Television

Six Feet Under 2001

Created by Alan Ball

  • Drama
  • 5 seasons
  • 63 episodes
  • Ended
  • TV-MA

Life is pain, get use to it.

When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.

Dramasibling relationshipwidowfamily business dysfunctional familydark comedydeath of fatherbusinessfamily dramalos angeles, californiafamilydeathfuneral homeHBO

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Contemporary, overwhelming, contemplative and character-led.

  • contemporarynostalgic
  • cooloverwhelming
  • contemplativerelentless
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • unpretentiousprestige

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