Resurrection
Channel 7, 8.45pm, Tuesdays
IT’S the age-old question … what if they came back?
“Resurrection” sees the dead return – years later – in the condition and age they were before they left.
Almost refreshingly, the resurrected are not zombies – although it might be a better show if they were.
Like veterans returning from a long foreign war, the rest of the world has moved on in their absence.
Parents are old, phones ain’t just phones anymore and, in general , times have changed.
The returning bodies are from a small town called Arcadia in Missouri (well, why not?) and the first of them is eight-year-old Jacob Langston, who appears flat on his back in a rice paddy in China, and has to find his way home.
Mum believes with all her heart, Dad isn’t so sure, and Jacob begins unravelling some long-dead mysteries.
Has he been brought back to right a wrong, we wonder?
From the producer of the epic “The Killing” we can be justified in hoping this will take us to some dark places.
Production values are high and, at least at first, the show seems not nearly so stupid as “The Dome”.
Resurrection occupies the limbo – pun intended – between ordinary TV and the new high-end cable products that rule the box today.
It’s the big TV release of the moment, and is available via the Channel 7 website if you’ve missed it.
It gets you in, and the initial signs are promising.
– Jason Beck
