Watched it again last night. Again moved to tears by the last 15 minutes.
No Sideways, it was definitely meant to represent Keith. It was probably a random family member or friend who was actually playing the game, but when he turned David caught a memory of Keith and died. By the time David died in 2045, Durrell would have been something like about 55 years old, definitely too old to be running around playing pickup football. I would imagine the older gentleman sitting beside David in that scene was his love interest at the time...just a pale (literally

) substitute for Keith, the love of his life.
I think Durrell ended up working in the family business when he grew up. David was teaching him embalming in that one scene, and later when Ruth (or Keith, I can't remember) died they showed a late 30-something black man assisting David with the burial.
Again, I was a bit thrown by the scene with Brenda seeing Nate and Nathaniel together holding her newborn. She was AWAKE. And she had never met Nathaniel in real life. I could see her having the visual image from pictures, but the voice? Only suggestion of actual supernatural occurrence, rather than just character's thoughts, that I ever recall them slipping in there.
Interesting how they outfitted Nate in all white for his rockstar scene. Nathaniel was always clothed in all black, as was the mobster "death" guy way back in the 1st season. Can't recall how the fat "life" jazz mama was clothed in those same scenes, but I don't recall it being all white. Would explain how Nate was the embodiment of Nathaniel's repressed "yang" during his life, and how the pull of Nathaniel's darkside "yin" was so strong during Nate's life that he fled it, the yang (light) only fully materializing upon Nate's death.
I thought it was funny how Billy was still talking psychobabble (something about he needed "emotional closure"...perhaps a reference to his unresolved unrequited love for Claire?) to Brenda even when she died in 2049. To me the look on her face was like "Oh for the love of God, enough of this!" as she died. They didn't do a good enough job of aging Billy in that scene though, imo.
Didn't catch the Maggie-Nate lovechild inference on first viewing, but after seeing it again it was definitely ambiguous enough to go either way.
I agree with DA, Nate's death was definitely a necessary catalyst for all of the Fishers. Ruth finally let go of the regrets in her life and found some semblance of happiness (while Nate was alive she probably couldn't let go of them because she saw so much of those regrets in Nathaniel's namesake son), David confronted his demon (himself) and Claire was emboldened to go for it. I wouldn't go so far as to say Nate was bringing them all down when he was alive though, except maybe in a sense that he was like their spiritual rock (kind of like expecting the firstborn to be the family standardbearer I guess) to which they clung in a codependent fashion rather than developing their own strengths, and when he died they were forced to move on. David alluded in the family dinner to how badly he wanted Nate to be cool, and in truth he probably NEEDED Nate to be cool. But in the same sense you could also argue that the weight of those same family expectations weighed Nate down heavily too, as evidenced by his fleeing in early adulthood.
I thought Nate's last words to Claire as she took the pic of the family before leaving were haunting..."you can't take a picture of it (the moment), it's already gone".
At Ruth's graveside service, was that a young Maya sitting beside Claire? I think so. She turned out to be a looker alright.
Claire lived to be 102 years old! Good God! I was hoping they would do a final vignette of her family in her cataracted eyes as well, but they didn't.
Anyone know the name of the song in the final sequence? I haven't tried to look it up yet. Great tune though...Ted wasn't so unhip after all.
Man, do I go a good Billy psychobabble impression or what?
