Product Description

The complete third season of the U.S. drama series created by American Beauty writer, Alan Ball. Six Feet Under takes a darkly comic look at a dysfunctional L.A. Family running an independent funeral home. This season, thanks to the financial contributions of their mortician, Frederico, Fisher & Sons has become Fisher & Diaz, and the Fisher family members face major adjustments as they open a new chapter in their professional and personal relationships. Includes all 13 episodes from season three.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8479 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-04-04
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Dutch, Arabic, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 5
• Running time: 629 minutes

Synopsis
A television drama series which centres on the family that runs an independent funeral home. Features the complete episodes from the third season.

Customer Reviews

Nothing Will Be the Same Again
After Season One and Two, season three takes a decidedly different turn. While Season One was about discovering identity, season two was about friends, family and lovers. Season 3 is about relationships, and change.

This isn't the same show as the first two seasons. Superfially character roles have changed largely and the people you see are mostly new. There's no Parker here, Brenda doesn't appear until the 5th episode, Nikolai's non-existent, as is assistant Robbie.

On a deeper level the show is darker, more subdued, more brooding. It is a tribute to the show's actors that if they didn't have the gravitas that they do the show would seem slow, but in actual fact it seems breathtaking up until the eventual climax of the last four actors which is just breathtaking television in every meaning of the phrase.

Six Feet Under, fantastic television.

decline and falter
The first two series of this show are probably the best television I've seen in the last decade. It's the closest I think television has ever come to the complexity and subtlety of written fiction.

That's what makes this third season so disappointing. It's probably better than 90% of the relationship dramas out there, well - written, well - acted for the most part, and cleverly thought out. Nor is the problem that it's lost its focus. If anything, this is where the main flaw lies. This time around it focuses entirely on the relationships and in a peculiarly psychoanalytical style. The effect is that often every character appears to be talking like a therapist, or visiting them. I don't deny that this is a big part of american culture, but it makes for pretty flat drama. As a result, the series seems to coast along and it relies on gripping the audience by throwing in the biggies [someone gets an abortion, someone else dies, someone is caught cheating], which seem more like plot devices than organic to the story line. Equally, the series has been "sexed up", but in a bizarre way, so that most of the sex that takes place in the show seems stuck in the same framework of therapy and "working out who we are to each other" that dominates the show. Certain characters, like Clare's art teacher, never really develop other than as sexual signposts in this regard. Even the deaths at the begining of the show, previously so seamlessly interweaved into the plots, feel more contrived, random, perverse, like the deaths in "dead like me".

Neither of the first two series would have been this lazy. I haven't seen the fourth series yet, so maybe they can turn it around. If not, then there's no shame, because the first two series will stand up in ten, twenty years time, and how many American or UK drama series can you really say that about?

Six Feet Fantastic!
Well, this is the third season of Six Feet Under, honestly I've been waiting for a long time for this to come on DVD, had dreams about it too, which may sound quite pathetic, however it won't if you have seen this fantastic drama series.

The third season, however is extremely different, this might not be everyone's taste after season 1 & 2, but it is worth checking it out, especially to answer simple questions such as;

Is Nate dead?

Where's Brenda?

And what will happen to Keith after the shooting?

Well, this is where all the answers lie, including some great guest star appearances from Kathy Bates as the wild Bettina, Richard Jenkins in returning role as the "Dead Dad", Patrica Clarkson as hippy Aunt Sarah and let's not even begin on the new slighly deranged distant relative of Pugsley and Wednesday's undertaker inturn Arthur.

Well from the very start of the firest episode, you know you're in for a rocky ride, especially when we discover whose this episode's stiff is.

Some unusual paths by the main characters are taken, some involve art school, house call home security and funeral directing and undertaking.

Some unusal relationships begin, including Ruth's new found friendship with wild Bettina, Lisa's new partner, Claire and her crematorial rock band boyfriend and Keith and David's marriage councilling takes drastic effect.

Aparat from the rather unusual bits, which probably include, Sarah's valium attacks, David's chiour singing and gay paintballing. This is a great series, especially the beginning ten or fifthteen minutes, they deserve five stars.

Why did I give it four stars?
Only because it's not as good as the past two seasons, however it still is brilliant and is miles better than the fourth!