Why I hate Nate Fisher of Six Feet Under
character who portrays all the things that I despise about people in real life. I do not idolize him nor would I wish to become or know someone like him. The more you come to understand his character, you realize what an infuriatingly arrogant person and a total ass he makes himself out to be throughout most episodes of the beloved HBO show.
We are meant to relate to Nate as the archetypical white-male protagonist who is searching for some kind of meaning in life, and yet whenever anything appears to actually be working out for him, he takes literally everything he has for granted. For some reason he can never be happy, at least not for too long, with whatever isn't broken in his life and looks for excuses to doubt the things that are reasonably working. He is constantly whining and complaining about the awful/traumatic things that have happened in his life and instead of being able to move on and let it go, or even consider seeking serious therapy for that matter, he holds onto his pain by taking his severe frustrations out on other people, including those who inexplicably love him.
He is always obnoxious when it comes to preaching how he knows better about life than others do, including the concept of love when in reality he knows nothing and has no authority whatsoever going around telling people what love is and what it's not. David got it right in the pilot by calling him a "sanctimonious prick!"
He is a goddamn narcissistic, immoral, disrespectful coward who'll take whatever pleases him and does not give a single care about whom he hurts in the process. As long as he's able to find some kind of "safety raft" whenever the situation he's currently gotten himself into looks like a "sinking ship," he'll easily let it sink given the chance to do so and avoid any responsibility to try and work things out.
If I knew a person like that in real life, who was constantly getting on my nerves and never taking my opinions and thoughts into validation, I would drop that person without another moment's thought, because nobody should be treated like someone else's prop.
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