Six Feet Under - The Complete Series (Seasons 1-5)
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Starring: Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Mathew St. Patrick
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0026359836428
Format: Box set
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 25
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-03-28
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2001-06-03
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Summary: AWESOME SELLER!!
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Summary: A plot synopsis is NOT a review!
Comment: A plot synopsis is not a review. When you publish a review in a magazine you must analyze what is being reviewed. Maybe even add something new. To merely summarize the plot and say you love it is not a review. To post synopses of shows on Amazon is doubly ridiculous given that almost everyone who reads reviews on Amazon has already seen what they're reading about!
Now, Six Feet Under. Let me first say that it has always amazed me how much more hype The Sopranos gets when Six Feet Under is far superior. I can rarely stomach television. Six Feet Under is so well done however that it plays more like an extremely well-made film than a TV show (yeah, a 63-hour movie)! (It was, by the way, predominately filmed by movie directors, not TV directors.)
As many reviewers here have stated, it also has a LOT to say about life. Here are the show's main lessons, as I see them: Your life is the present. If you dwell on the past you might as well be dead, like Ruth sitting at the Formica kitchen table like a zombie before she realized she needs to let go.
People behave in patterns, and they cycle through the same patterns throughout their life. If you look at this cycle with a narrow view it may create the illusion that this person is changing. If you take a wider view you see they are really just cycling through the same pattern. People therefore seldom ever change. It is very difficult to break a pattern.
Nate for instance never changed. The minute he was with someone he lost all interest in them, as Ruth said would be the case in the first season. Nate was looking for someone to change him. He never found someone that could. Brenda made this clear when she basically said that Nate is a bad person and he is searching for someone who can make him feel like a better person than he really is.
Recognize people for who they are. If a person's limitations outstretch their intentions, failure will result. Take for instance George's promise to care for Ruth. He may have wanted to, but he was incapable of actually doing it.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. If you're waiting for things to be perfect, like Nate, then you'll never be happy because no moment is ever perfect.
Also, happiness is not a destination; it's not something you "arrive" at. If you're not happy now, having a kid or getting married is not going to make you happy.
It's not so much the way things are in the world that's your problem, but how you react to the world. There wasn't really some hooded killer terrorizing David. David was terrorizing himself. He had a naïve view of reality and needed to realize that that is not the way the world really is.
At first I thought Nate would move home and bring his family together, proving to be a strong and intelligent, even philosophical person, ready to help strangers through their grieving. It slowly became apparent that Nate was a self-obsessed, shallow narcissist who really didn't care about anyone else but himself and his own internal, petty drama.
The Fishers were all hung up on the past. (And notice that their Father only said to them what they were imagining.) Redecorating the 50s style house was symbolic of finally moving on, of letting go of the past and embracing the present.
Many people see families where the grown children are always around the parents, where they talk all the time, every day even, and think, "Gee, that's such a nice family; they're all so close to each other." Actually this is typically a sign that the family is dysfunctional. In healthy families parents encourage their children to become adults and leave the nest, emotionally as well as physically. Ruth realizes this when she forbids Claire to make the same mistakes she did.
(By the way, was it just me or did the timeline of this show simply not gel? Watching the events in the show and listening to characters state how much time passed between events it seems that six or more years passed from season one to season five. However, looking at the dates at the beginning of each show, only four years passed!)
For those who want to know (MEGA SPOILER AHEAD), here's how long each character lived as revealed in the series finale (one of the greatest hours of television programming in the history of the medium): Nate: 40yrs, Ruth: 79yrs, Keith: 61yrs, David: 75yrs, Rico: 75yrs, Brenda: 82yrs and Claire: 102yrs!
By the way, in Claire's death scene if you look quick there's an amusing mistake (or joke?) hanging among her photo montage on her wall. It's a picture of David and Keith with their arms around each other, but Keith is young and David is in his 70s!
And yes, it ends with Claire driving off toward the horizon. Show creator Alan Ball wanted to make it clear that Claire is the only one who escapes the Fisher family and their dysfunction. That's why, when she leaves, the Fishers are out of focus; they are already fading from her memory.
That is also why Nate, who is shown in the mirror trying to catch up to her, is left behind. The influence of the family is left behind and Claire goes on to experience a full and rich life.
Notice that for others, things never change. At 82 Brenda is STILL taking care of Billy, and if you pay close attention (or listen to Ball's commentary) you'll hear that then, in his 80s, Billy is STILL bitching about Ted, and he literally (according to writer Ball) bores poor Brenda to death.
And yes of course, the MAIN point of the show: Western civilization is a death-denying culture. We watch endless movies that show people getting killed, trivializing death, and yet most of us in real life fail to face death realistically.
We fail to realize that death is as natural a part of life as birth, that everybody dies, that you don't know when it will happen and that accepting all of this is part of living a full life. We are not prepared to die and we treat death so seriously that we're afraid to laugh at it, hence all the darkly comic death scenes at the beginning of each episode.
Alan Ball wanted the show to demonstrate that we are all connected in that we are all mortal; it does not behoove anyone to pretend they are immortal. As Nate says in the show, our mortality makes life important. Everything ends. If we lasted forever nothing would matter.
Six Feet Under seriously raised the bar for all television to come, almost demanding that TV airs more serious, reflective and intelligent shows with a heightened sense of realism.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The legacy of Six Feet Under
Comment: I chose to review the whole series instead of one season in particular because for me owning or watching one or two season is like watching half of a movie. The reason is simple, it may be true that the two first seasons are the most entertaining and funny but for a character development series like this, the third season is the year that Alan Ball starts focusing more on each character instead of giving us a bigger picture like the two firsts seasons. Now we know about the technic aspects of the mortuary profession and in my opinion what's to come is more cerebral and complex because we know the surface of the characters and now we start entering their minds and we become more attached to them. What is wonderful about this series is that the character development lasts about 60 hours (5 seasons) so if well made, it's way better than a movie that gives us 2 hours of that and it is, in deed, well made. I love every season of this wonderful series and I think the payoff at the end of the 5th season is nothing less than a masterpiece of tv making. The last 3 episodes of season 5 are simply sublime and I've never felt so much emotions for a fictionnal work in my life. Some movies or books move me but when you live with these people for 5 years, they become almost like family. Another thing I like is that the series felt more cinematic than anything I've seen before, the visual is quite special for television and it made me think about silent movies a lot which I am a fan of. So I recommand 6FU to everybody because another great thing of the series is that character from every generation is developped from teenage to old age. I would say though that young teenagers may find it too complex and older people too offensive but if you're from 30 to 50 years old and you like character development and the visual aspect of movie making to make a point, you will love six feet under. This series will become a classic because it broke so many barriers and people will talk about it in 200 years. It's expensive but if you can afford it, it's a great document to have. Now 3 little complaints, there's not enough extras, the first 2 seasons are not widescreen and no english subtitles in season 1 , only spanish???? Apart from that, it's perfect.
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Summary: do not buy this
Comment: Do not buy this collection! Apparently HBO is releasing a REAL complete series set for just 280 bucks, that includes a new booklet (Obituaries), a family tree, and the 2 soundtracks that were released. It's coming out October 31!
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Summary: One of the best HBO series ever
Comment: I first watched Six Feet Under at my parents home as I do not have HBO at my own house. After seeing a few episodes, I got hooked. I have since purchased every season on dvd. The series was absolutely incredible. The series revolved around a family who owned and operated a funeral home. The stories were about their interpersonal relationships with each other, their outside romantic relationships and their dealings with their "customers" on the outside perimeters or each episode. It was one of the best original television series ever shown on HBO. Definitely worth seeing.
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Summary: A plot synopsis is NOT a review!
Comment: A plot synopsis is not a review. When you publish a review in a magazine you must analyze what is being reviewed. Maybe even add something new. To merely summarize the plot and say you love it is not a review. To post synopses of shows on Amazon is doubly ridiculous given that almost everyone who reads reviews on Amazon has already seen what they're reading about!
Now, Six Feet Under. Let me first say that it has always amazed me how much more hype The Sopranos gets when Six Feet Under is far superior. I can rarely stomach television. Six Feet Under is so well done however that it plays more like an extremely well-made film than a TV show (yeah, a 63-hour movie)! (It was, by the way, predominately filmed by movie directors, not TV directors.)
As many reviewers here have stated, it also has a LOT to say about life. Here are the show's main lessons, as I see them: Your life is the present. If you dwell on the past you might as well be dead, like Ruth sitting at the Formica kitchen table like a zombie before she realized she needs to let go.
People behave in patterns, and they cycle through the same patterns throughout their life. If you look at this cycle with a narrow view it may create the illusion that this person is changing. If you take a wider view you see they are really just cycling through the same pattern. People therefore seldom ever change. It is very difficult to break a pattern.
Nate for instance never changed. The minute he was with someone he lost all interest in them, as Ruth said would be the case in the first season. Nate was looking for someone to change him. He never found someone that could. Brenda made this clear when she basically said that Nate is a bad person and he is searching for someone who can make him feel like a better person than he really is.
Recognize people for who they are. If a person's limitations outstretch their intentions, failure will result. Take for instance George's promise to care for Ruth. He may have wanted to, but he was incapable of actually doing it.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. If you're waiting for things to be perfect, like Nate, then you'll never be happy because no moment is ever perfect.
Also, happiness is not a destination; it's not something you "arrive" at. If you're not happy now, having a kid or getting married is not going to make you happy.
It's not so much the way things are in the world that's your problem, but how you react to the world. There wasn't really some hooded killer terrorizing David. David was terrorizing himself. He had a naïve view of reality and needed to realize that that is not the way the world really is.
At first I thought Nate would move home and bring his family together, proving to be a strong and intelligent, even philosophical person, ready to help strangers through their grieving. It slowly became apparent that Nate was a self-obsessed, shallow narcissist who really didn't care about anyone else but himself and his own internal, petty drama.
The Fishers were all hung up on the past. (And notice that their Father only said to them what they were imagining.) Redecorating the 50s style house was symbolic of finally moving on, of letting go of the past and embracing the present.
Many people see families where the grown children are always around the parents, where they talk all the time, every day even, and think, "Gee, that's such a nice family; they're all so close to each other." Actually this is typically a sign that the family is dysfunctional. In healthy families parents encourage their children to become adults and leave the nest, emotionally as well as physically. Ruth realizes this when she forbids Claire to make the same mistakes she did.
(By the way, was it just me or did the timeline of this show simply not gel? Watching the events in the show and listening to characters state how much time passed between events it seems that six or more years passed from season one to season five. However, looking at the dates at the beginning of each show, only four years passed!)
For those who want to know (MEGA SPOILER AHEAD), here's how long each character lived as revealed in the series finale (one of the greatest hours of television programming in the history of the medium): Nate: 40yrs, Ruth: 79yrs, Keith: 61yrs, David: 75yrs, Rico: 75yrs, Brenda: 82yrs and Claire: 102yrs!
By the way, in Claire's death scene if you look quick there's an amusing mistake (or joke?) hanging among her photo montage on her wall. It's a picture of David and Keith with their arms around each other, but Keith is young and David is in his 70s!
And yes, it ends with Claire driving off toward the horizon. Show creator Alan Ball wanted to make it clear that Claire is the only one who escapes the Fisher family and their dysfunction. That's why, when she leaves, the Fishers are out of focus; they are already fading from her memory.
That is also why Nate, who is shown in the mirror trying to catch up to her, is left behind. The influence of the family is left behind and Claire goes on to experience a full and rich life.
Notice that for others, things never change. At 82 Brenda is STILL taking care of Billy, and if you pay close attention (or listen to Ball's commentary) you'll hear that then, in his 80s, Billy is STILL bitching about Ted, and he literally (according to writer Ball) bores poor Brenda to death.
And yes of course, the MAIN point of the show: Western civilization is a death-denying culture. We watch endless movies that show people getting killed, trivializing death, and yet most of us in real life fail to face death realistically.
We fail to realize that death is as natural a part of life as birth, that everybody dies, that you don't know when it will happen and that accepting all of this is part of living a full life. We are not prepared to die and we treat death so seriously that we're afraid to laugh at it, hence all the darkly comic death scenes at the beginning of each episode.
Alan Ball wanted the show to demonstrate that we are all connected in that we are all mortal; it does not behoove anyone to pretend they are immortal. As Nate says in the show, our mortality makes life important. Everything ends. If we lasted forever nothing would matter.
Six Feet Under seriously raised the bar for all television to come, almost demanding that TV airs more serious, reflective and intelligent shows with a heightened sense of realism.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The legacy of Six Feet Under
Comment: I chose to review the whole series instead of one season in particular because for me owning or watching one or two season is like watching half of a movie. The reason is simple, it may be true that the two first seasons are the most entertaining and funny but for a character development series like this, the third season is the year that Alan Ball starts focusing more on each character instead of giving us a bigger picture like the two firsts seasons. Now we know about the technic aspects of the mortuary profession and in my opinion what's to come is more cerebral and complex because we know the surface of the characters and now we start entering their minds and we become more attached to them. What is wonderful about this series is that the character development lasts about 60 hours (5 seasons) so if well made, it's way better than a movie that gives us 2 hours of that and it is, in deed, well made. I love every season of this wonderful series and I think the payoff at the end of the 5th season is nothing less than a masterpiece of tv making. The last 3 episodes of season 5 are simply sublime and I've never felt so much emotions for a fictionnal work in my life. Some movies or books move me but when you live with these people for 5 years, they become almost like family. Another thing I like is that the series felt more cinematic than anything I've seen before, the visual is quite special for television and it made me think about silent movies a lot which I am a fan of. So I recommand 6FU to everybody because another great thing of the series is that character from every generation is developped from teenage to old age. I would say though that young teenagers may find it too complex and older people too offensive but if you're from 30 to 50 years old and you like character development and the visual aspect of movie making to make a point, you will love six feet under. This series will become a classic because it broke so many barriers and people will talk about it in 200 years. It's expensive but if you can afford it, it's a great document to have. Now 3 little complaints, there's not enough extras, the first 2 seasons are not widescreen and no english subtitles in season 1 , only spanish???? Apart from that, it's perfect.
Customer Rating:
Summary: do not buy this
Comment: Do not buy this collection! Apparently HBO is releasing a REAL complete series set for just 280 bucks, that includes a new booklet (Obituaries), a family tree, and the 2 soundtracks that were released. It's coming out October 31!
Customer Rating:
Summary: One of the best HBO series ever
Comment: I first watched Six Feet Under at my parents home as I do not have HBO at my own house. After seeing a few episodes, I got hooked. I have since purchased every season on dvd. The series was absolutely incredible. The series revolved around a family who owned and operated a funeral home. The stories were about their interpersonal relationships with each other, their outside romantic relationships and their dealings with their "customers" on the outside perimeters or each episode. It was one of the best original television series ever shown on HBO. Definitely worth seeing.
From Alan Ball, the Oscar(r) winning writer of "American Beauty", comes a series that digs where others fear to tread. When a bus kills Nathaniel Fisher, owner of the Fisher & Sons Funeral Home in Los Angeles, the tragedy casts a pall on the homecoming of his prodigal son Nate. Together with with mother Ruth, brother David and sister Claire, they must address the family business, and the many more personal matters that arise when your life is Six Feet Under.
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