Starring: Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Rachel Griffiths
Director: Alan Ball
Studio: Warner Bros
Rating: 15+
Genre: Drama (TV)
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About This DVD
No other show captures the ebb and flow of day-to-day human relationships like
Six Feet Under, which chronicles the dysfunctional lives of the Fisher family,
who run a funeral home in Los Angeles. Though the overt theme of the series is
mortality--every episode opens with the death of someone whose body will end up
on the Fishers' slab--but the third season, even moreso than the first two,
explores the intertwining struggles for connection and for personal freedom. The
season starts slowly but compellingly, laying out the changes in the Fishers'
lives. Nate (Peter Krause, We Don't Live Here Anymore) has married and has a
baby. David (Michael C. Hall) is settling into tense domesticity with his angry
boyfriend. Claire (Lauren Ambrose) has launched into art school. Ruth (Frances
Conroy), their mother, is reaching out for companionship from an emotionally
stilted young intern, and Brenda (Rachel Griffiths, Hilary and Jackie), Nate's
ex-fiancee, has apparently vanished from their lives.
But as storylines unfold across the 13 episodes, the emotional heft of the
season comes from the expanded roles of the family's intimates. Federico (Freddy
Rodriguez), who has leveraged his way into a partnership with the Fisher
brothers, finds himself fighting to be treated as an equal at work and
struggling with his wife's depression at home. Trying to sort out their
relationship, David and Keith (Mathew St. Patrick) negotiate everything from
therapy to threesomes. Meanwhile Lisa (Lili Taylor, I Shot Andy Warhol), Nate's
unhappy wife, increasingly becomes the center of the season as her jealousy and
need become unbearable. Though big events happen, the most jolting drama on Six
Feet Under comes from small conflicts--miscommunications, crossed desires,
habits that don't mesh. The cast, writers, and directors can, with breathtaking
skill and subtlety, spin a brief conversation into a microcosm of the
character's lives. By this third season, the show has taken on the richness and
complexity of a great novel; it's an impressive and deeply enjoyable
achievement. --Bret Fetzer
Audio Format: | DD 5.1 Surround |
Video Format: | Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic) |
Languages: | English |
Subtitles: | Korean / English / Portuguese / Spanish |
Country Made: | United States |
Region Code: | 3 |
Year Made: | 2003 |
Running Time: | 495 min. |
Special Features: | - Living on the Ledge: A
Bird`s Eye View of the Third Season (w/ Korean subtitles) - 3 Deleted Scenes (w/ Korean subtitles) - Commentaries on "ANOTHER VOICE", "NOBODY SLEEPS", "THE TRAP", "I'M SORRY, I'M LOST" (w/ Korean subtitles) |
Availability: | Usually ships in 5-10 days |
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