Six Feet Under: The Complete Second Season

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Product Details

Format : Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled
Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0026359889226
Product Group : DVD
Release Date : 2004-07-06
Studio : HBO Home Video
UPC : 026359889226

ASIN : B0001KL5DA

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Editorial Reviews

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In some ways, HBO's Six Feet Under plays kid brother to stellar BMOC The Sopranos: it's spunkier, less refined, chancier, and a bit of a punk. Nevertheless, the show set in the Southern California mortuary Fisher and Sons deserves its place in the pantheon of great television series. The initial season was a showcase for the most original characters, including tight-lipped brother David (Michael C. Hall) coming out of the closet, emotionally trippy mom Ruth (Frances Conroy), and the most complex girlfriend on the face of the planet, Brenda (Rachel Griffiths). Slowly, the major force in season 2 is the unassuming lead, Peter Krause. Part of the long line of good-looking actors who never get respect because they make it look too easy, Krause (Sports Night) finds the perfect blend of optimism with a wonderful, bittersweet anguish as Nate, the prodigal son.

The initial season's happy ending is forgotten as relationships change, the business is still under fire from the evil conglomerate Kroehner, and a lively dream sequence is just around the corner. As with the premier season, creator Alan Ball lets many others direct and write the show, but his stamp is all over it. The eccentricities of the characters are shaped, and not always suddenly. Take daughter Claire (Lauren Ambrose), who sheds her bad boyfriend only to find more complex relationships on her road to discovering her own groove. One person in the mix is Ruth's beatnik sister (Patricia Clarkson, in an Emmy-winning role), a joyous embodiment of thriving--if aging--counter culture. Another new character is Nate's old girlfriend, the granola-loving Lisa (Lili Taylor). With Brenda heading down another destructive course, Nate is at more than one crossroads by season's end. For fans who groove with the wild, serio-comedic world of the Fishers (and let's face it, many didn't), the second season goes down like a fine meal of fusion cuisine. The show shares an unfortunate family trait with its HBO big brother: although both were lavished with multiple Emmy nominations the first two seasons, both took home only token awards. But then there's always next year. --Doug Thomas

Customer Reviews

How could it have rated a five? (2005-05-27)

In the first season, there would be a death, which would lead to a funeral, which led to the funeral home. The death and funeral would be tied into the ongoing story, a dimension they got away from in the second season. Otherwise the show is... near excellent. (And disappointing to have the fifth or sixth season playing in the US, and only the second in Canada.) The show is less about cliffhangers than everyday life. I suppose thats what they call "Drama". A drama well worth watching. Now I get to buy season three.

Best deal going for Six Feet Under (3) (2005-05-22)

I purchased through the Amazon.ca website -and took a chance on selecting a vendor with a $10 lower price -Princess22222 .I'd never done this before, but I took a chance, and received my new unopened DVD set complete and in good shape - and about 12% less than Amazon's already great price. I'd do it again.

I"m only 3 episodes into the season -but it looks as good as the previous.

The Best Show. The Best Season. Alan Ball is' a genuis! (2004-07-12)

First off, Six Feet Under's first season was stunning, mind blowing, a dazzling piece of eye candy that will no doubt go down in TV history. Alan Ball, the show's creater is a true genuis in all shapes and forms.If for some bizzare reason you don't no about the show heres a brief summary: The show is about a family who make a living as funreal directors. They are the fisher family and live a very interesting life. Each epiosed deals with and people close to them confroting lifes daily issues in very unique and fasinating ways.*For more indepth summry see any reviews for the first season.

Now, here is the second season of Six Feet Under which is in many ways a more darker season then the first and so far the third. I think what made it the best season/show was becuse of the darker subject matter being so well blended with humorous or more light weighted things. It's still very touching, off beat, warm and funny but a few disturbing death's mixed with the character of Brenda, who goes sexual out of control keeps the viewer on teh edge of their seat. In my opinion, Brenda's sexual adventures with starngers was one of the height lights of the show. They were done in a profound and memorobal fasion that was dark but did not turn the viwver off. Brenda is by far the show's most complex and intriging charachter and in this season you really explore what she is feeling and going through. The characters all explore new meanings, problems and love. Claire gets ready for college, Ruth attends a inspiring group known as the plan, David and Keith get back together, Nate deals with his AVM, and as I mentioned Brenda begins having sex with strangers. Its very dark, very fuuny, very sad, very happy, very interesting and its one of the best things ever created- aside from the gloureous and memorizing American Beauty- this season is a must have for anyone. The sooner its released the better. When you buy this DVD you will not regreat it. The DVD will transport you to the haunting realm of Six Feet Under, a place you'll never forget!

Not much surprise, but still fascinating (2004-07-07)

The second season, honestly speaking, is not as fascinating as the first one. Yet, it still outstands lots of other dramas. The first season strikes many of us because of its style and the captivating characterisation. Each character is so distinguished from each other and each has his/her own charm. Once we are used to this formula, season 2 seems to offer less surprise to the audience. However, what season 2 does is to complicate the plot and the closure of each problem still brings joy to many of us.

The most brilliant part is season 2 is the adding of Taylor, Keith's niece into the drama. She evolves around David and Keith, sharing the homosexual secrets from the child's point of view. It's very interesting and the chemistry IS there. However, what disappoints me most, personally, is the pitification of Ruth, the mother in many episodes. Season 2 tends to victimize Ruth as a mother who shares one-way communication to her Russian lover, Nikolai, and the communication problem worsens between her and her children. Each episode tends to amplify this theme of victimhood and even in epsiode 13, her strong will is not restored completely. The whole season ends with a scene in which Claire and David hug their mother for love and concern when Nate is undergoing an AVM surgery.

Season 2 also brings more emphasis on the sidecast of the drama. Rico and his wife, Brenda's parents or even Brenda's new prostitute friend do stir a certain storm in the character's life. The second season extends the problems plotted in the first season - Keith and David's crisis, Nate's health problem, Brenda's obsession with wild sex, Ruth's incompetence and helplessness and Claire's cynicism. All these themes are touched in season 2.

Everybody who loves the first 2 seasons is waiting desperately for Season 3 on DVD. I just hope the studio does not take another 9 months to release their money-making discs.

It's not supposed to be in widescreen. (2004-07-01)

To the gentleman who was upset about the DVDs being offered in full-screen format:

Widescreen is preferable if -- and ONLY if -- the television program was originally shot in widescreen format (as most feature films are). But if the show was shot using the standard television aspect ratio of 4:3 (as "Six Feet Under" was), then you WANT it in full-screen format, because that's how it was intended to be seen. A lot of shows are adding black letterbox bars to their DVD releases in an effort to make the shows look more "cinematic," but if the show was not originally shot in widescreen, the black bars are actually COVERING UP part of the frame, damaging the composition in order to appeal to DVD collectors who don't realize that NOT EVERYTHING is shot in 1.65:1.

"Six Feet Under" is being presented the way it was shot and the way the series' directors wanted it to be seen. Kudos to HBO for NOT presenting the series in faux-widescreen.

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