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The initial season's happy ending is forgotten as relationships change, the business is still under fire from the evil conglomerate Kroehner, and a lively dream sequence is just around the corner. As with the premier season, creator Alan Ball lets many others direct and write the show, but his stamp is all over it. The eccentricities of the characters are shaped, and not always suddenly. Take daughter Claire (Lauren Ambrose), who sheds her bad boyfriend only to find more complex relationships on her road to discovering her own groove. One person in the mix is Ruth's beatnik sister (Patricia Clarkson, in an Emmy-winning role), a joyous embodiment of thriving--if aging--counter culture. Another new character is Nate's old girlfriend, the granola-loving Lisa (Lili Taylor). With Brenda heading down another destructive course, Nate is at more than one crossroads by season's end. For fans who groove with the wild, serio-comedic world of the Fishers (and let's face it, many didn't), the second season goes down like a fine meal of fusion cuisine. The show shares an unfortunate family trait with its HBO big brother: although both were lavished with multiple Emmy nominations the first two seasons, both took home only token awards. But then there's always next year. --Doug Thomas
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Kathy Bates, Alan Ball, Alan Taylor, Daniel Attias |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 03 June, 2001 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Hbo Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Drama, Movie, TV Shows, Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 5 |
| UPC: | 026359889226 |
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Customer Reviews of Six Feet Under - The Complete Second Season
Still the best show ever Once again, this is an awesome show that you should see. Make sure to watch the first season so you know and understand the characters.
the spirit is without end, eternal, deathless....
I recently finished watching the final season of SFU, having bought the DVD set right after its release last month. I have watched the show for three years, beginning with the first season in 2003, a year after my arrival in the US, and purchasing the DVD set of each following season upon their release. I am completely with another reviewer who said that she would sell crack on street if it means limitless SFU. For the last three years, SFU has been a fail-proof anti-depressant for me. Although some see it as deeply depressing, and I agree with them, that very depressing quality always eased my own depression and pain, and strangely enough, made me feel more calm, peaceful, clear, and focused. More than that, it let me see that certain profound yet non-religious spirituality is possible in American pop culture and Americans themselves (one of the misconceptions non-Americans, like me, have about American culture is that, amid the ascendency of fundamentalist Christianity, it is essentially shallow and materialistic, or that it may be characterized as having what Shakespeare called "irreligious piety"?).
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>I can go on and on about how much I learned from SFU, how great consolation I got from it. So, as a big fan of the show, I see every season as a gem on its own. However, if I am forced to pick my favorite season, I'd pick season 2. It is more relaxed and yet, strangely again, more intense than the first season. Relaxed because I now know what to expect for the Fisher family and their funeral home, and intense because, as one of the axes of the plot-the relationship between Nate and Brenda-unfolds, I see a painful yet true description of why it is so hard for two people to stay together. Also, compared to following three seasons, it contains more of its trade-mark dark humor.
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>In the Special Feature of the final season, creator Alan Ball tells us that Peter Krause's performance of Nate breathed an "amazing everyman quality" into the character, and while portraying this "everyman," that Nate was the one character with a stronger spiritual, (or mystical), bent. This makes perfect sense. Looking back, in the first episode of the Season 2, we see Nate jotting down what his father says in his dream, which turns out to be from Bhagavad Gita. The episode ends beautifully with Nate reading his notes to Brenda, which read: "All that lives lives forever. Only the shell, the perishable, passes away. The spirit is without end, eternal, deathless." Here is one of the earliest moments when the contrast between the mentalities of Brenda and Nate is made, a contrast which will be more dramatically depicted in the latter episodes of the final season.
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>I spent a fortune ("fortune" indeed, considering my miserable income as a graduate student) on the DVD sets of SFU. But it was money well spent, since every episode is infinitely re-watchable and leads us to think about issues that are important.
Excellent all around program
The series is good as a whole, and the second season is full of enough plot twists to keep my interested. A good buy.