Resurrection teases mysteries of life and death

By Michael IdatoOct. 22, 2014, 2:30 p.m.

The drama series Resurrection presents its audience with a provocative and challenging story.

The drama series Resurrection presents its audience with a provocative and challenging story: loved ones who return from the dead, seemingly unchanged from the day they died.

But it also presents the great conundrum of the modern TV mystery drama. That is, "the fear is that we don't know [why] and are stringing you along," says executive producer Michelle Fazekas.

"But there is an answer. The show is not only about the answer ... It's about these characters and how this affects them".

The challenge, then, is how quickly that mystery is unfurled, and what clues are given along the way.

To Resurrection's credit, it didn't over-promise or under-deliver.

Co-executive producer Aaron Zelman last year said audiences wouldn't get a "definitive answer" by the end of the show's first season. On that point, they delivered.

Zelman also foreshadowed a darker tone to the show's second season. "We won't open right at the end of season one, we come in about a week later," he said. "Things have happened in town ... that will take things in a darker direction for season two."

The author of the book on which the US series is based, Jason Mott, said he questioned many of his friends while he wrote the manuscript for the book, asking how they would react if loved ones who had died suddenly returned.

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Resurrection teases mysteries of life and death