We should jump ahead in time and see everybody at the moment of their death.” At which point I went, “Of course.” I mean, that’s the perfect way to end this show. And then whoever it was said, “No, I’m serious. Somebody said, “We should just kill everybody” - I wish I could remember which other writer it was who pitched this, because it wasn’t me - and everybody laughed. Once we figured out how to have him die three episodes from the end, suddenly it all started to fall into place. But we didn’t want to end the final episode of the series like that. I had always had an instinct that Nate would have to die, since his whole journey was coming to terms with his own mortality.
“All those things.” As part of our micro oral history week, Ball and the scene’s other key players look back at the finale and discuss the Sia song, the process of aging the actors, and grappling with the meaning of life and death.Īlan Ball (series creator and writer-director of “Everyone’s Waiting”): The writers convened for season five to start working on story, knowing the show was going to end. “People say they love it, that it was incredibly moving, that they watched it over and over,” he tells Vulture. The episode, “Everyone’s Waiting,” was immediately hailed as the most satisfying TV ending ever, something the show’s creator, Alan Ball, still hears all the time.
On August 21, 2005, the HBO drama Six Feet Under concluded with a seven-minute montage of flash-forwards revealing how each of the remaining main characters die.
We are rerunning it today in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Six Feet Under finale. This post originally ran in December 2013.
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