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Evil

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Generally favorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews

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Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Ratings

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Evil

Series Details & Credits

CBS | Paramount+ | Release Date: September 26, 2019

Summary: David Acosta priest-in-training (Mike Colter) recruits Kristen Bouchard, a forensic psychologist (Katja Herbers) and Ben, a carpenter (Aasif Mandvi) to help him evaluate if the phenomena reported to the church has scientific explanations or are actually supernatural in this series from from Robert and Michelle King.

Genre(s): Drama

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Critic Reviews

100

Entertainment Weekly

Darren Franich

Jul 19, 2021

Season 2 Review: The series juggles a demon-embryo mythology with spiritual inquisition. Doing all that, while also bringing artful sensitivity back to the procedural genre? Calling Evil a miracle is too modest. It's a revelation. [Aug 2021, p.59]

90

Vanity Fair

Richard Lawson

Jun 17, 2021

Season 2 Review: Cheery Evil is not. But it remains riveting television, mordant and sinister with a faint sadness hanging around its edges. Read full review

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IndieWire Steve Greene

Jun 21, 2021

Season 2 Review: The deeper that “Evil” gets into its mythology, the more it feels like a magician offering an inside look at how they do their tricks. For those who enjoy “Evil” for its web of sigils and exorcisms, Season 2 still has plenty to offer. Read full review

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CNN

Brian Lowry

Sep 25, 2019

Season 1 Review: What sounds painfully familiar -- in a "A priest and a psychologist walk into a police station" sort of way -- proves unexpectedly compelling. Read full review

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Reason.com

Glenn Garvin

Sep 29, 2019

Season 1 Review: Though Evil manages some truly unnerving moments, particularly the scenes with the lascivious demon, it's more about ideas than the pea-soup-vomiting stuff audiences usually expect from stories about demons and exorcism. In post-Kardashian America, it may be too late to convince viewers that evil is more than a matter of table manners. Read full review

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TVLine

Dave Nemetz

Sep 19, 2019

Season 1 Review: The pilot spins an involving yarn, only to rush through it and wrap it up in too tidy a fashion. But the foundation is strong, and I’m interested to see where Herbers takes this complex character of hers. Mulder and Scully might not be coming back to primetime anytime soon… but Evil‘s dynamic duo might be the next best thing. Read full review

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Rolling Stone

Alan Sepinwall

Sep 24, 2019

Season 1 Review: By going with a trio rather than a duo, and making both Kristen and Ben doubters, the Kings try to sidestep the binary believer vs. skeptic set-up that was so familiar from X-Files and its many imitators. But this approach can feel muddled, with stories generating problems for both skeptics to solve via their respective specialties, while there’s not a lot of tension between them and David. ... But it’s when Evil lives up to its name that it’s most interesting. Read full review

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MarcDoyle

Feb 16, 2020

Just finished the season finale, and I'm close to saying definitively that this is the most interesting, most progressive show on network television. I'm a little shocked that it wasn't nominated for emmmys/golden globes. The lead actress (from WestWorld) is phenomenal, and her twoJust finished the season finale, and I'm close to saying definitively that this is the most interesting, most progressive show on network television. I'm a little shocked that it wasn't nominated for emmmys/golden globes. The lead actress (from WestWorld) is phenomenal, and her two investigation partners are amazing. The character of Leland (Ben from Lost) is perfectly diabolical, and the demons/devils are understated and hilarious. It's the perfect way to balance the intensity of the subject matter, which can get heavy.… Expand

0 of 3 users found this helpful03

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AthanasiosT

Oct 31, 2019

The show is a cross between psychological thriller and horror and it delivers on both aspects. Gave me the creeps, without using splatter or extreme violence. Well directed, shot and acted, it's a favorite for this winter. Special congratulations for Michael Emerson's acting, which created aThe show is a cross between psychological thriller and horror and it delivers on both aspects. Gave me the creeps, without using splatter or extreme violence. Well directed, shot and acted, it's a favorite for this winter. Special congratulations for Michael Emerson's acting, which created a villain to remember.… Expand

1 of 5 users found this helpful14

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ShadowMan64

May 24, 2020

This show is really great. It's sorta like X-Files but with the supernatural stuff being more religious.

1 of 2 users found this helpful11

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Tyviette

Oct 7, 2020

(This is intended to be a spoiler-free review.) A great start to a show gone horribly wrong. Think Goosebumps for intellectually-numbed adults. The transition from blossoming supernatural/psychological thriller hybrid to confused satire is painfully tangible, and the only reason I continued(This is intended to be a spoiler-free review.) A great start to a show gone horribly wrong. Think Goosebumps for intellectually-numbed adults. The transition from blossoming supernatural/psychological thriller hybrid to confused satire is painfully tangible, and the only reason I continued watching after Rose390 was to see how it ended so that I could be through with the show and the investment I'd already made up to that point. The writers are complete boomers, and it shows in the cringeworthy, minimal-effort way modern technology and the Internet are painted. The dialogue is implicitly misogynistic and racist at nearly every turn, if not just plain prejudiced. The writing only gets worse and worse, and what used to be a fairly believable, immersive world quickly dissolves with lazy, silly interactions, random awful actors popping in, and soapbox-tier twists. There are some genuinely tense and gripping moments, but these are outweighed and washed away by the number of times I wanted to go back and smack the pencil out of the writer's hand out of frustration. The end of the first season makes absolutely no sense and leaves so many more details unexplained and outright contradicted. I don't even know who the intended audience is, because that seems to shift with every episode. I am deeply disappointed, and I know the Kings could've done better, because there are some stellar moments and performances in here. I can only recommend watching this show if you go in thinking of it as a parody or college production.… Expand

1 of 2 users found this helpful11

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cbeebumble

Dec 21, 2019

Meh. Annoying screaming little girls, with an apparent lack of adult supervision. Idiot grandmother with ridiculously poor judgement, who looks to be too close in age to her daughter. Daughter(Kristen) who looks way older than her said 30's. Why is there even a husband if we never hear orMeh. Annoying screaming little girls, with an apparent lack of adult supervision. Idiot grandmother with ridiculously poor judgement, who looks to be too close in age to her daughter. Daughter(Kristen) who looks way older than her said 30's. Why is there even a husband if we never hear or see him? And he's an Mount Everest Guide??!! What's the rationale for that? But then what's the rationale for sooo many things..... If they made the show a bit Campier then I could get onboard.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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doccar123

Oct 15, 2019

SJW checklist: 1. Black man white woman attraction. 2. Nothing pale, male, stale as lead. 3. White man bad. 4. Christianity bad. 5. Marriage nothing special.

8 of 14 users found this helpful86

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laciaty101

Aug 1, 2021

Looked interesting until the bit where the main suspect was demonically possessed through 4 chan Disappointing.

0 of 1 users found this helpful01

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 3

tbd
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: June 12, 2022
- No episode information is currently available for this season
Season 2

84
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: June 20, 2021
Season 1

76
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 26, 2019