User Reviews

I can see some of the reviews being left in here are by those who wish to never see politics in the shows they view. That is understandable, if not a bit extreme, but in my view, it can be done tastefully and with class as it was in this episode. It fits with the story as opposed to existing in the episode for its own sake.

Politics aside, this episode was a wild ride. The progression with the characters and the use of the Elevator Game as the focus for this week's case was excellent. Not to spoil anything, but it was awesome the way the case was solved and the disappearances of the two youths was explained in a practical sense. I put myself in Ben's position at a certain scene in the episode, and it was a terrifying thought. I believe this show is doing a great job of building a bond between the audience and the characters as I felt invested in the outcomes and wellbeing of each of the main protagonists.

The first season was good. The second season is messed up in all the right ways. Yes, this episode had some "political" content, but taken in context, it fits with the overall narrative. The spooks are getting spookier, and the characters are developing nicely. It's given me a reason to look forward to Sundays again...

The elevator girl... geesh. Normally this show is slightly spooky, but this episode was scary! Real horror. Great episode! I do wish her kids weren't so loud in every scene they're in.

Politics doesn't bother me.

Good stories, good actors thrill me.

This show could certainly be better (if the three amigos shared more, if the arc moved a little faster, etc.), but, as it is, it is still the best show on streaming platforms. I especially love the dream and nightmare scenes.

And, yes! Let's have a third season!

Which makes Evil a unique show, particularly in the supernatural/horror space, one that crosses over with the comic fanboy demo. Thus it is no surprise that several written reviews basically react with horror at the very mention of race--which is not the first time that race or what the Incel/Fanboy Right calls politics which automatically destroys this genre for these snowflakes who have a computer always at their hands.

What is unrealistic and annoying is how insidiously a show like The Walking Dead avoids confronting politics as politics. And this starts from the first season where the beginning promotes Morgan and his boy from the walk-on they have in the comic on. But Morgan leaves the narrative almost as soon as he is invoked. This type of representation is in fact a signaling, but the TWD is almost comical in its undermining of this gesture. By the third season, viewers could bet on when a black member of the cast would die as the sole red shirt in an operation. The same thing can be shown in how the show treats women or even the fact that the collapse embodied by the zombies was actually in progress politically and environmentally. To a naive viewer--the fanboy mentioned above--this avoidance with allusion may seem "sophisticated", while the show's figuring of white male vigilanteism as canny, when it embodies a wish fulfillment of a correlative accelerationist attitude that fans of TWD probably indulge in.

If any show is spoiled by how it treats politics, it is TWD. Evil on the other hand is as subtle in its treatment issues of religion, race, gender and conflict as it is surprising in how its premises are developed. It is no surprise that fanboys looking for jump scares are intimidated by a show which is thrillingly realistic about how comic book style "evil" can enter people's lives.

I already had a problem with lifts/elevators. Now I really don't want to get in one! Entertaining episode though season one generally much better. I understand what viewers are saying about the politics and yes the child actors are annoying but I think Katya Herbers is great and hopefully she gets more to do as the season progresses.

The most sublimely irritating children in television history reach their zenith in the episode (let us hope). Every scene in which. Kristen's children are depicted, the audience finds itself screaming "Shut up!" in hopes that the lead character might be somehow inspired.

It's hard to imagine that any amount of overindulgence could possibly create such a catastrophic collection of annoyingly aggravating offspring. Only 8 minutes into the episode and I had to stop to write this review in the hope that I might find some catharsis that would keep me from injuring my hand as I attempt to reaching into the video screen to slap each and every one of them. They are like baby birds in an overcrowded nest. Their demands, however, are not for sustenance, but for chronic "me-too-ism".

-- Not a spoiler if you've watched the episodes that lead up to this one --

At this point in the series, the story appears to be implying that one of her four terrors (daughters) is possessed from inception due to the nefarious activities of a fertility clinic. It's not an especially large leap so suspect that they are all possessed.

If this is not, in fact, the worst of their appearances in the series, I will have to start keeping my hand on the skip button or give up watching altogether.

Well, they had to go and ruin a perfectly good show with politics. This is where I get off thank you very much for one good season. I won't be playing anymore elevator games anytime soon, even if they have already been green lit for a third season. When will these people learn we watch these shows for entertainment not to be preached to. I wanted jump scares and thrills not politics and snooze fest. Too bad they had a really good cast.

Aaand of course, they just had to get some woke points with Trump, the race card, blm... so original and brave !!

How about you work harder on that thin main story, instead of preaching to us like so so many other shows ...

Can't you tell a story without going into politics and racism? The annoying kids again to boot.

Those kids are the worst things ever (and I love kids), not to mention to think any mother would put her kids in potential harms way like that is just totally unbelievable.

I'm done with this series and all that is CBS.