This was a 5 season show on HBO a while back, and I'm just now catching it.... I've only got 2 episodes to go.
It's about a family of funeral directors. The father died in the first episode... and he;s been in almost every episode ever since.
I just wanted to say that so far in season 5, put out in 2005, there has been a mandatory "Bush sucks/republicans suck/conservatives suck" moment in every damned episode, and it is so obvious that it pulls me right out of the story and makes me think that some/all of the writers must have been real shitheads that they just couldn't keep their politics out of the damned show.
It re-hardens my heart toward the writer's union and their strike.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I believe the first few episodes were shown to me as part of my "Anthropology of Death" course. I thought they were alright. Damn shame to see they eventually pan out to shit.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."