When the Dead Don't Stay Dead... (Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes series REVIEW)
If a little group of cool people—let’s say, Norwegians —were playing a game of “ What if …” around a toasty fireplace, and were on maybe their fourth round of akvavit shots when one of them said, “You know what I’d kill to watch? What if there was this zombie story… but with that family of undertakers from Six Feet Under … made by someone like The Coen Brothers [you know, Bjørn… the ones who did that Fargo , don’cha know?], in their early days… wouldn’t that be awesome?!”, then we might end up with Netflix's latest entry in the bloodsuckers genre . I have no idea if things went down that way [ although until I learn otherwise, that's totally how I'm gonna imagine it], but however the idea sprang to life, we now have Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes , because of it (and my Nordic-noir-lovin’ self is thrilled ). ________________ The premise: A pair of cops—a seasoned female officer and a younger male, still wet behind the ears [both of whom, I should add, appear to com