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Six Feet Under: Complete HBO Season 4
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Description
There's a new pecking order at the Fisher & Diaz funeral home, but Nate, Ruth, David and Claire still try to make every day above ground a good one. Death and dysfunction are par for the course in The Complete Fourth Season of Six Feet Under.
Editorial
Synopsis
A further slice of life in the funeral business is unravelled in this fourth season of episodes from HBO's SIX FEET UNDER. Beginning just one day after the climax of Season three, the show gets off to an explosive start, with arguments raging about how Lisa would want to be buried. Meanwhile, George attempts to integrate himself into the family, with mixed results; Rico finds himself in hot water as he enters into two relationships; Brenda and Claire both find new men in their lives; and Keith and David experience some ups and downs in their relationship. As usual, the performances are excellent, the direction assured, and the writing of exceptional quality. Highly addictive, life at Fisher And Diaz never stops being compulsive viewing.
welcome back
Review date: 2008-05-19 Rating: 8 out of 10
Season four of six feet under comes hurtling at you with a new found aggression and a deeper feel to it,season 3 got a little safe for me,this series brought back most of what made the first two series so worthwhile,this series brought back a dark and disturbing tone that felt very plausible.
The stories that affect the key characters lives all stamp and prod at the senses and give the series a much needed kick,again the pace is slow but more than moody,the story arcs are raised and there is comedy both dark and obvious,sadness that feels very real and a sense that everything that could go wrong will go wrong,this is a series that challenges and that is what made this show so worthwhile,i was glad that they found this angle again,otherwise the series was gonna die,irony,hey hey!
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Reviews
Not a patch on the other series
Review date: 2006-07-06 Rating: 4 out of 10
I came to love 6 feet under, joining it at the end of the first season, and regard the 2nd and 3rd seasons as pretty much tv drama perfection, with each character's life beautifully realised and empathised, and superb acting and direction all round.
But this series really stinks. Most criminally i found myself not caring about the characters, something i thought would never happen. Especially Nate, who has next to nothing to do in this season and just drifts through it. Even Ruth - always the strongest character and probably the best actress in Frances Conroy doesn't feel right, and her relationship with her new husband (James Croomwell) is one of the many annoying things in this season.
But the real weakness with this fourth season is Claire, always by far the weakest character, and here so infuriating you just want to skip through a lot of her scenes (which i did). Her art-school pontificating with her fellow students are so dull and pretentious you feel that it is almost a parody, but sadly it's not. And her scenes with her friend played by Mena Suvari are toe-curlingly bad. With every new episode when it flashed up at the start that Suvari was involved I resigned myself to another bad episode, and it usually was.
Compared to its earlier excellence season 4 had massive shoes to fill, but this season is not just bad seet feet under, it's bad tv period, which is a real shame.
This season was pretty poor
Review date: 2006-06-05 Rating: 4 out of 10
I don't agree with the other reviewers on this season.
Six Feet Under began as a show about a dysfunctional family who had slightly strange things happen to them. By the end of this season, they had become a slighly stranger than normal family who had to go through consistently tragic events, much more than any other family (in the real world) would ever have to go through.
By the end of this pretty awful season, what was initially a darkly humourous look at life in a funeral home, with some poignant reflections on death, had degenerated into a soap opera with wildly over the top melodramatics to pass for drama.
It rescued itself a little by the end of the season, but Claire's grating development at College, to Ruth's frankly pathetic husband to David's abduction, this season became laughable. The general consensus is that the final season is great and so perhaps this fourth season is worth it. But it sure was a real slog trying to get through it. At times painful viewing (and not through any of the stories, but just by being dull), it may come to mean more in the context of the final season....
Genius!
Review date: 2006-03-02 Rating: 10 out of 10
I'm a huge fan of Six Feet Under and in my opinion this was the best series yet. I thought this was the last series and wept when it ended as it's by far the best thing on television but joy discovered there's a fifth and final series.
Funny, witty, intelligent, life affirming, beautifully shot, wonderful acting...I could go on and on. Each episode is brilliant and subversive. You end up really caring about the characters. Always surprising never dull. Get the flu and watch it!!
Dead funny
Review date: 2006-02-03 Rating: 10 out of 10
I watched these episodes first on TV, but I've found I can watch them over and again. I played the episode 'Coming and Going' three times. I just marvelled at the brilliance of the dialogue and the mixture of pathos and humour.
Highlights of the episode: a distinguished black man does a 'walk-in' to the funeral home and passes on, as planned in his car, Ruth's new husband George attacks a Bradford flowering pear in the back garden.
David goes to church and fantasises about shoving a gun in the mouth of a man who has recently attacked him, and killing him dead.
Claire and her brother discuss the pros and cons of gay sex. Rico's mistress has a fight with his wife, Vanessa. Vanessa and her sister take a baseball bat to the mistress's car and then calmly go and pick up the kids. Nate is discovered canoodling with Brenda, who is living with a new boyfriend. And it all ends up with the track 'Oh happy day!'
Sound wacky and complicated? I often feel like standing up and applauding after the episode has finished on DVD.
Why do people love this series so much? For a start it is a brilliant situation comedy, and the humour is not cynical or empty, but very life affirming.
And because death is such a taboo subject, this series's desire to revel in it has meant it can open up brand new vistas of TV experience. And the paradox is that by focusing so closely on death they manage to express the glorious possiblities of being alive.
Life is difficult and 'Six Feet Under' shows you exactly why.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Frances Conroy
Freddy Rodriguez
Lauren Ambrose
Michael C. Hall
Peter Krause
Creators:
Peter Krause (Primary Contributor)
Michael C. Hall (Primary Contributor)
Recording label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
EAN: 7321900725521
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 5
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2005-09-05
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 780 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)