The Returned (Les Revenants)

[kanader]

Just finished the first season of this highly recommended French TV Show.

What would you do if your daughter, your brother, your girlfriend or your husband came back from the dead?

Anyone who sits down to watch "The Returned" expecting a bit of zombie ultraviolence is likely to be disappointed.
Those who enjoy atmospheric, psychologically driven horror fare, on the other hand, are likely to enjoy "The Returned" quite a bit

Much of the show deals with how the various townspeople cope with the sudden return of their loved ones. The pacing is deliberate and slow, taking time to build the characters. While episodes don't solely focus on just one person, each episode is titled after a character and provides us with background on how they died, or lived as is the case with some.

Storyline
The Returned opens in a small mountain community which is rocked to its core when several local people who are presumed dead suddenly reappear at their homes. Despite having passed away some years earlier, these ghostly characters appear in human form, they have not aged, and they are completely unaware of their own fatality. Determined to reclaim their lives and start over, they slowly come to realize that they are not the only ones to have been brought back from the dead. Their return augers torment for their community when a series of gruesome murders bear a chilling resemblance to the work of a serial killer from the past. This is a homecoming like no other.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2521668/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bv_5IBPVuo

 

[aaronfransen]

This is a really creepy show, very well done.

I like how the characters who return aren't angels, they're as flawed as a human being can be, and very believable.

 

[Vic]

We watched this a few months ago. It's a gem and well worth watching. One of the things I like about it is that it doesn't try to answer questions that it can't answer. And the whole thing is done in such a way as to make it seem just like how we would imagine such a reality to be. It resonated with me anyway.