Post apoco / zombie fans: Les Revenants

[cyprusclean]

I thought the pregnant woman was also a dead person.

Does that mean there will be a zombie baby in the next series?

 

[Sue]

Same here, I can't wait for season 2. I think it's currently production, but it hasn't screened in a France yet, so no way to get hold of it.

They're starting filming in February so going to be a while before it's released, even in France.
www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18623475.html

 

[scifisam]

I suppose maybe Serge and his mum will carry on and join the hord. The others (Victor, Camille and Mrs Costa) were different in that they wouldn't have gone willingly.

I wonder why Mrs Costa was so scared, though? I felt sorry for her - there was nobody to fight for her.

I thought the pregnant woman was also a dead person.

Does that mean there will be a zombie baby in the next series?

Adele's not dead, but her baby's half undead, so yeah.

 

[belboid]

I am guessing they (the horde) know full well Serge & mom are going to join them anyway, so need to demand (or indeed, advertise) their presence.

A very good ending to the series, fer sure. Moved the plot along nicely, explained next to nothing, and was spooky as hell. So good to see Pierre being finally found out as a useless nut as well.

 

[jusali]

Did the damn burst in the night?

 

[belboid]

well, the town's flooded, so I'd have to assume so

 

[D'wards]

Did the damn burst in the night?

Yeah, i think so.

Can someone remind me, how did Serge's mum die and come back?

 

[Sue]

Yeah, i think so.
Can someone remind me, how did Serge's mum die and come back?

We don't know. Serge blames Toni though for killing him so broken heart type idea I'm guessing.

 

[cyprusclean]

What was the noise that went on for a long time, after the lights went out?

 

[Pickman's model]

What was the noise that went on for a long time, after the lights went out?

either

a) shooting

or

b) the cops getting smacked and carried off

 

[cyprusclean]

either

a) shooting

or

b) the cops getting smacked and carried off

Oh you again. One of The Returned.

 

[Pickman's model]

Oh you again. One of The Returned.

you weren't about when i returned.

 

[RedDragon]

The US version started this week and it was rather interesting.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Did you watch the whole episode? From that trailer it looks to have none of the atmosphere of the original.

 

[RedDragon]

Did you watch the whole episode? From that trailer it looks to have none of the atmosphere of the original.

Yeah downloaded it earlier. However, it's now being claimed "Resurrection" is based on Jason Mott's novel The Returned and the show's makers argue it has no connection to the French series. The book was published after the French show was broadcast . And as an added point of interest FreeMantleMedia is developing an actual American version of "The Returned" entitled "They Came Back".

So contrary to what I posted earlier this isn't the American remake. It's all so confusing.

 

[butchersapron]

See also: The Returned. Not based on Mott's novel, or the french film or the Tv series (or the inbeteween them US pilot) and dealing with zombies coming back to life and living 'norma'l lives.

 

[Santino]

I'm working on my own script called 'The Dead People Who Stopped Being Dead (Or Did They?)'

 

[D'wards]

When will the Returned return? Anyone in the know?

 

[belboid]

next year probably. Could just make it later this year, but filming is apparently delayed

 

[mrsfran]

WHY? WHY IS IT DELAYED? I DEMAND TO WATCH IT SOONER.

 

[belboid]

'This choice is explained by the wish to provide viewers with a season 2 of as high quality as the first season.' - according to bing translate. I think they haven't finished writing it.

 

[stavros]

The US version started this week and it was rather interesting.

Did it have the Mogwai score? This, for me, is vital.

 

[maya]

I didn't really understand the ending... Is it just a season finale cliffhanger, or was it meant to explain something? Because all I understood was the thing with the old village which got flooded thirty years ago when the old dam broke down sort of returned into the present, but that didn't explain what happened to the gendarmes who stayed outside to fight the zombie horde, or what happened to the non-dead people (Julie, Camilles mum) who willingly accompanied creepy boy and Camille when they got handed over to the queen bee zombie lady after she'd negotiated with Thomas... I especially want Julie and creepy boy's relationship explained in more detail (that thing about him thinking she was his special protector fairy or something like that...), and whether this will prevent the zombies from hurting her- I feel like there's a lot left unresolved. So the ending felt a bit meh... I want to know if the horde turned on Julie and Camille's mum, and/or why they returned, and what their purpose were. And yeah, why Serge and his mum didn't join the horde but just stayed in the bunker... I'm still a bit confused.

 

[Santino]

I didn't really understand the ending... Is it just a season finale cliffhanger, or was it meant to explain something? Because all I understood was the thing with the old village which got flooded thirty years ago when the old dam broke down sort of returned into the present, but that didn't explain what happened to the gendarmes who stayed outside to fight the zombie horde, or what happened to the non-dead people (Julie, Camilles mum) who willingly accompanied creepy boy and Camille when they got handed over to the queen bee zombie lady after she'd negotiated with Thomas... I especially want Julie and creepy boy's relationship explained in more detail (that thing about him thinking she was his special protector fairy or something like that...), and whether this will prevent the zombies from hurting her- I feel like there's a lot left unresolved. So the ending felt a bit meh... I want to know if the horde turned on Julie and Camille's mum, and/or why they returned, and what their purpose were. And yeah, why Serge and his mum didn't join the horde but just stayed in the bunker... I'm still a bit confused.

*shrug*

 

[maya]

*shrug*

Well, thanks a lot for clearing that up

 

[belboid]

It was just a cliffhanger. I suspect the writers have no clue as to how things will pan out

 

[stavros]

I remember the continuity announcer at the end said it'd be back this year - has anyone heard about when we might see anything? Have C4 still got the UK rights to it?

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Why does everything need to make logical sense?

 

[maya]

Also- in the last episode, Lena's ex boyfriend admits to the returned Camille that he used to be in love with her [when she was alive]... If so, why did he go to their house at the day of the bus accident to have sex with Lena? Did he go out with Lena because he didn't know that Camille returned his feelings, and decided to settle for the second best option? Or did Lena somehow pose as Camille on purpose, to get him for herself? Did they look so much alike that he thought it was Camille he was seeing, not realising his mistake until after the accident where Camille died? I may have to watch the entire second season again, because I'm clearly too stupid for this french subtlety thing...

My first thought when Camille returned, was that she was summoned back to avenge Lena's betrayal (for stealing the object of her affections), this seemed to be the case when Lena developed those horrible scars... But then the situation reversed, and with Lena healed from her injuries it was Camille who developed scars- by then most of the other zombies had similar scars too, IMO it looks clear that the scars are symptoms of sped-up decay, rotting flesh... perhaps the unnatural constellation of undead matter strives to return to its original form (death), but that doesn't explain how it can be transferred by psychic influence like when Lena developed the scars...

And the queen bee of the zombies, the woman who controls the undead horde (can't remember her name for some reason, she seemed unimportant at the beginning so didn't really notice her until she took on this role) ... is she even dead herself? Didn't she survive the attack and regained consciousness in the hospital after a coma, without having died? Why is it that she can turn electricity on and off at will, and seem to be able to summon the undead? First I thought that she showed some sort of psychic abilities when she told Simon about how he killed himself, but then it turns out that she was wrong because the vision she saw of death when fucking Simon was of a couple hanging from the ceiling after a suicide, this was later shown to be the parents of one of the schoolchildren who had decided to kill themselves after Camille had tried comforting them by telling a lie about having met their child in the afterlife- Simon shot himself, so it wasn't him she was seeing- wtf?

And when Julie and the policewoman tried to drive out of town, only to find that they're trapped in some sort of time loop or that an invisible wall of psychic energy surrounds the valley like a bubble and that they can't escape its forcefield, they're trapped inside it and can't get out- every time they drive across the dam bridge, the tunnel they just drove through appears again and on the other side is the dam bridge again... What's that all about?

And why can they suddenly get back to the valley when they decide to drive back once the undead horde starts walking towards them out of the mist? (Could it be creepy boy Victor who created the forcefield, either on purpose or subconsciously? He's already shown his sinister side by urging people to kill themselves- Pierre the owner of the shelter who murdered his family, Serge's brother, he showed Adeles daughter a spectral vision of when her mother tried to kill herself, he turned off the electricity before he tried to kill Pierre, he never shows these powers in front of Julie who seems to think he's just a good little boy, but he clearly emits some sort of magnetic power because in the last episode Julie chose to accompany him back to the undead horde instead of staying with Laure the policewoman even though Laure urges her to stay and have repeatedly told her that she loves her... she chose the zombie boy, it seems a bit odd somehow and makes me wonder whether she's got some sort of curse on her or some sort of special destiny/role in the event (if she was clinically dead for a few minutes before resuscitated after Serge the murderer-cannibal's attack all those years ago, she may be one of the few characters in some way that belongs to both camps: hald dead, half alive... she's got both life and death in her)

And... if the old village of thirty, forty years ago now has returned (like we're shown in the last episode), superimposed onto the present, doesn't this mean that the two time-events (or parallel universes, if we think of the different times as different worlds, only united by geographical place) somehow compete for existence and create an instability of matter which can only end with one time (or universe) 'winning' and displacing- erasing- the other? If the old world 'takes over' the present, doesn't that mean that the world of the living will become an undead world of increasingly decaying matter, while the old, returning world will suck up its energy and try to recreate itself? But if the past can't be changed, does that mean that if the old world returns, it's just going to repeat itself over and over, always ending with the dam accident? And does this mean that the zombies are just trapped in that same loop, always dying? And how do the dead schoolchildren fit into all this, their deaths in the bus accident were much more recent than the people who died in the dam accident thirty years ago- ah, and by the way both Victor creepy boy and the wife of the old teacher [who commited suicide on the day she returned] did survive the dam accident, they were around at that time but in the last episode they're shown visiting the red cross tents where the survivors looks for their lost relatives... hm.

OK, I need to stop overthinking things and go and watch something else on TV right now, i think... Apologies.

 

[sillygoose]

Also- in the last episode, Lena's ex boyfriend admits to the returned Camille that he used to be in love with her [when she was alive]... If so, why did he go to their house at the day of the bus accident to have sex with Lena? Did he go out with Lena because he didn't know that Camille returned his feelings, and decided to settle for the second best option? Or did Lena somehow pose as Camille on purpose, to get him for herself? Did they look so much alike that he thought it was Camille he was seeing, not realising his mistake until after the accident where Camille died? I may have to watch the entire second season again, because I'm clearly too stupid for this french subtlety thing...

My first thought when Camille returned, was that she was summoned back to avenge Lena's betrayal (for stealing the object of her affections), this seemed to be the case when Lena developed those horrible scars... But then the situation reversed, and with Lena healed from her injuries it was Camille who developed scars- by then most of the other zombies had similar scars too, IMO it looks clear that the scars are symptoms of sped-up decay, rotting flesh... perhaps the unnatural constellation of undead matter strives to return to its original form (death), but that doesn't explain how it can be transferred by psychic influence like when Lena developed the scars...

And the queen bee of the zombies, the woman who controls the undead horde (can't remember her name for some reason, she seemed unimportant at the beginning so didn't really notice her until she took on this role) ... is she even dead herself? Didn't she survive the attack and regained consciousness in the hospital after a coma, without having died? Why is it that she can turn electricity on and off at will, and seem to be able to summon the undead? First I thought that she showed some sort of psychic abilities when she told Simon about how he killed himself, but then it turns out that she was wrong because the vision she saw of death when fucking Simon was of a couple hanging from the ceiling after a suicide, this was later shown to be the parents of one of the schoolchildren who had decided to kill themselves after Camille had tried comforting them by telling a lie about having met their child in the afterlife- Simon shot himself, so it wasn't him she was seeing- wtf?

And when Julie and the policewoman tried to drive out of town, only to find that they're trapped in some sort of time loop or that an invisible wall of psychic energy surrounds the valley like a bubble and that they can't escape its forcefield, they're trapped inside it and can't get out- every time they drive across the dam bridge, the tunnel they just drove through appears again and on the other side is the dam bridge again... What's that all about?

And why can they suddenly get back to the valley when they decide to drive back once the undead horde starts walking towards them out of the mist? (Could it be creepy boy Victor who created the forcefield, either on purpose or subconsciously? He's already shown his sinister side by urging people to kill themselves- Pierre the owner of the shelter who murdered his family, Serge's brother, he showed Adeles daughter a spectral vision of when her mother tried to kill herself, he turned off the electricity before he tried to kill Pierre, he never shows these powers in front of Julie who seems to think he's just a good little boy, but he clearly emits some sort of magnetic power because in the last episode Julie chose to accompany him back to the undead horde instead of staying with Laure the policewoman even though Laure urges her to stay and have repeatedly told her that she loves her... she chose the zombie boy, it seems a bit odd somehow and makes me wonder whether she's got some sort of curse on her or some sort of special destiny/role in the event (if she was clinically dead for a few minutes before resuscitated after Serge the murderer-cannibal's attack all those years ago, she may be one of the few characters in some way that belongs to both camps: hald dead, half alive... she's got both life and death in her)

And... if the old village of thirty, forty years ago now has returned (like we're shown in the last episode), superimposed onto the present, doesn't this mean that the two time-events (or parallel universes, if we think of the different times as different worlds, only united by geographical place) somehow compete for existence and create an instability of matter which can only end with one time (or universe) 'winning' and displacing- erasing- the other? If the old world 'takes over' the present, doesn't that mean that the world of the living will become an undead world of increasingly decaying matter, while the old, returning world will suck up its energy and try to recreate itself? But if the past can't be changed, does that mean that if the old world returns, it's just going to repeat itself over and over, always ending with the dam accident? And does this mean that the zombies are just trapped in that same loop, always dying? And how do the dead schoolchildren fit into all this, their deaths in the bus accident were much more recent than the people who died in the dam accident thirty years ago- ah, and by the way both Victor creepy boy and the wife of the old teacher [who commited suicide on the day she returned] did survive the dam accident, they were around at that time but in the last episode they're shown visiting the red cross tents where the survivors looks for their lost relatives... hm.

OK, I need to stop overthinking things and go and watch something else on TV right now, i think... Apologies.

They should hire you to write for the show!! I loved the mood and atmosphere of the show. Definitely and interesting take on the zombie genre!