Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3300 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-04-10
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 24

Synopsis
This release collects all five seasons of Alan Ball's brilliantly original and darkly humorous HBO series about the members of a dynamic Los Angeles family that operates the Fisher & Sons Funeral Home.

Customer Reviews

The Meaning of life and death in 5 series
I was given the first 2 series by a freind with no recomendation, just a straight swap for the brilliant Deadwood.
I eventually got around to watching the first episode and was subsequently hooked from then on in.
As other reviewers have unashamebly admitted, I was moved beyond belief by the deep and sometimes dark subject matter brought to life by the utterly brilliant cast.
I would highly recommend this series to anyone who enjoys the seemingly endless stream of superior drama series coming from across the pond,(Sopranos, Deadwood, West Wing, Brothers and Sisters etc).

The last 3 episodes were quite the most brilliantly thought provoking peices of genius I have ever had the pleasure to witness on tv.

Excellent.

A lesser known masterpiece
A quite wonderful story from Series 1 episode 1 to the final series 5 episode. I loved (and hated, in parts) the characters and lived their lives with them. The casting was faultless with some really captivating actors and a thoroughly believable and beguiling script.

Series 3, in my view, started to drag a little but then things picked up in series 4 and 5 and the last epsiode had me enraptured and not a little tearful as we said goodbye to the characters.

If you like to be entertained emotionally as well as cerebrally you will love the Fishers and their story.

six feet under and hooked
I first got into watching this show while living in the states and was hooked from the get go, The underlying issues that the characters go through personally is gripping enough but to then be faced with the inside vision of how it must be like to run a family business where the only things around you that are live are the flowers was a real different concept for a tv show. You can forget all the other hit tv shows in a second when you move away from America but for me this is one of the top. All the actors fit right in with this show and If you have never seen this then buy it, sometimes sad, sometimes funny and sometimes downright weird its great how the writers have fresh ideas that keep you coming back time and time again....
I only wish there were more made of this show but I guess all good things come to an end and when they do they get buried, six feet under!