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"Six Feet Under" Pilot (2001)
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Original Air Date:
3 June 2001
(Season 1, Episode 1)
Plot:
On Christmas Eve, 2000, funeral-director Nathaniel Samuel Fisher is involved in a hearse-accident with a bus and is killed...
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Cast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Peter Krause | ... | Nate Fisher |
 | Michael C. Hall | ... | David Fisher |
 | Frances Conroy | ... | Ruth Fisher |
 | Lauren Ambrose | ... | Claire Fisher |
 | Freddy Rodríguez | ... | Federico 'Rico' Diaz (as Freddy Rodriguez) |
| Mathew St. Patrick | ... | Keith Charles |
 | Rachel Griffiths | ... | Brenda Chenowith |
 | Richard Jenkins | ... | Nathaniel Fisher |
| Eric Balfour | ... | Claire's Meth Date |
 | Gary Hershberger | ... | Kroehner Representative |
 | Dina Waters | ... | Chatty Mourner |
| Sharon Madden | ... | Woman Mourner |
| Hayden Tank | ... | Young Nate |
| Maximillian Kesmodel | ... | Young David (as Maximillian Orion Kesmodel) |
| Dennis Anderson | ... | Market Clerk |
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Argentina:60 min | 62 min (DVD version)
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Eric Balfour was only supposed to be introduced as "Claire's Meth Date" for the show's pilot, but the director found his chemistry so satisfying with Lauren Ambrose that his role was developed into the character Gabe Dimas. Similarly, Dina Waters's and Gary Hershberger's roles were only listed as "Chatty Mourner" and "Kroehner Representative (though the latter was already identified by the name Matthew Gilardi in the episode).
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[voiceover, as camera tracks slowly over a handsome reclining body] For a body that's firm, yet flexible. For skin that begs to be touched. For the velvety appearance of actual living tissue. Top morticians rely on Living Splendor embalming fluid. Living Splendor. Only real life is better.
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Features Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) (TV)
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I'll Be Home for Christmas
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This episode, the first one of the series, is simply great. I began watching it a few days ago, and I think this is one of the greatest things there have been in television. The pilot episode doesn't get boring at any time, and keeps you awaiting for what happens in the next scene.
The characters are probably among the best I have seen in a television program. It reminds you of the film "American Beauty", also written by Alan Ball. The freak mother, with their sons: the runaway, the repressed one, the teenage girl. The initial situation (the death of the father), unleashes one situation after the other, told in an excellent way, and the inclusions of phony ads makes way for the laughs, although there are several moments that will make you laugh. The performances can't get better, neither the script.
Great.