Created, co-written and executive produced by Alan Ball, the Academy Award-winning writer of American Beauty.
Six Feet Under takes a darkly comic look at the Fishers, the dysfunctional family who own and operate an independent funeral home in California.
Theirs is the quirky, sometimes disturbing, but ultimately life-affirming story of a resilient American family.
Theirs is the quirky, sometimes disturbing, but ultimately life-affirming story of a resilient American family.
After fatally crashing his hearse, patriarch Nathaniel Fisher now lives only in the hearts
and minds of his family members, who are
left to cope with the routine and not-so-routine aspects of life in the grief-management
business.
and minds of his family members, who are
left to cope with the routine and not-so-routine aspects of life in the grief-management
business.
Meet his troubled widow Ruth, eldest son Nate, who suffered a life-threatening illness, and sensible middle child David.
The youngest of Nathaniel's children is daughter Claire, the problem child who has become tough and independent. The lives of these family members are intertwined with friends and loved ones, both living and deceased.
There's Nate's one-time fiancée, Brenda, whose own family - especially her mother, Margaret - might be more dysfunctional than even the Fishers; longtime mortician and Fisher & Diaz co-owner Federico; Lisa, the mother of his infant daughter; Sarah, Ruth's younger and seemingly free-spirited sister.
And of course there's the late Nathaniel Fisher Sr himself, who reappears in flashbacks and daydream-like visitations, serving both as a comfort and conscience to those he left behind.
