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Les Revenants / The Returned

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ThreeBeeOneGee · 09/06/2013 21:06

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...

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MooMinCow · 09/06/2013 22:17

I. Am. Properly. Freaked. Out Shock

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

chosenone · 09/06/2013 22:17

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

MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic · 09/06/2013 22:19

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 · 09/06/2013 22:19

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

starsandunicorns · 09/06/2013 22:20

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 · 09/06/2013 22:21

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 · 09/06/2013 22:23

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 · 09/06/2013 22:24

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

CurlyhairedAssassin · 09/06/2013 22:25

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 · 09/06/2013 22:26

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 · 09/06/2013 22:27

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

girliefriend · 09/06/2013 22:29

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

adeucalione · 09/06/2013 22:29

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

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

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CurlyhairedAssassin · 09/06/2013 22:32

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?

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Tapirbackrider · 09/06/2013 22:39

The little boy is a murder victim.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 09/06/2013 22:47

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?

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OliviaMMumsnet · 09/06/2013 22:47

Mon dieu
Tres enjoyable.

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Tapirbackrider · 09/06/2013 22:51

Curly

I missed the start too but cheated and looked at wiki

WrenNatsworthy · 09/06/2013 22:54

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

Well, tres bon anyway.

zukiecat · 09/06/2013 22:55

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CurlyhairedAssassin · 09/06/2013 22:55

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 · 09/06/2013 23:03

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