The Returned
AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 10/10Slow burnDeliberate pacing where the payoffs are earned over long stretches.This show: 9/10MelancholicA wistful sadness woven through the story, even in its lighter moments.This show: 9/10UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 9/10SupernaturalGhosts, demons and powers beyond nature in our own world.This show: 9/10Distinctive scoreMusic inseparable from the show's identity.This show: 8/10Small townA tight community where everyone knows everyone.This show: 8/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 8/10
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Starring
Anne ConsignyClotilde HesmeFrédéric PierrotCéline SalletteGrégory GadeboisGuillaume Gouix
Written by
Fabrice Gobert
Starring
Anne ConsignyClotilde HesmeFrédéric PierrotCéline SalletteGrégory GadeboisGuillaume Gouix
Written by
Fabrice Gobert
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The Returned Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.0 | |
| S2 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.6 |
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About
"Grief and dread disguised as a ghost story"
In a quiet French mountain town, several people who died years ago suddenly reappear, looking exactly as they did the day they died and unaware any time has passed. Their families must decide whether to embrace them or fear what they represent. The show unfolds slowly and quietly, trading jump scares for dread, grief, and unease. It's less about solving a mystery than sitting with loss, carried by hushed performances, eerie visuals, and a droning, haunting score that makes ordinary rooms feel wrong.
Watch it for
the oppressive, melancholic atmosphere and Mogwai's haunting score that turns silence into dread.
Maybe skip if
you want fast answers, since it favors mood and ambiguity over resolution.
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Season 12012
7.95K87h 2m
The Returned opens in a small mountain community which is rocked to its core when several local people who are presumed dead suddenly re-appear at their homes. Despite having passed away some years earlier, these ghostly characters appear in human form, they have not aged, and they are completely unaware of their own fatality. Determined to reclaim their lives and start over, they slowly come to realize that they are not the only ones to have been brought back from the dead. Their return augers torment for their community when a series of gruesome murders bear a chilling resemblance to the work of a serial killer from the past. This is a homecoming like no other.
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Season 22015
7.32K87h 32m
The second season of the internationally acclaimed series "The Returned" jumps right back into the spellbinding story six months after the flooding of the valley. The population has nearly deserted the town, except for those who have stayed hoping to find their loved ones. Their lives are again thrown into turmoil by the arrival of a new wave of Returned, each carrying their own secrets that thhreaten to unravel the town's dark and mysterious history.
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Anne Consigny Claire Séguret
Clotilde Hesme Adèle, Adèle Werther
Frédéric Pierrot Jérôme, Jérôme Séguret
Céline Sallette Julie, Julie Meyer
Grégory Gadebois Toni, Tony
Guillaume Gouix Serge
Pierre Perrier Simon Delaitre
Yara Pilartz Camille, Camille Séguret
Jean-François Sivadier Pierre, Pierre Tissier
Ana Girardot Lucy, Lucy Clairsene
Crew
Fabrice Gobert
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