I have never seen a show where every character is fucked up like SFU.

I have been following the question for a month. I know the ending is amazing and I don’t want to be spoiled, so I haven’t read the answers below. I just finished reading it yesterday and am writing something in silence today.

This is a super slow drama, super! class! slow! hot! It took nearly two months to watch the first season intermittently, half a month to watch the second season, and a month to watch the third season including the finale. When I finished watching the first season, I felt that every character was abnormal and had their own problems. I watched the show faster and faster with a natural affinity for such characters until the finale.

Having only watched this drama once from beginning to end, the so-called "evaluation" should be relatively objective.

1. Characters. In addition to the regular characters who are very neurotic and paranoid, the various guest characters are also full of problems: Billy, the violent and incestuous love interest, Author, the stereotypical old-fashioned virgin with glasses, and unstable moods and anger. The unknown Russell and so on, I feel like any supporting character would be as weird as Empress Mo.

2. The soundtrack and camera. The first driving force that attracted me to watch the drama was my curiosity about this industry, and the second one was the title. Looking back now, it seems that the use of background music was particularly restrained in the first and second seasons. After the third season, pop music was used extensively as background music (I like many songs). The camera, many times I felt like I was watching a horror movie, the camera angle was so weird, and the background of the funeral parlor made people think a lot.

3. Black humor. Although this is a TV series about death, the screenwriter’s imagination can be seen everywhere. There are always many funny plots with his incredible imagination. The black humor skills make people feel like they are watching. British drama. I was constantly amused while watching the show, and the last few episodes really made me cry out of sadness throughout the show!

4. Fantasy World, I should have watched the movie "Daydreamer" first and then SFU. I wonder if its screenwriter was inspired by this classic old drama. Every time in the fantasy world, you can not only see the screenwriter's imagination, but also unfold the characters themselves. People can't help but lament how confusing it is to see the world from God's perspective.

The age when I first understood death was not that it was burned to ashes or lying in a wooden box, but that it was buried directly in the soil, and small bugs would crawl in and out of the ears and nose. . At that time, every time I thought about the fact that people are destined to die and suffer such an ending, I cried bitterly. After watching SFU, I began to yearn for this kind of destination, buried directly in the earth like Lisa and Nate, six feet under.

I began to feel that it is incorrect and irresponsible to say that a certain work has taught us something. It is probably that our current cognition has found a point of agreement in the work. After reading SFU, I was most inspired by it. There are two points that fit together:

1. Accept imperfection

Don't try to make sense of everything. People always look for various meanings for something, what's the point of living? Meaning, what is the meaning of suffering... It feels like living in vain if it is meaningless. That's how everyone in SFU got fucked up: Lisa passed away without saying goodbye for many days and finally heard the news of her death, and then the secret affair with her brother-in-law was exposed; Nate and Brenda's conflict escalated and was not resolved, and he died after having an affair with Maggie... .... Haha, life is just too fucked up sometimes! People are always unwilling to admit that the things they spend time, money and energy on are not perfect in the end, and maybe the process is meaningless. Not everything has to make sense, not everything has to be perfect.

2. Learn to say goodbye

You can't take picture of this, because it's already gone. We are born to die. If we don't learn to be grateful when we meet, we must be grateful when we leave. Learn to say goodbye. Not only with people, but also with love and time.

Although the creators both inside and outside the play emphasize that some pain lasts a lifetime and cannot be smoothed away by time, you still have to learn to say goodbye. There is no other way, even if you may never learn it.