Family Plots

Family Plots is a reality television show on the A&E Network, focusing on the work and lives of the employees that work at the family-run Poway Bernardo Mortuary in Poway, California. Although the show occasionally focuses on the deceased that passed through the Poway Bernard Mortuary, the privacy of the deceased is respected and the more graphic parts of the work in the preparation room are not showed, in order to maintain the show’s PG rating. The more entertaining moments in the show include a wedding at the mortuary for a couple that met during grief counseling, they had each recently lost a spouse, and a Halloween party featuring renowned psychic and medium Gary Spivey. The show also shows that the workers have somewhat ordinary lives, when they go through relationship troubles, have babies, and set each other up for internet dating. Family Plots may seem to have a grim premise at first, but these mortuary workers prove that work at a mortuary can be quite lively, just like any other job. MORE