Oral History of HBO's 'Six Feet Under' with Alan Ball, Peter Krause & More | Entertainment Weekly
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- Two decades after the Fisher family welcomed us into their (funeral) home, we look back at Alan Ball’s enduring exploration of mortality, vulnerability, and the importance of seizing the day.
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Oral History of HBO's 'Six Feet Under' with Alan Ball, Peter Krause & More | Entertainment Weekly
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There has never been more honest characters in a tv show..period. I love them for every beautiful flaw I see in myself. Probably changed my life. And I dare you to find a better ending to a show. Thank you Alan and cast for creating something truly remarkable.
Have you seen The Leftovers or The Haunting of Hill House? Very similar shows. Hill House was even inspired by Six Feet Under.
My favorite show of all time. I have watched it all 3 times, and I'm thinking about the fourth. Recently my cousin passed away and I'm still in some sort of shock. But in some way it feels like I have experienced all this somewhere else and that helped alot.
Thank you Alan for this masterpiece!
@dennis hatzis Btw I discovered it only two years ago
I have watched it 50 times since it first came out in 2000 .
I watched it 100 times this year alone, 521 times total
@@bdan19921 WTF bro
@@bdan19921I’ve watched it 7000 times, it’s on an endless loop in my living room
Alan, my brother died when i was 13, i looked up to Clair, i embodied her, and it helped me cope with my pain.
One of thee GREATEST shows of all time. The finale is the first to literally make me ugly cry. Not ashamed.
OMG same here. I just finished it and I sobbed like my entire family got murdered. I never even get teary eyed watching anything. I'm surprised about how much it got to me.
Really hear you. I cried so hard and didn’t speak for like two hours. I remember vividly the realization: “oh my god they’re going to kill them all”. A masterpiece. The show is flawless.
Just watched the whole series for the first time in a week and bawled watching the ending!!
Exactly, same. And it reads so well in 2021 regardless of when it was made.
I've just ugly cried watching the finale 12 years after I ugly cried watching it for the first time.
Can't believe how powerful the finale is. True art.
I just watched it and its indeed one of the best series ever made. The ending is perfection. I miss them already, they feel like family. Cant wait to watch it again ❤
best series ever written - i'm afraid no series will ever have that impact on me like six feet under. thank you alan ball.
Six Feet Under has had an enormous impact on me. I've watched the entire series at least 6 times and I'm completely wrapped up in all of the relationships.
Absolute Masterpiece
Funnily enough, American Beauty is my favourite film of all time and Six Feet Under is my favourite series of all time!
Same.
SFU = Masterpiece. American Beauty, not so much.
@@11Garrett11 matter of opinion really.
SFU> American Beauty
@@charlesdroidable I love both, and I don't think you can really compare a movie to a series, they're not really that alike.
My favorite show of all time. I can't count how many times I've watched this series from beginning to end. And every time I watch it, I cry like crazy during the last few minutes.
I don't have the words to explain just how grateful I am to have been able to experience this show, and to even find it on my own. I was maybe 20 years old when I saw it. Nearly a decade later I have rewatched it many times. The test of a great friendship or relationship in my life is if I can share this show with that person XD The show was so informative, so therapeutic, so painful yet endearing.
My husband bailed after 2 episodes on my rewatch. I hope you find someone to watch it with that sees what you see.
Everyone keeps mentioning the last episode, and I loved it too, but the second to last episode... I've never cried so hard. The episode ended and I literally laid down on the floor in my living room and sobbed.
I have watched the last episodes in one go through an entire night to finish at 5 in the morning. I started crying with Ecotone when, well, you know what happens... From there, I kept crying, and crying, and crying, and ugly crying more and more. By the end of Everyone's waiting, I was drained, I was such a mess. But of course this was not over as the final 5 minutes of the show demolished me. But I could not cry anymore, I was so drained of all water so I started wailing. At 5 in the morning. I think I have scared my neighbors very much that night.
Yessss. The final is obviously great but I honestly think the 2 or 3 episodes before are even better and don't get enough love.
This show is perfection.
When I'm feeling fed up in life i rewatch six feet under. It makes me happy and inspires me.
this show is so profound and deep that it was relevant and is still relevant to this day in 2022...
i am still deeply touched by it, as i just binge-watched it for the 12th time since it was released and i'm still crying my eyeballs out at 41years old.
best.show.ever.made.
Brilliant ending. I found myself invested in each character and as they died, my heart broke. I teared up . As all humans, I could relate. It was like losing loved ones of mine over the years.
I cried like a baby during the last season's last episode...truly heart wrenching and so meaningful. Beautiful beyond words.
This show changed my life. On such a deep level. Such amazing work. Definitely one of the best shows ever made. My favorites are Six Feet Under, The Wire, OZ, House, and Breaking Bad.
What’s your top ten mate? Mine would be
1. The wire
2. Game of thrones
3. Six feet under
4. Mr robot
5. Dark
6. The boys
7. Breaking bad
8. Succession
9. Yellowstone
10. Stranger things
Honorable mentions
Sopranos
Mad men
Better call Saul
Dexter
The very best show ever! Will rewatch it soon - again.
I’ve only watched this show once and it broke me, complete masterpiece but could never visit it again
The final version made no room for a reboot. Amazing piece of art that can’t be touched
Extraordinary show. The one I've liked the most. When Nate died I cried as a widow. All the characters were amazingly performed. So human, so believable... The last episode "Everyone is waiting" is for me a masterpiece. Unforgettable.
I just binged the entire series in under a week (I have no life) and have to say Ruth’s character is the most unexpected, eccentric, strange woman I’ve ever experienced...in this peculiar ensemble of weird characters. Sliding this series into my number four slot of all-time best TV dramas (The West Wing, Breaking Bad, The Americans...if anyone cares).
Same here
I love Ruth
It’s pure gold. How do you feel about Ozark?
Ruth is the ultimate passive-aggressive character. Thinks she’s a martyr but is really such a raging control-freak narcissist.
It's an absolutely amazing show
I have watched SFU about five times, and it amazes me how different the experience has been. From the first curious, really sad and exciting time 20 years ago where it blew my mind, to now laughing through most of it - it is just so quirky. But the saddest scenes still hits just as hard now. I also changed my mind completely about Lisa, from just being annoyed at her to thinking she was one of the best characters on the show :)
Right? Thank you for your comment, I am exactly in the same position. Lisa's character appears to me now as so tragic. In fact I really like what they did with her character. As you say, despite watching it multiple times and finding most of it so pleasant, there are these moments that are still terrifying for me to experience in the show. And I think the most dreadful part for me is the finale of season 4, when the truth about Lisa's disappearance is revealed. And before that, when Nate accepts the death of Lisa and her "death white screen" appears, making it the truth.
I hate and I love all the characters.. the show was amazing. The finale is the best finale of all the time!
That’s what made this show so real and perfect.
THIS!!
One of my favorite shows of all time! Definitely the best ending to any TV show ever! Started rewatching it with a friend and it's just as good as watching it the first time! Made me get the DVD boxset, realizing just how special this show is to me!
Cast, crew, and writers of this show, you were all perfect in this show. From the main protagonists, supporting cast…everyone. Thank you for this long poem about LIFE and death.
Just watched the entire show in 2024. By the time the show was on, I was too much young to apreciatte it… Loved the way it ended! Great show! 🇧🇷
This show and my experiences led me to being part of the death positive movement. I have studied to be a death doula but it all comes back to this.
Five seasons of the most unpleasant characters and situations ever. I loved them all.
The first time I watched this show I was about 18 years old, now I'm 35 and I still love it! always gonna be my favorite show, pure art!
Same here, same ages than you in fact :-) And trying still to these days to recommend the show to my best friends. It is kind of a gift from me to them, the same way my best friend introduced me to the show. This is how special it is to me.
My all time favorite show. Miss it terribly.
It’s no doubt the best and most favorite series I’ve watched (3 times) in my 67 years. It’s nice to hear from the cast how they thought and felt about this great series.
I am so happy people are still experiencing this show for the first time.
Just watched it (again) but this time with my twenty something daughter and we both loved it. I was thrilled that she loved it as much as I did… I mean who wouldn’t. Perfectly cast!
Just binged on all five seasons! Loved it and would love another series from Alan Ball!
I've been looking for a show that resonated with me as much as Six Feet Under for 20 years and I don't think there ever will be. The Fishers will be with me forever.
Currently binge watching…have not seen it in forever!
I've watched final episode yesterday and I'm still crying, this is the most beautiful show ever. Thank you
so much hbo
Just finished the show yesterday. I was in elementary school when it originally aired. I remember my aunt loving it but telling me it was not a show for kids. All theses years later at 29, I decided to watch it on a whim because I love the look of late 90s/early 2000s tv and movies. Cried like a baby on the series finale. 10/10
This is my favorite HBO series even over Sopranos because it tackled realistic issues people deal with in everyday life and the storylines were so well put together even Sopranos used some of the themes later on in their seasons.
This show has my heart completely forever❤️
There’s room for Ball to do this with a new generation and cast
Thank you so much for all the great actors and director for this amazing show and life this is life for me
This show is still my all time favorite. Above Breaking Bad, above Fargo. I ❤❤this show soooo much!!
Watched it all in 2010 and just watched pilot now. Time fir round 2
Any richer and more authentic character development you will never find than Six Feet Under.
My top 5 Shows of all time.
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Six Feet Under
The Wire
Game of Thrones ( could’ve been higher up if it wasn’t for those last two seasons.)
Six Feet Under was the first hour long show I ever watched. Still so great to watch again.
“That sleeping bag hasn’t moved in days!” Compulsive viewing ! Love it !
First show I ever binge watched. And still my favorite of all time.
My favorite show, will always resonate with me
Brenda/ Rachel looks beautiful in this. I love the show 💚💚💚 Thanks
Love this show , watched it religiously, I’m watching it now on Netflix. The ending was just awesome, it didn’t leave you wondering. ❤❤❤❤❤
Greatest show of all time!
I’ve been Claire - i grew up as an art student and her journey through adolescence and exploring creativity was depicted perfectly.
I’m also David - a perfectionist gay who likes things done a specific way
I’ve experienced a father losing his mind to paranoia, with a suffering repressed mother who buries her feelings - all depicted through Ruth and George perfectly. I hate to say it but I can also relate to Nate’s distancing from family and inability to understand the effects of his narcissism (until therapy at least) The show seems to be a constant touch stone in my life and I can’t imagine it ever being bettered.
Well said dude.
We are all prisms of these ppl in various ways.
Best TV series ever. Hands down, no competition.
I loved this show.
Great show. Was my all time favorite until Breaking Bad unseated it. But it’s still a 10/10. Hard to believe it first aired 20 years ago. Just rewatched it and it still feels fresh.
My favorite tv show of all time. I've watched the entire series many times. It will last the test of time. There's books out about it in Cult Tv. Love all of it.
In the late '60s there was this kind of urban legend going around that Art Linkletter's daughter had had a bad acid trip and jumped out of a window thinking she could fly and had died. Six Feet Under paid homage to the legend and that's the death I remember most. It was shot artistically, yet with maximum impact.
Give us a damn blu-ray copy lol
The only show that could use Coldplay more than once in the soundtrack and still make it sound cool!
I just finished the series I thought it was good. It had some very profound moments.
Exquisite!
I'm curious what the census is - if you could only pick one actor/actress during the run of show, who do you think gave the best performance?
I'm re-watching it now, which I've already watched it multiple times, but the mother Ruth is absolutely hilarious. She provides the most hard laughs for me by far and i don't think anyone else could have pulled off such hard laughs from the writing. The writing for her character is perfect (anxiety ridden mother), but a lot of her humor in writing is subtle, but there's something about the way the actor says and times it that makes her character and what she says sometimes laugh out loud funny... at least for me. Even on re-watches a lot of the laughs still hit me hard.
I know Dexter is a bigger show for Michael C. Hall but he will always be David Fisher to me. Rachel Griffiths will always be Rhonda from Muriel's Wedding. SFU was amazing and underrated. Lauren Ambrose had an amazing show on AppleTV called Servant.
Agree with all
Honestly I would love to see the show Revitalize dorf different family I mean New York City or Vegas I know they're two major cities but it's cooking the most diverse cast from either of them or better yet an anthology when we get to see different funeral homes and funerals from around the country I thought it would be a great show
Great show but very unnerving, that says more about my approach to death, we are not wired to comprehend and accept death, the will to live is so ingrained in us that thinking about death is depressing. Being 61 one starts naturally thinking about the end when death can come at any day throughout one’s life I know I have more days behind me than in front of me.we really are all the same why not face things together.
Where is Frances Conroy?!?
She was there, but Not included in this video
Awesome
OK is it just me or we didn't get enough Ruth/Rico ( my 2 faves ) moments during the show ?
0:49 - 1:10
Does anyone know the name of this song?
L A is the capital of denial of death. Being the most hedonististic capital of the nation. Very appropriately appointed.
😢😢😢
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💜👍🏾
I was maybe 2 years older than Claire's character when I first watched this show back in the early 2000s & it had a profound effect on my life. I rewatched it (the 1st time 🙂) when I was Nate's age in the show & it was like a whole new experience. I tell everyone it's the best show ever made. A complete work of art.
Lucky i wish i was in the early 2000s watching this show
@@paperchasindude6578 it was a good time 🙂 I'm thankful for the time I grew up even if it means I'm "old" now.
@@stacin821 lucky I'm always very nostalgic for that time
interesting. I first watched the series as a whole when I was also Claires age, and now I"m almost 33 and am *dying* to rewatch it. I have such a specific pleasant memory of the first viewing and I almost dont want to taint that. My best friend Kelly had become obsessed with SFU as her family had HBO and mine didnt. so when they came out with the DVD set, she bought them all (I bought Sex and the City lol) and after school on Fridays, we would walk to my house, pack the bong and watch another episode. It was so profound we would end up talking about it the rest of the weekend. Later on the Friday nights, we would start drinking and reenating scenes or drunk drawing portraits of the characters 😂
I still remember waiting to see the last episode, and I cried like a baby. There was a beautiful Oak tree outside my bedroom window. I sat on the bed next to it, with Kelly on the left side of me. This way the cigarette smoke could et caught in the wind and taken outside. the leaves all different colors, and the sun was setting on the Friday we watched the ending, it was around Thanksgiving/Christmas time at 4pm. Some things are just so perrfect, you just never forget.
See why I dont know if I should rewatch them? lol xoxo
@@katrinashostakovich3607 dang I don't know if I'd rewatch it either after reading your comment. It sounds perfect 😊
Honestly, if you ever do decide to rewatch I would wait a couple more years. Until you're in your mid/late 30s or 40 like Nate was in the show. Especially with the fond memories you have of watching it with your friend ❤
"Six Feet Under" is one of the all-time greatest series ever. And they didn't f**k up the ending either.
Best I agree, not like Sopranos, Dexter or Seinfeld
@patcurrie9888
Can’t speak for Dexter, but Seinfelds ending was disappointing (didn’t ruin the show) but the Sopranos ending was absolutely perfect
@@jackdaniel2457 Sopranos was a let down. Best ending of a series ever was 6 Feet Under.
Perfection!
This is the best TV show ever created in my opinion. I've watched it 10+ times. Seriously...and I still find so much beauty in the show and so many things that teach me about life + death.
SAME!
Yup. Great show. Proud to say I’ve watched it about that many times as well and still own the entire series - you kind of have to with the greatest….
You guys made me cry again. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched this show. I have all 5 seasons in DVD. Cheers.
100%. Best show ever created.
Same. And I still want to watch it again.
The finale 10 minutes of this show’s series finale is still to this day the most hauntingly beautiful thing I have ever seen on film. Masterpiece
Incredible
Miss these guys. They were truly like family. Up to this day, no other show has hit harder on an emotional level than SFU.
They really did feel like that
Just finished watching it for the first time, it's probably the most beautiful and moving way to end a series I'd ever thought possible. Congrats, everyone.
Just authentic. I'm glad that I had delayed and didn't watch this show before. Watching six feet under during the pandemic was the perfect timing for me. I will miss all the characters :/
:(
Easily one of the best shows on television
I just want to say a huge thanks to the whole crew for making the series.
Perfection. There is no other way to describe it. In my opinion the best drama of all time.
I loved every second of the story of these dysfunctional, self-absorbed and at the same time caring and ultimately, human, charactets. The writing is superb, even to the minute details of the characters' names and their meaning. Last year (2023) I watched the series finale ending on UA-cam and it made me want to watch the entire series. That's a testament to how good the ending is. The series never ever disappointed, and it made question my life and make better decisions. Thank you to the creator, writers, director, cinematographer, make-up department and the amazing, wonderful cast.
I watched the whole show in lockdown ... it was amazing ... that final scene omg ... amazing ...
I just watched the whole thing. Just amazing
I binge-watched the series in 2021, never having had a chance to see it during its first run. I have to say the writing and acting were superb, arguably the best of the 21st century. And no superlative can do justice to the pathos of the finale. What an extraordinary series. It was art for the ages.
Just finished the show, and yeah. the ending had me hyperventilating. the most beautiful thing I've ever seen committed to screen.
I don't see writing like this anymore, it was beautiful from start to finish.
I wonder why Frances Conroy isn't a part of this.
maybe she was busy filming american horror story
Six Feet Under truly is one of those pieces of (media) art that withstands time. Every now and then, not always in the same intervals, but time and time again, I will feel compelled to rewatch this show, and it will deliver me new insights because I understand and feel something new about and because of it every time I rewatch it. Everyone involved in making this show did an absolutely incredible and outstanding job. The characters, the music, the performances, the cinematography. I am forever grateful for this show's existence. Some shows have come close. But none have surpassed it.
If you take away season 8 of Game Of Thrones, it will remain my favorite show of all time . Sopranos is third.
Six Feet Under had the best finale ever. I still sob through it. 8 times now. If you count season 8 of GOT, Six Feet Under is my fav of all time. I am 65 and have been watching TV for 63 years. Too bad there will never be a reunion. RIP
@Lamb Every time I watched it.
I am 61 and 6 feet under is the best ever...I want it for my memorial
Buddy you gotta take away seasons 5-8 of Game Of Thrones
I watched the show when it was airing, as a teenager, and it literally helped shape my whole philosophy on life. I've seen it 7 or 8 times in the 20 years since and it will always be the most special show in the world to me. A masterpiece.
So great to see these actors again. Lauren Ambrose looks stunning. I can't believe some of the cast didn't go on to successful careers because every single one is incredible.
This show encouraged my graduate thesis in 2010. I wrote my thesis on the Funeral Industry and it's impact on Mourning and the Environment. Graduated in 2012 and now I'm a natural burial educator, celebrant and death doula. Pretty impactful tv show. I've seen it 5 times. The end makes me cry every time.
My daughter is nearly 11 and named Willa x
Best series ending ever 👍
My daughter just turned 9 and I named her Willa after hearing the name on SFU years before I ever conceived. This show, and Willa’s name, stuck with me and when I found out I was having a girl I knew instantly that she was my Willa!
I just finished this show. MY GOD.How to even describe how I feel? with a heavy heart, I wanna say bye to all the characters
Amo essa série Six Feet Under. Brasil🇧🇷🇧🇷representando.
Watching again for literally the hundredth time, just finished the episode where Nate discovered his Dad's secret room. Easily the best show ever created, a true Masterpiece. That word is thrown around too easily nowadays but SFU truly deserves it.