Created by Alan Ball who won an Oscar for his screenplay for American Beauty.
Ball also directs the pilot. It is more of the same with a touch of David Lynch surrealism. Those glamorous adverts for morticians products.
It is a dark comical drama of a middle class dysfunctional family. Nathaniel Fisher runs a family funeral home who dies in a car crash while lighting a cigarette.
He was on his way to the airport to pick up his son Nate who fled the family business. Nate was busy making out with Brenda who he just met.
Uptight David was stuck with helping out with the funeral home which took him away from his dreams. Their sister Claire was high on meths when she heard the bad news. Mother Ruth confesses to cheating on her husband on the day of the funeral.
It is a family in the grief management business that looks like it is about to fall apart by their father's sudden demise.
David so believes in the appearance of calm in the funerals they carry out, he expects the same at his own father's funeral. He wants no display of emotions. He even keeps his boyfriend at arm's length when he shows up, afraid that people might find out about his sexuality.
Six Foot Under is another show which I doubt would had been made if American television was not revolutionised in 1990 by Twin Peaks. The standout character in the first episode is repressed David, you just feel that he is so wound up that he is going to unravel in future episodes.
Ball also directs the pilot. It is more of the same with a touch of David Lynch surrealism. Those glamorous adverts for morticians products.
It is a dark comical drama of a middle class dysfunctional family. Nathaniel Fisher runs a family funeral home who dies in a car crash while lighting a cigarette.
He was on his way to the airport to pick up his son Nate who fled the family business. Nate was busy making out with Brenda who he just met.
Uptight David was stuck with helping out with the funeral home which took him away from his dreams. Their sister Claire was high on meths when she heard the bad news. Mother Ruth confesses to cheating on her husband on the day of the funeral.
It is a family in the grief management business that looks like it is about to fall apart by their father's sudden demise.
David so believes in the appearance of calm in the funerals they carry out, he expects the same at his own father's funeral. He wants no display of emotions. He even keeps his boyfriend at arm's length when he shows up, afraid that people might find out about his sexuality.
Six Foot Under is another show which I doubt would had been made if American television was not revolutionised in 1990 by Twin Peaks. The standout character in the first episode is repressed David, you just feel that he is so wound up that he is going to unravel in future episodes.