Six Feet Under

I'm a latecomer to the US TV show Six Feet Under, having only started watching it from Season 1 when it was repeated on Sky some months ago. It ran in the US from 2001.

We're now well into Season 3 of the show as Sky has run it pretty much non-stop once a week and I'm as hooked on it as I was with The Sopranos and Mad Men.  It's top quality TV - a drama about a family who run a funeral parlour. It's funny, it's quirky, it's dark and disturbing.  It's wonderful and I can't rate it highly enough.

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Tvor said…
Wow yes, you have a lot of missed time to make up on this one! I joined it in season 3 and backtracked to the first two and followed it until the finish. The final episode was astonishingly good.
5:04 PM
Anonymous said…
Prepare to be remarkably depressed at the end of the final episode. Even several years after it aired, it still makes me sad to think about it.
7:35 PM
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