EPISODE
The Returned - Season 1
Upon the mysterious return for the dead into life in a Pacific Northwest town, where people struggle against the horrible attack of the dead on their lives, the thing that challenges them.
1970
19 October 1969, Christiana, Jamaica
6 September 1989, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
14 April 1990, Canada
23 August 1971, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
8 September 1968, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
29 March 1974, New York City, New York, USA
28 February 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
July 15, 1990
3 February 1975, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
17 February 1952, Southampton, England, UK
28 June 1918
March 10, 2015
I loved watching the people of the town react to seeing their loved ones return from the dead.March 10, 2015
It's almost a shot-for-shot remake of the original, but that's not what makes this version a derivative TV zombie. It's the lack of atmosphere and the near-complete absence of a mournful, mysterious tone that makes the new version feel empty and hollow.March 09, 2015
Carlton Cuse and Raelle Tucker's series is cold and banal because it tries too hard to duplicate the original without capturing the essence of what made the story so compelling.March 12, 2015
Cuse and Tucker do a good job of translating the deeply unsettling miracle at the heart of this show.March 09, 2015
Slow and mournful, The Returned is interesting but not, in the early going, enormously compelling. Maybe that won't be true for newcomers to the story.March 09, 2015
The American version of The Returned is well on its way to being every bit as good as the French original. It may even improve on certain aspects of the show, we'll have to wait and see.March 10, 2015
There is a strain of macabre humor, which both lightens the moment and adds an edge.March 09, 2015
It's not quite as atmospheric or accomplished as the original, but it's way closer than I expected it to be, anchored by strong performances throughout and an understanding of what worked about the original.March 09, 2015
It's fashionable to dismiss remakes, thanks to all the adaptations of tense, terrific foreign films that wash up on our shores missing some essential DNA, but some of them actually reveal the durability of the original source material.March 06, 2015
It needs either to be more eerie and otherworldly or to address the social and psychological consequences of its premise squarely. As is, it isn't sufficiently dead or alive.