Katarzyna Petru
Melanie Scrofano knows well what it means to feel “outside the system.” As a child, she struggled to fit in with other girls, and even in boys' groups, she was only there for a brief moment. She was an outsider. Today — in hindsight — she refers to it as... a gift.
For it was this loneliness that led the actress to seek strength in her relationships with women in her adult life. And this is exactly what she portrays in her roles — first in “Wynonna Earp,” and now in the new series “Revival”, which has just premiered on Syfy. This is one of those titles that might fly under your radar — and it shouldn’t.
What if the dead... returned? But not as zombies, just... normal people?
“Revival” is based on the comic by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton, but it 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 “braaaains” screams. They just come back. As if nothing happened.
Scrofano plays Dana Cypress — a single mother and police officer trying to escape a place that hasn’t allowed her to be anyone other than “that girl with the problems” for a long time. But when this “revival of the dead” begins, she must stay. And she starts an investigation that touches not only the law — but also the conscience.
Resurrected, whom no one wants — and sisters trying to touch each other for the first time truly
In "Revival", the dead return to life — not as zombies, but as the same people who were buried before. The thing is, the world no longer wants to see them as the same. Although they have not changed physically, social fear does its part: it changes the rules, deepens divisions, puts up a wall between "us" and "them". Melanie Scrofano, who plays the lead role, states plainly — it is a story about how we treat the "others". And since the action is set in 2006, with flip phones and a stuffy, small-town atmosphere — everything takes on an even more symbolic meaning. At the same time, the relationship between two sisters remains at the centre: Dany and Em, who, after years of silence, try to draw closer to one another. Em, struggling with congenital brittle bone disease, has been kept at a distance her entire life. Now both must relearn closeness — without fear, without the definitions of the past.
Not about monsters, but about people — "Revival" is a tale of second chances that are difficult to accept, but even harder to reject
"Revival" is not a sequel to "Wynonna Earp", but spiritually they meet somewhere. A sisterly bond, supernatural phenomena, and a social metaphor that hurts because it is relevant. The series avoids cheap sensationalism, focusing on emotions, relationships, and the attempt to communicate despite ideological chasms — as in the case of Dana and her father, who must cooperate despite deep differences. It is a story with hope, but not the naive kind. Rather with the hope that sometimes it is worth talking again — and that it is worth giving another person the right to be, even if they have returned from a place they should not have come back from.
