“Being in funeral service, we cannot bring our work home,” a mortician says early on HBO’s new true crime docuseries The Mortician. “No one wants to talk over dinner about what we did over the day.”

Ironically, the opposite is true for the Lamb-Sconces, whose family funeral home became a house of horrors ghoulish enough to fuel three hour-long installments, premiering June 1.

In their household, discussions about mixing corpses’ ashes and secretly harvesting hearts were as commonplace as remarking on the weather. The Mortician director Joshua Rofé (Lost for Life; Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed) leans on true crime filmmaking clichés, but it’s the series’ comprehensive account of how a respected Los Angeles family were able to get away with gleefully profiting off grieving c

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