What if a person who died, suddenly came back to life? That is the premise for
Resurrection that debuts on ABC tonight at 9p.
An 8 year old boy, Jacob (Landon Gimenez), suddenly wakes up in China and no one knows who is he because he isn’t talking. Obviously he is American, so he is flown back to the US. Once he is there, U.S. immigration officer J. Martin Bellamy (Omar Epps) is assigned to take care of him. Marty asks the kid if he knows where he lives and he nods yes. So they go to his house and Marty is greeted at the door by the boy’s father, Henry Langston (Kurtwood Smith). Marty asks him if his son is missing, but Henry tells him that his son died 32 years ago. As soon as Henry and his wife, Lucille (Frances Fisher) see the kid, they can’t get over how much the kid looks like their son. But how? That is the question that Resurrection asks.
As the episodes go on, more people from this small town come back to life. They remember dying and waking up, but nothing in between. As we find out how they died, we learn that their deaths did not happen like their loved ones thought. Does that play into their Resurrection? We will just have to tune in each week to find out and to find out why they have returned from the dead in the unique heartfelt drama.
