Family Plots

Understandably, not everyone is going to want to watch a show about a real funeral home, but if you stick with it, a real family emerges - one with lots of quirks and challenges, to be sure - and it includes the staff who work at the family-owned business. There are some really touching moments, and they seem to be highly respectful of their clients and care about providing proper service. Of course there's plenty of infighting, stupid melodrama, sister jealousy, weird dad with cat scenes as well. Overall, though, it really did feel like a realistic portrayal of what does go on in a small mom-pop run funeral parlor.