Within a week of the first episode being aired, HBO renewed the show for a second season.
Michael C. Hall's first screen role. He had confined himself to the New York stage prior to "Six Feet Under." The first scene he shot was in the pilot episode when David goes to the morgue to collect his father's body.
Nikolai's flower shop actually is a real flower shop at 14325 Ventura Blvd and was once a gas station. It was in fact the gas station that James Dean filled up at the day he left town on his way to the crash that would kill him (there is a color photo of him at the station about to get back behind the wheel).
Set in Los Angeles because, according to series creator Alan Ball, LA is the "world capital of the denial of death."
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