About Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes
In the sleepy Norwegian town of Skarnes, where the most exciting thing on any given day is usually the weather, young Live Hallangen wakes up on a slab in her own family's funeral home after being declared dead. The near-death experience leaves her with an awkward new problem: a powerful, hard-to-explain hunger that no amount of Norwegian comfort food seems to satisfy. As Live pieces together what has happened to her, she begins to suspect the unthinkable answer is that she may have become a vampire.
The timing, it turns out, is strangely convenient. The Hallangen family undertaking business has been quietly going under for years, and a town where almost nobody dies is bad for the funeral trade. Live's careful, anxious brother Odd is desperate to keep the family firm afloat, and Live's peculiar new condition opens up possibilities that the siblings approach with the deadpan practicality of people who grew up around coffins. What follows is a wry tug-of-war between Live's appetite, the family ledger, and the awkward business of staying inconspicuous in a place where everyone knows everyone.
Played with bone-dry humor against the muted backdrop of small-town Norway, Post Mortem treats its macabre premise lightly, leaning into community gossip, sibling friction, and the quiet absurdity of ordinary life carrying on around something extraordinary. Local police officer Reinert keeps circling the strange goings-on, and the result is a six-episode dark comedy more interested in human awkwardness than in fright.