Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 12:53PM

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There's nothing like a French mommy to comfort her French zombie daughter and her wildly sexy four-year-older twin. Welcome to the original The Returned. (Credit: Sundance Channel)

BY ROBBIE WOLIVER

A&E’s The Returned, the American remake of the French/Sundance Channel’s The Returned (Les Revenants) is (so far) an almost scene-for-scene replication of the Emmy-winning original. But as one commenter stated on A&E’s Facebook page, “

MOGWAI

Here's the haunting theme song.

FRENCHINESS

The original is in French and is subtitled. And even if you don’t know French, it’s beautiful to listen to. For Americans, hearing the dialogue in its original language adds to the stranger-in-a-strange-land atmosphere. Also, Les Revenants’ Alps-town seems ghost-like even before the dead return, and the French town is more conducive to goosebumps than the American one. Also, the doctor in the French version makes house calls. Boo, American health care system.

JULIE

In the original, Céline Sallette plays Julie, the doctor and Victor’s guardian, with a desperate ease. She’s broken; you know it from the first minute you see her. You fear for her fragility, but it also adds to the impending danger that always seems to surround her. In the new version, Sandrine Holt plays her with much more confidence. Perhaps that will make her eventual break more significant, but at first blush it just seems like more of the flash that occurs when a foreign show is Americanized.

THE OTHER ACTORS

THE PACE

COPYCAT

THE HYPNOTIC MOOD

CAN’T RECOMMEND NEW VERSION