Season two It’s hard to write about the second season at once, and the first one is even harder – I watched it three years ago. So in the beginning, perhaps briefly, about the first. It was interesting, although I had only moved in from the second series - the first one seemed wildly boring. However, the first impression was deceptive - the intensity of drama in Les Revenants is more than 9000, which is multiplied by the original plot. The ending was also powerful and very appropriate.
And all of a sudden, season two. Honestly, I thought that after such a fat point, season two would be loosely tied to the first one - like they did in Forsaken. It’s not like it’s in “True Detective.” Unfortunately, the creators of the series did not think of such a decision.
The second season is a direct continuation of the first. The dead are quite “alive” and huddle in abandoned houses with relatives. Lucy wants to somehow “save” them, and everyone else has no idea what to do. In the city, the military, who are trying to figure out what is happening, send an investigator from the center for the same purpose, but the residents are silent like partisans. However, the right questions, for obvious reasons, they are not asked.
The problem is that the creators of the second season could not offer any new concept, any large-scale intrigue to the audience. In the first season, the intrigue was: “The dead have risen, how to live now?” And here - half the season, everyone just bumps in one place, Lucy wants to somehow help the returnees, the preacher from the "Help Hand" wants to fight the mervyaks, but does not know how; infernal Milan also achieves something ... or maybe not; the boy-visionary Victor ... it is also unclear what he wants ...
With mysticism and understatement, it is not that overkill is rather a lack of motivation among heroes. That's where the problem is.
It was planned to keep the viewer at the screen by revealing old secrets, but as a result, new ones were added to them. We now know why the dead came back, but now we don’t know who Lucy and Victor are, because previous ideas about their nature were not entirely correct. Milan is introduced - the predecessor of the "Help", the "godfather" of local bandits and part-time leader of the sect, the father of a maniac from the first season. It looks significant and threatening - but why do you need it? The writers themselves don’t seem to understand.
And the ending, this time to match the whole season, is very, very strange.
Result: the second season is tortured, sucked out of the finger. He sheds light on some of the riddles of the former, but constantly breeds entities unnecessarily, leaving more questions. Powerful conflict did not work – until the last three series, the plot sags steadily. It seems that the creators of Les Revenants really wanted to continue the series, but they had no ideas – filmed where the curve will take. It is a pity if because of this the series bends finally - however, better fat point than such a sequel.
6 out of 10 Original