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- 2015
- TV-MA
- Starz
- 2015
- TV-MA
- Starz
Summary The comedic horror series from by Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell finds Ash trying to keep away from the Evil Dead for the past 30 years. When a Deadite plague breaks out, a reluctant Ash with the help of Pablo Simon Bolivar (Ray Santiago) and Kelly Maxwell (Dana Delorenzo) try to end Evil once and for all.
- 2015
- TV-MA
- Starz
- 2015
- TV-MA
- Starz
Ash Vs. Evil Dead
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 31, 2015
76
8.7
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Summary The comedic horror series from by Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell finds Ash trying to keep away from the Evil Dead for the past 30 years. When a Deadite plague breaks out, a reluctant Ash with the help of Pablo Simon Bolivar (Ray Santiago) and Kelly Maxwell (Dana Delorenzo) try to end Evil once and for all.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
76
91% Positive
29 Reviews
29 Reviews
9% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
76
91% Positive
29 Reviews
29 Reviews
9% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It’s chewy popcorn television, where everything zips by at face value, from the laughs to the thrills to the kills, and once again, Ash Vs. Evil Dead delivers this mayhem with gutsy results.
While it’s hard to say if Ash vs. Evil Dead is the best it’s ever been this year, the series does feel as invested in these characters as ever before.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 600 User Ratings
8.7
91% Positive
543 Ratings
543 Ratings
5% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
5% Negative
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 600 User Ratings
8.7
91% Positive
543 Ratings
543 Ratings
5% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
5% Negative
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
This is an extremely biased review by a horror and Evil Dead Fan. Watch this show! This show has a very specific type of humor that I feel will either be a hit or a miss to some people. For me it was a hit. Give this show a chance or you might be missing something especial.
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It's so so good, started rewatching it again recently. I don't think you have to have seen the original movies but it would probably help. Bruce Campbell is still amazing as Ash and the supporting 2 cast members are both great as well. Super underrated show. It's on Netflix now!
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When the stump of Ash’s right arm connects once more with his famous chain saw, you know it’s time to party, and pretty soon everything in the show looks like an explosion at the Ragu spaghetti-sauce factory. It is indeed the happiest of Halloweens.
Ash’s vivacious vocabulary is largely intact, but this series needs more creativity in its stories, side characters (who’ve more than earned their own plots) and action scenes--not just in dumping blood everywhere.
The gore and the laughs begin almost at once as the series begins and never let up.
All in all, after two episodes, I hope it becomes more of its own thing instead of reminding me of things I liked in the past, but I’m willing to take the journey to see if it gets there.
The show is mostly useful as a vengeful reverse prank on greedy legions of trick-or-treaters. Make sure your tube is prominently visible as you open the door to the kids, and give them a compulsive need for years of therapy along with their Butterfingers.
I want to express my disagreement, because we won't have a fourth season. Regrettable!
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the series does a great job of Comedy Horror which is hard to pull off
while its no master storytelling its fun and interesting and thats all that matters for Evil Dead to me
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Whether you like Ash VS Evil Dead depends entirely on your sense of humor. This is a comedy horror that leans in on playing around with horror tropes and not on anything else. An example is Ash himself; too self-assured, too heavyset, and too crude. He wields a chainsaw as his right hand and a shotgun in the left and he happily murders you when you get on the wrong end of both. He is both hero and anti-hero. And he always wears his blue worker shirt. Perhaps a reference to being a blue-collar worker? Who knows?
The strength of the series is also its weakness. Poking fun at horror tropes might work for a single movie and might be repeated for another a few years later, but it runs into issues in a series that gets spread out over several seasons in close succession. It is like zombie movies. Zombies are the challenge at first, but once the dust has settled, it is humans that become the greater danger and the series relegate the zombies to the background. This happens in the Walking Dead, this happens in Z Nation, this happens in Black Summer and this happens in many others.
The problem with Ash VS Evil Dead is that it chains itself to these tropes. This becomes noticeable in season two. Again we see a group of young pretty people getting horribly murdered in silly ways. And again there is a hot girl/woman that turns out to be a Deadite. And yet again almost everyone does the same stupid things: exploring creepy places and sounds, running away and falling, then crawling instead of getting up and running, hiding in places that are so obvious, splitting up in the face of danger.
These issues get worse because the main characters did not learn from their experiences from the first season. Body on the ground; examine it: oops it jumps up. Someone proposes a deal too good to be true: fall for it anyway. Someone appears in a corridor and waves: investigate without warning the others. This is next to issues like: how come this diverse group is still hanging out with the unlikable Ash after season one?
This was fun in the first season, but in the second it gets stale quick. The second season simply goes for a reset so they can redo the first season as Ash VS Evil Dead is a comedy horror that leans in on playing around with horror tropes and not on anything else. Like a hamster in cage wheel it runs and goes nowhere fast.
That there is a third season is surprising, but not too much so. Perhaps the powers-that-be hoped for the best. There is a dedicated following that wants to see the same thing over and over: Ash murdering stuff. But a niche audience might make for high scores on Metacritic and Imdb, but fails regarding the bottom-line. In the end, it is all about the money and a select audience does not court the advertisers.
I found season one is fun, season two wore me out and season three I didn’t see. To the niche audience: Guys if you want to see another Ash VS Evil Dead I guess you have to crowdfund it or wait for a decade(or three). Good luck.
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Production Company:
- Renaissance Pictures
- Starz Originals
- New Zealand Film Commission
Initial Release Date: Oct 31, 2015
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
• 4 Wins & 8 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
iHorror Awards
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
