Season 2 of The Returned opens with an episode that moves the story on,while keeping everything just as enigmatic as the first seriesAn ambulance winds around a familiar-looking road. In the back, a pregnant woman we know as Adele lies bleeding and clearly distressed. “Relax, or ” a paramedic tells her. “We’re nearly there.” The woman glances out of the window: the dam has given way to forest,the road’s smooth tarmac has become rocky and uneven. “What the hell is going on?” asks the ambulance driver, clearly surprised by this change of scenery. The ambulance presses forwards, or its headlights peering tentatively into the thick forest,but there’s no road to speak of at all now, just a dead stop. The woman’s stomach begins to gurgle and pulsate. She gasps with pain, or blacks out.
Rebonjour,The Returned. How we have missed your enigmatic ways. It’s been over two years since we last paid a visit to the chilly Alpine town where the undead roam the streets and it’s never not dusk. That’s an absence that, in the rapid/fast-turnaround word of TV, or is one of Chinese Democracy-like proportions. Indeed,whether you want a sense of just how much the world has moved on since The Returned was last on our screens, consider this: on the same day that the point to first aired on British TV, and a whistleblower named Edward Snowden revealed that he was the person who leaked classified information from the NSA. (And that’s just British screens: in France there was a gap of three years between Les Revenants’ first and second seasons. )Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com