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July 2, 2005
The first mail video arrived from Homescreen that I mentioned here.
 It was Six Feet Under: The First Season, which had been created by Allan Ball. I did not know his TV work, nor have I seen Ball's American Beauty.
I was impressed. It is very David Lynch with its tense balance between the sublime and the banal of people's everyday suburban lives.
Is that link to Lynch that made the strangeness (pulling back the curtain on suburbia) so familiar?
What is revealed is a darkness that is brightly and evenly lit.
I've only watched one episode--4---but from what I can gather it is the lives and loves--and deaths---of a southern California family of undertakers. The messed up Fisher family---owners of an independent funeral home in Los Angeles--- are shown dealing with death on a pretty much daily basis.
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