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DVD Six Feet Under - The Complete Third Season
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
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Delivering the dead...
In the past, I had two problems with television dramas. Wading through the commercials and waiting through the weeks between episodes, both issues killing the suspense.
With the emergence of DVD, The problem is solved! Now you can watch as many episodes in one sitting as you are willing. Suddenly, great shows like SIX FEET UNDER become more interesting than many large screen movies!
This third season with the Fisher clan is not as fresh as the First. The series used to employ a great plot device: book ending each episode with someone's often bizarre death and burial, with many of the dead commenting and getting involved in between. Through this process, the Fisher family's issues were given a counterpoint and thematic commentary. This third season still carries the book ends, but they are not incorporated as nicely into the story, rather they are a smaller, alternate story, and with only a couple exceptions, the dead remain silent.
Still, there is plenty to talk about with this third season, most of which occurs in the last half of the season. When an important character disappears, you will want for answers as much as the Fishers. But, you'll have to wait along with them and the suspense is brilliantly painful.
Many of the season's storylines are leaning into soap opera department. Claire's experiences in art school, Mom's many loves, Keith and David's relationship issues most prominently. But if you've followed the family this long, those issues are still worth watching as a voyeuristic exercise.
In closing, I rarely watch a television show when the TV GUIDE says it is on. Instead, I wait for DVD releases like this and watch at my own pace.
I look forward to the next season's release.
Six Feet Under - The Complete Third Season
I have the entire First, Second, Third and Fourth Seasons on DVD. So far I have watched 2 of the 5 Discs of the Third Season and I just LOVED it. This has to be one of the most original dramas ever made for TV/Cable. Excellent story lines and excellent acting. I have not yet seen the Fourth and Fifth Seasons on DVD. I am very sorry that the series has been canceled. Very, very sad.
I'm Sorry Mr. Fisher, I Have Some Bad News.
Six Feet Under's third season is a standard season for the HBO show. The third season starts off a little slow, but once the relationships and arguements start the show becomes very intriguing. Six Feet Under and Nip/Tuck are the only two soap opera like shows that I enjoy. Six Feet Under is just very captivating. I can't stop watching. This season is not any better or worse than the previous two seasons. It is just good. Six Feet Under is a depressing show at times, but at other times it can make me laugh out loud. That tells you that you have found a good show. If it can rip you're heart out in one scene and crack you up in the following scene you are lucky. The direction is still good. The acting is fantastic though. David, Claire, Ruth, and Brenda were probably my favorite characters this season. I really disliked Lisa and I have never really cared for Frederico. I also didn't care for the way they developed Nate towards the end of the season. The music used in the show is great, and the two albums for the show prove it. Overall, Six Feet Under's third season is just as good as the first two seasons. By the way, the last few episodes are amazing.
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