The Returned: Season 1
Average Rating: 9.4/10
Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 0
A pleasant change from typically gory zombie shows, The Returned is a must-see oddity that's both smart and sure to disturb.
Average Rating: 9.4/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 0
A pleasant change from typically gory zombie shows, The Returned is a must-see oddity that's both smart and sure to disturb.
Season Info
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Network: Sundance Channel
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Critic Reviews for The Returned: Season 1
In almost no time, The Returned announces itself as smartly written, superbly cast and tremendously unsettling.
Despite the plodding, you may find yourself on the edge of your seat anyhow.
The Returned... manages to be spooky, sad, and sexy-an elegant Halloween treat. I'm five episodes in and fighting the impulse to binge-watch the whole thing.
To my mind, it's the best series of the fall, and with the tonally similar Top of the Lake, possibly of the year.
It is not to be missed, even if you don't count yourself much of a fan of ambulatory corpses.
The Returned is effective because it balances supernatural questions with tones that other showrunners don't even consider.
[It's] brainy, bizarre yet strangely hypnotic.
If a subtitled show is bad, you'll turn it off, but if it's good, it envelops you more swiftly and wholly than the very good show in English you check your email while watching. The Returned is very good. Let it have your brains.
I imagine the individual perspectives will not jibe until the whole of the mystery is resolved. Hopefully, that revelation will be worth the wait.
Rare is the show that addresses the ordinary madness caused by grief, but Les Revenants acknowledges that magical thinking as a matter of course.
The Returned, in French with subtitles, is beautiful, riveting and above all thought-provoking.
The Returned raises the possibility that the undead could also come back in a very different form. Throw in a serial killer and you have a series that sounds terribly grim, but is written and performed so superbly that it turns out to be riveting.
The Returned is more than a zombie show for those of us who'd rather read subtitles for eight hours than see one more decaying face run through with a sharp stick.
The mood of The Returned is elegiac, not bloody. It's beautifully, meditatively paced.
As the characters intertwine and their backstories emerge, the suspenseful ambiguities of this cosmic puzzle only intensify.
Think of it, if you will, as artisanal, small-batch horror - an old-world classic that goes back to the basics and makes the most of its carefully chosen ingredients.
Don't miss it. The Returned is far and away the most thoughtful and thought-provoking series I've watched this year.
The whole creation, by Fabrice Gobert, is first-rate supernatural drama more than a mere horror show.
No flesh-eating zombies populate The Returned. It is much more of a psychological thriller that impresses with its use of an unnerving stillness.
The Returned has such a sure command of mood and character and place that the mechanics of it all don't matter.
It's moody and emotional, a real world nudged just a few degrees surreal, and it's grounded by some excellent, plausible performances.
There's a grownup sensibility to The Returned that doesn't pause for the kind of cheap shock in which shows like The Walking Dead specialize.
'The Returned' poses more questions than it answers -- a second season is in the works -- but its restless spirits aren't easily shaken off.
The Returned adroitly straddles the line between mystery show and horror series as well as any program of this sort since Lost.
A new zombie classic - a haunting tribute to the lost loves who feed on your brain forever.
Head trip doesn't begin to describe this addictive eight-episode series. It's eerie, suspenseful and yes, subtitled, but give the premiere a chance and you'll return for more.
It's all mood, mystery, and restraint - the third item in that list a tremendous surprise, considering the show-no-mercy extremes that seized French horror cinema in the mid-to-late 2000s.
The Returned is so smart and captivating, you won't even notice the French subtitles!
At it's heart, The Returned [a] is chilling tale. Time will tell how [it] does in an American market, but if its rave reviews overseas are a sign, viewers will brave the subtitles for a truly great find this fall.
As much as The Returned shrouds itself in mystery with some supernatural elements at play, it is really about the stages of grief and how we handle death. Leave it to the French to get all brooding about zombies.
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