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- 2019
- TV-14
- CBS
- 2019
- TV-14
- CBS
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.
Created By: Michelle King, Robert King
- 2019
- TV-14
- CBS
- 2019
- TV-14
- CBS
Evil
Season 1 Premiere: Sep 26, 2019
6.4
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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.
Created By: Michelle King, Robert King
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
82
94% Positive
29 Reviews
29 Reviews
6% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
82
94% Positive
29 Reviews
29 Reviews
6% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Tn its third season, this former CBS show retains the fundamental forward momentum of a network procedural, even when it merrily throws the formula out the window. ... So many horrible things keep happening on Evil, yet everyone always seems to be having fun. Joy this nasty is positively blasphemous.
Dynamite entertainment. ... So gorgeously twisted I can only conclude it was Heaven-sent. [5 - 18 Jul 2021, p.9]
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 140 User Ratings
6.4
63% Positive
88 Ratings
88 Ratings
12% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
25% Negative
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 140 User Ratings
6.4
63% Positive
88 Ratings
88 Ratings
12% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
25% Negative
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
This show is really great. It's sorta like X-Files but with the supernatural stuff being more religious.
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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 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.
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Despite a lack of answers (at least in the first trio of installments), several unfinished storylines return in promising form. The cast is top-notch, and there’s never a dull moment thanks to smorgasbord of horny demons.
Evil continues its smart combination of weekly cases with strong character arcs, all with the Kings’ dry sense of humor intact throughout the first episode of Season 3.
The show’s so-far two-handed central relationship — believably at-odds without being stagily prickly — is helped along by two strong performances. ... By the time the episode ends, the viewer will already have come to expect a great deal from “Evil,” a show whose classically elegant construction and sharp sense of itself augur great things ahead.
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.
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.
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 a villain to remember.
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(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.
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My biggest problem with the show are not the daughters or the liberal cringe. No, the problem with the show lies in its very premise. A scientific view of the world is not compatible with a supernatural view of the world. And any attempt to marry both is going to do a disservice to either one or both of them. I can't speak for the religious side (although many reviews on here clearly seem to indicate that they don't approve, either), but to me, the bias against science became clear the minute when I grew increasingly annoyed at the reason-driven characters trying to rationally explain what was clearly supernatural. As a writer, you're free to create any reality you like. And that's fine. But if you try to use your fantastical version of reality to make claims about reality, you're no longer just telling a story. You're actively lying. And this show is lying. It pretends to discuss big themes, but all it really does is use the freedom of writing to confirm the convicitons the writers already have. If a character has a crisis of faith, the show's writers will develop the plot in a way that proves the character wrong for doubting. In reality, of course, things would play out differently.
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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 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.
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Production Company:
- King Size Productions
- CBS Television Studios
Initial Release Date: Sep 26, 2019
Number of seasons: 4 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Critics Choice Super Awards
• 14 Nominations
Critics Choice Awards
• 7 Nominations
Pena de Prata
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
