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

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

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	Six Feet Under - The Complete Fourth Season Frances Conroy, Peter Krause Hbo Home Video, 2005 average customer review:based on 57 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

There's a new pecking order at the Fisher & Diaz funeral home but Nate Ruth David and Claire still try to make every day above ground a good one. Death and dysfunction are par for the course in The Complete Fourth Season of Six Feet Under.Running Time: 780 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 026359238420 Manufacturer No: 92384

It only gets better!

I disagree that this season wasn't as good as the others. In most shows I notice it takes several episodes to really get the season going...almost as if they're easing into it. So once that is out of the way, it's a little more exciting from there. I really enjoyed the craziness of George, and the evolvement and experimentation of Claire. Nate and Brenda, I'd been waiting for that. And the whole Lisa story I was on the edge of my seat just waiting to see what was going on. And not to forget the stand-out episode with David getting car jacked. WOW, here this cast and the story writers really shined.

Overall I just want to say that SFU is maybe my all time favorite TV show, or damn near close to it (I do love tv). So this is a show you just can't miss. A show about something that we all have to deal with, death, family, loss, love, metamorphasis.....well, you can't turn away. If you're like me, you'll be watching these episodes non stop to find out what is going to happen next.

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Depressing, but good

It was a great season. It was more depressing than the other, proceeding seasons, but it was still a great season none the less. I definitely recommend it for any previous Six Feet Under fans.

The best season of the best show....

...ever. These days, every show claims that it is "darK", if you want to see what a "darK" show really looks like, watch season four of SFU. At 23.99 per season, this is an absolute steal, get all five seasons. Doubt there will ever be a show like this ever again.

Great Season of the Show!

This looks even better with some distance than it did back when it was first shown. Was a wonderful show to begin with, even more special later. Rather than just a with a difference, this season offers up some rough emotions and great drama. A murder mystery and a horrible crime happen in raw old fashioned form. They have great payoffs for a usually quiet show and it doesn't detract from it all all. Death happens in all types of ways or then it doesn't happen. Make sure you watch this season.

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Not As Intense, But Still Very Watchable

If there is a bad episode of Six Feet Under, I haven't seen it yet. From the first season to the last episode I've seen ("Untitled," the finale of the fourth season) each episode kept me entertained, many of them making me weep and even more of them making me laugh. The simple fact is that Alan Ball and the staff of this show simply know how to make brilliant television that explores the nature of death and what it means to be in a relationship.

That being said, I think this season was certainly the weakest of the bunch. Don't get me wrong, as I said before, each of the episodes worked well and the overall season was great. There were even some brilliant standouts that would rival the best of Ball's work, such as "That's My Dog" (an evocative, shocking hour of television that I'd compare to Joss Whedon's masterpiece The Body) and "Untitled." I also feel that fans of the first three seasons of 6FU will like this quite a lot. What the season doesn't do, however, is step it up a notch like previous seasons did.

"Six Feet Under" has always been a show that defied my expectations, always carrying through with new, crazy, and poignant plots and keeping the drama at a consistently increasing level. While there are moments here and there in the plot that wowed me, but the rest of it seemed to be static and slightly predictable. The times when the narrative did "go there," especially in the instances of the George/Ruth relationship, it seemed a bit too out there to grasp. There were a few plots that fell off or were never developed enough--the character of George's son is the clearest example. In the beginning of the season, he only existed as a plot device to rationalize the hilarious scenes of excrement being found in the Fisher's mailbox, and later in the season, when they had the chance to re-introduce him as an actual character, all he does is act as a trigger to George's growing paranoia concerning conspiracy theories.

Overall, while this doesn't take the drama to the next level the way previous "Six Feet Under" seasons have in the past, it's still some of the best television out there. While a lot of it feels like set-up for the next season, it's still twelve episodes of television well worth watching.

8/10

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