Les Revenents




Genre
Les Revenents doesn't fit into purely one genre, and is an example of genre hybridity. It is a supernatural drama series with elements of things like crime and mystery, due to it's range of story arcs. What this enables the producer to do is reach a wider target audience. However, the show does not really match up to Todorov's theory of equilibrium as the normality of the French town is disrupted, which makes it's narrative unconventional. Because of this, it doesn't give the audience what they want as the show never comes to a proper resolution. What this show also displays is repetition & difference, due to the way it regurgitates genre conventions however it creates something much more different and more diverse to the rest of the genre.

Supernatural elements - 
- narrative of people returning
- the body language of the characters
- mise-en-scene or pathetic fallacy of night time and rain

Mystery elements -
- entire show is based on hermeneutic codes
- little is left answered, no equilibrium
- many of the characters link to one another
- character relationships

 Horror elements -
- links to the horror genre, especially with the quiet child (Insidious, The Ring)
- creepy, dimly-lit locations
- woman tied up and burned alive
- the people are almost like ghosts or zombies

Avant Garde elements-
- non-linear structure
- the way characters meet and interact

Crime elements -
- woman is stabbed in underpass
- woman is burned alive
- the mystery of the appearances

French elements -
- the setting is more clearly within France
- the way they speak to one another (linguistics and slang not just language)

A cult TV show invites the audience to use the show in whatever way they would like, and interpret and shape it in new ways. A cult programme or film is something which presents a culture, and fans will often be much smaller and more devoted.

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This gives an oversight of the series itself, however focusses on a different character to what people who have seen the show would expect it to. What makes this show different to other zombie-type shows, the 'zombies' look much more alive and real, and they don't seem to be anything other than human. They are also described as ghosts as opposed to zombies, which is interesting and emphasises the more human they look.



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