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What is it?
The Returned (Les Revenants) is a television drama series created by Fabrice Gobert for Canal+ in France and BeTV in Belgium. Eight episodes have been produced so far, and Season 2 is to air in 2014. Season 1 is currently airing on Channel 4 in the UK, Sundays at 21:00.
What's it about?
From wiki:
"In a small mountain town the dead begin to re-appear apparently alive and well. Teenagers Simon and Camille, "Victor", a small boy who was murdered by burglars and Serge, a serial killer. They try to resume their lives as strange phenomena occur: recurring power outages, the water level of the dam mysteriously lowering, and strange marks appearing on the bodies of the living and the dead."
Who's in it?
(Spoilers perhaps?)
- Anne Consigny as Claire, mother to Camille and Lena. She separated from her husband Jérôme shortly after Camille's death and later began seeing Pierre.
- Yara Pilartz as Camille, a fifteen-year-old girl who died in a bus accident four years ago before reappearing in the present.
- Jenna Thiam as Lena, Camille's twin sister now four years older than her sister.
- Frédéric Pierrot as Jérôme, the twins' father.
- Jean-François Sivadier as Pierre, Claire's partner. A religious man who runs the local Helping Hand shelter.
He has begun to stockpile food and firearms in the belief that the Revenants are a sign of the end of days.
- Clotilde Hesme as Adèle, a young mother who was due to marry Simon before his death ten years ago and who subsequently gave birth to their daughter Chloé. She began a relationship with Thomas, and is soon due to marry him.
- Pierre Perrier as Simon, a young man who was to marry Adèle before his death ten years ago.
Though he was told he committed suicide he has his doubts as he has been unable to remember his mental state leading up to his death.
- Samir Guesmi as Thomas, captain of the local police department and partner of Adèle.
- Céline Sallette as Julie, a nurse who was attacked by serial killer Serge seven years ago but who managed to survive. She was once Laure's partner, but the attack drove them apart and they have remained distant ever since. She becomes protective over the boy that follows her home and places his trust in her, and names him Victor.
- Alix Poisson as Laure, a police officer and Julie's former partner.
- Swann Nambotin as "Victor", a boy that reappears and follows Julie
believing her to be the "fairy" his mother spoke of that would look out for him if she were gone. His real name is Louis and he was killed thirty years ago by one of two intruders who also killed the rest of his family. He later discovered the other intruder was Pierre. On the day of the bus accident the driver swerved to avoid Victor who was standing in the road. Victor has the ability to make others see visions including the manner of someone else's death.
- Laetitia de Fombelle as Madame Costa, who died thirty years ago though she refuses to say how.
Her reappearance causes her husband to commit suicide.
- Guillaume Gouix as Serge, a serial killer responsible for the murder of several women whose modus operandi included eating the internal organs of those victims he stabbed.
He was killed seven years ago when his brother Toni decided to put an end to any more killing by knocking his brother out and burying him alive.
- Grégory Gadebois as Toni, Serge's brother.
- Ana Girardot as Lucy Clarsen, a waitress.
She arrived in town a year before the start of the series and claims the unusual ability to see the deceased friends or relatives of people she has sex with. At the start of the series she is stabbed by a revived Serge and dies, but becomes a Revenant herself when she begins to heal miraculously. She gradually begins to understand the true nature of the Revenants, eventually becoming their leader.
