In the first episode of the first season, Nathanael, the male host of the Fisher family and the principal of the Fisher and Sons' funeral home in Los Angeles, happily drove a brand new hearse to the LAX airport to pick up the eldest son Nate who had returned home from Seattle for Christmas. On the road, Nathanael crossed a red light and collided with a bus because he bent down to light a cigarette.
While on the plane, Nate met Brenda, and the two quickly called. In the utility room of the airport, Nate received a call from her mother from home to inform her father of the bad news when she was picking up her pants. Because there is no car, Brenda takes Nate to the hospital. The father and son finally met, but the location changed from the noisy LAX airport to the cold hospital morgue.
It is precisely because of this accident that Fisher and Sons' The funeral home business is short of manpower. As one of the heirs, Nate, who hated the funeral home business since childhood, had to give up his job in Seattle and stay to take care of the family business, so Nate can stay in LA and Brenda to continue to develop the relationship. Fisher and Sons encountered foreign enemies at this time. The Crowners Group kept acquiring family funeral homes, and the major enemy of the Fisher family was now. Soon, Nate discovered that she was unwell, and went to the hospital for an examination and found a cerebral hemangioma, but Nate disagreed. Soon, Nate took her sister Claire to Seattle to play and lived with her female friend Lisa. After drinking, Nate cried to Lisa about his illness, Lisa comforted him, and the two had sex. Soon after returning to LA, Lisa moved to LA because of work. She told Nate that they were pregnant that night in Seattle. Lisa decided to give birth to the child and raise it by herself. Nate went to the hospital for an examination and found that his condition was serious, and finally decided to have a craniotomy, but the risk of the operation was very high. It is very likely that Nate would never wake up after the operation. Nate's Brenda couldn't bear such pressure. After Nate went to the hospital, she moved and left LA and disappeared from Nate.
In the first episode of the third season, an accident occurred during Nate's operation and Nate died. But a few seconds later, Nate was rescued again (this paragraph at the beginning of the third season is really Drama to the extreme). Later, Nate married Lisa Fengzi (Nate itself was an accident, it was precisely because of Nate that Ruth married Nathenial Fengzi), and took care of her daughter Maya together. Nate doesn't actually love Lisa, but she also takes care of Lisa. Lisa understands this, she can only focus on her daughter Maya. After that, Brenda appeared again. The fire of love between Nate and Brenda has not been extinguished, but Nate also tried to restrain himself, because he has chosen Lisa, so he tried to make himself start to love Lisa. Later, Lisa suddenly disappeared. After a long time, there was no news. Later, Lisa's body was finally found on the beach. As soon as the sorrowful Nate began to love Lisa, Lisa left him and his daughter. He followed Lisa's instructions to bury Lisa by himself without a coffin and ended this unexpected marriage. Nate and Brenda were finally able to be in a close relationship. They finally got married. With their love crystallization, Brenda also took good care of Maya. It seemed that Nate's suffering was finally over, but another accident came. This time Nate's condition suddenly worsened and died. Leave Brenda and Maya. The Fisher family, who used coffins as a routine funeral home, including Ruth, the mother of a white-haired man giving a black-haired man, together followed Nate's will and wrapped Nate in cloth and buried it.
The important nodes of Nate's life, including birth, death of his father, return to the funeral industry, first marriage, birth of daughter, and death, are all accidents, and this accident is surprisingly similar to his father. I have to say that he actually got himself, happiness, and family in the accident. The seemingly unexpected life has shaped a flesh-and-blood Nate who loves life and loves life when his fate turns again and again. Accidents, as accidents and inevitability of his life, brought vitality to the overall atmosphere of the show, which seemed depressive, brought the support of the audience, made their hearts beat with Nate’s destiny, and moved them for Nate. Even more sigh of life.
Accidents are not only manifested in the actor Nate alone, but also in the many people who died in accidents in the opening of each episode. Some were killed by objects falling from a plane, some were killed by a missed golf ball hitting the temple, some were stretched out from the sunroof of the car after drinking and were centered on the head by the upper signal light, and some were playing suffocating games to increase the pleasure Those who suffocated without playing well have many causes of death, and only one accident remains the same. After these accidents, how the family members of the deceased treat these lost lives and how to treat these accidents are the core of this drama. There are those who have to die, those who can’t hold back their grief, those who are happy to miss the life of the deceased, and those who have conflicts with their own family, whether there are those who don’t care, there are those who don’t care, and there are those who fundamentally look forward to his death, the value of a person’s life. It is easy to read from the attitudes of relatives and the speeches made at the ceremony.
What the screenwriters want to show in these ceremonies, as they said in an interview, is to tell people: after all, people are going to die, and the topic of death is not a forbidden zone. I think what the screenwriters mean by this statement is: to understand death, to boldly discuss death can we understand life better, and to talk about death or to know life. At the same time, the constant appearance of accidents reminds people of the fragility of life and how easy it is to cross the boundary of life and death. Nate, I think he is the person who knows life best in Fisher's family. One of the best examples is Nate’s father’s funeral. When his mother and brother dare not face the sorrow, those who don’t touch the soil seem to restrain the sorrow but are actually at a loss by the grief. He takes the lead. Hands, covered his father's coffin with mud, commemorated his father's life in the most primitive, material and most physical way, and vented his grief. His point is: When a part of you is pulled out of you because of the death of a loved one, how can you be so indifferent, release, and vent is the instinct of life. The spring from the impulse of life is exactly where Nate's fundamental value in the play lies. He constantly encounters accidents, and can also use his courage in life, use his instinct to resolve all these situations that ordinary people may not be able to solve, and set a clear example for this life drama from the front. It can be said that the role of Nate is the backbone of this masterpiece. Although he got up early for a run at home, he still couldn't escape the accidental brain tumor in the end. His life itself started with an accident, and ended with an accident. He didn't rush in this whole life. It can be said that he is the most beautiful one of SFU's many lives.
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