meliarobert

I'm currently watching the American version of The Returned. It's set in a sleepy American town where 4 years ago a school bus containing around 30 schoolchildren crashed over the side of a mountain attempting to avoid a young kid stood in the middle of the road. Fast forward to present day and people from the crash return home out of the blue. They haven't aged a day and they are all very hungry. The main character is a whiny little teenager who has an even whinier twin sister who is now 4 years older than her and has stolen her boyfriend in the time she's been away. The returned twin gets her revenge by trashing the older twins room in an awful display of teenage angst altogether. The older twin is also noticing mysterious bloodied scratches on her body since the returned twin arrived back on the scene. In another subplot a curly haired stud has returned to learn his fiancé is now set to marry the policeman who originally informed her of the bad news that the curly hair stud is dead….on their wedding day. The curly haired stud shows up at her house but she tells him to go away in no uncertain terms as she's convinced she's going mental and he's just a figment of her imagination. He then shows up at the school where she works and she engages in conversation with him this time and even brings him to show him their daughter……whilst still thinking he's not real. As this is going on the present day husband to be ( the policeman ) has cameras set up all over her gaff and is spying on her from his laptop like some present day William Baldwin in the movie Sliver ( the 90's one where Sharon Stone gets her kit off which isn't Basic Instinct or Intersection or Casino ) The older whiny twin then gets chatting with the female fiancé and informs him she was chatting with a curly headed stud in her bar who was looking for her ( the fiancé ). It is at this moment that the fiancé realizes he has really returned and is in fact real and she is not losing her mind. Not the fact that he was screaming outside her house for half an hour a few nights back. And not the fact that she's just spent an entire day with him talking about their past and showing him their daughter. No. It is this conversation with whiny older twin which confirms he is back. He shows up at her house again that night like Heathcliff on heat and this time she locks lips with him. This embrace is of course witnessed by the stalking policeman who stews in his office and then locks the door to have a sly one of the wrist probably. In amongst all this drama is the murder of some woman down an alleyway ( who incidentally was shagging the twins father ) and the return of the little boy who caused the initial crash. He is now being looked after by some woman who is hoarding him in her house like Kathy Bates in the movie Misery. It's one of the best comedies on Netflix at the moment. Highly recommended.