Six Feet Under finale: the ending that still wrecks us (20 years on)

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Rewind to 21–27 August 2005 🎙️

💊 (not so) model behaviour. Michelle Leslie went from catwalks to courtrooms when Bali police “found” two little pills in her Gucci bag. What followed? A media circus of headscarves, bribe rumours and a prison stint that ended almost as quickly as her career. From Schapelle to the Bali Nine, it was peak Aussie-drama-abroad season.

🎹 The piano man unmasked. Remember the mysterious mute who wowed (or maybe just plonked) on the piano in Kent? Turns out he wasn’t a ghostly virtuoso at all, but Andreas Grassl — a German twenty-something with a psychotic break and a wet suit. The tabloids lost their collective minds, only to find out he was basically Bavarian and bummed.

🏏 Ashes to ashes, urn to England. After 19 years of Aussie dominance, Freddie Flintoff & co. pulled off the impossible. From McGrath’s stray ball to Pietersen’s breakout ton, England finally snatched back the Ashes. Cue victory parades, national pints and every Brit suddenly knowing what “reverse swing” meant.

📻 Pandora’s (music) box. Pandora launched and suddenly your “personal DJ” wasn’t your mate burning dodgy Limewire CDs but an algorithm dissecting your taste in emo ballads. It was the start of streaming as we know it, long before Spotify swallowed your soul.

🔫 Suge Knight shot (again)! At Kanye’s VMA pre-party no less. Suge got clipped in the leg, lost a $135k earring and immediately lawyered up. Kanye walked away lawsuit-free but hip-hop’s drama quota was well and truly met.

😂 The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets lucky. Steve Carell’s chest hair met hot wax, we all met Judd Apatow and suddenly awkward rom-coms had a new king.

⚰️ Six Feet Under goes six feet under. One of TV’s most iconic finales hit like a funeral for your feelings. Sia’s “Breathe Me” played while we literally watched every main character die. No tidy bows, just pure HBO heartbreak — and somehow, comfort.

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