Six Feet Under

Advantages: Fantastic acting, plots, writing and direction
Disadvantages: Not an awful lot!

...intriguing mix the information that Six Feet Under is created, and sometime directed, by the writer behind American Beauty, Alan Ball, and I’m almost thrown into an unbridled orgasmic frenzy at the thought of how good this series could be. “When is this magnificent new series on?”, I pondered, with diary in hand ready to cancel my busy schedule of lounging in order to sit immersed in this new black comedy/dark, brooding drama/whatever you want it ...
...City and The Soprano’s. Six Feet Under, as you may have inferred from the title, is based around death, the story of a hugely dysfunctional family brought crashing down to earth with the untimely death of beloved father and husband, Nathaniel Fisher. He also happens to be the proprietor of the family’s independent Funeral Home, a strangely antiquated (in the American sense, which means it looks like it was built in the 1950s!), almost eerie building ... Read review

Advantages: Very good writing and acting
Disadvantages: None

...written an absolute corker. Six Feet Under is a black comedy drama about the Fisher family, who run a funeral home Fisher and Sons. The family consists of two brothers, one sister, their mother and their recently departed father who died on Christmas Eve, when a downtown bus was in collision with their father driving the herse. The eldest son Nate lived and worked in Seattle, who upon hearing of his fathers death flew directly home to be with family. ...
...named Brenda. Who is also on her way home to California, these two are in my completely sex crazed. David the second son is what can only be described as anal when it comes to the family run business. He is also having trouble telling his family that he is gay and in love with a very good looking cop. Who is a little pissed that his father left him and his brother 50% ownership of the funeral parlour. The sister Claire is a good old rebelious teenager, ... Read review

Advantages: Very funny black comedy
Disadvantages: On way too late

...find Channel 4's new sitcom, Six Feet Under is a refreshing change from the pap that plagues our screen and takes up our TV licence money. Written by Alan Ball, the man who master minded the 'interesting' American Beauty, Six Feet Under is certainly unique in that it centres its comedy in a funeral parlour of all places. It may not seem the ideal place to have a comedy, but that's the point - there has been nothing like it before. Revolving round ...
...right word to describe the Six Feet Under as there is none of the canned laughter or the quickfire comments. Instead it takes its time to get going, and if you are patient you can appreciate what ends up to be very funny. It's easy to see why America has taken to Six Feet Under. It's dark and funny, and its now one of America's most popular sitcoms. Along with 24 and Scrubs (starting tonight), Six Feet Under and its American writers, are putting ... Read review

Advantages: It is on at a reasonable time and repeated at an even better time
Disadvantages: Can sometimes ne a bit graphic

It is unusual for me to get hooked on a TV series and want to watch every episode possible! Well that was until ‘Six Feet Under’ hit our TV screens! Not even ‘Big Brother’ hooks me like that! I normally wait until the latter weeks before getting hooked! This is a comedy presented to us by Channel 4, which if I say so is just getting better every year! I normally am not taken by these American shows such as ‘Friends’, ‘Ally McBeal’ & ‘Sex In The ...
...be right up my street! It has elements in it that either have directly affected my life or have relevance i.e. death, drugs and homosexuality it is all there and I can relate to it in some way! The good thing about it is that it deals with serious issues that affect people on a daily basis. It is presented in a humorous but deadly serious way! The main characters are based around a dysfunctional American Fisher family who run Fisher & Sons Funeral ... Read review

Advantages: superbly written, impeccably acted
Disadvantages: none

2002 was a pretty good year for American television, with accolades being given left, right and centre for shows such as 'The West Wing' and '24'. However, the best TV show to come out of the States last year was undoubtedly 'Six Feet Under', which follows the trials and tribulations of the Fisher family as they try to run their independent funeral home. The first series of the show introduced us to the Californian clan with the death of the father ...
...accident. We are then taken on a roller-coaster ride through their complicated lives as they try to keep their father's business going in the face of adversity. The programme manages to mix subtle comedy with high emotion, and is fantastically written, allowing all of the individual characters to thoroughly develop within the stories. It was written by Alan Ball, who is best known for the fantastic Oscar winning 'American Beauty', and much of the ... Read review