Six Feet Under — Variosity Vault

#94 · Six Feet Under

Drama / Comedy · 2001–2005 · 5 seasons · 63 episodes

IMDb: 8.7 169,046 votes TVmaze: 8.1 My rating: –

Show summary

When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as--and far less predictable than--the one inside on Six Feet Under.

Season 1 2001 · 13 episodes · IMDb avg 8.36 My rating: –

Season summary

The Fisher family inherits their father along with his funeral home: every episode opens with a death and gets more honest from there. Alan Ball's follow-up to American Beauty invented HBO's domestic prestige drama.

#	Episode	Aired	IMDb	TVmaze	My Rating
1	Pilot	2001-06-03	8.7 6,054	8.1	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal When the funeral director is killed in an accident, the family comes together to mourn and decide the fate of the funeral home.
2	The Will	2001-06-10	8.0 4,130	7.7	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal The family attends the reading of Nathaniel's will. A widow is unable to pay the funeral bill after her late husband leaves her with a mountain of debt.
3	The Foot	2001-06-17	8.3 3,930	8	–
The family considers selling the business. Their latest client had an unfortunate accident with an industrial dough-mixer.
4	Familia	2001-06-24	8.3 3,802	7.8	–
When a gang member is shot, his family requests that he is buried, but the gang's leader wants it done a different way.
5	An Open Book	2001-07-01	8.2 3,595	8	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal An adult film star electrocutes to death in her bathtub, which leads to a memorial service that is anything but ordinary.
6	The Room	2001-07-08	8.6 3,744	7.8	–
After a woman passes away in her sleep, her husband proves to be a very demanding client.
7	Brotherhood	2001-07-15	7.9 3,336	7.9	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal The family must persuade the angry brother of a war veteran who died of lung disease that his brother should receive a military-honoring burial.
8	Crossroads	2001-07-22	8.0 3,220	7.9	–
A divorced woman meets an unfortunate end while partying with her friends, and the family discusses renting out the home to a seniors' dancing group.
9	Life's Too Short	2001-07-29	8.5 3,361	7.9	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal A boy accidentally shoots and kills himself while playing with a gun, and his mother is nearly comatose with grief.
10	The New Person	2001-08-05	8.3 3,137	7.5	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal An egocentric husband is killed with a frying pan after his wife finally has enough of his mouth.
11	The Trip	2001-08-12	8.3 3,113	8.3	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Nate and Dave travel to Vegas in order to attend a convention for funeral directors. A newborn child dies from a case of SIDS.
12	A Private Life	2001-08-19	8.9 3,538	8.3	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal A gay couple is attacked and one of them is killed, causing controversy among the family and a confession to be made.
13	Knock, Knock	2001-08-19	8.7 3,382	8.5	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal A simple game of golf results in the death of a woman.

Season 2 2002 · 13 episodes · IMDb avg 8.39 My rating: –

Season summary ⚠

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Nate's diagnosis shadows everything, Brenda unravels through her own book, David comes out the other side of shame, and Ruth keeps rearranging flowers over the abyss.

#	Episode	Aired	IMDb	TVmaze	My Rating
1	In the Game	2002-03-03	8.3 3,018	7.6	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal A drug-addicted actress dies from a cocaine overdose and leaves her fellow cast and crew members to set up the funeral.
2	Out, Out, Brief Candle	2002-03-10	8.2 2,783	7.6	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal A famous football player dies of dehydration during a strong training session, and the family is hired for the funeral services.
3	The Plan	2002-03-17	8.2 2,723	8	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal A man dies after a long battle with cancer, and his psychic widow discusses the funeral arrangements with the family.
4	Driving Mr. Mossback	2002-03-24	8.4 2,774	8	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Nate and Claire go to Seattle to pick up the body of a man who died on a public bus.
5	The Invisible Woman	2002-03-31	8.4 2,725	7.4	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal A middle-aged woman chokes to death in her apartment, and is found dead a week later.
6	In Place of Anger	2002-04-07	8.1 2,580	7.9	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal While at a boat party, a drunken man falls overboard. The family tries to convince his widow to use their funeral services.
7	Back to the Garden	2002-04-14	8.0 2,620	7.7	–
Jewish executive Jeffery Shapiro accidentally hangs himself while masturbating with asphyxiation.
8	It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year	2002-04-21	9.0 3,274	8.5	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Christmas Eve - and the 1-year anniversary of Nate and Brenda's meeting and Nathaniel Fisher's death - is approaching, and this year, the Fishers are requested by the Hell's Angels motorcyclists to allow the funeral home to be open on Christmas Day so they can have a party/memorial service for Jesse Ray Johnson, who was involved in a motorcycle accident on his way to his part-time job as a mall Santa while greeting some kids.
9	Someone Else's Eyes	2002-04-28	7.9 2,564	8.2	–
A construction worker's metal lunch-pail falls from his perch on the building and strikes Dwight Edgar Garrison on the head - resulting in a major family conflict between his current wife and her 2 stepdaughters from his first marriage, on whether he should be buried with his late wife or the widow.
10	The Secret	2002-05-05	8.1 2,543	8.2	–
Benjamin Srisal suffers a heart attack at home, requiring a Bhuddist service at Fisher & Sons that Nate gets a crash-course in how to conduct, but he's still got no answers as far as what should be done concerning Brenda and Lisa.
11	The Liar and the Whore	2002-05-12	8.3 2,530	8.3	–
Edith Kirky is the 4th patient of the year to be brought to Fisher & Sons from Bay Breeze Hospital where Vanessa works, so David predicts Rico's usual pride over the fact...but no one predicts him, suspicious about her neck-markings, to discover a whole hot dog wedged down her esophagus.
12	I'll Take You	2002-05-19	9.0 3,095	8.6	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal The Diazes' friend and former neighbor Leticia Perfect Perez dies in her sleep at a beauty parlor and leaves his family a large sum of money, causing Rico to remember how he lost his father and got into the funeral business to begin with. However, she also leaves behind a son, never close to her in life, who wishes to give her a more expensive casket than her pre-meet's choice and is jealous of Rico.
13	The Last Time	2002-06-02	9.2 3,377	8.8	–
Aaron Buchbinder passes away painfully shortly after Nate arrives to visit (after he argues with Ruth about her visiting and photographing his daughter Maya).

Season 3 2003 · 13 episodes · IMDb avg 8.21 My rating: –

Season summary ⚠

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Time-jumped and married-in, the Fishers try normal life on: Nate and Lisa's marriage, David and Keith in therapy, and a disappearance that hangs over the back half.

#	Episode	Aired	IMDb	TVmaze	My Rating
1	Perfect Circles	2003-03-02	8.2 2,829	7.8	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal The surgeons are dismayed when Nate's blood vessel ruptures and he suffers a hemorrhage, and his blood pressure continues to rise, then Nate dies...
2	You Never Know	2003-03-09	7.8 2,428	7.5	–
Telemarketers Andrew Wayne Milne, Matthew Clark Hazen, and Martin Jacobs are shot by their insane former co-worker Daniel Grant Showalter who then commits suicide.
3	The Eye Inside	2003-03-16	7.7 2,398	7.9	–
Callie Renee Morimer flees a group of jeering young men calling to her as she walks alone in the dark, who turn out to be some joking friends, but stops in the street and is hit by a car upon realizing it.
4	Nobody Sleeps	2003-03-23	8.6 2,749	8.3	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Robert Lamar Griffin's rare heart disease finally takes its fatal toll, leaving behind his boyfriend Kevin Lamb, a scene-designer of the opera company where he was a lighting-designer, who requests Fisher & Diaz to allow him to create a Chinese opera set for the funeral.
5	The Trap	2003-03-30	7.8 2,358	7.8	–
A lost pair of hikers discover the wrecked remains of a car with the skeleton of the driver, William Aaron Jaffe, inside.
6	Making Love Work	2003-04-06	7.9 2,453	7.9	–
Karen Postell Pepper suffers a hemorrhage to the nose while preparing to enter the "Making Love Work" TV studio with a question to ask Dr. Dave.
7	Timing and Space	2003-04-13	8.0 2,362	7.8	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Surrounded by his family, Bernard Asa Chenowith dies of stomach cancer, and when Nate learns of it he requests Lisa's permission to attend his funeral since Brenda was there after his father's.
8	Tears, Bones and Desire	2003-04-20	7.8 2,379	8.1	–
63-year-old polygamous family leader "Daddy" leaves behind 5 wives and numerous children of The People clan, making the Fishers intrigued about their spiritual and cultural beliefs, like their guarding his body throughout the embalming.
9	The Opening	2003-04-27	8.0 2,301	8.2	–
Melinda Mary Bloch shuts herself in the garage in her activated car by way of suicide, leaving behind only a guilty ex-lover who worries Rico when he mentions she'd actually received treatment for depression, and Nate when he admits he'd tried to end their relationship more than once but wound up staying longer than he wished.
10	Everyone Leaves	2003-05-04	8.4 2,427	7.9	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Jeanette Louise Bradford has an allergic reaction to a bee-sting in Balboa Park, causing Keith to go to San Diego for his aunt's funeral and David to join him, encouraging him to discuss sleeping with a third man with him and to confront his father on his abusive childhood after the funeral.
11	Death Works Overtime	2003-05-11	8.9 2,717	8.5	–
Convenience-store owner Dorothy Kim Su is fatally shot during a robbery.
12	Twilight	2003-05-18	8.4 2,462	8.7	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Woman-killer Carl Desmond Williman finally receives the death penalty by a lethal injection in Texas, and his unemployed daughter hires Fisher & Diaz for the funeral, and sleeps with Nate since they're both miserable and want to escape their problems, but he treats her unsympathetically the following day out of sheer guilt.
13	I'm Sorry, I'm Lost	2003-06-01	9.2 3,486	8.8	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal A piece of "blue ice" broken off an airplane strikes Anahid Havanessian, whose husband goes to Fisher & Diaz for a funeral...but changes his mind when, frustrated with the government for hiding that such deaths are common and suspecting Nate's silence is indifference, he's snapped at by Nate, who then snaps at David and Rico for telling him he lost them money by not demanding payment for the meeting when they "switched to the local chapel".

Season 4 2004 · 12 episodes · IMDb avg 8.14 My rating: –

Season summary ⚠

⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal
The season of 'That's My Dog' — David's carjacking mid-season remains one of TV's most harrowing hours — while Nate grieves into new mistakes.

#	Episode	Aired	IMDb	TVmaze	My Rating
1	Falling into Place	2004-06-13	9.1 3,447	8.4	–
In 1972, Bruno Baskerville Walsh took LSD at a party, and "flew" off the balcony where he stood, landing on a car in a parking lot. Ruth and George sleep together their first night of marriage...extremely loudly, annoying David and Keith, and Claire.
2	In Case of Rapture	2004-06-20	7.7 2,291	8.3	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Devoted Christian Dorothy Sheedy mistakes inflatable dolls floating from a truck bed for angels, and jumps out of her car, unaware of her surroundings, and is hit by another driver. Her husband, also strong in his faith, doesn't know whether his wife's death was an odd accident or suicide but remains calm about it, believing it was simply her time to die.
3	Parallel Play	2004-06-27	8.0 2,365	8.1	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Nate meets a divorced mom with a tot the same age as Maya and they soon arrange for a play-date for the kids - which turns out to be quite playful for them as well.
4	Can I Come Up Now?	2004-07-11	7.7 2,245	7.9	–
Ruth is more convinced than ever that Arthur is responsible after they receive yet another package with feces. She decides she's going to lay a formal complaint with the police but George finally tells her it's not Arthur and knows who is sending these packages to them.
5	That's My Dog	2004-07-18	8.8 3,817	8.9	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Although their earlier visit did not go very well, Ruth suggests they invite George's estranged son Kyle for dinner. She's also thinking of inviting a friend of hers and introduce them. Nate goes to a grief management class but has trouble relating to the other participants. At the funeral home, Rico and Dave console Anne Thornton's husband who blames himself for his wife's death.
6	Terror Starts at Home	2004-07-25	8.3 2,354	8.6	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal David has recovered physically from his carjacking but refuses to tell his family what really happened to him. At the funeral home, he has the case of Robert Meinhardt who he thought was a suicide but then learns he was shot in the head by burglars.
7	The Dare	2004-08-01	7.9 2,244	8.1	–
Claire has taken a liking to her friend Edie but is having difficulty coming to terms with her emotions. With Vanessa suspicious, Rico decides to tell Sophie he can't come by anymore. She's at her manipulative best and he can't bring himself to break away. Vanessa follows him and assumes the worse when she sees her. Nate and Brenda have been sleeping together but he also goes on a date with a fellow worker from the pet retreat. George and Ruth's relationship is strained and he invites her on his annual fossil hunt.
8	Coming and Going	2004-08-08	7.9 2,233	8.1	–
David is living at home alone now that Keith is on the road with rock star Celeste. He does take advantage of an out of the blue call from an old acquaintance, Sarge, but still suffers from post-traumatic stress. Keith finally comes out to one of his co-workers but it's an encounter with Celeste that sends him packing. Ruth has come to the end of her tether when she returns from church to find that George has trimmed a tree her first husband had planted in the yard.
9	Grinding the Corn	2004-08-15	7.6 2,238	7.9	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Having agreed over the phone not to have sex with others, Keith on his return tells David of having slept with Celeste. At the funeral home, Nate and Rico's latest client is Lawrence Tuttle, a comic book collector who died when a bookshelf fell on him.
10	The Black Forest	2004-08-22	7.6 2,190	7.9	–
Nate dreads having to go to Idaho to visit Lisa's family and attend a service they have arranged. He and Brenda have reconciled and she convinces him that going is the right thing to do.
11	Bomb Shelter	2004-08-29	8.0 2,219	7.9	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Brenda feels the clock is ticking and wants to have a baby sooner rather than later. Nate wants to think about it for a while. At the funeral home, Rico and Nate deal with a particularly tragic case when four members of the Gorodetsky family - parents and two children - are killed in a car accident leaving only their eldest son to deal with it all.
12	Untitled	2004-09-12	9.1 3,209	8.2	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal George's infatuation with impending disaster is causing him nightmares. David hopes that if he faces his attacker, who is now in prison, he will feel liberated.

Season 5 2005 · 12 episodes · IMDb avg 8.74 My rating: –

Season summary ⚠

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The end: Nate's collapse, the family breaking and re-forming, and 'Everyone's Waiting' — still widely called the greatest series finale ever made, six minutes of it set to Sia's 'Breathe Me'.

#	Episode	Aired	IMDb	TVmaze	My Rating
1	A Coat of White Primer	2005-06-06	8.5 2,589	7.8	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal The insecure Andrea Kuhn is encouraged by her psychiatrist to disclose her true feeling to her family, and when she is happy being herself, her husband accidentally kills her after an argument. Ruth recalls how stress triggered a depressive psychosis in George and his treatment with electroshock.
2	Dancing for Me	2005-06-13	7.9 2,403	7.7	–
Nate's high-school friend Samuel Wayne Hoviak falls from his truck while trying to reach the paper, but manages to activate it while falling so is run over after he lands. Nate reunites with the third member of their trio and wonders why he's changed so much since then while Tom hasn't.
3	Hold My Hand	2005-06-20	8.2 2,324	8.4	–
In 1954 Loretta Smith Sibley committed suicide in front of her son George. With the anniversary of September 9th approaching, George is haunted by her presence enough to distract him at home, repeats his habit of placing unwanted food in his pockets, telling Ruth he was saving it, and confesses to Maggie that he again needs therapy.
4	Time Flies	2005-06-27	8.7 2,700	8.6	–
Lila Simmonds Coolidge passes away just before her 95th birthday...which she happened to share with Nate. This year, Nate's 40th is marked by the news that he'll be a dad, which he doesn't react to as enthusiastically as Brenda had hoped.
5	Eat a Peach	2005-07-04	8.1 2,291	8.2	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Diabetic Daniel Holzenchenko succumbs to the call of canned peaches...and leaves behind 2 brothers and 2 sisters who seem unable to agree on anything from refreshments to music to be used at his funeral. While trying to mediate them, Nate also has to figure out how to convince Brenda not to tell Maya that she is her stepmother and her real mother Lisa is dead.
6	The Rainbow of Her Reasons	2005-07-10	8.5 2,482	8.4	–
Sarah O'Connor's best friend and Nate's first love Fiona Lenore Kleinschmidt falls down a mountain on a hiking trip with Sarah, causing she and her friends to stay a few days at the Fishers' and giving Ruth a good excuse not to show up to George's apartment for a few days...until Maggie notes she's put nothing of hers in the place.
7	The Silence	2005-07-17	8.0 2,326	8.4	–
Maggie Sibley's friend and fellow Quaker Peter Thomas Burns suffers a heart attack while watching a play, and Nate becomes intrigued about her faith when she brings it up. Brenda's blood tests reveal that her and Nate's child has a higher-than-usual possibility for developing Down's Syndrome or other complications at birth, and the doctor recommends amniocentesis to eliminate these factors.
8	Singing for Our Lives	2005-07-24	8.7 2,629	8.5	–
Pilar Sandoval attempts to Rollerblade a steep hill while walking her dogs but literally doesn't make it when she loses control and is hit by a car. David, Nate, and Rico try but fail to agree on how to invest on the business, but it gives Rico a good opportunity to focus on pursuing his relationship with Vanessa.
9	Ecotone	2005-07-31	9.6 4,780	8.9	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal Lawrence Hall Matheson chooses the wrong moment to check his pulse while jogging in a California "ecotone" - a cougar mauls him. Hospitalized following his seizure, an unconscious Nate dreams he returns home after he simply woke his asleep arm up and requested a divorce, while in reality Maggie struggles to answer medical questions and contact the family.
10	All Alone	2005-08-07	9.7 6,748	9.3	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal The family prepares for the worst funeral of their lives. Ruth makes things worse on David by taking out her pain on him until he stands up for himself, and Nate makes things worse for Brenda by reminding her she had the chance to marry Joe if she doubted him. Claire, troubled by the fact that mainly negative memories come to mind, again finds comfort in Ted, who explains that it's not unusual.
11	Static	2005-08-14	9.1 3,750	8.9	–
Iraqi War veteran Paul Ronald Duncan receives a euthanasia in the hospital - and Claire, on drugs, takes out her own loss on the family by denouncing the war in general but also them for letting their son serve.
12	Everyone's Waiting	2005-08-21	9.9 19,474	9.6	–
⚠ SPOILER WARNING — click to reveal In the series finale, David finally embraces a demon; Keith gives 'tough love'; Nathaniel talks to his younger son; Brenda delivers and fights Nate's negativity; Claire gets an exciting call; and Ted inspires sexy photos.

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