Alan Ball’s ‘Six Feet Under’ Tribeca Finale Screening: Frances Conroy’s Genius and the Post-Apocalyptic Final Season that Never Happened

"I didn’t know if I was going to share this or not, but my wife died 10 years ago. She was 35, and I went to the hospital, and I got there and the doctor told me she was gone, literally 60 seconds before I got there, and the next thing he said to me… was, “What do you do?” and I said, “I’m a television critic.” He asked if I’d ever seen that show Six Feet Under, and I said, “Oh, sure it’s a great show.” And he said, “Do you know the opening of that show, when they have people suddenly dying, and you never know how they’re going to go or what the timing’s going to be, or even whether it’ll be one person or someone else? I’ve been a doctor for a very long time and that’s the only time I’ve ever seen them do it right.”"

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Alan Ball’s ‘Six Feet Under’ Tribeca Finale Screening: Frances Conroy’s Genius and the Post-Apocalyptic Final Season that Never Happened – Flavorwire