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👿 Prepare to confront the depths of human depravity with our comprehensive recap of "Evil" Season 1! If you're a fan of chilling mysteries, psychological th...
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Evil Season 1 RecapQuick Recap before Season 3 of Evil on paramount plus due to drop June 12, 2022.Lofi Music Featured in VideoLofi Girl:Xander. X Philip Som...
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"Watch the preview trailer for Evil, a psychological mystery from Michelle and Robert King, the creators of The Good Wife and The Good Fight, that examines t...
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Here's my review of the TV series Evil.First episode date: September 26, 2019Network: CBSNumber of episodes: 13No. of episodes: 13 (list of episodes)Number o...
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By Alicia Lutes
Updated: Dec 15, 2020 9:00 pm
Posted: Nov 7, 2020 7:39 pm
This is a spoiler-free review for CBS' Evil: Season 1, which is now available to stream on CBS All Access and Netflix.
If you’re suddenly seeing a lot of chatter about a show called Evil, you’re not alone. Last month, CBS dropped the first season on Netflix, increasing viewer awareness for this highly bingeable procedural. And if your eyes rolled at the word "procedural" — reconsider. Evil takes its old-school format and twists it gleefully, thanks to its excellent writing and acting, helmed by married showrunners Michelle and Robert King. As the co-creators of The Good Wife, its addictive spinoff The Good Fight, and the maddeningly underrated, single-season gem BrainDead, the Kings are known for bringing excitement and bombast to genres long considered stale. And with Evil, they’ve done it again, only instead of politics, they’re exploring psychology and religion.
With campy, supernatural tomfoolery at its heart, the drama follows an X-Files-esque format, teaming up skeptical lapsed Catholic and forensic psychologist Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers) with believer and church investigator-slash-priest-in-training David Acosta (Mike Colter) as they tackle a myriad host of alleged demons, miracles, prophets, possessions, and other supernatural mysteries for the church. The duo is joined by Ben (Aasif Mandvi) - another skeptic and the tech guru of the team - as each case is shown to have a bit of “what if both sides are a little bit right and a little bit wrong?” curiosity to them, furthering the larger mystery of the series.
Filling out the cast is an excellent cavalcade of guest stars including the likes of Hamilton star Renee Elise Goldsberry and Christine Lahti, the latter of whom gets tied up in the decidedly.. well, evil subplot involving a rival forensic psychologist named Leland Townsend. Played by the master of TV Scary Guy Acting, Michael Emerson, the role turns up the creepy camp to eleven, and makes the show all-the-more exciting to watch. Known for playing the most unsettling characters on TV, Emerson really relishes it here, making us delight and recoil in equal measure, often at the same time. We’d, of course, be remiss if we didn’t mention the hilarious excellence of a certain character named George, but it’s much more fun to go on the journey of who George is than read it in a review. Just trust us, you’re going to love George.
Watching all thirteen episodes of the first season in one weekend is not only doable, it’s likely. The story weaves its way addictively through its weekly and overarching storylines, leaving you hard-pressed to not, uh, press, the next episode button.
Evil delights and engages with its creepy, dramatic, and oftentimes hilarious storytelling - making it the perfect show to binge-watch over the coming months. With a stacked cast and equally stacked writer’s room, CBS has a real delight on its hands, sure to only grow its audience thanks to its recent debut on Netflix.
Dec 28, 2021. Evil is provocative pop-horror that never forgets how fun it is to scare ourselves, and how absurd our fears can sometimes be. Oct 26, 2021. The dialogue is smart, the characters ...
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Aug 22, 2024 · Fear of the End: Directed by Robert King. With Katja Herbers, Mike Colter, Aasif Mandvi, Kurt Fuller. An ominous countdown begins after the Bouchard girls start a new game on their VR goggles.
