Evil

Parent tag: television

Evil S4 ★★★☆☆

Poster.

I was not really expecting the overarching plotlines to go anywhere, this show has a habit of forgetting anything ongoing at the drop of a hat, but that went even less anywhere than I ever could have expected. It felt like it was spinning its wheels for a while and didn’t know what to really do with anything and it certainly proved that feeling correct. It’s still fun up until the end with Michael Emerson continuing to be a highlight throughout.


Evil S3 ★★★★☆

This review contains spoilers. Poster.

I thought that the overarching plots had stalled a bit and then a group of children doxxed the main villain and publicly accused him of being a paedophile in a kids’ browser game. Incredible television.

Though them trying to do is-it-real-or-not with the demonic visions is really wearing thin at this point. If they aren’t then there must be something very worrying in the New York water supply considering that every major character has been seeing demons regularly at this point.



Evil S1 ★★★☆☆

Poster.

Silly little procedural with an arc plot of the very obviously made up as it goes along variety. It is always a bit fun to see what they’ll do next in this kind of show and unlike most of them it has Michael Emerson who is always a delight as a villain.

It does occasionally—Exorcism Part 2 in particular—slap you in the face with the fact that you are watching a procedural where the characters are working for an even more evil organisation than the police: The Catholic Church.