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Text: [6] Both “Six Feet Under” and “The Funk Parlor” commence with the death of the father and return of the “prodigal 10452 FUNKY FILMS v. TIME WARNER ENTERTAINMENT son.” Aside from that rather uneventful similarity, the plots of the two stories develop quite differently. The father’s suicide in “The Funk Parlor” sets the stage for a series of additional murders, including several of the central characters in the play. The story revolves around the life of the older brother, John, who rehabilitates the fledgling business, falls in love with Sophie, proposes to her and then, upon discovering that she is a serial murderer, kills her in an effort to spare his own life. [7] “Six Feet Under,” unlike “The Funk Parlor,” is not a murder mystery, nor does it revolve around any plot-line in particular. Rather, “Six Feet Under” explores the intimate lives of each member of the Fisher family by examining each character’s complex psyche and his or her interpersonal interactions and emotional attachments. “Six Feet Under” develops separate plot-lines around each member of the Fisher family, including the mother and daughter, for whom there are no comparable characters in “The Funk Parlor.” “Six Feet Under” is not so much a story about death as it is about the way the characters struggle with life in the wake of the cataclysmic death of the father.3