Revival

Matt Roush says...

Wynonna Earp‘s Melanie Scrofano stars in an offbeat variation of the “what if the dead came back to life” premise (most memorably, and hauntingly, dramatized in the French series Les Revenants or The Returned, and to a lesser degree in ABC‘s Resurrection). After a jolting prologue in which a corpse “revives” during a cremation, the series (based on a comic) generically jumps forward 35 days after “revival day” as the small Wisconsin town of Wausau continues to assess the meaning of this miracle. Any sense of awe and metaphysical wonder is initially sidelined as single-mom police officer Dana Cypress (Scrofano), whose exodus from Wausau was stymied by a post-revival lockdown, investigates mutilations that are seemingly related to the now invulnerable “revivers.” JAG alum David James Elliott costars as Dana’s dad and hard-liner police chief, with Romy Weltman her drug-addicted younger sister Em, who has her own issues with the phenomenon.

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