Six Feet Under 4.01 - Falling Into Place (1 Viewer)

Will we find out what happened to Lisa last year?

How are David and Keith handling their new attempt at love?

Are Ruth and George doing well?

Will Claire find a relationship that doesn't leave her feeling empty and ultimately lost...?

How is Nate handling his life... and what's gonna happen with him and Brenda? (If anything...)

Are we going to get some kind of weird triangle with Nate, Brenda, and the neighbor?

Will this be the final season? (FOUND THE ANSWER) HBO already has greenlit season five of the series, which will go back into production next fall for a 2005 premiere. thanks to www.zap2it.com

I'm not sure they'll all be answered in tonight's episode, but I'll be watching.

There's a new family order at the Fisher & Diaz funeral home. Although one spouse is gone, another has moved in, ushering in changes for better and worse. For Nate, Ruth, David and Claire, every day above ground is a good one. Death and dysfunction are only the beginning on the Season Four premiere of Six Feet Under! (www.hbo.com)

I'm interested to see how much "real" time will have passed between seasons. Also interested in how the Mena Suvari character will play out.

Wow-very surprised that they picked up right where last season left off, considering the amount of time that elapsed between S2 and S3.

Not bad-felt a lot like closure on S3. I just hope there isn't some custody battle over Mya-that would be too pedestrian.

I doubt that'll happen. It doesn't seem like the route they're going to be taking.

Keith's line about eating the cake for 12 months was funny.

It felt like it was not only closure to season 3, but a new beginning to this season.

I think, not counting the pilot, it was the best season opener they've had. Seasons 2 and 3 both have mediocre beginnings as I remember. This one shows that the show still has a lot more potential.

I too was surprised at how little time had passed between seasons. During the credits, I turned to my friend (who just finished watching the first three seasons last week) and said "Remember, a lot of time may have passed between the last episode..." Boy, did I look like a moron

Definitely a solid opener. I was glad to see Ben Foster back...I hope he can hang around a little more this season. The stuff with Lisa's body was just depressing. Peter Krause is just so damn good at playing depressed.

I was cracking up when Keith was watching Christopher Lowell

I loved every minute of it - a great start. Let's hope the rest of the seaosn follows suit.

I thought the integration of the opening death sequence into the story was very clever. I wasn't sure where they were going with that, but the conceit was worked-in seamlessly.

I suppose the circumstances surrounding Lisa's death are meant to be equivocal. Was she murdered? Was it an accident? An act of volition? I lean toward the latter, because of the ominous remarks she made leading up to her disappearance. Too, I like to think that the writers were alluding to Kate Chopin's The Awakening , wherein the story's protagonist commits suicide by drowning herself. Even though Lisa seemed inexorably upbeat (the perfect foil for dour Nate), such a choice would not be unusual for her character. I'm glad Nate honored her wishes in the end. It was an act of partial absolution and the least he could do.

Great episode. It's like the show never went on hiatus.

I liked the opening but I hope they paint a bit of a brighter future for Nate this season. Like Claire, I am growing a bit weary of the seamingless endless chasm into which he's falling.

I also think that this is setting up a problem in a future episode, where she is discovered and identified. After all we have two or three clues: it was clearly stated to be illegal to bury her in this fashion, her mother is fanatical about her daughter’s disposal and (in the spirit of putting a gun on the table in the first act), we saw her jawbone (used to identify the remains) deliberately and specifically put in the body bag.

I don't know...I think the writers are smarter than to bring that all back up. I think that's the last we'll hear about it (at least I would hope).

I enjoyed the episode as well.

The opening scene was great and had a very spooky feel to it, but I never knew anyone who jumped off the top of a building while on acid. That dude had to be tripping balls.

My lol moment was seeing the look on Rico's face when his "SIL" flipped out at the table. He just smiled.

And a very powerful ending, too. I hope Nate can get a grip on things. (And I hope his battery didn't die after his lights were left on for hours and hours too.)

Mena Suvari is so hot! I can't wait to see her in SFU.

Edit: Nevermind, appear to have been mixed up on identity of actress.

Actually, I think I just got it. Were the ashes used in the end to substitute for Lisa, the ashes of the kid that jumped off the roof in the beginning, that had been on a shelf all these years?

You got it. Pretty crappy that no one had picked up those cremains in all those yearsl

I remembered back to a previous episode, when David & Nate were in the basement and they showed the shelf that contained all the ashes of people who had never been picked up and one of them commented on it. I thought it was cool how they worked that into the storyline.

I assumed that David knew what Nate did? Since he asked Nate on the porch if he was going and then David was the one who cleaned up downstairs.

That was classic. He just sat there and kept quiet with a little smirk

I hope they don't bring up Lisa's dead body again, but I did give it a thought when Nate was spreading the dirt over the grave.