ABC has a new drama series that recently premiered on March 9th called Resurrection. Resurrection is on ABC on Sundays at 9/8c.
Before leaving for Los Angeles for the Muppets Most Wanted premiere and ABC TV events, I was sent a DVD with the first episode of Resurrection to watch. My husband helped me with this homework and he watched the first episode alongside me.
RESURRECTION (cast photo)- ABC’s “Resurrection” stars Mark Hildreth as Pastor Tom Hale, Kurtwood Smith as Henry Langston, Landon Gimenez as Jacob Langston, Frances Fisher as Lucille Langston, Omar Epps as J. Martin Bellamy, Devin Kelley as Maggie Langston, Matt Craven as Fred Langston, Samaire Armstrong as Elaine Richards and Sam Hazeldine as Caleb Richards. (ABC/Bob D’Amico)
So what is the show about? The show is based on the Novel “The Returned” by Jason Mott’s.
The people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to reappear. An 8-year-old American boy (Landon Gimenez) wakes up alone in a rice paddy in a rural Chinese province with no idea how he got there. Details start to emerge when the boy, who calls himself Jacob, recalls that his hometown is Arcadia, and an Immigration agent, J. Martin Bellamy (Omar Epps), takes him there. The home he claims as his own is occupied by a 60-year-old couple, Henry (Kurtwood Smith) and Lucille Langston (Frances Fisher), who lost their son, Jacob, more than 30 years ago.
Along with Jacob another deceased resident of Arcadia also emerges at the end of the first episode. This show definitely gives off a feeling of mystery. Within minutes of putting the disc in my TV I knew that this show was going to have many secrets that would be kept for a while. I also figured that main question, which in my opinion is “why are they coming back?”, probably wouldn’t be revealed until the very end. Since this show is in its first season, who knows when the end will arrive. I don’t like surprises and for me all the questions and lack of information counts as a surprise so I didn’t love the show and I probably won’t watch it on TV. The other bloggers in the group seemed to be very enthralled and excited for the series to continue. My feelings of not being interested were definitely in the minority.
In episode two the show is really focused more on Caleb Richards who came back at the end of the first episode. We learn that the characters that keep coming back don’t remember dying. The investigation continues into what is going on. It gets emotional for the Langston family when Agent Bellamy wants to open Jacobs tomb and do some tests on his body. For some reason some people are resistant to learning the answers about these events, while others are really persistent in wanting to know. Are you confused yet? It is a little confusing as we learn who everyone is and what their purpose is, but it will all get untangled.
We had the opportunity to sit down and talk with the Executive Producers of Resurrection: Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas. Of course everyone wanted to know all the nitty-gritty secrets of the show, but they weren’t spilling any of that information! We did learn some information though!
The question was asked “How are they coming back?” to which Tara Butters responded that it didn’t really matter, that was besides the point. Although some of the characters in the show do care how they are coming back and are investigating that, the point now is they are back and now what? How do they fit into the community and their families? It is a complicated process to accept these people who were deceased and now are back. It’s like a sticky web that now has to get unraveled but with more people soon to return from the dead, it seems the twists and turns will continue.
For answers to these questions and to get absorbed by the mystery and drama tune into Resurrection Sundays at 9/8c.
