Six Feet Under - The Complete Fourth Season | Frances Conroy, Peter Krause

Six Feet Under - The Complete Fourth Season | Frances Conroy, Peter Krause | What a train wreck of a show, I mean that in a good way.

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	Six Feet Under - The Complete Fourth Season Frances Conroy, Peter Krause Hbo Home Video, 2005 average customer review:based on 60 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Ho Hum another "would be" critic

I gave this 5 stars however i have not yet rec.d the set as yet. I merely want to gripe about the people who "review" (HA!) by giving a blow by blow run down of plot episodes,,,to what avail? I usually can stop reading these and i do but sometimes it takes a little while for me to realize nothing is being said. I LOVE absolutely LOVE this whole series and especially like the casting of real people actors not the usual Hollywood Glam types trying to pass off as blue collars etc.

What a train wreck of a show, I mean that in a good way.

This show has to be one of the best written in so, so long. I dont have cable so I had to wait a long time to see this show all the way from season one. Everything form the amazingly beautiful and quirky opening credits, to the richness and sophistication of the DVD menus themselves, everything about this show is top notch.

This season is a little muddy. I found it frustrating that sex was the one hard (no pun meant) foundation of all of the crises in the show from EVERY character, except Ruth. I also find it a cop out that if some of the characters (main and supporting) are in a pinch relationship wise, they switch to gay lovin' (which seems to be a common thread with all the seasons). There's no problem with that, if it were believable, but Claire's relationship seemed forced to me.

I also for the life of me cannot for one second believe David and Keith's relationship. That is the most contrived relationship in the show. These characters have nothing in common, they don't even seem to be on the same page, and this season thus far seems to highlight that loophole more and more. They bounce off of what one wants to hear, and then when they hear it, they don't want it anymore. The actors are doing their best to make it feel genuine, but it is not, nor has it ever worked. Why are they together?

All in all this show is so well crafted, that this "darker" season is just a low period for the characters in the whole of the timeline of the show. I love going in and not really knowing what is going to happen next. Its delicious.

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Great season, bad DVD release lacking continuity in special features

I am a big fan of Six Feet Under - this season was fantastic. My only complaint is in the DVD release of this season. Before each season aired on HBO, there was a promo created and aired to showcase the upcoming season. These promos were set to music, and were a mini movie in themselves: Season 3 featured an "in the clouds" promo set to Coldplay's "A Cold Rush Of Blood To The Head". Season 4 featured a very well done supermarket promo set to Nina Simone's "Feeling Good" and it was a little different in that each week the promo changed a little bit - new scenes were added - until finally revealing one complete promo. Season 5 featured a very cool driving sequence set to Sia's "Breathe."

The season 3 DVD set featured the promo with a behind the scenes interview with the creators of the show who talked about how making these promos were great not only artistically but were better than airing clips of the upcoming season. I bought the 4th Season Six Feet Under set the day it was released and was upset that the promo was not on there, instead only lackluster special features.

I am a big fan of continuity on DVD box sets, so I am left wondering why put the promo for the 3rd season on the box set if they aren't going to include the other 2? I hope with the 5th season's eventual DVD release that they at least put lots of special features on it to make it worthwhile for the fans, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they will include not only the promo for season 5 but also throw in the season 4 promo as well.

I've tried to comment on this on the hbo website to give them feedback for their DVD release of season 5, but as with my experience in the past, they praise feedback of any kind, but never comment or email me back.

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