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Evil
Okay, so I caught up with the first four episodes of Evil (on CBS), and it's definitely my kind of thing. It's basically Miracles, for the three people who remember that show, with a little more X-Files-y ambiguity. Mike Colter from Luke Cage plays a hot not-quite-priest (smart money says he won't make it to the vow of celibacy), Katja Herbers from Westworld is our civilian Scully, Aasif Mandvi is their tech guru, and Michael Emerson is... the title character, I guess. Which he seems to be having some fun with.
But I did have some quibbles about last week's episode, so I thought I'd stick those here:
This was a really creepy episode, and it could have been a powerful one, but they didn't quite stick the landing. You're telling me a 9-year-old tried to drown his baby sister and you don't call the cops? And there's no social service that will take a homicidal sociopathic kid out of his home for the protection of his siblings? Given the show's framework, you could probably sell me on the idea that someone like Leland was pulling the strings within the court system to maximize the family's pain, but I didn't see any evidence of that. And as parents, if you're religious enough to call the Church to see if your son is possessed, how do you not go through with the exorcism before taking more dire action? It just didn't quite gel.
On the flip side, I was pretty effectively terrified by the parts with Kristen's children and the demonic VR girl straight out of The Shining. And maybe we're supposed to wonder if dad's already dead, but I'm counting down the weeks til he shows up with a demonic hitchhiker. Those poor kids.
But I did have some quibbles about last week's episode, so I thought I'd stick those here:
This was a really creepy episode, and it could have been a powerful one, but they didn't quite stick the landing. You're telling me a 9-year-old tried to drown his baby sister and you don't call the cops? And there's no social service that will take a homicidal sociopathic kid out of his home for the protection of his siblings? Given the show's framework, you could probably sell me on the idea that someone like Leland was pulling the strings within the court system to maximize the family's pain, but I didn't see any evidence of that. And as parents, if you're religious enough to call the Church to see if your son is possessed, how do you not go through with the exorcism before taking more dire action? It just didn't quite gel.
On the flip side, I was pretty effectively terrified by the parts with Kristen's children and the demonic VR girl straight out of The Shining. And maybe we're supposed to wonder if dad's already dead, but I'm counting down the weeks til he shows up with a demonic hitchhiker. Those poor kids.