News 'Resurrection' series premiere react: In it for the long haul?

When a program has a central mystery - in the case of the resurrection of ABC , which premiered Sunday night , why deceased loved ones have returned alive and un- age from the day of his death - the question is not whether the concept is interesting. It is. It is whether the public will engage enough (and patient enough ) to see every week or , in today's world , just wait and Google for the answer when the series ends. The difference , I think, comes down to how quickly producers can both get invested in the characters - which is difficult when must play the cards close to the chest for a slow reveal - and show that the road is visually unique in some way ( ie how Broadchurch BBC America could do a slow motion shot of the mundane, only two people walking practically pressed ) .

For me, Easter falls in the category of waiting and Google . What is your verdict?

The development may sound like the French series The return earned praise at the Sundance Channel, but the two programs are related . Resurrection begins with a young man wakes up in a rice field in rural China. His first words are : " Is she dead " Once you get to the U.S. , An immigration agent named Martin J. 

Bellamy, also known as Marty (Omar Epps ) , he takes what he says is his home in Arcadia, Missouri. We learned that he is supposedly Jacob , an 8 -year-old who drowned 32 years ago along with his aunt . It looks exactly the same, but his parents , Henry ( Kurtwood Smith) and Lucille Langston (Frances Fisher) , have aged . Lucille is surprised but elated , while her husband and widower brother -in-law , Fred Langston sheriff ( Matt Craven ) , remain skeptical , even after DNA confirms biologically Jacob is up to Henry and Lucille . The daughter of Fred , Maggie (Devin Kelley ) , who was found in her stroller down the river the day her mother and Jacob died , now is a doctor who wants to help Marty find answers , for two reasons : 1.) Jacob has made it sound like fell into the river trying to rescue Maggie 's mother , who may have been pushed by a man and 2. ) Best friend Elaine Maggie ( Samaire Armstrong ) has been reunited with his dead father.

At the end of the hour, has a long list of questions you want answered : How many more people coming back? It's just about people whose deaths involved foul play ? Are they here to stay ? Are they going to start aging? How will they be treated by the city? How can Marty keep this a secret so Jacob does not end in a lab in Washington? Jacob was just creepily standing on a chair beside the moonlit in his hospital room window for fun , or an alien? Why eat a ton of cheese on the grill ? Were you afraid of the man who turned out to be the father of Elaine ? If so, why not run to the police and his father instead of in the woods to find his GI Joe? And what happened in the past that made his boss Marty asked if I wanted to carry a child in the first place ?

The problem : I had to find the name of each character just mentioned , except Jacob , Marty, and Maggie , but gave me the opportunity to see the second episode too. You feel like the cast - especially Epps, Fisher, Smith and Craven - could handle something extraordinary , but what has been given so far is just average