The Returned

The Returned
Also known as	Les Revenants
Genre	Supernatural drama Horror Mystery
Created by	Fabrice Gobert
Based on	They Came Back
Starring	Anne Consigny Frédéric Pierrot Clotilde Hesme Céline Sallette Samir Guesmi Grégory Gadebois Guillaume Gouix Jérôme Kircher Laurent Lucas Michaël Abiteboul Pierre Perrier Jean-François Sivadier Alix Poisson Yara Pilartz Jenna Thiam Brune Martin Constance Dollé Swann Nambotin Ana Girardot
Opening theme	"Hungry Face" by Mogwai
Composer(s)	Mogwai
Country of origin	France
Original language(s)	French
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	16 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Caroline Benjo Jimmy Desmarais Barbara Letellier
Cinematography	Patrick Blossier
Running time	50–58 minutes
Production company(s)	Haut et Court
Release
Original network	Canal+ (France) SundanceTV (United States)
Original release	26 November 2012 – present
External links
Official website

The Returned (French: Les Revenants) is a French supernatural drama television series created by Fabrice Gobert, based on the 2004 French film They Came Back (in French titled Les Revenants) directed by Robin Campillo. The series debuted on 26 November 2012 on Canal+ and completed its first season consisting of eight episodes on 17 December. In 2013, the first season won an International Emmy for Best Drama Series.^[1]

The second season consists of eight episodes and premiered on 28 September 2015 on Canal+.^[2][3] It premiered in the UK on 16 October 2015 on More4,^[4] and in the US on 31 October 2015 on SundanceTV.^[5]

Premise

In a small French mountain town, many dead people reappear, apparently alive and normal: teenage road crash victim Camille, suicidal bridegroom Simon, a small boy called "Victor" who was murdered by burglars, and Serge, a serial killer. They try to resume their lives as strange phenomena occur; amongst recurring power outages, the water level of the reservoir mysteriously lowers, revealing the presence of dead animals and a church steeple, and strange marks appear on the bodies of the living and the dead.

Cast and characters

Main characters

• Yara Pilartz as Camille Séguret
• Anne Consigny as Claire Séguret
• Jenna Thiam as Léna Séguret
• Frédéric Pierrot as Jérôme Séguret
• Jean-François Sivadier as Pierre
• Clotilde Hesme as Adèle Werther
• Pierre Perrier as Simon Delaître
• Samir Guesmi as Thomas Mézache
• Céline Sallette as Julie Meyer
• Alix Poisson as Laure Valère
• Swann Nambotin as Victor/Louis Lewanski
• Guillaume Gouix as Serge Garrel
• Grégory Gadebois as Toni Garrel
• Ana Girardot as Lucy Clarsen
• Brune Martin as Chloé
• Constance Dollé as Sandrine Sabatini
• Jérôme Kircher as Father Jean-François
• Laurent Lucas as Berg
• Michaël Abiteboul as Milan Garrel

Recurring characters

• Laetitia de Fombelle as Viviane Costa
• Bertrand Constant as Bruno
• Matila Malliarakis as Frédéric
• Guillaume Marquet as Alcide
• Franck Adrien as Yan Sabatini
• Carole Franck as Mademoiselle Payet
• Armande Boulanger as Audrey Sabatini
• Ernst Umhauer as Virgil
• Laurent Capelluto as the army major
• Alice Butaud as Madame Lewanski
• Pauline Parigot as Ophélie
• Thomas Doret as Esteban
• Vladimir Consigny as Morgane
• Nicolas Wanczycki as Lieutenant Janvier
• Aurélien Recoing as Etienne Berg

Episodes

Season 1 (2012)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK air date	UK viewers (in millions)
1	1	"Camille"	Fabrice Gobert	Fabrice Gobert & Emmanuel Carrère	26 November 2012	9 June 2013	1.91[6]
Jérôme and Claire are shocked when their daughter, Camille, who was killed in a bus accident four years earlier, returns home unharmed and unaware that anything has happened to her. Simon attempts to find his fiancée, Adèle, not knowing that he died ten years earlier. Monsieur Costa is deeply disturbed when his wife, who died thirty years earlier, shows up at their home. He hides her from his nurse, Julie, and later burns down his home with Madame Costa tied inside, before committing suicide by jumping from the dam. Julie is followed home by a young boy who refuses to speak. When her neighbour, Mademoiselle Payet, questions his presence, Julie pretends that he is her nephew, Victor. Lucy, a waitress who claims to be a medium, is stabbed on her way home from the bar. In a flashback to the day of the bus accident, it is revealed that Camille's twin, Léna, pretended to be sick in order to avoid the school trip. Her boyfriend, Frédéric, sneaked into her bedroom, and Camille became distressed when she sensed that they were having sex. As Camille tried to get the bus to stop, the distracted driver noticed Victor standing in the middle of the road and swerved to avoid him, causing the bus to plummet over the cliff edge.
2	2	"Simon"	Fabrice Gobert	Fabrice Gobert & Emmanuel Carrère	26 November 2012	16 June 2013	1.60[6]
Jérôme, Claire, and Léna - now four years older than her twin - adjust to having Camille back. Adèle, who has begun arrangements for her marriage with new partner Thomas, makes peace with what she believes to be visions of Simon, who has finally located her. After assaulting a café owner, Simon is arrested. The police are on high-alert after Lucy is found stabbed, as the modus operandi matches that of a serial killer who ravaged the town seven years earlier. The police suspect Toni, a bar owner. However, Toni knows that the real serial killer is his brother, Serge, whom he killed seven years ago and whom he is shocked to find has returned. Meanwhile, dam engineers notice that the water level in the reservoir has dropped suddenly.
3	3	"Julie"	Fabrice Gobert	Fabrice Gobert & Emmanuel Carrère	3 December 2012	23 June 2013	1.53[6]
Pierre and Claire consider moving with their daughters to a new town. Camille attempts to live a normal life, pretending to be Léna's cousin, Alice, so that she can walk around town without raising suspicion. Simon, released by the police, contacts Adèle. She shows him their daughter, Chloe, who was conceived shortly before his death. When Adèle learns that other people have talked to a man named Simon, she realizes that he may not be a vision after all. Julie is threatened by Mademoiselle Payet, who believes that Julie has illegally adopted Victor. While Julie is at work, Victor pays Mademoiselle Payet a visit. She is later discovered dead from "self-inflicted" stab wounds.
4	4	"Victor"	Fabrice Gobert	Fabrice Gobert & Emmanuel Carrère	3 December 2012	30 June 2013	1.57[6]
Julie is devastated when her ex-girlfriend, Laure, takes Victor to a local shelter run by Pierre. There, Victor realizes that Pierre is one of the two men that invaded his house thirty-five years ago, although it was not Pierre that murdered him. Thomas uses his home surveillance equipment to watch Adèle, who has reignited her relationship with Simon and introduced him to Chloe under the guise that he is an angel. Léna is rushed to the hospital after a scar on her back, inflicted by Jérôme a year earlier, becomes aggravated. After leaving the hospital, she finds Camille at a bar with Frédérick and yells at her sister, thinking that Camille is somehow to blame. She becomes faint after leaving the bar and is found by Serge. The water level at the reservoir continues to drop, but engineers can find no faults in the dam.
5	5	"Serge & Toni"	Frédéric Mermoud	Fabrice Gobert, Emmanuel Carrère & Fabien Adda	10 December 2012	7 July 2013	1.50[6]
Victor leaves the shelter with Madame Costa, and they discuss their respective deaths at the café. Serge decides not to kill Léna, instead taking her to his house so that he can nurse her back to health. Adèle is horrified to learn that Simon killed himself, and decides not to leave town with him as planned. Thomas shoots Simon dead, thinking that Simon means to hurt Adèle. Victor returns to the shelter and confronts Pierre, who begs his forgiveness. Divers at the reservoir find dead animals at the bottom of the lake, with autopsies revealing that they drowned trying to escape from something.
6	6	"Lucy"	Frédéric Mermoud	Fabrice Gobert, Fabien Adda, Camille Fontaine & Nathalie Saugeon	10 December 2012	14 July 2013	1.48[6]
Lucy wakes up in the hospital, having returned. Suspecting that Alice is in fact Camille, Frédéric and his friend dig up her coffin. It is empty expect for reservoir water. Pierre organizes a meeting with the parents of the children killed in the bus accident. He reveals that Camille is alive, thinking that she can comfort them. However, her return only convinces the parents of another child, Esteban, to commit suicide so that they can be with him sooner. Simon wakes up in the morgue, having returned again. Victor returns to Julie, who sees that the skin on his arm shows signs of decay. Léna grows closer to Serge. However, she is forced to flee after Toni shoots a policeman in order to protect his brother. Léna hides in the forest, where she discovers a large group of people standing around a fire.
7	7	"Adèle"	Frédéric Mermoud	Fabrice Gobert & Fabien Adda	17 December 2012	21 July 2013	1.51[6]
Pierre shows Claire his shelter stocked with food and firearms, as he believes that the appearance of the returned marks the end of days. Lucy appears to understand the purpose of the returned, and she persuades Simon that he no longer needs Adèle. Father Jean-François later betrays Simon to the police, and they arrest him. Serge and Toni run from the police, and Toni thinks he sees their deceased mother in the woods. While trying to cross the lake, Serge is dragged under the water by something unseen. Léna finds her way to the shelter. She makes up with Camille, and helps her sister conceal the decaying skin on her face with makeup. Simon finds that the skin on his stomach has begun to decay too. Laure and Julie reignite their relationship. They attempt to leave town with Victor, but are bewildered to find that they are physically unable to leave. Lucy finds a large group of the returned, welcoming them with a smile.
8	8	"The Horde" "La Horde"	Frédéric Mermoud & Fabrice Gobert	Fabrice Gobert & Fabien Adda	17 December 2012	28 July 2013	1.38[6]
A flashback to the day Camille returned shows her, and the rest of the returned, waking up in the forest by the dam. Having spent the night in their car, Julie and Laure awake to Victor telling them that the returned tried to take him during the night. After Julie prevents Toni from attempting suicide by jumping from the dam, the returned appear once more, and the group escape. On their way to the shelter, Victor learns that Toni killed Serge, and forces Toni to shoot himself dead in retribution. Simon breaks free from his jail cell and finds Adèle, claiming that she is now pregnant with their second child. He and Lucy kidnap Chloe. Thomas finds Adèle and takes her to the shelter. That night, the returned arrive at the shelter. Lucy promises that they will return Chloe in exchange for Camille, Victor, and Madame Costa. The exchange is completed, with Claire and Julie choosing to accompany Camille and Victor. Lucy then demands that Adèle join them too, because she is pregnant with Simon's baby. Thomas refuses to let Adèle leave, and the police lock the living inside the shelter before engaging in a shootout. In the morning, the living discover that both the returned and the police have disappeared, and the town has flooded.

Season 2 (2015)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK air date	UK viewers (in millions)
9	1	"The Child" "L'enfant"	Fabrice Gobert, Frédéric Goupil	Fabrice Gobert, Audrey Fouché, Coline Abert, Fabien Adda	28 September 2015	16 October 2015	0.57[7]
Six months after the flood, engineers work to fix the dam. The town is now under military control, with the military refusing to believe the survivors from the shelter. Léna continues to search for Camille and Claire, and becomes worried that Jérôme has started drinking again. Adèle is admitted to the hospital after falling down the stairs, although Chloe accuses Adèle of throwing herself down the stairs on purpose, in order to abort Simon's baby. Meanwhile, the military discovers Audrey, a classmate of Camille who was killed in the bus accident. Lucy lures Audrey away from the military and takes her to a part of the town, accessible now only by crossing the water, where the returned have been living. Among them are Camille and Claire, who take in Audrey, as well as Julie and Victor, who are shocked when Victor's mother returns.
10	2	"Milan"	Fabrice Gobert, Frédéric Goupil	Fabrice Gobert, Audrey Fouché, Fabien Adda	28 September 2015	23 October 2015	0.30[7]
For her own health and for the health of her unborn son, Adèle is forced to give birth three months early. Julie becomes worried when Victor appears scared of his own mother. Camille explains what happened to Audrey and Esteban, another classmate who died in the bus accident, and they do not believe her until she takes them to the memorial erected at the site of the bus accident. Claire is afraid that the returned are going to hurt her, before a mysterious stranger helps her. Léna tries to warn Toni, who has returned, not to trust Pierre. She later learns that her father has been trying to understand why certain people have returned but not others. Serge is burdened with the return of his father, Milan. Lucy appears frightened for the same reason. In a flashback to the night Victor was murdered, it is revealed that Milan and Monsieur Costa organized the home invasion, that Pierre saved Monsieur Lewanski.
11	3	"Morgane"	Fabrice Gobert, Frédéric Goupil	Fabrice Gobert, Audrey Fouché, Coline Abert	5 October 2015	30 October 2015	0.29[7]
Esteban runs away after learning that his parents committed suicide. Camille tracks him down with the help of a mysterious stranger, who tells her that the returned will prevent them from leaving. Toni is held hostage by Pierre, who wants to know the location of the returned. Simon and Lucy welcome an increasing number of the returned, while Simon and Chloe plot to steal the baby from Adèle. Milan instructs Serge to kill Léna. When Serge fails to do so, Milan stabs Léna himself. Serge shoots his father and takes Léna to Camille and Claire. Victor tells Julie that she was pregnant when she was stabbed by Serge. Shocked, Julie leaves. The bodies of all but one of the policemen involved in the shootout are found hanging on trees in the woods. Berg thinks he might have found the reason for the flood. In a flashback it is revealed that Milan killed Lucy thirty-five years earlier.
12	4	"Virgil"	Fabrice Gobert, Frédéric Goupil	Fabrice Gobert, Audrey Fouché, Fabien Adda	5 October 2015	6 November 2015	N/A
Julie visits Victor's old house, where an elderly neighbor tells her that Monsieur Lewanski is in the hospital and that the home invasion was committed because people believed that Victor was responsible for the breaking of the dam. Jérôme and Berg also visit Victor's old house and find his drawings of the deaths of almost all of the returned. Lucy informs Simon that she gave his baby to Simon's birth parents. However, Simon finds out that his parents died as part of a murder-suicide cult and so he decides to take the baby back to Adèle. Lucy finds Milan. Although she forgives him, she kills him and dumps his body in the lake. Toni is finally saved by Serge. Léna recovers and reconnects with her mother while Camille meets a boy named Virgil, who lets her in on a secret about the returned.
13	5	"Madame Costa" "Mme Costa"	Fabrice Gobert, Frédéric Goupil	Fabrice Gobert, Audrey Fouché, Coline Abert	12 October 2015	13 November 2015	N/A
The manner of Madame Costa's death is finally explained. Camille, Léna and Claire try to adjust as Esteban leaves. Jérôme and Berg have a surprising visitor in Audrey, who tells them where the other returned are. Sandrine is informed about her daughter's return and reports this to Pierre, who demands answers. Julie goes to visit Victor/Louis's dad in the hospital while he, after having a bad dream, leaves with Madame Costa in tow. Simon, Adèle, Chloé and the baby try to flee and ask for help from Father Jean-François. Lucy tries to convince Alcide to help her find the baby. Toni and Serge are visited by Serge's former victims. After being left for dead and thrown in the lake, Milan returns again.
14	6	"Esther"	Fabrice Gobert, Frédéric Goupil	Fabrice Gobert, Audrey Fouché, Coline Abert	12 October 2015	20 November 2015	0.26[7]
One of Serge's victims, Esther, is a girl Toni knew and he makes Serge take her back to where she used to live, but after they find the place abandoned she heads towards the tunnel where she was killed and it is revealed that she was warned by Victor/Louis not to go into it. Camille reveals to Léna that the other returned can also create violent visions in people's heads after she tells her nobody attacked them when they tried to escape and Claire was beating herself. Léna thus tries to get out and get help which she soon finds in the form of Jérôme and Berg. After the family is reunited they decide to flee. Sandrine is uncertain that Pierre is telling the truth, while Frédéric and his friend from the Helping Hand find Victor/Louis and Madame Costa at Julie's apartment. After a heated argument Frédéric's friend shoots at Madame Costa and Victor/Louis makes him jump off the window in retribution. Adèle goes to the police to see Thomas's body and Lucy pays a visit to Simon and Chloé. Victor/Louis's father finally wakes up from his coma and reveals to Julie that Victor/Louis is not actually his son, but appeared in their household one night in the same way he appeared to Julie.
15	7	"Etienne"	Fabrice Gobert, Frédéric Goupil	Fabrice Gobert, Audrey Fouché, Fabien Adda	19 October 2015	27 November 2015	N/A
After Virgil tries but fails to convince Camille to leave with him and the other returned, the family tries to escape again and are found by the military, which keeps them under surveillance. Madame Costa tells Julie that Victor/Louis was with her and she goes to look for him at The Helping Hand, but is quickly imprisoned by Pierre, who also holds Audrey and Sandrine hostage. Virgil realizes that Lucy doesn't know where to lead the returned, and Berg finally finds his father Etienne, who was the architect who built the original dam. In a flashback, it is revealed that Victor/Louis warned Etienne not to build the dam. It is also revealed that Milan formed a murder-suicide cult after the breaking of the dam, where Etienne and Simon's parents died, and that Pierre was also part of it but didn't commit suicide himself. Chloé and Simon go looking for Adele and the baby, while Victor/Louis has an argument with Milan which is interrupted by an officer. Victor/Louis makes the officer shoot his colleagues and collapses the electricity grid in the building where they are held, which gives Chloé, Adèle, Camille, Jérôme, Léna and Claire a chance to escape.
16	8	"The Returned" "Les Revenants"	Fabrice Gobert, Frédéric Goupil	Fabrice Gobert, Audrey Fouché	19 October 2015	4 December 2015	N/A
When Chloé, Camille, Jérôme, Léna and Claire try to leave the town, Camille confides in Jérôme that she cannot stay with them and has to join the others. Attempting to leave regardless, the group encounters Helping Hands members on the road. In an altercation, Frédéric shoots Camille, and Claire shoots him in retribution. When Camille comes back to life, she bids a tearful goodbye with her family and leaves with the others. The others take back Etienne and Toni as well, while Serge stays behind in the tunnel and begins to decompose. After Audrey is found eating Sandrine's dead body, the living who were hiding there leave The Helping Hand. Pierre meets with Milan and expresses regret not to have gone through with the suicide 35 years ago. Though Milan assures him nobody has been saved, Pierre kills himself. Simon and Adèle try to find their baby, which leads them to a cave where they appear to revert to themselves as they would have been on their wedding day. Chloé, Jérôme, Léna and Claire finally leave town, while in a flashback, Victor/Louis came back to his injured father shortly after having died, and lived with his father in secret for decades. When his father had a heart attack six months ago, Victor/Louis begged him not to be dead, whereupon a group of returned suddenly appear outside the home. In the present, Lucy convinces Julie to turn over Victor/Louis to her, and Lucy leads the returned to a giant sinkhole. Julie appears, saying she cannot live without Victor/Louis, and jumps into the hole, apparently making the premonition come true. Etienne approaches Victor/Louis and tells him that he can change things if he wants. He closes his eyes and imagines himself and Julie by the beach. Julie then awakens beside the now water-filled sinkhole to see only Victor/Louis still there. Sometime later, she, Victor/Louis and the nurse Ophélie are together happily on a beach. Lucy leaves the baby on an unknown couple's doorstep.

Production

The series was shot in Haute-Savoie, mainly in the city of Annecy, and also in Seynod, Menthon-Saint-Bernard, Poisy, Cran-Gevrier, Sévrier, Annecy-le-Vieux, Veyrier-du-Lac and Semnoz. The dam which plays an important part is the Barrage de Tignes.^[8] The first season of the series was filmed in April and May 2012. It was directed by Fabrice Gobert and Frédéric Mermoud.

The second season of the series was directed by Fabrice Gobert an Frédéric Goupil. It was originally to be filmed in February and March 2014, for screening from November 2014.^[9] However, delays in the writing process meant that filming was delayed until the second half of 2014, and broadcast would begin in 2015.^[10][11] The synopsis for the second season was released in August 2014, which also confirmed there would be a total of eight episodes.^[12] Filming for the second season ended on 7 April 2015.^[13]

Ratings

The Returned aired in France on Canal+, in the United States on SundanceTV, and in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 (season 1), and More4 (season 2).

Season 1				Season 2
French		UK		French		UK		U.S.
Airdate	Viewers (millions)	Airdate	Viewers (millions)[6]	Airdate	Viewers (millions)	Airdate	Viewers (millions)[7]	Airdate	Viewers (millions)
26 November 2012	1.40[14]	9 June 2013	1.91	28 September 2015	0.610[15]	16 October 2015	0.571	31 October 2015	0.123[16]
		16 June 2013	1.60			23 October 2015	0.302	7 November 2015	0.100[17]
3 December 2012	1.40[18]	23 June 2013	1.53	5 October 2015	0.400[19]	30 October 2015	0.286	14 November 2015	0.127[20]
		30 June 2013	1.57			6 November 2015	N/A	21 November 2015	0.082[21]
10 December 2012	1.30[22]	7 July 2013	1.50	12 October 2015	0.448[23]	13 November 2015	N/A	28 November 2015	0.092[24]
		14 July 2013	1.48			20 November 2015	0.256	5 December 2015	0.072[25]
17 December 2012	1.30[26]	21 July 2013	1.51	19 October 2015	N/A	27 November 2015	N/A	12 December 2015	0.062[27]
		28 July 2013	1.38			4 December 2015	N/A	19 December 2015	0.072[28]

International broadcasts

Season 1 was broadcast in the United Kingdom from 9 June 2013 on Channel 4.^[29] It was the first "fully subtitled drama" on the channel in more than 20 years and was screened in the native language with English subtitles.^[30] First announced under the English name Rebound, the title was amended to The Returned prior to broadcast.^[31] The channel made a feature of the subtitles by broadcasting a specially commissioned advertisement break in French with English subtitles.^[29] In the United States, SundanceTV began broadcasting the series' first season on 31 October 2013,^[32] before picking up the second season on 11 January 2014.^[33] The series began airing in Australia on SBS Two on 11 February 2014.^[34] In Canada, the series debuted on 26 April 2014 on Space.^[35]

In advance of the second season premiere, the first two episodes of the season received an advance preview screening at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, as part of the festival's new Primetime platform of selected television projects.^[36] The second season premiered on 31 October 2015 in the U.S. on SundanceTV.^[5]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack to the series was written by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai. The band's guitarist John Cummings said in an interview with The Quietus, "They wanted us to start writing it before they started filming it. They described it as inspiring them, they wanted some kind of musical mood in place before they started, so we were working a bit dry at first ... we'd (only) seen the first couple of scripts in English".^[37] The band released a four-track sampler of the music (Les Revenants EP) on 17 December 2012, the day of the showing of the final episode. A full-length soundtrack album, Les Revenants, was released on 25 February 2013. In August 2014 it was confirmed that Mogwai would also write the soundtrack for the second season.^[38]

Reception

Critical reception

The series has been critically acclaimed. On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season holds an approval rating of 100% with an average score of 9.2 out of 10 based on 33 reviews, with a critics' consensus of, "A pleasant change from typically gory zombie shows, The Returned is a must-see oddity that's both smart and sure to disturb".^[39] The second season of the show also holds a rating of 100%, with an average score of 9 out of 10 based on 13 reviews, and a consensus of, "After a long wait, The Returned is back with more of the chilling, deliberate, and masterful storytelling that made season one a spooky success".^[40] Le Monde said that the series marked a resurgence in the fantasy genre^[41] with the dead appearing out of nowhere, trying to regain their life where they left off. Libération said that the series recalled the atmosphere of Twin Peaks by David Lynch.^[42] In France, viewing figures averaged 1.4 million over the eight episodes, on Canal+.^[43] For its American showing, the series received a 92 out of 100 rating from Metacritic, which averages critics' reviews, based on 28 reviews.^[44] The second season received a 82 out of 100 rating based on 11 reviews.^[45] During a visit to Paris, Stephen King remarked on being a big fan of the show, and later tweeted about it.^[46]

Accolades

In 2013, for the 41st International Emmy Award, it won for Best Drama Series.^[1] For the 18th Satellite Awards, it received a nomination for Best Television Series or Miniseries, Genre.^[47] In 2014, it was awarded with a Peabody Award.^[48] It received a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Specials for the 2014 TCA Awards.^[49] Fabien Adda and Fabrice Gobert received a nomination for Best Screenplay for the episode "The Horde" for the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards.^[50]

Home media release

The first season was released on DVD in France on 20 December 2012,^[51] and in the UK on 9 September 2013.^[52] In the United States, it was released on both DVD and Blu-ray on 11 February 2014.^[53]

Adaptations

In May 2013, it was revealed that an English-language adaptation was in development by Paul Abbott and FremantleMedia, with the working title They Came Back.^[43] In September 2013, it was revealed that Abbott was no longer involved with the project and that A&E would develop the project.^[54] In April 2014, A&E ordered 10 episodes with Carlton Cuse and Raelle Tucker as executive producers.^[55] The series premiered on 9 March 2015,^[56] and was cancelled after one season.^[57]

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External links

• Official website
• The Returned at SundanceTV
• The Returned at the Internet Movie Database