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Six Feet Under · Season 1 · HBO

Six Feet Under Season 1

Six Feet Under Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.8/10. 13 episodes on HBO from 3 June 2001.

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BollyMeter8.8/10Season 1 scored 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and a Metacritic of 74. Critics called it unlike anything HBO had produced: a comedy-drama about death that was simultaneously hilarious, surreal, and bracingly honest about grief.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Season 1 premiered June 2001 and immediately positioned itself as something HBO had not produced before: a drama where death is not dramatic punctuation but the condition through which every episode is filtered. The Rotten Tomatoes score of 90% and a Metacritic of 74 reflected critical consensus that Alan Ball had found a format - the cold open death, the Fisher family response, the surreal grief hallucinations - that was formally inventive rather than just macabre. The Washington Post called it 'scorchingly brilliant.' The Baltimore Sun called it 'almost anti-television.' Peter Krause and Michael C. Hall were singled out as a sibling pair whose chemistry carried the show's emotional weight.

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The Room

90%critics positive · n=1198.7/10IMDb audience
  • “Six Feet Under establishes from the start that it will be unflinching and brazen and, as it happens, scorchingly brilliant.”
    Washington Post
  • “So daring, richly multi-dimensional and culturally provocative that it's almost anti-television.”
    Baltimore Sun

Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about — premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E1Pilot8.7

    The series premiere establishes the Fisher family's loss and the funeral home world with economy and black humour. The format - cold open death, then the family's professional and personal response - is introduced with confidence. Nate's arrival back in Los Angeles sets the show's central dynamic between the person who left and the family that stayed.

    The moment: Nathaniel Fisher Sr.'s first appearance as a ghost - the show's surrealist register introduced without apology.