Your name is Nathaniel Fisher, Sr. You're the owner of Fisher & Sons Funeral Home. You have a wife and a son who work in the business, another son who moved to Seattle, and a teenage daughter who's a bit of a rebel. You're the head of a typical atypical American family. And you just got killed on Christmas Eve.

Your whole life is leading up to this...Six Feet Under.

From the Oscar®-winning writer of American Beauty, this hour-long series takes a darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional Los Angeles family that runs an independent funeral home. With the prodigal elder son returning home for the holidays to shattering news, the family must learn to deal with the death of one of their own, while figuring out how to go ahead with the business of living. What emerges over the course of 13 episodes is a quirky, funny, emotional, life-affirming look at the enlightenment of a grieving American family … that happens to be in the grief-management business.