Season

Season 1

by Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez and 19 others

As prodigal elder son Nate Fisher returns home for the holidays to news of his father's death, the family must learn to deal with the death of one of their own—while figuring out how to go ahead with the business of living.

(17 total)

Characters

Alan Ball (7)Peter Krause (6)Nate Fisher (6)Brenda Chenowith (5)Rachel Griffiths (5)Bruce Eric Kaplan (4)Laurence Andries (3)Michael C. Hall (2)Mathew St. Patrick (2)Keith Charles (2)

“When someone sees you as you really are and wants to be with you, that’s powerful.”

— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Keith Charles, Mathew St. Patrick, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, Understanding, Powerful

“I know where you are. I was there. And I’ll wait for you because I love you. But I’m not moving backwards for anybody.”

— Laurence Andries, Keith Charles, Mathew St. Patrick, imdb.com

Tagged: Moving Forward, Moving Backward

“Everybody forgives everybody for everything.”

— Alan Ball, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

Tagged: forgiveness

“Protester: God hates fags! Nate: [to protester] God hates morons!”

— Kate Robin, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

Tagged: Homophobia, God Hates Fags, Westboro Baptist Church, Morons

“Tracy Montrose: Why do people have to die? Nate: To make life important.”

— Alan Ball, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

Tagged: Death, Life, God, Important

“You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too fucking awful to even have a name.”

— Alan Ball, Christian Taylor, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

Tagged: Widow, Widower, Orphan, Loss of a Child

“Nate: Come on, Dave. I watch Will & Grace. I have gaydar. David: Okay, don't say gaydar.”

— Laurence Andries, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

Tagged: Will & Grace, Gaydar

“Thank you, Nate, I appreciate your honesty, wrapped as it was in such a bouquet of condescension.”

— Christian Taylor, David Fisher, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

Tagged: Honesty, Condescension, Backhanded Compliments

“Sometimes I wake up so fucking empty that I wish I'd never been born, but what choice do I have?”

— Alan Ball, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

Tagged: Empty, Vacant

“No mistake, you guys are undertakers. You take every fucking feeling you have, put it in a box and bury it.”

— Laurence Andries, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

Tagged: Undertakers, Feelings, burial

“Brenda: I don't want any children. Nate: Wow! Who said anything about children? Brenda: I was referring to you.”

— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

Tagged: Childish, Sick Burns

“I wish that just once people wouldn't act like the clichés that they are.”

— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Claire Fisher, Lauren Ambrose, imdb.com

Tagged: Cliches

“You both look so happy. Just enjoy it while it lasts. Which isn't very long. You think you have forever, but you don't. Soon you start to get on each other's nerves. Then you don't tell the other person as much as you used to, 'cause, really, what's the point? You thought they understood you, but th…”

— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Ruth Fisher, Frances Conroy, imdb.com

Tagged: Happiness, Relationships, Alone

“Well, we're all wounded. We carry our wounds around with us through life, and eventually they kill us. Things happen that leave a mark in space, in time. In us.”

— Christian Williams, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

Tagged: wounds, Emotional Wounds

“You can pump him full of chemicals. You can put makeup on him. You can prop him up for a nap in the slumber room; but the fact remains, David, that the only father we're ever gonna have is gone! Forever…and that sucks, but it's a goddamned part of life and you can't really accept it without getting…”

— Alan Ball, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

Tagged: Chemicals, Death, Corpses

“When I went backpacking through Europe after I quit school, I went to this island off the coast of Sicily—it’s this volcanic island—and on the boat over, there was this pine box. Somebody from the island was being returned to be buried there. And there were all these old Sicilians dressed up all in…”

— Alan Ball, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

Tagged: Backpacking, Europe, Sicilian, funerals, Grief

“Old Man: You've done a nice job. She looks peaceful. David: Well, she is at peace now. Old Man: If there's any justice in the universe, she's shoveling shit in hell.”

— Alan Ball, David Fisher, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

Tagged: Rest in Peace, Hell