Six Feet Under (2001)
Life is pain, get use to it.
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 3 June 2001 |
| Status | Ended, last episode 21 August 2005 |
| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Alan Ball |
| Starring | Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall and Frances Conroy |
| Seasons | 5 seasons, 63 episodes |
| Episode length | about 56 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 59 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 8.1/10 |
Where to watch Six Feet Under
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What kind of watch this is
Alan Ball built this drama on a premise that sounds like a cruel joke: what does life look like when your job is death? The Fisher family runs a funeral home, and the show spends 59 hours watching them try to live normally between the staves. It is a slow, quiet look at grief that never turns it into a lesson. The tagline says life is pain, get used to it. It’s a heavy lift, but you won’t find a more honest map of the in-between.
What the critics said
Critics called it a landmark, which is a high bar for a show about dead people. Rotten Tomatoes gives season 1 a 90% approval rating and an 8/10 average score based on 40 reviews. Metacritic lands on 74 out of 100 from 23 reviews. The praise focused on the writing and acting, with the Writers Guild of America ranking it #18 on their list of the 101 Best Written TV Series. Steve Oxman of Variety called it "a smart, brooding, fanciful character-driven ensemble piece." Barry Garron of The Hollywood Reporter noted it "comes up with a unique tone and style." The fourth season drew mixed reviews, a rare dip in an otherwise glowing run.
How it did with audiences
No box office figures exist to count, so the only number that matters is the one on TMDB. Users rate it 8.1 out of 10. That is a high score. The ratings hold up even without a budget to compare against.
What came next for the cast
Frances Conroy moved from Scent of a Woman to Joker. That is a significant jump in dramatic range. Lauren Ambrose traded Can't Hardly Wait for Yellowjackets. Peter Krause went from The Truman Show to 9-1-1. The credits cannot prove the series caused those shifts. They can only list what followed.
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Sources
- Six Feet Under on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q216919 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Six Feet Under (TV series)” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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