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Six Feet Under is an American drama television series created and produced by Alan Ball for the premium television network HBO. The series premiered on June 3, 2001, and ended on August 21, 2005, after five seasons consisting of 63 episodes.
Oct 4, 2023 · Six Feet Under is coming to Netflix on Nov. 1. Ahead of its arrival, here's everything you need to know about the acclaimed and darkly funny family drama.
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Sep 18, 2024 · Six Feet Under, highly praised American television drama that aired on HBO for five seasons (2001–05) and won numerous awards. It chronicles the lives of the Fisher family, who run a funeral home in Los Angeles. The show explores taboo and sensitive subjects with humor, sophistication, and sympathy.
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Six Feet Under: Created by Alan Ball. With Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose. A chronicle of the lives of a dysfunctional family who run an independent funeral home in Los Angeles.
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- 2001-06-03
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- THE IDEA WAS INSPIRED BY A 1948 BOOK. Carolyn Strauss, then head programmer of HBO, wanted her network to do a show about death after watching the 1965 movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s satirical book The Loved One, which was based on the Los Angeles funeral business.
- BALL WAS GIVEN ONE STRANGE NOTE ABOUT HIS FIRST DRAFT. Strauss told him that it was really good, but still too safe, so asked him: “Could you just make it just a little more f*cked up?”
- ANNA FARIS WAS TOO FUNNY TO BE CLAIRE. In auditioning for Claire, Anna Faris attempted to enact the scene in which the teenager, who is high, finds out that her father is dead.
- JEREMY SISTO, ADAM SCOTT, AND PETER KRAUSE ALL AUDITIONED TO PLAY DAVID. Peter Krause eventually accepted that he was much more like Nate than he had originally realized.
5 SeasonS | 63 Episodes | TV-MA. WATCH NOW. When death is your business, what is your life? From Oscar-winning screenwriter Alan Ball (American Beauty) comes this award-winning HBO drama series that takes a darkly comic look at a dysfunctional L.A. family that runs a funeral business.
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Jun 3, 2021 · ‘Make it more f***ed up’: The story of Six Feet Under, 20 years on. HBO’s pioneering funeral home drama was one of a kind when it debuted in June 2001.
