Ashes to ashes, dust to ‘Six Feet Under’ DVD

This being the Lenten season (climaxing with Easter Sunday on April 16), we can think of few better ways to contemplate that we are dust—and to dust we shall return—than curling up with HBO’s Six Feet Under. This series about the funeral-business-owning Fisher family contained the usual soap-operatic travails, but having death as a running undercurrent of every episode made reflection a necessary part of the viewing experience. And Lent being a period of spiritual reflection, well, this show is one temptation in which some people may want to indulge.