Les Revenants / The Returned

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It's a bit soon for me to have an opinion yet, but it looks interesting enough that I'm recording it to watch later with DH...

I just assumed it's the lighting.....

I thought that about the housing - is it al the people in the (very nice!) modern houses have lost someone - because they are all living on site of a village that was wiped out by the dam? Being punished?

I don't know, gazzalw. Confess I've had little exposure to French TV until now. Wondering if there is a French equivalent to David Icke?

Oooh, though - wasn't a lot of the Da Vinci Code set in France? Proof positive that a lot of inexplicable stuff goes on there!

Cuppa, ok we will revert to my totally non-ridiculous Homeopathic Dam theory then

Maybe there were lots of dead bodies raising the water level in the dam but now they've all resurrected and 'walked off' back to their lives, the water level has gone down.....

Well, I'm not sure I'm an expert on French TV or films but they don't, from what I've seen, tend to go for fantastical in the same way that the Americans do.....

Does anyone know if this is going to be just a one series show or are we going to lose the plot watching series after series.... ???

My theory: the returned are all people who died in the dam. The little boy lived in the village that the dam drowned, and he died there. Maybe the returned have some sort of compulsion to lure people to die there, hence Victor causing the coach to crash and Mr Costa throwing himself in.

Ha maybe it's a 'sacrifice' type of thing. Someone gets to come back to life if they give the dam more dead bodies/souls....

yes much prefer Homeopathic Dam BoreOfWhabylon

I think Victor might have been murdered and his body hidden in the dam as it was built...recalls sacrifices of humans built into buildings for good luck, lots of rumours about london bridge etc. I think mr costa knew about it in some way

Clearly read Hawksmoor too many times...

aaaah. re david icke. this is off-topic but made me howl at the time. alice walker, writer of the colour purple and all-round cool woman (unless you believe what her daughter says)... interviewed on Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 by Kirsty Young.

life story fine, impressive even, music for the desert island victrola chosen and played etc etc. last task is to choose the one book that will accompany you throughout possibly years of isolation.

alice walker chooses 'get up off your knees, people' by DAVID ICKE.

kirsty young couldn't even speak. awkward moment of radio silence while she realises walker is, in fact, a crackpot...

flatmum have we seen any non-modern buildings at all? i can't think that we have, at least not ones right at the town.

No we haven't officially although you and I may have seen one in ep 2 involving a key character which has thrown me a bit? Tho possibly still in the same vicinity as the dam.

Whole town seems ultra modern tho, esp for a town in the French Alps, so has surely been newly built during construction of the dam.

flatmum... let's all stay on the same page here...

kirsty young couldn't even speak. awkward moment of radio silence while she realises walker is, in fact, a crackpot...

Yes Aitch, that book selection was bizarre. A total -did she really just say that?!- moment. Think the daughter might have a point...

Flatmum, careful with the spoilers now!

i know, it made me IMMEDIATELY go and google her daughter.

Oh MadameDefarge pleeease tell me about the human sacrifices built into London Bridge

Sorry! Sorry! Forgot my place for a moment.

here's one reference

Thanks Madame. Am now having a lovely time with Google!

and another

Ooh that's a good suggestion zukie, I remember watching the film ' the others' with Nicole Kidman in, in that big house with her two children that couldn't see the sun but it turned out she was the dead one, I thought that was a great twist