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Six Feet Under: The Complete Series
Six Feet Under: The Complete Series
- SIX FEET UNDER
From Alan Ball, the creator of HBO’s “True Blood,” 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. Relive every minute of this poignantly dramatic, unpredictably hilarious masterpiece, from its powerful premiere episode to its critically-acclaimed, haunting finale.
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Stephane Lauzon
October 15, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Review by Stephane Lauzon for Six Feet Under: The Complete Series
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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 because another great thing of the series is that character from every generation is developped from teenage to old age. I would say though that young teenagers may find it too complex and older people too offensive but if you’re from 30 to 50 years old and you like character development and the visual aspect of movie making to make a point, you will love six feet under. This series will become a classic because it broke so many barriers and people will talk about it in 200 years. It’s expensive but if you can afford it, it’s a great document to have. Now 3 little complaints, there’s not enough extras, the first 2 seasons are not widescreen and no english subtitles in season 1 , only spanish???? Apart from that, it’s perfect.
Sid
October 15, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Review by Sid for Six Feet Under: The Complete Series
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Great show! I loved the series and had to have it. However, do not buy the smaller boxset. Buy the larger one instead, with the obits and CDs. The DVDs in the smaller boxset come in sleeves. There weren’t enough sleeves, so four of the sleeves had two DVDs crammed into them! This resulted in the ink from the bottom DVD to transfer to the silver side of the DVD stacked on top of it. This caused three of the DVDs to be completely unreadable! The larger boxset is organized by by season and each disc is protected by its own panel. (See customer images on the other boxset).
In addition, I copy the DVDs to my media server so that I can watch them without getting up to change the 24 discs. I noticed that the DVDs on the smaller boxset are only single layer discs, 4.7GB. The DVDs on the larger boxset are dual-layer discs, up to 8.5GB. The content is the same, but of course the material on smaller boxset has to be compressed to fit on the lower capacity discs. I did not perform any side by side comparisons of video quality, as I had already returned the smaller defective boxset, before buying the bigger boxset.
Buy the larger boxset. It’s beautifully and well packaged. The video is less compressed. The larger boxset has been discontinued, but it’s still possible to find new from various sellers. It is more expensive, but it’s worth it. Great show! Everyone should watch it!
P. Metivier
October 15, 2010 at 10:33 am
Review by P. Metivier for Six Feet Under: The Complete Series
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I have seen this show a few times and really enjoyed it but I never bought Six Feet Under – The Complete Series Gift Set since it was quite expensive and I was waiting for the price to go down.
This new set is cheaper ($67 – the old one is now discontinued). All 24 dvds are hosted in a book you can flip with one disk per spread (made of cardboard with glossy inner pockets – Similar to HBO Rome complete DVD set). It’s a third of the size comparing to the original boxset.
The 2 CD soundtrack is not included in this boxset.