An Early Preview of ABC TV’s #‎Resurrection & A Chat With The Executive Producers! #‎ABCTVEvent‬ ‪‬

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Hey All!

On my recent Disney media trip, I had the amazing opportunity to check out an early preview of the New ABC series Resurrection. I saw an advanced preview of the first episode and I also got an early screening of the second episode that will be airing tonight 3/16 at 9/8c. This show has me very intrigued I must admit and I couldn’t wait to see the second episode. Thankfully I didn’t have to wait long. After we watched the second episode we got the opportunity to chat with the Executive Producers Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas to pick their brains on what we saw.

You’ll have to tune in tonight to see it for yourself, but here are just some tidbits we learned about the show and a few spoilers to hold you over until you watch tonight.

Photo By ©(ABC/Bob D’Amico)

ABC’s “Resurrection” stars Mark Hildreth as Pastor Tom Hale, Kurtwood Smith as Henry Langston, Landon Gimenez as Jacob Langston, Frances Fisher as Lucille Langston, Omar Epps as J. Martin Bellamy, Devin Kelley as Maggie Langston, Matt Craven as Fred Langston, Samaire Armstrong as Elaine Richards and Sam Hazeldine as Caleb Richards.

If you haven’t heard of the show here is a little synopsis about it:

The people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to reappear. An 8-year-old American boy (Landon Gimenez) wakes up alone in a rice paddy in a rural Chinese province with no idea how he got there. Details start to emerge when the boy, who calls himself Jacob, recalls that his hometown is Arcadia, and an Immigration agent, J. Martin Bellamy (Omar Epps), takes him there. The home he claims as his own is occupied by a 60-year-old couple, Henry (Kurtwood Smith) and Lucille Langston (Frances Fisher), who lost their son, Jacob, more than 30 years ago.

While they look different, young Jacob recognizes them as his parents. Lucille is overjoyed at the seeming miracle of her son’s reappearance. Henry is reluctant to accept that Jacob is back. Those closest to the family want answers, including Sheriff Fred Langston (Matt Craven), whose wife Barbara drowned 30 years ago while trying to save Jacob, and Fred’s daughter, Maggie (Devin Kelley), a local doctor. Pastor Tom Hale (Mark Hildreth) seeks a spiritual reason for what’s happening in his community. When things take an even more shocking turn, Maggie’s life-long friend, Elaine Richards (Samaire Armstrong), finds herself drawn into Arcadia’s growing mystery.

Bellamy, an outsider in the town, joins forces with Maggie to figure out why the unexplainable is happening in Arcadia. As their investigation plays out, Maggie learns some unsettling truths about her own past. Will they be able to solve the mystery of Arcadia before the rest of the world catches on to events there? And will they be able to protect Jacob from forces beyond their control?

This second episode follows the characters that have been introduced thus far about a day after the previous episode takes place. There are now two people who have come back from the dead in Arcadia. Omar Epps as J. Martin Bellamy is still trying to discover how the boy Jacob has allegedly come back from the dead. He’s trying to find proof that this boy is truly Jacob and he’s running into obstacles due to town officials. Another character who has come back is Caleb. It’s quickly revealed that Caleb is not exactly who he pretends to be to his family. He has a very dark side to him that shall be revealed in this episode. You will be shocked by what you see!

The show has a very “Lost” type feel to it and the Executive Producers confirmed the show was inspired by Lost!

Absolutely. I don’t think you can do a show like this without having some influence. I feel very strongly that this show shouldn’t be more than 13 episodes a season, because my favorite seasons of LOST were the shorter seasons because they could be so much more.

When you’re building these continuous storyline episodes, you can’t jump around, you have to sort of build them in order. And if you change something back here, it sort of affects this. So that’s why we really liked having a smaller number of episodes, so you can really craft it and be smart about it. Versus just kind of filling space.

We of course wanted to know if more people will be coming back from the dead and the answer is YES! All characters that come back will be centralized in the town of Arcadia. This is a localized event. It’s not happening all over the world just yet. The Executive Producers shared:

We focus on just Arcadia for those 8 episodes. It’s 8 episodes including the pilot. We have certainly planned more and there’s a cliffhanger at the end of the season that hopefully makes people want to come back for the second season.

We of course wanted to get some idea of how these people are coming back from the dead? They couldn’t share that all just yet as you can see:

There are some answers but we don’t answer everything. We still want to have an investigative drive. Do we know yet? The way we pitched this is… there are several questions. Why here? Why Arcadia? Why is it happening? How is it happening?

When we pitched the season to ABC, we pitched them the last scene of the last episode of the series. So we know where we want to go.

We learned the series is loosely based on the book The Returned by Jason Mott. If you’re finding yourself trying to figure out the secret to what’s going on this show, don’t look to this book for answers as they don’t follow the story.

We’ll all have to tune in to see what mystery is bringing the dead back to life in Resurrection!

Resurrection airs on ABC Sundays at 9/8c!

For more information on this amazing show visit the official site here.

I was provided with an all expense paid trip and screeners of this show. All opinions are my own.