Six Feet Under - The Complete Fifth Season From:Frances Conroy , Peter Krause , Michael C. Hall , Lauren Ambrose , Mathew St. Patrick , Warner Brothers , HBO Home Video ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0026359314421
Format: Box set
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: Dubbed
Format: DVD-Video
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
Weight: 105 hundredths-pounds
Label: HBO Home Video
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Packaged Height: 150 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 770 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 95 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 580 hundredths-inches
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-03-28
Running Time: 735 minutes
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2001-06-03
Product Description:
One of TV's most acclaimed drama series, the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Six Feet Under, concludes its groundbreaking, five season run. Each of the main characters will come to embrace the cycle of life - birth, death, and re-birth - in ways that are both unique and interconnected. Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends. DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Episodic Previews
Episodic Recaps
Featurette
Audio Commentary:Six audio commentaries with the cast, crew, and creator
Featurette:Six Feet Under: 2001-2005, two 30-minute retrospectives Life and Loss: The Impact of Six Feet Under, a featurette
Customer Reviews:
 Fade to White..., 2008-08-17
It's a struggle for me not to give this season my "10/10 Classic" rating, because the last handful of episodes--the ones I've seen most recently, so which naturally have the biggest impact--were nearly perfect. However, the season as a whole did indeed have some minor blips that keep it from being as great a collection as Season Three or as consistent as thefirst two seasons. However, as I said before, the way this season--and series--ends is quite beautiful, and those episode leading up to the pitch perfect swan song do, indeed, make up for the awkwardness of the way the season started.
After the somewhat weaker fourth season, "Six Feet Under" bounces back with more beautiful and hilarious episodes showing the Fishers and those around them struggling with death in brand new, heart-wrenching ways. As stated before, the first few episodes of this season do indeed have the directionless feeling that the fourth season suffered from. However, even when it's at its weakest, there is such intelligence and heart put into the writing and, at another level, a bubbling tension that makes you know they're building up to something bigger and tragic. And indeed they are.
From the shocking "Ecotone," to "All Alone," a perfect dissection of grief that, quite frankly, is better than any literature, to the series finale "Everyone's Waiting," this show hit its high note in the end, surpassing the brilliance that had been achieved in earlier seasons. By the time you're watching that final goodbye montage, you'll have forgotten all about the weaker moments earlier in the season. I very much recommend this, but only if the show is watched in order, from start to finish.
It's not a perfect season, and it's not a 10/10. But it's damn close. Perhaps it's not consistent, but each episode has something hilarious, something smart, and something beautiful, and even at it's weakest, it's better than most everything else on television. I'll miss this show dearly, because not only are the character's one of a kind, the show itself is one of the top five of all time. Creator Alan Ball has gained a life-time fan.
9/10
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