HBO’s ‘The Mortician’ Ended With What Sounds Like a Murder Confession

'The Mortician': A Display of Very Stupid, Very Evil Cruelty

The true crime docs of the last few weeks have been, to my eye, a parade of profound evil and profound stupidity. From the billionaire-disconnect from reality that was Titan: The OceanGate Disaster to the senselessness of giving Sherri Papini... Read more...

HBO’s Gruesome True-Crime Doc Tried to Have Its Bombshell Moment. There’s Just One Problem.

David Sconce, the subject of The Mortician, ran a scheme involving illegal bulk cremation and the mutilation of corpses.

HBO’s ‘The Mortician’ Ended With What Sounds Like a Murder Confession

“I don't want to comment on the allegation of what it seems he's implying,” director Joshua Rofé told The Hollywood Reporter. “That's clear — that's very clear to the audience, right?”

‘The Mortician’ ends with a ‘Jinx’-style cliffhanger as documentary subject seemingly confesses to murder

Apparently, David Sconce never watched The Jinx. Season 1 of HBO's The Mortician ended on Sunday with the documentary subject, a crematorium operator and convicted felon, seemingly confessing to murder on camera. The scenario immediately gave viewers flashbacks to The Jinx's first season finale in 2015, when Robert Durst said to himself while mic'ed up, "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course," apparently in reference to the murders …

HBO’s 'The Mortician’ Ends With An Apparent Murder Confession

The Mortician had HBO’s most Jinx-like ending since, properly, The Jinx. Joshua Rofé’s three-part documentary collection concluded on Sunday evening, in HBO’s primo 9 p.m. time slot. The ultimate couple of minutes of the third (and last) episode of The Mortician assist clarify the prestige-TV model’s big vote of confidence; latest hit reveals in the identical slot embrace The White Lotus and The Final of Us. The second, by which the document…