Six Feet Under Season 5

What BollyAI Thinks

Season 5 concluded Six Feet Under with a 97-percent Rotten Tomatoes score and produced what is widely considered the greatest television finale in the medium's history. The final episode 'Everyone's Waiting' ends with a seven-minute montage - Claire driving east as Sia's 'Breathe Me' plays, the futures of every major character shown in rapid, accumulating flashes across decades - that critics and audiences have called the most emotionally devastating sequence in television drama. George R.R. Martin told Variety it was 'far and away the best finale in the entire history of television.' Empire called it 'almost unbearably moving and thrillingly executed.' The season and the series end as proof that American television could achieve genuine formal and emotional art.

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Standout Episodes

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1. E12Everyone's Waiting9.8

   The series finale sends Claire to New York and then - in its final seven minutes - shows every Fisher's future across decades, each death arriving with the same matter-of-factness the show applied to strangers in its cold opens. The sequence achieves something rare in television: the formal and emotional simultaneously at full extension.

   The moment: Claire's drive east and the montage that follows - the most discussed closing sequence in prestige drama, and the one most often called the medium's finest achievement.

   “That last episode was far and away the best finale in the entire history of television, and I cannot imagine how anyone could possibly do better.” — George R.R. Martin, Variety

Season Over Season

A complete recovery and the show's finest year: the finale's seven-minute montage is considered by many critics the single greatest scene in prestige television history.