The last episode of Six Feet Under

"Wow."  In one word, that is how I would describe the last episode of Six Feet Under.  Last night I finished the single greatest television show I have ever watched.  There were tears, smiles, and laughs.  This is how a series is supposed to end (I am looking your way Sopranos... even though I thought the way that ended was well done too, it just didn't wrap things up and give you the closure you, as a viewer, deserve).  We got closure on every aspect and every storyline.  We even, in a beautiful 10 minute montage set to the song "Breathe Me" by Sia, get to see the ultimate demise of each character.  Anyone who can watch this finale and is a fan of SFU and not have wet eyes needs to make sure their heart is still beating.  Alan Ball created a family that you felt like you were apart of.  Everytime I watched the show I felt as if I were sitting at the Fisher table eating breakfast, or attending a Fisher & Diaz funeral, or when a major character died, you felt as if one of your close friends had died.  That is how strong and real SFU is.  Now, me, I did not watch this show when it aired on HBO (with many people telling me I should have when it was airing).  I instead watched after the fact (two years after actually).  Luckily, the ending was never spoiled for me, and the only things that I had heard about it were things like "this is how a series is supposed to end."  Many people were very pissed off with the way "The Sopranos" ended last summer, and I heard things like "why couldn't they do it like SFU did?"  I now know what they mean, and do agree... to a point.  They were different shows (obviously), but having closure on a television show about a family, whether it be the Fishers or the Sopranos, is necessary.  If you have never seen Six Feet Under, I say check it out.  If you have, then you already know...