Six Feet Under

Louis: **** Angela:****

We've continued to focus our Netflix on television series rather than movies (with the two little ones, it easier for us to find 50 minutes at the end of the day for a TV show rather than two + hours for a movie). We first started watching this series on DVD back in March of this year. The series originally aired on HBO (which we still don't have) from January 2001 to September 2004, spanning five seasons and 63 episodes.

The series was created, written and directed by Alan Ball, best known for the film American Beauty, which he also wrote and directed. Six Feet Under takes a darkly comical look at the members of a dysfunctional Pasadena family that happens to run an independent funeral home. Focusing primarily on the lives and relationships of the the five main characters (a husband and wife and their three adult children) the episodes are at times happy, sad, shocking, absurd, scary, funny, hopeful, and hopeless.

This is by far the most thought-provoking television series we've ever experienced. Time and again, it inspired us to reflect on our own lives, relationships and struggles, to recognize the fragility of life and our ultimate mortality.