The HBO Max platform brought the series into the new decade, Rest in Peace (Six Feet Under) is also its work. It was one of the highest-rated original TV shows not only in its home country of the United States. Not to mention, it was created by Alan Ball, screenwriter of the Oscar-winning film American Beauty (1999). At the same time, the synopsis of the series sounds so simple: Imagine that one day you inherit a funeral home. Would you sell it, or would you decide to hang your career in organic food by a nail and go into business with your brother who hates you? For Nate Fisher, life’s dilemma…
The series Rest in the Room originally premiered 21 years ago. But the audience still enjoys it. Perhaps also because today something so incorrect and full of black humor simply could not be created. | HBO Max
While someone wouldn’t make more than a miniseries out of the subject, Alan Ball, in collaboration with other screenwriters and directors, created five series of crackling fun. Nothing is sacred to them, they will stop at nothing. As the distributor reveals, the story centers on the Fisher family from Los Angeles, who run an independent funeral home. Mother Ruth (Frances Conroy), plagued by constant regrets, cheerful father Nathaniel (Richard Jenkins), who, although he dies under the wheels of a bus in the pilot episode, but returns as a ghost-commentator in other parts, older son Nate (Peter Krause), returning to to the family after years of carefree lounging, the younger son David (Michael C. Hall), a typical careful undertaker who is ashamed of his homosexuality, and finally the youngest daughter Claire (Lauren Ambrose), who is the only one who realizes that something is wrong with her life .
The series Rest in the Room originally premiered 21 years ago. But the audience still enjoys it. Perhaps also because today something so incorrect and full of black humor simply could not be created. | HBO Max
Three characters still significantly intervene in the family’s life – the black policeman Keith (Mathew St. Patrick), who is David’s lover, Nate’s free-spirited friend Brenda (Rachel Griffiths) and her incompetent brother Billy (Jeremy Sisto). “With the exception of the Australian actress R. Griffiths (who won a Golden Globe for her performance in the first series of the series), the other members of the cast are less well-known, but very accurately cast,” reports HBO.
Today, it is primarily Michael C. Hall, popular here as the iconic Dexter in the series of the same name, who brings new viewers to Rest in Peace and reveals his own beginnings to them. David Fisher was his first big opportunity and he took it perfectly. Together with the others, he delivers a pungent work, sometimes bizarrely figurative, sometimes straightforward. Absurd and familiar and experienced in moments masterfully mixed into a cocktail of narratives. In the work, which has won nine Emmy awards, there is a place for the psychological clashes of the heroes, for love affairs and etudes connected with the dead, who lose their lives in the first seconds of each episode, and then appear on the table of the Fisher family business. And sometimes they messed with the plot.
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The HBO series was originally broadcast from 2001-2005, but last year speculation began about its continuation or a new version. but no one officially confirmed the information. However, the audience has a chance to get to know this strange, but at the same time familiar family. As already mentioned, the HBO Max platform included it in its offer, and all the series at once. A total of 63 episodes can attack your diaphragm and it must be noted that you will be happy about this clash. Rest in peace is simply an unrepeatable ridefilmed in a time unfettered by quotas and concerns about the inviolability of everything and everyone.
Rating: 85%
Rest in Peace (series)
Renewed Czech premiere: from March 8, 2022, HBO Max
Drama / Comedy, USA, (2001-2005), 52-63 minutes/episode • Creator: Alan Ball • Directors: Alan Ball, Daniel Attias, Rodrigo García, Jeremy Podeswa and more. • Screenplay: Alan Ball, Nancy Oliver, Rick Cleveland, Joey Soloway and others. • Cinematography: Jim Denault, Rob Sweeney, Alan Caso and others. • Music: Richard Marvin, Thomas Newman.
Starring: Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodríguez, Mathew St. Patrick, Rachel Griffiths, Justina Machado and more.