remains the gold standard for series finale episodes. Back on August 21, 2005, America was left collectively gut-punched when Claire Fisher drove across the country to New York and the conclusive fates of all the major cast members of the death-obsessed series played out on screen. Soundtracked to “Breath Me,” it is almost entirely the reason Sia became a mainstream star.
The original series, which ran from 2001 until 2005, was created in the immediate wake of Ball’s breakthrough with the Oscar-winning. It followed the Fisher family as they ran a funeral home in Los Angeles and contemplated their own lives and mortality. It was the type of show in which, if it took place today, someone dying on a Peloton would have been a standard cold open.
HBO and its parent company Warner Media were purchased by AT&T back in 2018, and Tinseltown has watched closely as the new ownership tries to expand the prestige HBO brand into wider financial success. That’s why your HBO Max subscription comes with revivals like the