Katarzyna Petru
Melanie Scrofano knows exactly what it means to feel “outside the system.” As a child, she struggled to connect with other girls, and even in boy's groups, she was only there for a moment. She was an outsider. Today — in hindsight — she speaks of it as a... gift.
Because that very loneliness made the actress seek strength in her relationships with women in her adult life. And she shows exactly that in her roles — first in “Wynonna Earp,” and now in the new series “Revival”, which has just debuted on Syfy. It’s one of those titles that might slip under your radar — and it shouldn’t.
What if the dead… came back? But not as zombies, just... normal people?
“Revival” is based on the comic by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton, but jumps from paper to screen with a specific emotional charge. We have a small town in Wisconsin, where suddenly the dead begin to come back to life. No decomposing faces, no screaming “braaaains”. They just come back. As if nothing happened.
Scrofano plays Dana Cypress — a single mother and police officer trying to escape a place that for a long time has not allowed her to be anyone other than “that girl with problems”. But when this “resurrection of the dead” begins, she must stay. And she starts an investigation that touches not only the law — but also conscience.
Those Who Have Risen, Whom No One Wants — and Sisters Attempting to Touch for the First Time for Real
In "Revival," the dead return to life — not as zombies, but as the same people who were previously buried. But the world no longer wants to see them as the same. Although they haven't physically changed, social fear does its work: it changes the rules, deepens divisions, and puts up a wall between "us" and "them." Melanie Scrofano, who plays the lead role, says straightforwardly — it’s a story about how we treat "others." And since the action is set in 2006, with flip phones and a stuffy, small-town atmosphere — everything takes on even more symbolic meaning. At the same time, the focus remains on the relationship between two sisters: Danny and Em, who, after years of silence, are trying to draw closer to each other. Em, who struggles with a genetic bone fragility, has been kept at a distance her whole life. Now both must relearn closeness — without fear, without definitions from the past.
Not about monsters, but about people — "Revival" is a story about second chances that are hard to accept, but even harder to reject
"Revival" is not a continuation of "Wynonna Earp", but spiritually they meet somewhere. Sisterly bonds, supernatural phenomena, and a social metaphor that hurts because it's relevant. The series avoids cheap sensationalism, focusing on emotions, relationships, and trying to communicate despite ideological chasms — like in the case of Dana and her father, who must work together despite deep differences. It's a story with hope, but not the naïve kind. Rather, it's a hope that sometimes it’s worth talking again — and that it's worth granting another person the right to exist, even if they have returned from a place they shouldn't have.
