Les Revenants / The Returned

[ThreeBeeOneGee]

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...

[MooMinCow]

I. Am. Properly. Freaked. Out

It's like Twin Peaks all over again (minus the 'oddness')

[chosenone]

God I felt nervous throughout all that. Great but confusing. What the hell is going on ?

[MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic]

I really enjoyed that - creepy and intriguing!

Me and DH are working on the premise that Lena and Camille swapped identities for the day and that's one of the reasons 'Lena' went off the rails. Living for four years under the identity of your dead twin would be a tad stressful...

[Abra1d]

Creepy boy is dressed in older-fashioned clothes: fifties, perhaps even earlier? I think he was the first to die.

[starsandunicorns]

Have taped this but may watch when dp is here hes not intrested in it but after reading the thread im not watching this alone

[Abra1d]

I don't think Lena and Camille are supposed to have been twins. One of them looked older than the other at the time of the accident, didn't they?

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

I can't wait for the next episode.

The Lena / Camille story is very creepy. Think you are all right about the identity swap thing. "Camille" on her return knew Lena's boyfriend's mobile number, she didn't need to look it up. That would also explain why she was so freaked out on the bus when she realised her boyfriend was having sex with her twin.

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

No, Abra1d, it was the same actress playing both twins at the time of the accident.

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

Ooh yes, I'm thinking the twins swapped identities too. In thinking the boyfriend shagged his girlfriend's sister unwittingly, her twin on the coach felt it so knew her twin was betraying her which was why she went mental trying to get off the coach. Hence the crash. Now she is back from the dead and wants her revenge on her treacherous living sister who not only shagged her boyfriend, but caused her death.

Mwa ha HA!!!

Love it!

(But don't ask me which twin had which name as that's far too complicated....already forgotten)

[guineapiglet]

Yes watched it alone as well t otally enjoyed it great setting ( i thought the houses were fab!) think they must be the dead returned from all sorts of times and eras not just the crash? Things obviously get more complicated from the spoiler trailer at the end...loved the french adverts to get us in the mood. Very atmospheric...< longs for Sarah Lund>

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

I meant "I'm thinking" not "In thinking".

[girliefriend]

Am a bit scared to go to bed now...........

[adeucalione]

Unlucky for Lucy that one of the returners was a murderer.

But yes, loved it and didn't even mind the subtitles.

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

It's definitely a "dead people getting their revenge on the living" type of premise.

I'm wondering if the creepy boy was actually an abortion (or at least a miscarriage as a result of something like drug-taking)????? Or: What is her job? Could she have caused his death as part of that a few years earlier?

Is the subway killer dead too?

[Tapirbackrider]

The little boy is a murder victim.

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

Tapir: thanks - Missed the start so didn't realise it had already said what had happened to him. So somehow she is connected to his murder?

[OliviaMMumsnet]

Mon dieu
Tres enjoyable.

[OliviaMMumsnet]

[Tapirbackrider]

Curly

I missed the start too but cheated and looked at wiki

[WrenNatsworthy]

I am sitting on my mains trying not to wiki it. That was incroyable!

Well, tres bon anyway.

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

Article on Guardian website just now said she is a nurse - maybe she failed him in some way in the course of her work as a nurse? Or maybe it's nothing to do with that?

Ooohhhh!!!

Must.....not.......google.

[Tapirbackrider]

I'd missed too much at the start to be able to figure out what was going on; I've only looked at the first episode though. restrains self