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...

There's a cast list on the Ch4 website, but...

Pierre - creepy Helping Hands bloke (not sure if Helping Hands is a euphemisim)
Jerome - Camille & Lena's dad who split up from Claire after the bus crash
Serge - the not-very-good-serial-killer whose victims won't stay dead
Toni - the barman/Serges brother
Thomas - Adeles fiancee/policeman who is Up To No Good with CCTV
Simon - gorgeously suffering who wore trainers on his wedding day

Haha official I agree
Claire and Jerome parents of camille and lena
Julie sexy lesbian nurse looking after creepy child Victor
Pierre "good" samaritan. Leader of group.
Adele librarian was marrying Simon who died on wedding day after crying when adele said she was preg
Someone else carry on

Lucy - barmaid/prostitue medium/stabbing victim
Julie - 7 year ago stabbing victim/nurse/foster parent to Victor
Adele - bride to be who lost Simon, the father of her baby
Mrs Costa - Mr Costas wife, died in 1972
Mr Costa - old headteacher, recently committed suicide
Batman Policewoman - Julies ex lover
Frederic - Camiile/Lena love interest then & now

Did Mr Costa kill his wife? My brain hurts.

Sorry that was me confusing the dad and lover

Sure said somewhere that mrs costa committed suicide and that's why me costa didn't think they would meet again as Catholics and suicide is a sin

We also need a list of symbolic and weirdy stuff!
For example : cats, flies and toilet blockages, religion,
The dam. The hungry revenants...oh and didnt Lenas room get trashed in episode 2 with no explanation. Im seriouly tied up in knots!!

Was even more creeped out last night. The rising water in the loo in the pub did it for me

This thread is helpful, I now know all the names.

I too thought the wound was growing, and may be something to do with backstabbing.

I still think the village was all drowned, and the reflections are what we're seeing, somehow.

I will watch ep 1&2 again I think, and take closer notice..

Im not convinced Pierre & Claire are lovers ....

So, what question would you like answered first?

Mine is .... who IS Victor!?

Victor is Young Serge!

Noo. I cant see why Victor is young Serge?

Not seeing it either ..... Victor only went & killed Miss Payet after Julie wished that she would drop dead. Is he her guardian angel?

No, I don't think he is. I think Victor is linked to Mme Costa somehow though. I think he was probably a ghost before he returned, giving him special powers or something.

Also, do we think Mme Costa killed herself, or did M. Costa kill her? I'm leaning towards the latter, hence his massive over-reaction of a) tying her up and setting his house on fire and b) throwing himself off the dam.

Which leads to a question of why would he kill her all those years ago? And I'm leaning towards it being because she found out a secret about him - like he was abusing a pupil. Maybe Victor?

I'm tying myself up in 'what if' knots here, can you tell?

Because of the pictures he drew and because he changed from Murdering Serge back to Victor when MS tried to kill Julie last night.

He does love Julie though.

I don't think he is a guardian angel - that would be too far-fetched (unlike Revenanting and Homeopathic Dam )

I am thinking Mr Costa killed Mrs Costa. He burnt the photos of school kids so im with you scrambled at this point in time!
I have spent most of today thinking and trying to understand this programme and I dont generally watch telly!

And WHY didn't Claire say something about the dead animal in the bin? I mean, wouldn't you just say 'dead animal in bin, not the place for that sort of thing, try burning it safely outdoors please'. I mean, quite apart from anything else it's damn unhygienic to put a dead animal in the kitchen bin. People need to be told.

I think lena and camille may be swapping bodies at points ooerr

So Mr Costa killed his wife twice (another serial killer? how many murderers does this town have?) but she's outlived him..

Mr Costa hasn't revenu has he? Maybe that's why he killed himself (now, I'm wildly theorising! You lot have got me going) Mr Costa knew that any other death wouldn't be permanent so he had to do it properly himself...

Agreed scrambled..but in French spooky town. Noone asks any questions like we would !!

Did I miss that part where Mrs Costas death was mentioned? How do we know she was either killed by her husband or by suicide?

Holsten, mon amie! What I love about this thread is no-one says 'nah, that's a bit bonkers'. Any theory goes

Ah, but we think Simon killed himself, so maybe the only way to properly die is in the dam? And that's what all the dead animals are about too?

Is Mme Payet going to come back, 'cos that's going to get very confusing if she does.

mrsdevere it is definitely because they is French. My very first French kiss was on a French exchange aged 14, was I impressed? Non, non, non!!

Oh, Black, we don't. I'm just getting carried away with my theories . She could have died of an undiagnosed heart defect, for all we know.

Sure mrs costa committing suicide was mentioned

Sure I didn't imagine it ........