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Summary: perfect ending
Review: I love six feet under. Its full of wit and elevated sense of humor which only elevated intelligent minds could conceive. Its made with subtlety and above all GOOD TASTE. I dont know if theres going to be a 3rd season I HOPE NOT! The ending was perfect, it cant be touched.
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Summary: The Best Show. The Best Season. Alan Ball is' a genuis!
Review: First off, Six Feet Under's first season was stunning, mind blowing, a dazzling piece of eye candy that will no doubt go down in TV history. Alan Ball, the show's creater is a true genuis in all shapes and forms.If for some bizzare reason you don't no about the show heres a brief summary: The show is about a family who make a living as funreal directors. They are the fisher family and live a very interesting life. Each epiosed deals with and people close to them confroting lifes daily issues in very unique and fasinating ways.*For more indepth summry see any reviews for the first season. Now, here is the second season of Six Feet Under which is in many ways a more darker season then the first and so far the third. I think what made it the best season/show was becuse of the darker subject matter being so well blended with humorous or more light weighted things. It's still very touching, off beat, warm and funny but a few disturbing death's mixed with the character of Brenda, who goes sexual out of control keeps the viewer on teh edge of their seat. In my opinion, Brenda's sexual adventures with starngers was one of the height lights of the show. They were done in a profound and memorobal fasion that was dark but did not turn the viwver off. Brenda is by far the show's most complex and intriging charachter and in this season you really explore what she is feeling and going through. The characters all explore new meanings, problems and love. Claire gets ready for college, Ruth attends a inspiring group known as the plan, David and Keith get back together, Nate deals with his AVM, and as I mentioned Brenda begins having sex with strangers. Its very dark, very fuuny, very sad, very happy, very interesting and its one of the best things ever created- aside from the gloureous and memorizing American Beauty- this season is a must have for anyone. The sooner its released the better. When you buy this DVD you will not regreat it. The DVD will transport you to the haunting realm of Six Feet Under, a place you'll never forget!
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Summary: Six Feet Under
Review: Yeah the show is great. Totally worthwhile, although i encourage people NOT to buy any DVD that is "Full Screen Format". Why can't they go to widescreen? The West Wing is in widescreen format - come on HBO get it together folks. You're supposed to be a premier channel start acting like it.
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Summary: An astounding season
Review: Season two of "Six Feet Under" was absolutely amazing. A great deal of character development, and more of the best acting on television. As the editorial review above notes, Peter Krause really starts to shine and does some downright BRILLIANT work in the second season. Patricia Clarkson is also fantastic in the episode "Back to the Garden", a beautifully shot hour. "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" is another of my favorites, giving viewers a look at the day leading up to Nathaniel Fisher's death in the first season and "I'll Take You" is the season's climax in Nate and Brenda's relationship. If you liked the first season, you'll love this. HBO!! Get around to releasing it would you? The first season came out when, last January? It really doesn't take a year. Come on!!
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Summary: Another great season of one of the best dramatic TV shows
Review: If you haven't seen Season One, stop reading this right now and go watch it. You're in for a real treat, as 6FU is one of the most well-written TV dramas ever.
If you watched Season Two when it originally aired and are considering purchasing this set, you should know that the DVD extras are not plentiful. Several of the 13 episodes have optional commentaries you can listen to while you're watching the episode; I find this is a big investment of time for a small payoff, but that's just me. Plus, the last disc contains a short documentary "anatomy of a stiff," which is worth watching once, but not really that compelling. Another factor that might affect your purchase decision is that the episodes themselves are rich and stand up to repeated viewings, unlike most of the tripe on television. Plus, watching the episodes on DVD - on YOUR schedule - makes for a much better experience than waiting a week or more between episodes as they are aired on HBO.
If you've seen Season One but not Season Two yet, the best indicator of whether you'll like Two is how much you liked One. Yes, it's true, fans disagree over which of the first two seasons was better. But the overwhelming majority that liked One a lot also liked Two a lot.
I think both of the first two seasons were EXCELLENT, but a bit different. Almost every episode of the first season was very good or excellent. The second season had the same average quality as the first season, but more variability - that is, a few episodes or storylines were a bit weaker than what we typically saw in Season One, but other episodes and storylines were even better than those in Season One.
I will try to set up the events of Season Two without giving anything away. At the end of Season One, Nate was coming to grips with a newly diagnosed brain condition that could cause seizures, or even a stroke and death. Nate and Brenda had declared their love for each other, despite a fairly complicated and sometimes rocky relationship. David was single and struggling in his love life, and coming to terms with being "out." He and Keith were still friends, and it was clear that they still had feelings for each other. These storylines are developed further in Season Two, with many interesting twists and turns along the way. Of course, there are also storylines involving Ruth and Claire. Ruth's growth in Season Two is nonlinear - she seems to make progress in one episode, but then reverts back to her depressed, repressed, controlling self in the next. Claire has interesting relationships with different people, each of which shapes her in some way, good or bad, and she gets a bit of direction in her life toward the end of Season Two.
One of the things that makes 6FU so great is that it's so real. The characters are 3-dimensional, flawed, and (mostly) likeable. Whenever I watch the show after not having seen it for a month or more, it's like getting together again with old friends. I also respect the show for taking seriously the issues of religion and minority sexual orientation (Amazon.com has previously censored me for using the word that begins with "h"). Half of the main characters are religious, and their views are treated very respectfully. One or two of the main characters are g__ (again trying to avoid the censor) and they are portrayed as real people, with the same joys and sorrows and problems as straight folks.
Bottom line: If you haven't seen 6FU season two yet, you are in for a real treat. Be patient through the first two episodes, though, as their slightly lower quality is not representative of the rest of this outstanding season.
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Summary: Better than the first!
Review: The second season of six feet under really starts to go more in depth with each character and you start to know who they truly are. It has much more twists and turns and is very addicting. I didn't start watching the show until recently on DVD and I am hooked, I would watch up to 4 hrs. a day. I can't wait till they release season 3&4 so I can watch it in time for season 5. It is a must see show and anyone can relate to at least one or more characters. It is the best show ever. You have to see it!
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Summary: More Great Work from HBO
Review: HBO's commitment to original content shines through here. While I'd have to agree with the other reviewers that the first season was stronger, there are still plenty of things for the most lovable characters in the TV funeral business to chew over.
Best things about the second season:
1. Seeing the most mature and intellegent cast member get ahead. (Don't know who he is? hint: he's the one who does all the work, and does it because he loves it.)
2. Getting to argue with female viewers about whether the mother is a sympathetic or an unsympathetic figure. (Don't know which? hint: she's both, and that makes her human.)
3. Watching the narcissistic little sister become more mature.
4. Moving the gay brother away from stereotype and into greater human balance.
5. Seeing the prodigal son kind of resolve his relationship issues and decide to give himself, selflessly, to a dying man.
6. Learning more about the essential purpose of the funeral business, and abandoning some of the shallow cynical tendencies of Season 1.
If you saw the first season, you sort of have to see the second season.
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Summary: Not as good as the first season
Review: The only reason why I started to watch this show was because the first three episodes were free at the public library. And boy, did I get hooked. I loved this show to death-the characters were so rich and fulfilling and colorful and likeable, and the season finale was gripping. When we last left the show, Nate discovered that he had AVM, a brain condition, David came out of the closet, Brenda decided to institutionalize her brother and other half of her life, Billy, Claire's bad-boy boyfriend, Gabriel, robbed a store, and Ruth started a sexual affair with Nokolai, her boss. Now, as we enter the second season, it starts off with a bang, then getts dull, then ends with a big bang. In my opinion, it started off really well for the first four episodes, then it got really dull and tedious, then the last two episodes were amazing. In this season, Nate begins to rethink his life with AVM, Gabriel digs himself further to his grave and takes Claire down with him (God I miss that guy), Ruth begins to get overzealous of her relationship (and go with The Plan), and David ponders his life without Keith. And oh that Brenda. Now, with Billy out of her life, she takes on a hobby-writing a novel. And oh, yeah-cheating on Nate. She used to be really likeable and real in her insecurities (...). And the same goes to Keith-he's getting too confusing and and tough for David. And here's another complaint-too many unnecessary subplots, such as Keith's neice, Taylor-as much as I like her, STAY OUT OF THE FISHER FAMILY! One bright spot is the wonderful Patricia Clarkson as Ruths' bohemian, Joni-Mitchell-playing sister, Sara. She looks like she has a blast playing it. And kudos to the amazing Lili Taylor for playing Lisa, an old friend of Nate's. And just as I thought that I was done with it, it reeled me back in-and I'm eagerly awaiting the release of the third season. It's definitaly not the best season, but it's SIX FEET UNDER-just watch it.
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Summary: Another good HBO epic to consume
Review: Read the Amazon's review, with a non-satalite programmed home box I still am not and will not be obliged to take that stellar Sopranos kiddo of BMOC from any video shop. It simply doesn't strike me as a very promising TV soups, not the award credits, not the packaging artwork, not the appearance of casts, not at all when I have already "met" the both assumingly offbeat Fisher brothers from HBO since the first season, and their family and friends. Personal serious hallucination aside, I don't mean ridiculous but if you're lying in bed to die in seven days and all you've got is two box sets of SOPRANOS Season Four and SIX FEET UNDER Season Two, watch the latter first!
Tripping further to the winding of ever delights and surprises of Season One, this season continues to grib your heartbeat and enthral your mind with simple, familiar facts of man's suffering in this contemporary refination of living. Each episode is not afraid to manifying into the core issue of all characters while suggesting a look on the upside however. Turning points from this season will be Nate's (Krause) fate from a bad struck surgery, his rocky coping with Brenda (Griffith) breaking further from self-haunting recovery, Ruth's (Conroy) final wakefulness of making decision to end her clingy affair with co-worker Nikolai, both David's (Hall) and Keith's (Patrick) parenting effort for as if more of mending a past domestic issue for the latter, Federico's (Diaz) by-chance partnership of Fisher & Son's, and at last not forgetting Claire's (Ambrose) artistic coming to term with her persistent teenage angst.
Adding a little sparks to the season are pagan but earthy Aunt Sarah (Patricia Clarkson) and Nate's former indifferent live-in Lisa (Lili Taylor) from Seattle. Also noteworthy is Brenda's mildly schizophrenic parent Margaret (Joanna Cassidy).
Complete in same black "13" numbers of episode as previous season, this DVD box set also features a 20-minute "Anatomy of a Working Stiff" behind-the-scenes production to take you six feet under closer to cloning the shell of dead people!
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Summary: This series has outlasted its interest
Review: I liked the first season, but the second season has worn out my interest. Too heavy, far-fetched, and filled with gratuitous emotionality, like a cheap soap opera. Grotesque may be fun for a film, not for a long series.
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