I have been revisiting “Six Feet Under” (2001-5), one of American television’s best-ever series. As most of you may know already, each episode begins with a death. In S1, E13, a woman in her yard beside a fairway is struck by an errant tee shot.
Here’s a “striking” and “errant” thing about the scene which I want to put before the DG. The ball flares right, yet the right-handed hitter shouts, “Damn, I hooked it again!”
My questions:
1) Was the strikingly bad miscall (suspiciously bad, it draws attention to itself) an inside “joke” for the benefit of us golfers? Non-golfers get the simple message that inexplicable accidents happen. Only golfers understand the existential fillip: Meaning itself has flown off course?
(It is worth noting that the line is spoken by a bossy character who would be expected to command a basic fact.)
Conversely, did the creatives uncharacteristically – borderline inexplicably, in my book, since they are so good – err?
2) Where was the scene shot?