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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0026359836428
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 25
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Sales Rank: 45376
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 03, 2001
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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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Rating: - A plot synopsis is NOT a review!
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. ... Read More
Rating: - The legacy of Six Feet Under
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - do not buy this
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!
Rating: - One of the best HBO series ever
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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