Matters Of Life And Death

We've just been watching 6X7, the Malay drama centred around a funeral company. Focusing on the day to day dealings of such a company sounds an unlikely premise, but it works extraordinarily well. The simple pieties, typical of this kind of Suria production, with which it deals become powerfully moving at times due, I suppose, to the honesty in how it deals with the simple, painful reality of death and how ordinary people deal with it. Remarkably the series manages to avoid the usual melodramatic tropes, even when the deaths involved have a quality of the unexpected, I suppose because death is so ordinary.