Les Revenants/ The Returned Ep 3: Julie.

Subtitles distract me from the fact I'm watching adverts. They add a veneer of class. Plus: what I thought of this week's Les Revenants (oooh, c'est tres mysterieux!)

My first thoughts were 'This is probably going to be better than World War Z.' So far, that's held out. They're not zombies, but they are the living dead. So the comparison's fair, in my eyes.

Everyone in the world knows Batman's not a real superhero, it seems. Good work scriptwriters.

Creepy children will be creepy. It doesn't seem to matter how many you see of them, and I saw a lot of J-horror between 2002-2005. Like them, Victor also seems to possess vaguely supernatural powers, but no one is really sure. He does like biscuits, and drawing.

What's that thing on Lena's back?

Sisters Lena and Camille. One of them is dead. It's the one on the right.

Even commonplace devices in supernatural dramas like mirrors are used sparingly here, and in a very matter-of-fact way. Not to say the thing isn't stylish, but it's not explicitly a TV programme you're watching, which is nice considering the faintly baffling subject matter.

How the hell does Thomas have access to all those security cameras? Shouldn't he have a reason for watching this stuff, rather than just snooping on his wife?

There's an implicit sexuality in voyeurism.

Simon is quite a boring dead guy. I preferred the goofy bassist. How come he doesn't have any scars, like Julie? Wasn't he hit by a car?

That priest is a bit too chipper for my liking. Always smiling, even at funerals.

Stop doing that Batman. You're still not a superhero.

This was the episode that became momentarily cinematic, albeit ever-so-subtly. The scene in the hallway of the flats where Julie lives was wonderfully creepy. I even said 'not again' when the hooded guy appeared. Incidentally will the others suffer similar post-trauma flashbacks? That would be interesting.

The final scene: bravo. Camera slowly peeking round corner at the deceased neighbour was horrible yet delicately handled and a clever, sour contrast to the previous three scenes of punchy emotion. Question marks over the perpetrator.

The cockroach. Filed this one alongside the lake's receding waters under 'weird abstract motif'. Don't get it yet, but these snippets are one of the main reasons I keep coming back.

Pictures courtesy of The Daily Telegraph and... erm, The Daily Telegraph.