Katarzyna Petru
Melanie Scrofano knows well what it means to feel “outside the system.” As a child, she couldn’t connect with other girls, and even in boys’ crews, she was there only for a moment. She was an outsider. Today — in hindsight — she speaks of it as a... gift.
Because it was that loneliness that led the actress to seek strength in 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 just premiered on Syfy. It’s one of those titles that may fly under your radar — but 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 transitions 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 decomposed faces, no cries of "braaaains." They just come back. As if nothing ever happened.
Scrofano plays Dana Cypress — a single mother and police officer trying to escape a place that has long prevented her from being anything other than "that girl with problems." But when this "resurrection of the dead" begins, she must stay. And she embarks on an investigation that touches not only the law — but also conscience.
Resurrected, whom no one wants — and sisters trying to truly touch each other for the first time
In "Revival," the dead return to life — not as zombies, but as the same people previously buried. The thing is, the world no longer wants to see them as they were. Although they haven't changed physically, social fear does its work: it alters the rules, deepens divisions, and puts up a wall between "us" and "them." Melanie Scrofano, playing the lead role, states plainly — 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 an even more symbolic meaning. At the same time, the relationship between two sisters remains at the center: Dany and Em, who, after years of silence, are trying to get closer to each other. Em, struggling with a congenital bone fragility, has been kept at a distance her entire life. Now they both must learn closeness anew — 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 refuse
“Revival” is not a continuation of “Wynonna Earp,” but in spirit they intersect 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 is the case with Dana and her father, who must collaborate despite their deep differences. It’s a story with hope, but not the naive kind. Rather, a hope that sometimes it’s worth talking again — and that it’s worth giving another person the right to exist, even if they returned from a place they shouldn’t have come back from.
