Advance Review: ABC runs out for a long pass this Sunday, March 9th, with the heavy-handed Resurrection - the story of the dead mysteriously, and randomly, returning to life and causing emotional turmoil for the loved ones who lost them years back.
Getting this out of the way right at the outset here, yes there is another TV series about the same exact thing called The Returned. And it was one of the best shows of 2013; part of Sundance Channel's triple threat along with Top of the Lake and Rectify. And it even came complete with "I'm not gonna watch this show because it's all in French" jokes.
This series however, Resurrection, is not an adaptation of the French show, even though it's strikingly similar. No, Resurrection - from Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment - is based on a book called The Returned, about a young boy named Jacob who returns home 30 years after his tragic death (hence the name of the first episode). So those tuning in to this new network show expecting to see an American adaptation of the Sundance series will be in for a bit of a letdown. Both because Resurrection contains no parallel characters and because it's just flat-out not as good.
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