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"Six Feet Under" That's My Dog (2004)


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8.7/10   257 votes
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Writers:
Alan Ball (creator)
Scott Buck (written by)
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Original Air Date:
18 July 2004 (Season 4, Episode 5)
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Plot:
While celebrating her anniversary in a hot tub after her husband prompts her to enjoy drinking, Anne Marie Thornton falls in the shower and dies... more | add synopsis
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The episode so horrible and misguided it nearly kills the series more (4 total)

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Runtime:
Argentina:60 min | 56 min (DVD version)
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This episode - which mainly focuses on the terrible events that befall David when he gets carjacked - sparked a great deal of online debate as many felt its violence to be extremely polarizing. However, it should be noted that the physical violence is mainly restricted to one scene at the end when Jake beats David up. The emotional torture he puts David through probably amped up viewers' perceptions of the amount of brutality that actually takes place. more
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References Showgirls (1995) more
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JAVA more

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11 out of 62 people found the following comment useful.
The episode so horrible and misguided it nearly kills the series, 12 February 2007
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Author: mrfountainblue from United States

It is rare in episodic television that a single show can be so dreadful that it upsets the integrity of a whole series. This is the case with the despicable "That's My Dog," a tasteless, out-of-control descent into cheap, anything-for-a-shock sleazoid TV hell. It is hard to take the character of David seriously after the bloody nonsense that he's forced to go through here. And this ultra-violent, druggie psycho with a gun episode thinks it's so "revolutionary" that it even dispenses with the successful "Six Feet Under" paradigm: the complex multi-story, multi-character editing. Nearly everything we know about David is smashed in this episode... especially his identity as a super-vigilant funeral director who would never allow anything despicable to happen to a body in his care! The whole show played like some third rate slasher film. How did the producers who created this magnificent series allow this lurid episode to happen? What kind of hold did writer Scott Buck have over these normally elegant artists? Were they so desperate to shake things up that they unwittingly risked the ruination of the series? This episode is an outrage.

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