Mikal:
I must disagree. While it was a wildly uneven show that often made me cringe, it was innovative. It always opened with a death, and the randomness of the myriad ways one can die was captured perfectly therein. It also had the guts to focus on flawed characters grappling with serious concerns, and didn't have a thing to do with the Mob, forensics, law, or medicine. Finally, and back to the original topic, it showed people dealing with bereavement, a condition that we seem to run away from more and more these days. In short, there was some exploration of what Heidegger called authentic being-towards-death
My apologies for not labeling the spoiler. The show has been covered so extensively in the media recently I thought that particular plot development was common knowledge.
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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