The Living and the Dead (TV series)

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Television series
German title The Living and the Dead
Original title The Living and the Dead
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
year 2016
Production
company		 BBC America
BBC Cymru Wales
Monastic Production
Lookout Point Ltd.
length 60 minutes
Episodes 6 in 1 season ( list )
genre Horror , drama
Director Alice Troughton,
Sam Donovan
idea Ashley Pharoah
script Ashley Pharoah
production Eliza Mellor
Initial release June 17, 2016 (United Kingdom) on BBC iPlayer

First publication in German		 April 7, 2017 on Prime Video
occupation
synchronization

The Living and the Dead is a British horror - drama series by Ashley Pharoah with Colin Morgan and Charlotte Spencer . The six-part season was broadcast on BBC One from June 28 to August 2, 2016 and published on Prime Video in Germany on April 7, 2017 .

action

When Nathan Appleby inherited the family farm after his mother's death in 1894, he and his wife Charlotte moved from London to the countryside in Shepzoy, Somerset , to rebuild the farm. The couple are science and progress-oriented: Nathan is a psychologist, Charlotte a photographer. When she tries to modernize the farm, Charlotte encounters the dislike and skepticism of progress on the part of the workers, while Nathan has to deal with the religion and superstitions of the rural people when treating what he sees as mentally ill people who are allegedly possessed or see ghosts, but looks for rational explanations himself. But soon he too begins to see apparitions of a woman with an iPad ("Book of Light") and believes he is hearing his deceased son Gabriel. As he tries to communicate with the spirits and his son, his behavior becomes more and more disturbing.

The last episode shows Lara, a descendant of Nathan, who has apparitions from Gabriel, which is why she is in a psychiatric institution. She drives to Shepzoy to establish a connection with Nathan and - what with Charlotte's help apparently succeeds - to prevent him from killing himself. She had an accident with her car, which was found by the Applebys in the past. Thirty years later, in a seance, Nathan's ghost is called to ask why he killed his wife.

Episode list

No. German title Original title First release UK German language first publication (D) Director script
1 episode 1 Episode 1 17th June 2016 April 7, 2017 Alice Troughton Ashley Pharoah
The pastor's daughter Harriet Denning is obsessed with the murderer Abel North, who is baptized and banished.
2 Episode 2 Episode 2 17th June 2016 April 7, 2017 Alice Troughton Ashley Pharoah
Five boys appear to boy Charlie who perished working in the Appleby mine. When Charlie disappears, Nathan and the pastor find the skeletons of the five boys in the old mine, as well as the dead Charlie.
3 Episode 3 Episode 3 17th June 2016 April 7, 2017 Alice Troughton Ashley Pharoah & Simon Tyrrell
Young Peter is instigated by the ghost of a herbalist who was drowned as a witch to try to kill his mother. When the harvest is endangered by bugs, the worker Jack Langtree accuses Peter of sabotage and threatens him, so that Nathan banishes Jack.
4th Episode 4 Episode 4 17th June 2016 April 7, 2017 Sam Donovan Ashley Pharoah & Robert Murphy
In the event of further sabotage, Jack Langtree is suspected of having allegedly gone to London. The teacher Martha is attacked by Jack in the forest and worries about her student Alice, who wanted to run away with Jack. Alice is found dead in the forest, but when Nathan finds out that Jack cannot be the culprit, Martha has to admit that it was her because Alice did not return her love.
5 Episode 5 Episode 5 17th June 2016 April 7, 2017 Sam Donovan Peter McKenna
On Halloween , the anniversary of a Roundhead massacre during the English Civil War , rural residents fear they will appear. When they see the riders that night, the pastor is supposed to carry out an exorcism over the place, which Nathan prevents, who believes his son in the house, whereupon most of the workers leave the farm.
6th Episode 6 Episode 6 17th June 2016 April 7, 2017 Sam Donovan Simon Tyrrell
Nathan, who turns away from his wife and is becoming increasingly manic, tries to see his son through drugs and potions. In the present, Lara, Nathan's descendant, has apparitions from Gabriel. She breaks out of the mental institution and drives to Shepzoy with her daughter. She tries to contact Nathan, but because he does not listen to her, she has to reach Charlotte so that she can stop him from killing himself. Lara had a car accident and sees as a ghost how the Applebys are digging their car. From now on she can take care of Gabriel as the new mother. Thirty years later, when he and his wife have a daughter, Nathan encounters a seance session at the house where his ghost is called and asked why he killed Charlotte.

Cast and dubbing

The German synchronization was for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Kai Taschner by Bavaria Film Synchron GmbH in Munich.

role description actor Voice actor
Nathan Appleby psychologist Colin Morgan Julian Manuel
Charlotte Appleby photographer Charlotte Spencer Sophie Rogall
Gideon Langtree elderly farm worker Malcolm Storry Erich Ludwig
Gwen Pearce Housemaid Kerrie Hayes Stefanie Dischinger
Matthew Denning Pastor's family Nicholas Woodeson Wolfgang Müller
Mary Denning Marianne Oldham Tinka Kleffner
Harriet Denning Tallulah Haddon Kathrin Hanak
William Payne Farm neighbor Davis Oakes Manou Lubowski
Lara Nathan's descendant Chloe Pirrie Tatiana Pokorny

Production and publication

Screenwriter Ashley Pharoah was hired by BBC Cymru Wales to create a television series about Victorian ghosts. His writing partner Matthew Graham of the series Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes was originally supposed to be there, but dropped out for Childhood's End . After Alice Troughton joined as director, she suggested Colin Morgan to play the main character. Pharoah came across actress Charlotte Spencer through the series Glue . The soundtrack for the series comes from the band The Insects .

BBC announced the series and the two main actors in early August 2015. On June 17, 2016, the series was released as a box set on BBC iPlayer and aired on BBC One from June 28 to August 2, 2016 . On August 12, the BBC announced that it would not be renewed. The season was released in German on April 7, 2017 on Prime Video .

reception

Kayla Cobb for Decider sees in The Living and the Dead the two directions that Victorian period drama can take united: hot stories with sexy and forbidden affairs or the creepy setting for horror films. She also describes the series as a copy of Downton Abbey with the Mysteries of Lorraine and Ed Warren .

Danette Chavez for AV Club sees an overload of topics and genres. It is obvious that the makers have had difficulty settling on a genre, and it seems as if they have become too greedy or confused with their goals. But she praises the two main characters and their actors. Nathan changes from the archetypal, elegant Victorian gentleman to the tormented Byronian hero and Charlotte can be a spiritual descendant of Jane Eyre .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Living and the Dead. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on March 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Usman Mullan: The Living and the Dead: Ashley Pharoah on the Writing Process . In: BBC . June 29, 2016. Accessed March 19, 2020.
  3. ^ The Insects: The Living and the Dead . November 10, 2015. Accessed March 19, 2020.
  4. ↑ Colin Morgan and Charlotte Spencer set to thrill in new supernatural BBC One drama The Living And The Dead . In: BBC . August 7, 2015. Accessed March 19, 2020.
  5. ↑ Bernd Krannich: "The Living and the Dead": BBC with a broadcast strategy for historical horror drama . In: fernsehserien.de . June 15, 2016. Accessed March 19, 2020.
  6. ^ Morgan Jeffery: The Living and the Dead will not be returning for a second series, BBC confirms . In: Digital Spy . August 12, 2016. Accessed March 19, 2020.
  7. ↑ Kayla Cobb: Cult Corner: 'The Living and the Dead' Is The Steamy British Series All About Ghosts . In: Decider . August 2, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  8. ↑ Danette Chavez: The Living And The Dead is a gorgeous, jumbled ghost story . In: AV Club . October 27, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2020.