Completing the adventures and excitement where the last season stops that follows the Nathaniel Fisher, a well-known family works on funeral services whom struggles against keeping their business run after the death of their father. In this new season, Nate meets a beautiful divorced woman and begins to fall for her.
At this rate, Ball is lucky his HBO colleague David Milch has snagged the phrase "Deadwood," or I'd be suggesting it as "Six Feet Under"'s new alternate title.
At some point, however -- and that point is the first episode in this fourth season -- it all becomes too much, too arch, too ridiculous and trying and forced.