All are waiting

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Episode of the series Six Feet Under
title All are waiting
Original title Everyone's waiting
Country of production United States
original language English
length 72 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Season 5, episode 12,
63rd episode overall ( list )
First broadcast August 21, 2005 on HBO
German-language
first broadcast		 March 24, 2007 on VOX
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Director Alan Ball
script Alan Ball
production Robert Del Valle ,
Lori Jo Nemhauser ,
Craig Wright
music Richard Marvin
camera Rob Sweeney
cut Michael Ruscio
occupation
Guest appearance (s)

Everyone is waiting (Original title: Everyone's Waiting ) is the twelfth episode of the fifth season of HBO - television series Six Feet Under - Died always . It is also the series finale. Series creator Alan Ball wrote the script for the episode and directed it. The first broadcast was on August 21, 2005 in the United States and on March 24, 2007 in Germany on VOX . The episode is highly regarded by critics and regular viewers and is also often referred to as one of the best series finals of all time.

action

In contrast to its predecessors, the episode begins with a birth rather than a death - the premature Willa Fisher Chenowith. Brenda is plagued by visions of Nate, who indirectly personifies Brenda's own fear of her child's death. Ruth stays by Brenda's side during Willa's recovery and stops fighting Maya. Brenda later experiences a vision of Nate and his father Nathaniel holding Willa in which Nate's love for Brenda and his daughter can be seen.

Ruth continues to sink into her depression as Brenda takes Maya back. George tries to comfort her and promises to stand by her. Ruth finds relief in a phone conversation with Maggie, who tells her that Nate was happy the night of his fatal stroke.

Claire turns back to photography with Ted's help, and later receives a call from a stock photography agency in New York offering her a job as a photography assistant. She later learns that Olivier recommended her for the position. After Claire finds her mother crying, she promises to stay home to help her. But Ruth insists that she move to New York so she won't regret it later. Ruth also unlocks Nathaniel's trust fund for Claire. Claire later finds out that her position is no longer available due to reorganization. She considers canceling the move, but Nate tells her in a vision that she should still go to New York to start a new life, as he did a few years ago when he moved to Seattle without a job offer .

David agrees with Keith's suggestion that they temporarily leave their apartment to recover from his brother's death and returns to the funeral home. During a nightmare , Nathaniel confronts him about his possible exit from the family business and his sexuality . In addition, in a dream he meets the hooded attacker who has been plaguing him for some time. This time David defends himself and sees himself in the attacker, which allows him to let go of the past.

Rico, disaffected with the direction Fisher and Diaz were taking, encourages David to sell the funeral home after discovering that his 25 percent stake in the company is worth $ 500,000. He wants to use the money to open his own funeral home with Vanessa. David first agrees, but later changes his mind when he has a vision of his father in which Nathaniel tells him that the business is his birthright . Instead, David and Keith use their savings to pay off Rico, giving the Diaz family the opportunity to pursue their own professional goals. Brenda also promises David and Keith that they will have as much time as they need to buy up the stake she inherited from Nate. Keith and David move into the funeral home with their sons Durell and Anthony and redesign it. Ruth plans to move in with George first, but changes her mind and moves in with her sister instead. However, she remains in a relationship with George.

The members of the extended Fisher family (excluding the Diaz family, who have their own food to celebrate their new plans) gather for a farewell dinner for Claire that will remember Nate, tell stories, and toast him. The next morning, Claire says a tearful goodbye to her family before heading off into a new future.

The episode ends with several flashovers to milestones in the future lives of the main characters and ultimately their deaths. The montage - to Sia's Breathe Me - contains intercuts to Claire's drive from Los Angeles .

In the flash-ahead, Ruth enjoys life in Topanga with her sister; David teaches Durrell to embalm ; the whole Fisher family celebrates Willa's birthday; David and Keith get married. Ruth dies of old age in a hospital with David, Claire and George by her side in 2025 . In a vision she sees her late husband Nathaniel and their son Nate again before she dies. At Ruth's funeral, Claire meets Ted again; later both marry. Keith is shot dead by robbers in 2029 while exiting an armored vehicle that bears the name of his own security company. At a family reunion in 2044, David dies of a heart attack at his new partner's side after a vision from a young, smiling Keith. For a cruise with his wife Rico survives the year 2049 also of a heart attack. Brenda dies of old age in her home while her brother Billy talks about Claire and Ted. Claire most recently died in 2085 at the age of 102 in her own home with photos of the Fischer family on the walls around her.

Emergence

Series creator Alan Ball (2008)

Already at the beginning of the series, Alan Ball knew that Nate Fisher would die at the end of the series. Ball didn't want this to happen in the final episode, however. Together with the other scriptwriters, it was decided during the preparations for the final season to let Nate die three episodes before the end. During the talks, the idea arose to portray the death of all the main characters in the series finale. Ball retired to a cabin near Lake Arrowhead, Northern California , to seal himself off to write the script . He wrote the fade-ins to match Sia's song Breath Me , which was first used in a trailer for the fifth season of the series. Together with Gary Calamar, who is responsible for music, Ball decided to use Breath Me in the series finale after hearing more songs from Arcade Fire (Cold Wind) and Iron & Wine . The film editor Michael Ruscio lengthened the song on average to about twice the length in order to correspond to the length of the selected sequences .

reception

The episode received six nominations at the 2006 Primetime Emmy Awards . Alan Ball was nominated for Best Director of a Drama Series and Best Screenplay in a Drama Series. Frances Conroy was nominated for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Ruth Fisher in the finals. Further nominations were made for the best hairstyling in a drama series and the best equipment. The episode won an Emmy for the best makeup (prosthetic).

TV Guide ranked the episode 22nd among the best series episodes of all time, calling it one of the best television moments of the decade. Entertainment Weekly picked the episode on the best-of list of the decade, writing, “Finishing an acclaimed series is a pretty hopeless endeavor (e.g. The Sopranos ). But Alan Ball's 2005 Final Movement distilled everything we learned about life and death after five seasons with the Fishers. "

Web links

Individual evidence

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