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The complete third season of the U.S. drama series created by American Beauty writer, Alan Ball. Six Feet Under takes a darkly comic look at a dysfunctional L.A. Family running an independent funeral home. This season, thanks to the financial contributions of their mortician, Frederico, Fisher & Sons has become Fisher & Diaz, and the Fisher family members face major adjustments as they open a new chapter in their professional and personal relationships. Includes all 13 episodes from season three.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
After Season One and Two, season three takes a decidedly different turn. While Season One was about discovering identity, season two was about friends, family and lovers. Season 3 is about relationships, and change.
This isn't the same show as the first two seasons. Superfially character roles have changed largely and the people you see are mostly new. There's no Parker here, Brenda doesn't appear until the 5th episode, Nikolai's non-existent, as is assistant Robbie.
On a deeper level the show is darker, more subdued, more brooding. It is a tribute to the show's actors that if they didn't have the gravitas that they do the show would seem slow, but in actual fact it seems breathtaking up until the eventual climax of the last four actors which is just breathtaking television in every meaning of the phrase.
Six Feet Under, fantastic television.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Along with The Sopranos- this is, at least to my mind, the greatest of all tv shows. The acting, writing and direction are absolutely briiliant. This is top notch and has developed since the first two seasons into something that can still shock and surprise but finds new and interesting ways to keep you watching. With the arrival of Arthur in this season- a brilliantly absurd chracter and the strange goings on in the Fisher home this is just as good as what has preceeded it. Then there is the episode where David and Keith play paintball (all slow A-Team action and superb over the top music) how can anyone say that this show was on the wane at this point? Compare it to the likes of Lost (all surface) and Desperate Houswives (Again- all surface) and this show leaves them lying in the dirt. If you have never seen Six Feet Under then i suggest you watch American Beauty first (written by this shows creator) as that will set the template for what you will see here.
31 of 35 people found the following review helpful
The first two series of this show are probably the best television I've seen in the last decade. It's the closest I think television has ever come to the complexity and subtlety of written fiction.
That's what makes this third season so disappointing. It's probably better than 90% of the relationship dramas out there, well - written, well - acted for the most part, and cleverly thought out. Nor is the problem that it's lost its focus. If anything, this is where the main flaw lies. This time around it focuses entirely on the relationships and in a peculiarly psychoanalytical style. The effect is that often every character appears to be talking like a therapist, or visiting them. I don't deny that this is a big part of american culture, but it makes for pretty flat drama. As a result, the series seems to coast along and it relies on gripping the audience by throwing in the biggies [someone gets an abortion, someone else dies, someone is caught cheating], which seem more like plot devices than organic to the story line. Equally, the series has been "sexed up", but in a bizarre way, so that most of the sex that takes place in the show seems stuck in the same framework of therapy and "working out who we are to each other" that dominates the show. Certain characters, like Clare's art teacher, never really develop other than as sexual signposts in this regard. Even the deaths at the begining of the show, previously so seamlessly interweaved into the plots, feel more contrived, random, perverse, like the deaths in "dead like me".
Neither of the first two series would have been this lazy. I haven't seen the fourth series yet, so maybe they can turn it around. If not, then there's no shame, because the first two series will stand up in ten, twenty years time, and how many American or UK drama series can you really say that about?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Psychiatric
Too much of "why do I live", "how can I keep a relationship", "I want to be loved", etc. Boring, really!
Published 14 months ago by S. Van Parys
Shame that this show is Six Feet Under
After Lost, this is my all-time favourite American Drama. Brilliant cast, brilliant story lines and fabulous black comedy. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Michelle Harvey
Still strong, but level dropped from series 1 and 2
Really enjoyed this series, but the level definitely dropped a little from the proceeding two.
Currently half way through series 4 and glad to see the level has improved... Read more
Currently half way through series 4 and glad to see the level has improved... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mr. D. Harvey
Unbeatable TV drama
Top quality scriptwriting and second-to-none acting lie at the core of what, for me, is quite simply the best TV drama I have ever seen in my life. Read more
Published on 30 May 2010 by B. Grehs
The weakest season!
I'm sorry to say I didn't really enjoy this much though
it did have it's strong points and the cast were all still
in top form. Read more
it did have it's strong points and the cast were all still
in top form. Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2009 by Mr. A. J. Ralph
Gripping Season
This third season more than lived up to it's predecessors. Absolutley gripping episodes with some very unexpected outcomes. Read more
Published on 8 April 2009 by Shila Flanvar
a fall down
Season 3 of six feet under is a good series but isnt as good as the first two,where season one was very quirky and season 2 could be accused of being dark with comical... Read more
Published on 6 May 2008 by sean paul mccann
Review of Six Feet Under (Third Series) episodes 9-11
This series took a while to get going (apart from the incendiary first two episodes) but episodes 9-11 are simply gripping! In fact, they had me in tears! Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2006
The 3rd season of the greatest TV show of the last decade
Well, it's finally upon us, the release of season 3 of Six Feet Under. It was a stand out year for this amazingly dark comedy/drama hybrid - Conventions of the previous 2 seasonS... Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2005 by A. Mcafee
Six Feet Fantastic!
Well, this is the third season of Six Feet Under, honestly I've been waiting for a long time for this to come on DVD, had dreams about it too, which may sound quite pathetic,... Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2005 by Mr. Cj Crookall
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