Six Feet Under | |
---|---|
Genre | Serial drama Comedy-drama Black comedy Family drama |
Created by | Alan Ball |
Starring | Peter Krause Michael C. Hall Frances Conroy Lauren Ambrose Freddy Rodriguez Mathew St. Patrick Jeremy Sisto Rachel Griffiths James Cromwell Justina Machado |
Theme music composer | Thomas Newman |
Composer(s) | Richard Marvin |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 63 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Alan Ball Robert Greenblatt David Janollari Alan Poul(Seasons 2–5) Bruce Eric Kaplan(Seasons 4–5) Rick Cleveland(Season 5) |
Camera setup | 35 mm; single camera |
Running time | 46–62 minutes 72 minutes (series finale) |
Production company(s) | Actual Size Films The Greenblatt/Janollari Studio HBO |
Distributor | Warner Bros. Television |
Release | |
Original network | HBO |
Picture format | 480i (4:3SDTV) (seasons 1–2) 480i (16:9 SDTV) (seasons 3–5) |
Original release | June 3, 2001 – August 21, 2005 |
External links | |
Website |
“ | When I went to HBO and they had read my first draft and Carolyn Strauss said, 'You know, this is really, really good. I love these characters, I love these situations, but it feels a little safe. Could you just make it just a little more fucked up?' which is not a note that you get in Hollywood very often. And I thought, 'Wow!' And that gave me free range to go a little deeper, go a little darker, go a little more complicated. | ” |
“ | Who are these people who are funeral directors that we hire to face death for us? What does that do to their own lives – to grow up in a home where there are dead bodies in the basement, to be a child and walk in on your father with a body lying on a table opened up and him working on it? What does that do to you? | ” |
“ | Six Feet Under refers not only to being buried as a dead body is buried, but [also] to primal emotions and feelings running under the surface. When one is surrounded by death – to counterbalance that, there needs to be a certain intensity of experience, of needing to escape. It's Nate with his womanizing – it's Claire and her sexual experimentation – it's Brenda's sexual compulsiveness – it's David having sex with a male hooker in public – it's Ruth having several affairs – it's the life force trying to push up through all of that suffering and grief and depression. | ” |
Nathaniel Fisher, Sr. | Ruth Fisher | Bernard Asa Chenowith | Margaret Chenowith | George Sibley | Unnamed prior wife | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keith Charles | David Fisher | Claire Fisher | Nate Fisher | Brenda Chenowith | Billy Chenowith | Lisa Kimmel Fisher | Maggie Sibley | Brian Sibley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anthony Charles-Fisher | Durrell Charles-Fisher | Willa Fisher Chenowith | Maya Kimmel Fisher |
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Average viewers (in millions) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First aired | Last aired | |||||
1 | 13 | June 3, 2001 | August 19, 2001 | 5.3[11] | ||
2 | 13 | March 3, 2002 | June 2, 2002 | 5.6[12] | ||
3 | 13 | March 2, 2003 | June 1, 2003 | 4.7[13] | ||
4 | 12 | June 13, 2004 | September 12, 2004 | 3.7[14] | ||
5 | 12 | June 6, 2005 | August 21, 2005 | 2.5[14] |
Season | Episodes | Premiered | Ended | Average Viewers (in millions) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Date | Viewers (in millions) | Date | Viewers (in millions) | |||
1 | 13 | June 3, 2001 | 4.97[20] | August 19, 2001 | 7.06[11] | 5.3[11] |
2 | 13 | March 3, 2002 | 6.24[21] | June 2, 2002 | 5.49[22] | 5.6[23] |
3 | 13 | March 2, 2003 | 5.09[24] | June 1, 2003 | 5.78[25] | 4.7[26] |
4 | 12 | June 13, 2004 | 4.20[27] | September 12, 2004 | 3.73[28] | 3.7[14] |
5 | 12 | June 6, 2005 | 2.62[29] | August 21, 2005 | 3.89[14] | 2.5[14] |
Season | Release date | Episodes | Discs | Additional information | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Region 1[34] | Region 2[35] | Region 4[36] | ||||
1 | February 4, 2003 | July 7, 2003 | February 11, 2004 | 13 | 4 |
|
2 | July 6, 2004 | June 21, 2004 | July 14, 2004 | 13 | 5 |
|
3 | May 17, 2005 | April 4, 2005 | May 11, 2005 | 13 | 5 |
|
4 | August 23, 2005 | September 5, 2005 | November 16, 2005 | 12 | 5 |
|
5 | March 28, 2006 | April 10, 2006 | October 4, 2005 | 12 | 5 |
|
1–5 | November 14, 2006 | April 10, 2006 | August 13, 2014 | 63 | 24 |
|
Wikiquote has quotations related to: Six Feet Under |