DEATH BECOMES THEM.(Review) (television program review)
American Prospect, The, July, 2001 by GAMSON, JOSHUA
In an early episode of Six Feet Under (which premiered June 3 on HBO), Viveca St. John, a dead porn star--electrocuted the day before when her cat knocked her hair-curler heater into the bubble bath--sits up on a mortuary table and comments on her well-known breasts to David Fisher, the starchy, responsible son in a family of morticians.
David, who has been secretly dating a Los Angeles policeman and is about to be made a deacon of his church, is unmoved. So Viveca begins a theological discussion. "You think God cares that you're gay?" she asks. "You think God cares ...
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