Six Feet Under: The Complete Series

 

 

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Jai acheter cette serie sans même savoir de quoi serait le sujet.. on m'en avait simplement parler. Simplement excellent.... c'est bon et vous avez aussi l'option français. Perso, je l'ai écouter en anglais sous-titré anglais... mais a votre choix. Excellent achat, et boitier vraiment cool.

Vous serez juste pas décu. La 1ere série nous permettre de nous adapter et avec la 2ieme série, vous tomber sous le charme complètement des personnages. Ils vivront avec vous pendant quelques semaines, et vous aurez vraiment de la peine quand ca va terminer. Aussi, dois-je dire que la fin de cette série est remarquable... jai en plus tout plein d'amis qui me l'emprunte et les commentaires sont tous plus que positif! A ACHETER.. ARGENT NON PERDU: Garantit!!

Six Feet Under is, I feel, the War and Peace of our time. It is an epic masterpiece, exploring our vulnerable relationships to sex and death. The characters are flawed, human, struggling, striving with their innate humanity and confusion in a mundane world of repression and desire. Being 'six feet under' does not not necessarily refer to working in a Funeral Home, which the Fisher family certainly does but being 'under' the surface, the complexity of longing and being alone in one's self.

The story revolves around the funeral home of Fisher and Sons in Southern California. David Fisher (still in the closet around his close family) runs the funeral home after a tragic family accident. Ruth, his mother is our traditional matriarch. She is soft-spoken, kind-hearted but not quite at ease in the changing world around her. Nate is the prodigal son and becomes the reluctant family partner, helping David run the family business. Clare is finishing high school, dealing with all the angst and apprehension of adolescence and coming adulthood.

Surrounding these main characters are Brenda, Nate's love interest and Keith, David's lover. Both have been scarred by their childhoods but manage to offer support and sometimes clarity to their mates.

Last but not least is Frederico, the restorative artist employed by the Fishers whose life is linked to the family by the goodness of Nathanial Fisher, the former patriarch.

As the show evolves from the first episode, the viewer is aware that this is more than just a television program. It is a prolonged meditation of death. Each episode provides us with a momento mori (a souvenir of death) in which the show opens with a death that will either be consequential, opening up stories or provide background to the episode. There are numerous ways to die but how do these deaths affect the men and women who must face it everyday and run a business by it?

Alan Ball, writer of American Beauty, notes in the documentary about the making of Six Feet Under that he wanted to create a show that was honest about the lives of funeral directors. There are like heroes, he comments. In a society in which death is behind closed doors, where grief is done in private, the show was meant to open up a conversation about our mortality. We can go at any time - how do we live our lives?

Six Feet Under is a masterpiece of television production. It is filmed with cinematic beauty, the stories evolve with complexity and humanity and with the use of magical realism, intertwining fantasy and reality. The characters face death and sex in their own lives. There is the threat of death in terms of a corporate take-over and death in relationships. It is also a mirror of American society, taking on subjects not for the faint of heart.

But the show wouldn't be anything without its humor. There is always a balance between the macabre and the funny aspects of the mundane. The humor can be dark but what can you expect from a series that focuses on the lives of undertakers?

A must see for anyone that is tired of the same old television. This show breaks through and leaves an incredible impression on one's psyche and soul.

This series takes a darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business.

When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues and is as challenging as the one inside.

It basically touches almost every taboo subjects out there and puts it into a very intelligent storyline for entertainment at it's best!

Recommended for any open-minded viewers, but not so much for viewers with restriction in regards to sexual content, religion, etc.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!!
Great product! all the episodes, 20 disc!! Just a little bit dissapointed with the mono audio and fullscreen ratio on season one and two but for this price I'm not going to... Read more

Published 4 months ago by Vince

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
Got it for $72 off Amazon.ca, on sale. Amazon delivered it two days after I ordered it, in perfect condition. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Sparkle

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful series
A wonderful series, definitely in my top ten. I'm not normally interested in what appears to be, on the outside, a quirky family drama, but Six Feet Under had me addicted within... Read more

Published 11 months ago by Laura C. Fraser

5.0 out of 5 stars Six feet under
We really enjoy this serie and we can't wait to watch all of it but there is a lot of hours to watch so it's a gift that lasts for many months to come!

Published 16 months ago by juma

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Amazing Amazing
I never really got into this show until my wife showed me it.

This is a great series and one of my fave of all time. Read more

Published 20 months ago by CodyK

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
I purchased this series after reading all of those rave reviews. I am very glad I did. The series are truly very good, and different. Not disapointed.

Published on Mar 17 2010 by Viola

2.0 out of 5 stars Season 1 good but...
First season very good, be become a lot redundant over seasons and no intrigue at all.

Published on Feb 2 2010 by Eric Thiffeault

2.0 out of 5 stars Box set may be defective
The tombstone was missing from the top of the box set. Amazon sent a replacement, but it had the same problem. Ended up returning the box set for a refund. Read more

Published on Jan 29 2010 by Tim Sheppard

5.0 out of 5 stars Best thing I've ever seen on Television
My boyfriend introduced me to this series. He himself had already bought the boxed set and watched the series from start to finish. Read more

Published on Jan 12 2010 by Jacqui Denomme

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Show Ive Ever Seen!
wow! just wow! Six feet under is a deeply moving, deeply touching show that will not only entertain you for the entire 64 hours, but will change your life in a profound way. Read more

Published on July 24 2009 by Peter D. Wilson

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