Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Moving to Monday

SFU Production update

The link above leads to an interesting interview with Alan Poul regarding the upcoming final season of Six Feet Under. Here's the most interesting chunk:
HBO.COM: What are some of the themes we'll be seeing this year?

ALAN POUL: Well, most broadly put, the show always has to do with life in the midst of death--or death as the part of life. And also with people's notions of a family. We've tried to stay true to those themes through five seasons. But in one change, this season has a lot of focus on parenting.

It becomes an issue with all the major couples.

Parenting, relationships between parents and children, ideas about what constitutes good parenting and creating families out of unorthodox structures are all issues that will play a more central role this season than they have in the past.
This should be interesting. Does it mean David and Keith will adopt, or consider adopting, a child? Poul also says "the ending will involve life and death and will involve darker turns for some people and lighter turns for others." Could a show created by a gay man have a happy ending for a gay couple?

Speaking of gay-themed shows, the move of SFU means it won't conflict with the concurrent final season of Queer as Folk, starting on Sunday, May 22 on Showtime. It's going to be a fantastic fabulous summer!

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