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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0026359889226 Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Hbo Home Video Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Number Of Items: 5 Publisher: Hbo Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 06, 2004 Running Time: 780 minutes Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 03, 2001 Sales Rank: 1460 MPN: HBOD98892D
Description: When death is your business, what is your life? For Nate, David, Ruth and Claire, the world outside the Fisher & Sons Funeral Home continues to be at least as challenging-and far less predictable-as the one inside.
DVD Features: Audio Commentary:Commentaries with Alan Ball, writers and directors on Episodes 1,7,10,12,13 Episodic Previews Episodic Recaps:Season 1 Recap Featurette
Amazon.com: In some ways, HBO's Six Feet Under plays kid brother to stellar BMOC The Sopranos: it's spunkier, less refined, chancier, and a bit of a punk. Nevertheless, the show set in the Southern California mortuary Fisher and Sons deserves its place in the pantheon of great television series. The initial season was a showcase for the most original characters, including tight-lipped brother David (Michael C. Hall) coming out of the closet, emotionally trippy mom Ruth (Frances Conroy), and the most complex girlfriend on the face of the planet, Brenda (Rachel Griffiths). Slowly, the major force in season 2 is the unassuming lead, Peter Krause. Part of the long line of good-looking actors who never get respect because they make it look too easy, Krause (Sports Night) finds the perfect blend of optimism with a wonderful, bittersweet anguish as Nate, the prodigal son.
The initial season's happy ending is forgotten as relationships change, the business is still under fire from the evil conglomerate Kroehner, and a lively dream sequence is just around the corner. As with the premier season, creator Alan Ball lets many others direct and write the show, but his stamp is all over it. The eccentricities of the characters are shaped, and not always suddenly. Take daughter Claire (Lauren Ambrose), who sheds her bad boyfriend only to find more complex relationships on her road to discovering her own groove. One person in the mix is Ruth's beatnik sister (Patricia Clarkson, in an Emmy-winning role), a joyous embodiment of thriving--if aging--counter culture. Another new character is Nate's old girlfriend, the granola-loving Lisa (Lili Taylor). With Brenda heading down another destructive course, Nate is at more than one crossroads by season's end. For fans who groove with the wild, serio-comedic world of the Fishers (and let's face it, many didn't), the second season goes down like a fine meal of fusion cuisine. The show shares an unfortunate family trait with its HBO big brother: although both were lavished with multiple Emmy nominations the first two seasons, both took home only token awards. But then there's always next year. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Ten Feet Above
Kind of movie that is very interesting to watch. Exciting scenes, some to make you cry. All the actors are superb and are totally right for their role in the movie. Perhaps Krause and Hall would make ... Read More
Rating: - The Most Original Series Out There
If you're looking for something original and unique, you've found out. Six Feet Under is unlike any other TV show I've ever seen. It's fascenating and I'm hooked!!
Rating: - Six Feet Under Second season
Six Feet Under is not for teens or young children. It's full of adult content. It might not be for anyone who wouldn't want to watch show with gay couple in it or hear all the cussing. But I find this ... Read More
Rating: - Best TV series I've seen (from HBO, of course)
HBO seems to make the only shows worth watching. Six Feet Under is my favorite by far. This was highly recommended by friends, but it took me a long time to finally get around to watching it.
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Rating: - Continued Brilliance
In its second season, Six Feet Under continues to brilliantly build on what was established in the first season. There were many stand-out episodes, particularly in the earlier portion of the season, and ... Read More
