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Six Feet Under: The Complete First Season (2003)

Frances Conroy , Peter Krause  |  NR |  DVD
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (243 customer reviews)


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  • Actors: Frances Conroy, Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Lauren Ambrose, Mathew St. Patrick
  • Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 4
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: HBO
  • DVD Release Date: February 4, 2003
  • Run Time: 780 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (243 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006NT1S
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #69,462 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Six Feet Under: The Complete First Season" on IMDb

Special Features

  • 13 episodes with commentary by series creator, writer/director Alan Ball on episodes 1 & 13
  • Behind the scenes featurette (20 mins.)
  • Featurette on the making of the title sequence (15 mins.)
  • Deleted scene from pilot episode
  • 2 music tracks including the never-before-released "Kid Loco" title remix
  • Series index
  • Weblinks

Editorial Reviews

Professionally, the Fisher family owns a Los Angeles funeral home. Personally, they exhume and examine startling truths about themselves and others that, according to the Atlanta Constitution, "will make you laugh, cringe, avert your eyes, and gape in appreciation." Winner of six 2002 Emmy® Awards. Only Alan Ball, Oscar®-winning writer of American Beauty, could concoct a series this audacious and artful. "Unflinching. Brazen. Scorchingly brilliant."-Washington Post. Over 13 hours on 4 DVDs.

Customer Reviews

This is one of the best series ever created for television. Kim Brown  |  58 reviewers made a similar statement
That is all I can really say. =) T. Lawrence  |  45 reviewers made a similar statement
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87 of 99 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Pricey...no extras, but an INCREDIBLE series! December 24, 2002
By A Customer
Format:DVD
This is a watershed series in American television. HBO, which has created some of the best written and realisticly in-your-face programming in the history of television (the Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Oz) has re-written what is possible on the small screen with Six Feet Under.

The first season of the series deals with issues such as death, drug use, homosexuality, family alienation, mental illness, divorce, bankrupcy, co-dependency and incest. The amazing part is that it NEVER comes across like a soap opera or ABC Afterschool Special. It is very real, and moving.

Alan Ball, the extraordinary writer of the film "American Beauty" writes and directs this tour de force in television excellence. While this show is not for everyone, if you enjoyed Ball's previous work, you no doubt will love this show as much as the critics and millions of fans have. I think the Sopranos and Six Feet Under are reason enough to get HBO.

Ball creates multi-layered, complex characters for this ensemble cast, and allows them to develop throughout the season. What you see up front is not always what you get in the end.

For the price, I would have liked some extra features, like behind the scenes or a "making of" featurette, or interviews with the stars. Many of those are already available on HBO's website, I don't think it would have killed them to include a little extra for the {price}. However, that being said, you are paying {much} for 13 HOURS of entertainment. That is fairly in line with the 2 hour movie average price on DVD. And this is INFINITELY better than 99.999% of the movies that have come out in the last 10 years.

Buy it, enjoy it, and wait patiently for the next season...coming soon.

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Truly unique television series December 19, 2002
By A Customer
Format:DVD
Words cannot express how odd, enthralling, and life-affirming "Six Feet Under" is. One would think that a series about a family that owns a mortuary would be morbid, but there are unexpected laughs and a true appreciation for the gift of life that one takes away from watching this first season.

One caveat: I agree with other reviewers listed here that the price for the box set is prohibitively high. A 13-episode season shouldn't warrant [this price]even with the pre-order discount offered by Amazon, the box set is too expensive.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars arguably the best show on television September 21, 2003
Format:DVD
Six Feet Under is, in my opinion, the best show on television. It is probably my favorite television show of all time. Unfortunately, it has ruined me for most network television. The writing is superb. The show is always unpredictable and captivating, and yet nothing that happens ever just feels like a stunt. It is beautifully acted by the entire cast. Instead of stock characters, the people who inhabit this world appear as three dimensional, flawed, tragic, comic, and beautiful human beings. Instead of being a "show about nothing", the trend started by Seinfeld that pretty much every show since seems to be imitating, Six Feet Under is the opposite: it's a show about everything. Life, death, love, God, religion, family, sexuality, tragedy, comedy ... it's all covered. I know I'm gushing, but when you've been fed a steady diet of [garbage] for so long and something gourmet comes along ... it's hard not to. When this show ends I will be deeply saddened.
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Request HBO for Six feet Under on Blu-Ray here! August 3, 2010
Format:Blu-ray
If you are obsessed with HDTV, such as myself. Let's get Six-Feet Under on Blu-Ray!

Send a request to HBO to release Six Feet Under on Blu-Ray here:
(Amazon removed the direct link) but you can go to the HBO Shop website, then Shows, then choose Six Feet Under. You will then see a list of Six Feet Under merchandise, at the bottom look for "Can't find what you're looking for?" then click on Suggest a product.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, heartfelt, and real September 8, 2004
Format:DVD
I actually saw season one of SFU on HBO when it came out, althought I didn't recall seeing ALL of it until I sat down and watched the DVDs this past week.

I sat down with my boyfriend, who has been putting off watching these episodes since I got them, and within twenty minutes of the pilot he was hooked. We just moved and have no basic cable, so we depend on DVDs during dinner...we spent four nights watching Season 1 and he is now counting down the days until we order the Season 2 set.

SFU is unlike any other show I've seen. Television gets harder and harder to watch these days, saturated with reality tv and repetitive sitcoms. It's hard to find something as refreshing as Six Feet Under to really get under your skin. Alan Ball has a way of making you feel like you know and care about the characters, and you leave each episode feeling like if you don't watch the next, something will happen without you.

The cinematography is what really grabbed me. Each episode is beautiful to watch and is filled with amazing colors and camera angles and sybolism.

But above all else, the cast is what truly holds this masterpiece together. Everyone is so convincing. Whoever decided on the final cast should be rewarded heavily, because I don't think the show would be the same without them. If you watch the pilot episode and then the last episode of the season, you can see an amazing change in every single one of the characters...but it doesn't just happen. They all gradually move toward these new personalitites, strengths, and realizations...and as a viewer you don't even notice it happening unless you look for it. It takes a lot of talent to develop a character that can GROW so seamlessly in one season...much less to find a full cast that can pull it off.
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3.0 out of 5 stars 6 Ft Under
The first season was good. Unique concept, fun actors, good surprises. I would not recommend the next season, as it got very stale and repetitive in ideas.
Published 5 days ago by Roxi
4.0 out of 5 stars Wow
This is a great series and am looking forward to the rest of it. Will start on season 2 next.
Published 6 days ago by B. Warmus
5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive Viewer Loves 6FTUNDER
I'm watching it for the third time. I seem to NEED to watch it every three years or so. Brilliant!
Published 7 days ago by Ted Walch
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
If you missed this series, and you are looking for something to watch that you can become fully absorbed by, you may want to consider Six Feet Under. Read more
Published 25 days ago by Jen
5.0 out of 5 stars best show ever filmed
I love this television show, to the point where I think it's insulting to call it a television show. The series is better than most movies I've seen. Read more
Published 26 days ago by F. Zawaydeh
5.0 out of 5 stars Great series, great product and quality
Six Feet Under is amazing. I'm glad I got it for such a good deal as well. Came perfectly packed with no problems whatsoever.
Published 29 days ago by Anastassia Poukalenko
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Six feet under is one of the best shows I ever watched. You get hooked from the first episode. If you buy the 1st season you gotta but the rest
Published 1 month ago by Giampapa93
5.0 out of 5 stars Best TV Show of All-Time
It may be a bold statement, but I truly believe Six Feet Under is the greatest show in TV history.

Like most HBO shows, it's cutting edge. It pulls no punches. Read more
Published 1 month ago by RT
4.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best HBO series of all time
Went on forever, but the first season was not only epic, but it open the doors to a new era of television.
Published 1 month ago by Charles Richer
4.0 out of 5 stars Great to Catch Up
I found seasons 3 and 4 in a thrift store and after watching those discs I wanted to get the history of the characters so I ordered seasons 1 and 2. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Judy Wikelius
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