Dealing with the afterlife

IMAGINE if someone you lost came back from the dead. That's exactly what the residents of small town Arcadia have to deal with when their presumed dead loved ones start reappearing in Resurrection, a new American series named as the season's most-watched regular time slot drama, overtaking The Walking Dead and The Blacklist.

"I'm really excited to see how people outside America react to it," says Omar Epps, who was in Singapore with co-star Kurtwood Smith (of Robocop and Star Trek fame) for a regional press tour to promote Resurrection, which premieres May 12.

Henry (Kurtwood Smith) and Lucille Langston (Frances Fisher), an elderly couple, are at the centre of this plot, when their son Jacob Langston, who died over 30 years ago, is the first of the not-so-dead to turn up. Also involved in the mystery is immigration agent J Martin Bellamy (Omar Epps), with a past of his own, who defies orders and takes Jacob back to his family.