Post by Master Shake on Jan 21, 2007 16:30:17 GMT
An American show that was originally on HBO from 2001 - 2005, it's now shown edited on Barvo in the US. It's a comedy drama set in a family-owned funeral home just outside of LA.
Each episode starts with a death but the rest of the episode is mostly spent dealing with the dysfunctional family's misadventures around the death. Usually they provide the funeral so the corpse is around; sometimes they don't, but usually get involved somehow. But as I said, in a way the deaths are usually secondary to the main storyline.
It won a ton of awards and usually didn't pull any punches with language or content, although that is watered down (ie, editied to crap) on basic cable. Still worth watching though.
I think C4 or E4 show (or showed) it in the UK
Each episode starts with a death but the rest of the episode is mostly spent dealing with the dysfunctional family's misadventures around the death. Usually they provide the funeral so the corpse is around; sometimes they don't, but usually get involved somehow. But as I said, in a way the deaths are usually secondary to the main storyline.
It won a ton of awards and usually didn't pull any punches with language or content, although that is watered down (ie, editied to crap) on basic cable. Still worth watching though.
I think C4 or E4 show (or showed) it in the UK
