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Six Feet Under - The Complete Series Gift Set
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Total reviews: 116
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
One disc faulty so far 1 out of 5 stars.
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I'm watching the series through now and I've received ONE faulty disc so far that stalls. The box came in shreds and looked beat up. Was NOT impressed.
Love it! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this for $150 cheaper than retail value and it came in perfect condition. It even came with 2 soundtrack CDs! I received the set right on time as well! Thank you, thank you! :)
The Hard Goodbye. 5 out of 5 stars.
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When "Six Feet Under" first aired in 2001, people were adamant about the idea of a Family-Run Funeral home, of which is supposed to make good television drama and with its satirical dark humour and very real characters. It seemed like a lot to gauge for a show that would constantly display death. Then again, death is a touchy subject to everyone, where do we go, what of the soul and more importantly, how we deal with it, and do we ever deal with it.
Funnily enough the idea for this show is original, who ever had the idea first wins in that respect; they get to clarify an unlooked upbringing of a Family Business and way of life for those who `cater' the dearly departed.
Result; This great show has introduced us to the Fisher Family. A lovable, quirky, witty retort type of what can be called "dysfunctional" clique, which would evidently be used as a comparison for future generations of TV clans.
You may think it would be depressing, when in fact the show is surrounded in clairvoyance. The episodic structure follows that of some random loved (or unloved) person dying at the beginning of the episode through to the eventuality that the Fishers are the one who take care of the recently passed.
The Cast; An excellently played bunch of mishaps that are such a winning cliché with each other that they come together to depict an idea of family. Peter Krause plays older extroverted son Nate Fisher Jr., named after his dearly departed father who starts off the first series (season). Nate is not built for the job but finds that being drafted as funeral director may have its merits. Nate also introduces us to his on and off love of his life Brenda Chenowith (Rachel Griffiths) whom is an Australian actor with a killing worked state-side accent. She's a pious talking sexually inhibited deviant and we love her, and she develops into a wonderfully woven character.
Middle child now fully licensed Funeral Director David Fisher (Michael C. Hall) a character pushed into a business role vacated by a late father, but doesn't gloat and makes it worth something to him. He plays the in-closet Homosexual whom is seeing his supportive and well played character and partner to be Keith Charles (Mathew St. Patrick). The grieving mother and wife, quirky and lovable Ruth Fisher, played by Frances Conroy who's variety of theatre acting pays off every little bit. And finally the youngest Claire Fisher, played by the gorgeous Lauren Ambrose, who just about reflects teenage life without giving off the false sense of adolescence played by stereotypical teens in say The OC. The inevitable wild-child, whose dalliances with an array of class A substances give us a comedy and just all round fun experiences.
Families on TV, especially American TV could learn much from this, and have. It's easy to spot the similarities in shows like "Dirty Sexy Money", "Dexter" and "Brothers & Sisters". TV drama found a mark that explored more boundaries than Scott Bakula did in Quantum Leap, more frontiers than Star Trek.
It's hard to go back to the atypical TV-centred families of so called modern life. A dark satirical backdrop of a Family-Run Funeral home opens up a more accurate approximation of current life and all its density.
Verdict:
Short but sweet, stays with you like the memory of a loved one. 10/10. Six Feet Under, you will be sadly and forever missed.
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Six Feet Under - The Complete Fifth Season
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Average rating: 4.5 of 5
The Best Ending to a Series Ever! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I don't think I'll ever forget the ending of Six Feet Under, and what led up to it. While some of the other storylines fade in your head, the ending is just fantastic, incredible. The fates of the Fishers...it's sad to see them go. I think they are the most original family on TV. The most REAL. I think that's what kept everyone watching all these seasons.
Six Feet Under was a terrific show. Maybe my all-time favorite, at least in my top 5. It kept me up at night, just to watch one more episode to see what was going to happen. I was addicted, each episode was fascenating to me. I'm sad to see it go, but glad that I can add my praise to the many, in hopes that maybe a viewer who hasn't seen the show yet will read this measley review and give the show a shot. You won't regret it!
LIFE CHANGING!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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LET ME JUST SAY THIS: IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE THE FINAL SEASON, YOU'RE AN IDIOT. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS SERIES. IT IS THE BEST SERIES OF ALL TIME. IT IS SUCH A CLASSIC THAT I FEEL I COULD PROBABLY NEVER WATCH IT AGAIN BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T BE DUE JUSTICE. UNBELIEAVEBLE SERIES... GET IT!!!
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Six Feet Under - The Complete Fourth Season
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Average rating: 4.0 of 5
It only gets better! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I disagree that this season wasn't as good as the others. In most shows I notice it takes several episodes to really get the season going...almost as if they're easing into it. So once that is out of the way, it's a little more exciting from there. I really enjoyed the craziness of George, and the evolvement and experimentation of Claire. Nate and Brenda, I'd been waiting for that. And the whole Lisa story I was on the edge of my seat just waiting to see what was going on. And not to forget the stand-out episode with David getting car jacked. WOW, here this cast and the story writers really shined.
Overall I just want to say that SFU is maybe my all time favorite TV show, or damn near close to it (I do love tv). So this is a show you just can't miss. A show about something that we all have to deal with, death, family, loss, love, metamorphasis.....well, you can't turn away. If you're like me, you'll be watching these episodes non stop to find out what is going to happen next.
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Six Feet Under - The Complete Third Season
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Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Very pleased 5 out of 5 stars.
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I received the item very quickly and was delighted to see that the DVDs were still shrink-wrapped so NEW! Even better than I expected. No scratches for a great price.
Best Season So Far 5 out of 5 stars.
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It started slow, and I think that's one of the reasons why it's so great. The first two or three episodes of this season were probably as good as any of the previous episodes, but I just felt like there was something missing from them. Like there was something off. I could already envision myself titling my review "Worst Season So Far" and I was only on the first disc.
Well, that 'off' feeling quickly turned into awe. This season, more than anything, delves headfirst into the intricacies of the relationships between the main characters, both romantic and familial. Never before have I seen such beautiful art created from telling stories about the daily lives of people who are at once regular and anything but. Nate takes center stage for most of this season, becoming the 'main character' more than ever before as his new marriage with Lisa clashes with his need for personal space. At the same time, David and Keith's relationship hits new highs and new lows, Ruth spends a lot of the season trying to find the right man for her, Federico deals with his wife's depression and his nagging sister-in-law, and Claire finally finds out what art school (and art students and teachers) are really like.
It's uncomfortable, hilarious, heart-breaking, warm, and so strange all at the same time, touching on life and death and even blurring the lines a little bit. From the slow-boil start to the tensely climatic season finale, this is the finest season of "Six Feet Under" so far.
10/10 Classic.
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Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 10/03/2006 Run time: 780 minutes
Six Feet Under - The Complete Second Season
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Average rating: 5.0 of 5
A plot synopsis is NOT a review! 5 out of 5 stars.
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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.
Editorial Review:
Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 10/03/2006 Run time: 780 minutes Rating: Nr
Six Feet Under: The Complete First Season
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Average rating: 4.5 of 5
A Review as it should be, on the series, not the PRICE. 4 out of 5 stars.
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First off I want to say that a review of a product is not supposed to be about the cost. A buyer can make that decision on their own, what they choose to spend. A review is supposed to be about the PRODUCT: in this case, Season 1 of Six Feet Under. Is it worth watching? YES Is it an entertaining show? YES Are the storylines and characters engaging and interesting? YES Is it worth the hours spent watching it? YES
Over the last few years I started renting TV shows on DVD and watching the series consequtively, I found that I enjoy it more this way. I can watch one or two episodes a night- many nights in a row if I want. It is helpful in getting sort of hooked on a show, and also keeping the momentum of the storylines going, and also my memory of events (vs. watching it over a period of say 5 years). So, if you're looking at Six Feet Under as a series like this to buy/watch- I highly recommend it. Buy it, rent it, borrow it from a friend, watch re-runs, whatever you want. But do NOT miss this show! I might just bite the bullet and say perhaps this is my favorite TV show of ALL time.
Ok, as for Season 1...it's a bit slow going for me at first. I think my hubby and I were on disc two and we sort of looked at each other and said, do we want to keep watching this? The characters just weren't clicking for us. And the funny dream and daydream sequences were annoying. But, I said, let's finish the season out and then see what we think. I am SO glad that we did! By then, we were hooked. Each night we looked forward to an episode or two of Six Feet Under. Sometimes I ran out to the video store at 10pm to get a new one because we just couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next.
So ya...the stories get better, the characters get a bit more defined and fun, and eventually there are less weird dream sequences. So if you are looking for a TV show that will keep you up at night watching, this is it! Stick it out, give it a try and I bet you won't be disappointed.
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Six Feet Under - The Complete Series (Seasons 1-5)
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Average rating: 4.0 of 5
do not buy this 1 out of 5 stars.
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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!
One of the best HBO series ever 5 out of 5 stars.
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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.
Editorial Review:
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.
Six Feet Under: The Complete Third Season (VOL. 2 ONLY)
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Six Feet Under: The Complete Fourth Season (VOL. 2 ONLY)
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