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Oct 26, 2015
Season 2 Review:
All of this may seem complicated but is not only easy to follow, but impossible to ignore because of the care with which Gobert, Fabien Adda and other writers weave the stories and characters together. You come away from each episode of The Returned more deeply involved in the story and characters than you may be used to with other TV shows. It’s a series that will haunt you, in the best possible way.
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Oct 25, 2013
Season 1 Review:
[A] mesmerizingly eerie French series set in a mountain community. [4 Nov 2013]
Oct 30, 2015
Season 2 Review:
By the end of episode three (titled after yet another brand-new character, Morgane), almost everyone is miserable, and there doesn’t seem to be much hope for relief from the unrelenting gloom. Thankfully, the show remains so brilliantly acted and written, and so masterfully shot, it’s never anything less than compelling.
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Nov 2, 2015
Season 2 Review:
There is a quiet naturalism to the production, quite distinct from Hollywood horror, in which every trick in the audio-visual book is marshaled to jolt you as far as possible out of your seat when the scare comes, and also from supposedly found-footage films ("The Blair Witch Project" and its progeny) that use aesthetic chaos to suggest actuality. This is altogether more mature.
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Oct 30, 2015
Season 2 Review:
The achievement of The Returned is that it creates its frights chiefly from an atmosphere of the quietly uncanny. Indeed, the show is at its best when it’s impossible to tell who is more dead: the returned population, or the living whose souls have expired from despair.
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RogerEbert.comOct 27, 2015
Season 2 Review:
Season two may not have the punch of the series premiere's bus crash and return, but it has a tonal grayness that matches the lost nature of its characters. It sometimes feels more meandering than moody--not unlike the now-tonally similar “The Leftovers” did in season one.
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TV Guide MagazineOct 22, 2015
Season 2 Review:
Every frame of this beautifully filmed living-ghost fable is suffused with mystery and the alluring dread of the unknown. There are very few hard scares in the story, more like sustained and hypnotic tingle of unease. [26 Oct - 8 Nov 2015, p.15]
Oct 21, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Some of the encounters evoke the returned abductees in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, while others have the nasty, bone-deep chill you associate with John Carpenter’s stalk-and-kill classics. Beneath it all is an air of existential dread. The universe is out of order. Life itself has gone haywire.
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Oct 28, 2015
Season 2 Review:
The Returned is putting aside the relatable and the primal in favor of something far more muddled. This changes the viewer's experience of The Returned and not always for the better.... Yet The Returned is hypnotic and otherworldly in a way that keeps it compelling.
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