The Mortician is a documentary series directed and produced by Joshua Rofé. The show premiered on June 1, 2025 and has become one of the most-watched documentary series by HBO in the past few years.

The documentary series examines the startling true story of a cremator who went to prison for mishandling human remains ...

For years before The Mortician, the Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena looked like any other neighborhood mortuary.

The Mortician follows the scandal behind the David Sconce-operated Lamb Funeral Home in the 1980s. Sconce served time in prison for mutilating corpses, holding mass cremations and paying strongmen ...

David Sconce: Maybe. (Long pause) All right, so there was one night I had to go to the cemetery with Barbara. I get out and I go to unlock the gate.

The ending to HBO’s The Mortician was quite grim. If we’re being (very) generous to the docuseries’ titular subject David Sconce, it was also perhaps a bit vague. The Hollywood Reporter was ...

David Sconce: Maybe. (Long pause) All right, so there was one night I had to go to the cemetery with Barbara. I get out and I go to unlock the gate.

The ending to HBO’s The Mortician was quite grim. If we’re being (very) generous to the docuseries’ titular subject David Sconce, it was also perhaps a bit vague. The Hollywood Reporter was ...

Sconce continues, "And he says, 'Gimme your wallet, gimme your watch.' And Barbara's in the passenger seat watching this. And so I said, 'Look man, I only got like 60 bucks.' ...

The series centers on David Sconce, the high school football star and fourth-generation Lamb operator. His great-grandfather, Lawrence Lamb, founded the funeral home in 1929, run by Sconce’s ...

Following funeral director David Sconce's 2023 release from prison, the upcoming HBO documentary series 'The Mortician' explores the dark secrets of his family's Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena, Calif.