Thoughtful and impassioned piece from Salon’s television critic in response to the evolving denouement on Six Feet Under, which is the only thing I watch on television these days and which is near completion of its final season. Caution: spoilers! Don’t follow the link if you are a SFU viewer who hasn’t yet seen the most recent episode unless you hate surprises.

And, by the way, a note to other webloggers who write about dramatic surprise plot developments in ther favorite TV shows. You often act as if there are only two classes of TV viewers — those who don’t care about the shows you are writing about (and thus won’t mind that you’ve spilled the beans) and those who saw it last night exactly when you did (and thus won’t mind that you’ve spilled the beans). Haven’t you ever heard of TiVo? VCRs? the concept of the spoiler? Just by scanning the weblogs I regularly read, no fault of my own, I could not avoid learning what happened on this week’s SFU despite the fact that I am three weeks back in watching the show on TiVo. Thanks alot.