J. Krekel Stephen King says he doesn't plot. He just starts out with a situation in mind - one that can usually be described as a 'What If?' situation - and lets the story grow from there. It works for him. This show also had a 'what if' situation in mind: 'What if dead people started returning?' Well. Great. Now you've got a premise. Lets see what happens next, shall we? NOTHING! Nothing happens next! Well, of course some things happen, but it's more of a regular drama now - with love triangles and such - and it has hardy anything to with the premise anymore. I mean, sure, some of the people involved are now 'returned'. That fact registers, but it doesn't affect the drama. (The Australian show 'Glitch', which has the same premise, does this better.) Sure, we get SOME 'hints of development' here and there, creepy kid is indeed creepy and such, but there is no actual progress in the development of the basic premise. If that's point A, we don't get to point B. We find out nothing as to why, how, who, and/or what's next. We're basically stuck watching a regular soap opera.A badly written one at that. If you 'break up a fight' not by pushing or holding people away from each other, but by almost bashing someone's skull in with a heavy and blunt object, the guy whose skull you almost bashed in is obviously going to be a bit grumpy, isn't he? You're going to at least have some words about that. In this show too? Naah. Bash someone's skull in, guy says nothing about it. Doesn't even blame you. After all, you were breaking up a fight weren't you? Therefore you meant well by almost murdering me. Also, apparently you can shoot unarmed people for no reason and still be the good guy. Woman who loved your victim all her life to the point of obsession won't even blink, lie to the cops for you.Both of these scenes are bad enough on their own, what makes them worse is that they are completely out of character. Both of these guys are supposed to be the boring, sensible ones. Were we viewers wrong about them? Were they actually psychos and it's only now revealed? Nope. They go back to being boring and reasonable as if nothing happened. No reveal. Just bad writing. More I think about it, more terrible it was.

Devin James PLEASE PLEASE BRING THIS SHOW BACK! No one cares that it is a remake. I hate when people don't like shows because of that reason (for example US Skins another great canceled show.) I loved this like the US Shameless which did very good. I don't like the original version of this at all. But this show left you wanting more and more.Everyone did a great job acting in this show and due to the fact you don't have to constantly read the subtitles you can catch the whole story. I need to know what happens. Why would Netflix bring this out? They should buy the rights and continue with the series. There is really nothing more I can say except snobs need to get over it, so many remakes have been done in America and so many remakes have been done of American movies and or shows.

gooelf50 I feel so inferior for not realizing that this show was as horrible as some other, wiser and more informed viewers, found it to be. Fool that I am, I loved it, and thought it one of the most imaginative and entertaining offerings I've ever seen. I watched all ten episodes over a three or four day period, forgetting all about my usual T.V. fare in the meantime. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of what it is that should be entertaining for me and in my ignorance, I didn't have the acumen necessary to realize that I was watching a very inferior product and was finding it as entertaining as the European offering upon which "The Returning" is based. Perhaps someday, I'll become as informed and aware of what entertains me as many of the wiser expert critics who have already condemned this series, and when I do, I'll stay away from offerings such as this. In the meantime, it looks like I'll continue floating blissfully along, unaware of how unentertained I am while hallucinating that I am actually being entertained.

stein151-220-993250 A and E has really sunk to a new low with their latest horror/SF-mystery trash, The Returned. I have never seen the original, French version, so no way for me to compare it, but I can say the American version was absolutely terrible. The storyline was lame and overdone, the dialog was painful, the "mystery" was not mysterious, there was nothing scary about it, and the acting was marginal at best. Every one of the characters were annoying and immoral and I wanted to personally drown every one of them within the first 3 episodes. I'm not a prude by any stretch, but it seemed as if the characters had more idiotic, pointless, gratuitous sex scenes than meaningful dialog. It was like someone had written a porno and then thought the plot was interesting enough to turn it into a mainstream series. It wasn't. As near as I can tell, it was either written by a pubescent teenage girl or a dirty old man! Not sure which. Oh, and someone should be going to jail for the under age, child sex and drug scenes which were totally unnecessary to the plot. Here's a typical episode: Two minutes of a plot point followed by either someone dying or having sex… some meaningless dialog, someone sleeps with a dead person… more meaningless dialog… some lesbian sex… some dead people sex… someone else cheats on someone else who may or may not be dead… one minute of back story…. 30 seconds of character development… some creepy kid leers at someone… someone else dies…. some muck comes out of a sink… some yelling at each other… someone does something stupid… more cheating and general whoring about… then 30 seconds of a plot "twist" everyone knew was going to happen in the first two minutes. Hopefully that didn't spoil it for you. Don't waste your time with this childish attempt at storytelling.