The Futility Of 'The Returned'

Yes, it has Sandrine Holt in it, and that's easily the best news in human history.  And it is a Battlestar Galatica Canadian reunion, but without verve.  The big problem is that the Canadian version lacks the atmosphere of pale, wearying dread the French version aced.  Without that inexplicable, and unexplained, feeling, the show comes across as more sad and annoying than mysterious and scary.