Six Feet Under
Pilot
Season 1, Episode 1 · Aired 2001-06-03
Synopsis
When the funeral director is killed in an accident, the family comes together to mourn and decide the fate of the funeral home.
Pilot desk note
From the desk: Six Feet Under opens its catalog run with “Pilot” (2001-06-03). HBO's emotional counterweight to antihero crime; death as weekly structure. Cast breakouts and the "best finale ever" industrial complex.
In the series
This episode is part of Six Feet Under (2001–2005) on HBO.
A family funeral home where grief is the house style — and the finale still wrecks people.
Key cast
- Peter Krause as Nate Fisher
- Michael C. Hall as David Fisher
- Frances Conroy as Ruth Fisher
- Lauren Ambrose as Claire Fisher
- Rachel Griffiths as Brenda Chenowith
- Freddy Rodríguez as Federico Diaz