| Six Feet Under - The Complete First Three Seasons |  | Actor: Six Feet Under
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Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 14
Running Time: 2340
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 7.1 x 5.4
ISBN: 0783135211
UPC: 026359861925
EAN: 9780783135212
ASIN: B0007RT9NK
Release Date: May 17, 2005
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Life. Death. Guilt. Afterlife. For Nate, David, Ruth and Claire Fisher, the world outside the Fisher & Sons Funeral Home is as challenging - and far less predictable - than the one inside. One of HBO's biggest break-out hits, Six Feet Under has won seven Emmys? and three Golden Globes?. Pay your respects to the show The New York Times calls, "Required viewing in the canon of pop culture," and see how unforgettable life can be when you're Six Feet Under.
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 A plot synopsis is NOT a review! August 15, 2007
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 naive 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.
The Best TV Has To Offer April 4, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to say I was shocked by some of the attacks on 6 Feet Under, specifically attacking the portrayal of doctors and other professionals. This is fiction, people! And it is the best ongoing fictional show ever created for television. The writing, directing and the acting are out of this world. I miss this show a lot and can't wait to see what Alan Ball comes up with next. Bravo Alan & Cast & Crew!!!!
Six Feet Under October 21, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I recently purchased and have watched the first season of this series. The story is a very watchable Drama/Comedy,where the main characters play out the insecurities in their lives.
As the series progresses,each character exposes their weaknesses and we see how these expose's lead to a strengthening of their family relationships and private lives.
Some of the language may offend some people, but it does not detract from the show, in my opinion
 misinformation about product September 7, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The "additional product information" area when clicked, describes the three box set accurately except for one important point. The format is listed as "widescreen". Unfortunately, the set I received has standard 4:3 aspect ratio for seasons one and two and the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio only for season three.
If this is the only combination of formats available, it would be nice to note that in the product description.
 Six Feet Under Par... August 27, 2005
8 out of 69 found this review helpful
Agree 110% with "Not Yet Lemming," as this show's writers are bigots of the first degree. Alan Ball's hatred of doctors is thinly veiled...if he portrayed gay men (or other minorities) with this same kind of venom he'd have lawsuits to contend with (his portrayal of gay men is overly reverent BTW). If only doctors had the time to sit around smoking dope instead of helping people, perhaps they could come up with a show portraying the film industry and its effect on our collective national psyche. It would certainly be refreshing to see reality through the eyes of intelligent, well-educated folk rather than the perverse "reality" of narcissistic ignoramuses. While I'm on the subject of bigotry, those who either suffer from, or know someone who suffers from bipolar disorder will find this show painful, offensive, and utterly prejudicial. Hooray for Hollywood and their full perversion of First Amendment rights.
It's ironic that Hollywood (land of overpaid idiots with diminutive talent and intelligence) continues to be lauded by the average American. These people care nothing about those whose hard-earned cash makes them wealthy beyond everyone else's wildest dreams. They fill people's heads with whatever trash their own reality consists of...mental filth and degradation. They laugh all the way to the bank while filling our children's heads with propaganda. Parents cannot hope to keep up with the bad influences that Hollywood provides, yet America continues to adore and grossly overpay these swine.
The ignorance of these Hollywood pukes is underscored on every show. The almost constant inaccuracies are grossly insulting to the well educated viewer. Because they know that America will swallow any half-baked idea they toss out there, it isn't necessary to consult with experts about things they know nothing about. Since these writers are such amateur analysts perhaps they should find themselves a Freudian analyst (good luck! As most folks know, Freudian analysis has been dead for decades) to explore within themselves the notions of projection, reaction formation, and the like. (Unfortunately, they're incapable of internalizing anything, so they'd just vomit it back out to the American public to the tune of billions of dollars). No wonder we look so insane to the rest of the world...Hollywood can claim no small part in it.
What would Alan Ball (or any of the other writers on this show) do if America stopped supporting their tripe...that is, if he had to get a real job? By his own admission, he couldn't make it through school, as he isn't even educated in film making. If he couldn't even make it through a couple of years of college, he certainly has no concept of what a decade or more of training would be like. So he portrays doctors as pretentious obnoxious L.A. types (the only world he really knows), and elevates school teachers to therapists.
Let's talk about Alan Ball et. al.'s armchair psychoanalytic skills in more detail. Because his perverse L.A. lifestyle is so far from reality, he actually believes that he is portraying a "repressed" family. In fact, most people would find this family far from "repressed." How many people do you know who spill their guts so rashly and frequently as this family? Do we know "repressed" 60-year old widows who date 3 men (one of them half her age) and "accidentally" ingest Ecstasy? Do we know "repressed" young men who have sex with strangers in an airport? Do we know "repressed" teenage girls who smoke crack, stay out all night with no consequences, and mouth off every chance they get? This is the Hollywood version of "repressed," directly from the Land Where Anything Goes.
If you're looking for an excellent series, try Kieslowski's "The Decalogue." He portrays a reality that is thought-provoking and entertaining. And perhaps you will see for yourself that we don't have to settle for a diet of abysmal fare.
I sincerely hope that the American public begins to ponder the consequences of these "Hollywood brainstorms" not only on their own minds, but more importantly, the impact on our children. We are, after all, the ones who keep them in business.
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