- Network: Sundance Channel , Canal+
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 31, 2013
Season #: 2, 1
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To my mind, it's the best series of the fall, and with the tonally similar "Top of the Lake," possibly of the year.
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It's a deeply moving, unforgettable experience.
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The Returned is very good. Let it have your brains.
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The Returned, in French with subtitles, is beautiful, riveting and above all thought-provoking.
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This show--which mixes hints of “Lost,” “Twin Peaks” and “The X-Files”--is one of the best things to hit our airwaves this season.
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By the end, it's unclear which of these people are alive or dead, literally or spiritually. But The Returned still qualifies as a new zombie classic--a haunting tribute to the lost loves who feed on your brain forever.
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The mood develops exquisitely from the first frame.
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The Returned is far and away the most thoughtful and thought-provoking series I've watched this year.
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There is more than enough to captivate us, and perhaps disturb us as well, in these eight stunningly provocative episodes.
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Defying expectations while rewiring what a “zombie” series can be, The Returned is one of the most intriguing, utterly original offerings of the year.
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[A] mesmerizingly eerie French series set in a mountain community. [4 Nov 2013]
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The deeper you go, the more powerful The Returned gets.
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A brilliant twist on the undead genre that places the emphasis on mood, dread, and emotion instead of the unexpected.
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[A] quietly creepy and profoundly unsettling supernatural mystery.
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The creepiness is slow and almost elegant. The vision is grand, epic even. The music, by Mogwai, is wonderfully absorbing. The whole creation, by Fabrice Gobert, is first-rate supernatural drama more than a mere horror show.
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A haunting, beautifully executed French series, whose horror reveals itself so gradually that it may be Thanksgiving before you fully understand why what feels at times like a wonderful dream is premiering on Halloween.
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[A] haunting, creepy, and beautiful French series
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[A] low-key but thoughtfully realized gem.
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It is much more of a psychological thriller that impresses with its use of an unnerving stillness.
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A superbly stylish and scary French drama with no equal in its genre.
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It’s eerie, suspenseful and yes, subtitled, but give the premiere a chance and you’ll return for more.
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[A] stunning French import.
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Besides the scenery, what's best here are the characters, and their lives--or unlives--of quiet desperation.
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If you fall into its languorous rhythms, you’ll be rewarded by a story that builds tension with clockwork precision and expertly maintains a mood of clammy dread.
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It is a uniquely rendered creepshow that specializes in meaningful silences, emotional stress and dour moods. In so doing, it takes its place among recent miniseries that artfully elude their genres.
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Watching it, to be blunt, is more work. It’s work well rewarded.
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Not every beat works, but after watching an hour it was hard not to stick with The Returned for the full ride.
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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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 246 out of 274
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Mixed: 10 out of 274
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Negative: 18 out of 274
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