Six Feet Under - The Complete Second Season

I watched the entire series on Amazon Prime for free, which was a stellar experience. To get all of this entertainment free was worth the cost of my Amazon Prime membership. Now, on to the show... I was riveted to every episode with a stunned wonder at what goes on behind the scenes of a family-owned mortuary business. Second to that were the engaging characters and sometimes rather depressing life stories that were so compelling that it didn't put me off the show. This would have been less of a great show if not for the ghosts of the deceased appearing here and there to lend their wisdom and gallows humor to coping with their deaths and bringing understanding and closure for the ones who remained behind. No spoilers here, and not naming names, but a percentage of the main characters get killed off, esp toward the last season. My favorite character was Claire. She could have carried the whole show on her back. Nate and David, too. The acting and scripts were first-rate and nothing in my life could have ever predicted that a show about a mortuary-owning family would become iconic and one of my favorite series of all time. I cried buckets during the series finale. Get the Kleenex ready! Ugh, I can't even tell you how much I miss this ensemble cast. I thought of them in my real life many times at odd moments, as they became almost like real people I knew and cared about. The series was a stunning tour de force and now I follow the careers of those fine actors and writers to see what they are up to on their newer shows. Farewell, ensemble cast of Six Feet Under. I spent hundreds of hours getting to know all of you. Fabulous series and highly recommended.

The more I watch this show the less I care about these people. There's no doubt that it's extremely well made, well written and well acted. But I wonder if there are viewers out there who actually like any of these characters. My first thought was about Brenda, who isn't exactly a bad person but doesn't have much in the way of redeeming qualities. As the series unfolded I began to feel the same way about each of the main characters in turn. What's interesting is that the dad, who everyone blames for their problems, doesn't seem to be the reason at all--it's the rest of them who are effed up and completely self-involved. If anyone ever talked to me the way they talk to each other, I would be out the door in a heartbeat. Of course, there are people in the world like this--I've known many--who are pointedly malicious to each other, and they all take it and spew it out over and over again. It used to be that every story, any story, had to create some kind of empathy for its characters. Even if they were mean, rotten people, there had to be something we could relate to, some grain of humanity we could latch onto, even if we hated them. In essence, we had to care about them on some level for the story to work. Amazingly, though, the end of the 20th century saw the overturning of this age-old rule and began to create stories in which we feel nothing for the characters and could care less what happens to them but still somehow engages us. Six Feet Under didn't start out that way for me, but after season two I find that it has carried on this newly-created tradition, and still I want to watch it.

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Six Feet Under amazing show and another great season of this show that blows your mind. I liked almost every aspect of this show, only few parts of this season made me go what were the writers thinking. For true fans of the show buy this season and sit back relax and enjoy every moment of this show and season for what you will love and certain parts of it go what is happening here. But no matter what happens between seasons 3 threw 5 I am keeping the show and keeping it for all time.

This is my absolute favorite series of all time. If you think your Job sucks and you have a hard day at work and with family imagine that your family is your business and you own and run a funeral home. Imagine you may have to bury your own family members or you lose friends and loved ones and your family is riding you back that its still a business yet while personal secrets are showing up during the funeral with the ridiculous requests that are made. Now throw in all the other troubles with life and your personal life this makes for the best entertaining series that HBO has ever done in my opinion. This is season two of five.

I now have the 5 seasons of Six Feet Under. I ordered the second season off of Amazon because it was the only one I had not found in stores. To my surprise the movies cost less from Amazon with shipping and handling included then in the stores. I now go to Amazon when I am looking for movies or books hoping to be able to get them. Hoping in the near future I can get what I need from here, because I am Canadian I am not able to order some articles cause they will not ship them out of United States. But I still try to order them if I can.

I absolutely love Six Feet Under. I give the show 5 stars. The shipping from amazon was horrible the box was torn and the plastic casings inside were cracked and broken. I ordered all seasons of six feet under and only one of the five boxes was in mint condition all other four boxes were broken, cracked and ripped. The box they came in was in good condition so it seemed like the products was already damaged at the Amazon facility. It almost seemed like they had dropped it or smashed it before even shipping it out. I havent had any issues with shipping from amazon until this time.

The Fishers are just like any other family delusional and dysfunctional..

Cette série est absolument extraordinaire dans son ensemble .Moi qui d'habitude trouve les productions américaines beaucoup trop formatées avec un glamour artificiel, j'ai été bluffée ! TOUS les personnages de "Six Feet Under" qui évoluent majoritairement dans l'univers particulier des Pompes Funèbres sont passionnants et très très attachants : leur psychologie complexe, leur humanité, leurs bons et mauvais choix sont autant d'analyses de la société contemporaine et de la vie avec les hauts et les bas qu'elles comportent .Tous les sujets sont abordés sans aucun tabou : mort,amour,sexualité homo ou hétéro ,drogue,violence,trahison ,dépression , folie ..même l'inceste est évoqué .Je ne vais pas dévoiler le reste, car ce serait gâcher votre plaisir . Tout cela a l'air bien éprouvant à regarder: mais non,il y a aussi dans cette saga beaucoup d'humour , de rebondissements,de suspense.. bref,elle sort entièrement des entiers battus . La dernière saison que je redoutais ,tant je ne voulais pas me séparer des héros, est particulièrement poignante..je n'en dirai pas plus ! . On sourit, on rit et parfois aussi on pleure devant le courage , l'inconscience et la vitalité de ces hommes et ces femmes ballottés entre vie et mort , mais qui ne renoncent jamais ! Pour résumer, je dirais que cette série faite pour distraire est aussi une réflexion sur le sens de la vie et de ce que nous pouvons en faire avec nos forces et nos faiblesses .. Même si au final, personne n'échappe à la Fatalité !

Nachdem ich schon großen Gefallen an der 1. Staffel fand, muss ich sagen, dass auch die 2. Staffel mehr als sehenswert ist. Hervorragende Schauspieler, denen die Rollen wie auf den Leib geschnitten sind, ein exzellenter Plot, die Drehbücher liefern großartige Dialoge, die von den Darstellern nuancenreich und tiefgründig wiedergegeben werden. Psychologisch ist alles sehr ausgefeilt, vieles zum Lachen, manches zum Weinen. Es berührt auf jeden Fall. Man möchte wissen, wie es weitergeht. Wie die Beziehungen der Leute untereinander sich weiter entwickeln. Das Herausragende an "Six Feet Under" ist für mich vor allem, dass die Handlung frei von Klischees ist - oft wie aus dem Leben gegriffen, ohne die üblichen Beschränkungen, die schlechte Serien ausmacht. Da ich selbst auch Autorin und Drehbuchautorin bin, ist es für mich natürlich noch mal besonders interessant, zu sehen, was eine wirklich gute Serie ausmacht. Die HBO Produktion scheint überhaupt ein Garant für herausragende Serien zu sein, wie mir nun schon öfter zu Ohren kam. Fazit: mehr als empfehlenswert!

Lo compré para completar mi colección que había quedado incompleta. Es una serie increíble.

Todo perfecto, presentación y contenido. Todo en inglés, italiano o español, entre otros; a excepción de los menús, que sólo están en inglés.

I have watched the show for three years, beginning with the first season in 2003 and purchasing the DVD set of each following season upon their release. For the last three years, SFU has been a fail-proof anti-depressant for me. Although some see it as deeply depressing, and I agree with them, that very depressing quality has a homour that always shines through. More than that, it let me see that certain profound yet non-religious spirituality is possible in American pop culture and Americans themselves (one of the misconceptions non-Americans, like me, have about American culture is that, amid the ascendency of fundamentalist Christianity, it is essentially shallow and materialistic, or that it may be characterized as having what Shakespeare called "irreligious piety"?). I can go on and on about how much I learned from SFU, how great consolation I got from it. So, as a big fan of the show, I see every season as a gem on its own. However, if I am forced to pick my favorite season, I'd pick season 2. It is more relaxed and yet, strangely again, more intense than the first season. Relaxed because I now know what to expect for the Fisher family and their funeral home, and intense because, as one of the axes of the plot-the relationship between Nate and Brenda-unfolds, I see a painful yet true description of why it is so hard for two people to stay together. Also, compared to following three seasons, it contains more of its trade-mark dark humour. In the Special Feature of the final season, creator Alan Ball tells us that Peter Krause's performance of Nate breathed an "amazing everyman quality" into the character, and while portraying this "everyman," that Nate was the one character with a stronger spiritual, (or mystical), bent. This makes perfect sense. Looking back, in the first episode of the Season 2, we see Nate jotting down what his father says in his dream, which turns out to be from Bhagavad Gita. The episode ends beautifully with Nate reading his notes to Brenda, which read: "All that lives lives forever. Only the shell, the perishable, passes away. The spirit is without end, eternal, deathless." Here is one of the earliest moments when the contrast between the mentalities of Brenda and Nate is made, a contrast which will be more dramatically depicted in the latter episodes of the final season. I spent a small fortune on the DVD sets of SFU. But it was money well spent, since every episode is infinitely re-watchable and leads us to think about issues that are important.