a half-hour comedy can generate plenty
of laughs, and still make you think.
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