"Six Feet Under" (2001) TV series 2001-2005

Creator:

Alan Ball

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Release Date:

3 June 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Every Day Above Ground Is A Good One.

Plot:

A drama series that takes a darkly comical look at members of a dysfunctional California family that runs an independent funeral home.

Plot Keywords:

Funeral | Funeral Home | Dysfunctional Family | Prodigal Son | Death

Awards:

Won 3 Golden Globes. Another 43 wins & 117 nominations

Cast

Peter Krause	...	Nate Fisher (63 episodes, 2001-2005)
Michael C. Hall	...	David Fisher (63 episodes, 2001-2005)
Frances Conroy	...	Ruth Fisher (63 episodes, 2001-2005)
Lauren Ambrose	...	Claire Fisher (63 episodes, 2001-2005)
Freddy Rodríguez	...	Federico 'Rico' Diaz (63 episodes, 2001-2005)
Mathew St. Patrick	...	Keith Charles (63 episodes, 2001-2005)
Rachel Griffiths	...	Brenda Chenowith (63 episodes, 2001-2005)
Justina Machado	...	Vanessa Diaz (41 episodes, 2001-2005)
Jeremy Sisto	...	Billy Chenowith (31 episodes, 2001-2005)
James Cromwell	...	George Sibley (27 episodes, 2003-2005)
Brenna Tosh	...	Maya Fisher (27 episodes, 2003-2005)
Bronwyn Tosh	...	Maya Fisher (27 episodes, 2003-2005)

Also Known As:

Six pieds sous terre (France) (dubbed version) (Switzerland: French title) [fr]
A Sete Palmos (Brazil) [pt]
A dos metros bajo tierra (Spain) [es]
Amok Ba'Adama (Israel: Hebrew title) [iw]
Grafeio kideion Fisher (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
Mullan alla (Finland) [fi]
Sírhant mûvek (Hungary) [hu]
Seks fot under (Norway) [no]
Six Feet Under (Argentina) [es]
Six Feet Under (Italy) [it]
Six Feet Under (France) [fr]
Six Feet Under - Gestorben wird immer (Germany) [de]

Runtime:

55 min (63 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

France:U | Australia:M (some episodes) | Australia:MA (some episodes) | Portugal:M/12 (DVD rating) | Singapore:M18 (cable rating) (cut) | Singapore:(Banned) (video rating) | New Zealand:R16 | South Korea:15 (season 1) | South Korea:18 (seasons 2-5) | Argentina:16 | Canada:14A | Finland:K-15 (DVD rating) | Germany:12 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:AL | UK:18 | USA:TV-MA

Filming Locations:

2302 W. 25th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Home Box Office (HBO)

Trivia:

Ranked #27 on Empire magazine's 50 Greatest TV Shows Of All Time (2008).

Quotes:

Claire: If we live our lives the right way then everything we do can become a work of art.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: (#8.6)" (2009)

A funny and emotional look at a grieving American family.

This stunning drama series starts out in a disturbingly dramatic way. In the first five minutes the patriarch of the family, Nathaniel Fisher (Richard Jenkins) is killed in a nasty car wreck and makes comical recurring appearances as a hallucination to each living family member. Frances Conroy delivers a powerful performance as his grieving widow who admits that she has been having a long-term affair with a man she met from church, and thinks she's a whore because of which. Peter Krause and Michael C. Hall play brothers Nate and David Fisher who inherit the funeral home upon their father's death and must also care for their mother, Ruth (Conroy) and crack-head sister Claire (Lauren Ambrose). David is the uptight manager of the business, even though he'd rather be doing just about anything else and adding the fact that that he's terrified to admit that he's secretly gay and dating an LAPD police officer (Matthew St. Patrick). Nate on the other hand meets a woman (Rachel Griffiths) on his way home from Seattle to L.A. who's at first captivating yet in a way a little scary.

"Six Feet Under" has a promising future though it may take a few episodes for people to warm up to this seemingly average yet grieving American family that ironically just happens to be in the grief management business. Each episode starts out with a fatality, which leads to a both humorous yet dramatic adventure for the rest of that episode. The show is not really about death per say, it's mostly about the lies family members tell each other. The leads are well-cast and well-acted. The show is beautifully shot including the most gorgeous opening credits sequence on TV set to music written by Thomas Newman. "Six Feet Under" is a show I'll keep watching with it's humor, tragedy, and mischief surrounding death and the "American Way."