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Summary When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as--and far less predictable than--the one inside.Oscar(R)-winning screenwriter Alan Ball's breakout series that takes a darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. f...

Directed By: Kathy Bates

Written By: Alan Ball

  • TV-MA
  • HBO
  • Jul 1, 2001
  • 55 m
  • TV-MA
  • HBO
  • Jul 1, 2001
  • 55 m
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An Open Book
Air Date: Jul 1, 2001
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Summary When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as--and far less predictable than--the one inside.Oscar(R)-winning screenwriter Alan Ball's breakout series that takes a darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. f...

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Episode 1 • Jun 3, 2001 • 1 h 3 m
Pilot
When the funeral director is killed in an accident, the family comes together to mourn and decide the fate of the funeral home.
Episode 2 • Jun 10, 2001 • 52 m
The Will
The family attends the reading of Nathaniel's will. A widow is unable to pay the funeral bill after her late husband leaves her with a mountain of debt.
Episode 3 • Jun 17, 2001 • 53 m
The Foot
The family considers selling the business. Their latest client had an unfortunate accident with an industrial dough-mixer.
Episode 4 • Jun 24, 2001 • 52 m
Familia
When a gang member is shot, his family requests that he is buried, but the gang's leader wants it done a different way.
Episode 5 • Jul 1, 2001 • 55 m
An Open Book
An adult film star electrocutes to death in her bathtub, which leads to a memorial service that is anything but ordinary.
Episode 6 • Jul 8, 2001 • 58 m
The Room
After a woman passes away in her sleep, her husband proves to be a very demanding client.
Episode 7 • Jul 15, 2001 • 51 m
Brotherhood
The family must persuade the angry brother of a war veteran who died of lung disease that his brother should receive a military-honoring burial.
Episode 8 • Jul 22, 2001 • 57 m
Crossroads
A divorced woman meets an unfortunate end while partying with her friends, and the family discusses renting out the home to a seniors' dancing group.
Episode 9 • Jul 29, 2001 • 1 h
Life's Too Short
A boy accidentally shoots and kills himself while playing with a gun, and his mother is nearly comatose with grief.
Episode 10 • Aug 5, 2001 • 1 h
The New Person
An egocentric husband is killed with a frying pan after his wife finally has enough of his mouth.
Episode 11 • Aug 12, 2001 • 1 h
The Trip
Nate and Dave travel to Vegas in order to attend a convention for funeral directors. A newborn child dies from a case of SIDS.
Episode 12 • Aug 19, 2001 • 1 h
A Private Life
A gay couple is attacked and one of them is killed, causing controversy among the family and a confession to be made.
Episode 13 • Aug 19, 2001 • 1 h
Knock, Knock
A simple game of golf results in the death of a woman.
5 Seasons

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