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RogerEbert.comMay 22, 2024
Season 4 Review:
It’s like nothing else on television. The start of the fourth season bursts out of the gate with two of the best episodes in the history of “Evil,” followed by a pair of episodes that are creatively rockier yet still captivating. “Evil” takes big swings—even the ones that don’t connect are fascinating. And weird as Hell.
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Jun 15, 2022
Season 3 Review:
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.
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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]
May 16, 2024
Season 4 Review:
The new episodes mine creative ways to challenge their psyches individually and as a group. Herbers, Colter, and Mandvi have always been electric, but their dynamic peaks as they deal with possessed pigs, a manipulative robot, and a portal to Hell in a particle collider.
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TV Guide MagazineMay 31, 2024
Season 4 Review:
Satan's sidekick is no match for a wailing baby spewing bodily fluids. No sitcom this year has made me howl harder than the sight of comedy legend Andrea Martin as a nun fending off ghoulish demons only she can see with a pair of giant garden shears. .... Evil gleefully depicts the best and worst of all fantasy worlds, and I'm going to miss it. [3 - 23 Jun 2024, p.4]
TV Guide MagazineJul 1, 2021
Season 2 Review:
Dynamite entertainment. ... So gorgeously twisted I can only conclude it was Heaven-sent. [5 - 18 Jul 2021, p.9]
RogerEbert.comSep 25, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It is excellent. ... It’s got what you might call “The X-Files” energy—and that’s no small thing. ... “EVIL,” is a finely constructed, thoughtful, potentially addictive procedural about a hot priest-to-be, a gifted psychologist, and a dishwater-fixing hacker who team up to fight demonic Alexas and prove or disprove miracles, and you should watch it. Just trust me on this one.
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Sep 23, 2019
Season 1 Review:
While the supernatural can take this in directions you probably don’t want to go, the researchers (played by Mike Colter, Katja Herbers and Aasif Mandvi) do get moments of clarity. The show’s best bet is Michael Emerson as a pot stirrer who uses technology to cause problems.
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Jul 14, 2021
Season 2 Review:
From the moment Emerson appears, it’s clear he knows what show he’s on, just waiting for the rest of the cast to catch up. And as of Season 2, which saw the series jump from CBS to Paramount+, they have. ... Evil knows the evils of humanity are human, and by not taking the face of religion seriously, it can access a real truth: At night, fear of the boogeyman can keep us safe—but so can laughing in the daylight at those same scares.
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Jun 21, 2021
Season 2 Review:
Delaying tactics are the price of doing open-ended horror 13 episodes at a time. Happily, the business in the foreground of “Evil” remains more than sufficiently entertaining. ... Beyond what some might consider a too-deliberate pace, there isn’t a lot to complain about with “Evil.”
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Sep 26, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Evil never feels unfocused. It shifts between tones easily and authoritatively. Some series take a while to find their footing and rhythm. Based on the first four episodes, Evil is immediately confident in its multifaceted identity and interest in raising ideological questions, giving it a depth too often lacking in broadcast television.
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Sep 16, 2019
Season 1 Review:
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.
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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.
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IndieWireSep 26, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Getting past the easy signifiers to what really distinguishes David’s and Kristen’s (or Ben’s or Leland’s) views on their intended subjects will help give those characters — and the viewers who follow them — better answers. Even if those perspectives are different, it’s the discussions of those diverging ideas of obligation, morality, and belief that separate this from recent shows that have tried to bring religious ideas into a mainstream offering. So far, it’s an admirable attempt, if sometimes overly simplistic. If there’s a willingness to go further, there are deeper mysteries waiting to be explored.
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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.
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Jun 17, 2021
Season 2 Review:
Unburdened by the constraints of broadcast, Evil is leaning into freedom so hard that it’s done away with any guardrails that previously made its complex story work. In opening up every possibility for its cases and characters regarding the push and pull of the secular and the divine, the series does occasionally need to stop hiding in the lofty ideals of its narrative agnosticism and pick a side.
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Jun 18, 2021
Season 2 Review:
“Evil” is the rare show that’s both frequently scary — one jump-scare was enough that my reaction scared my dog sitting next to me on the couch — but in a generally sophisticated way. ... Episodes three and four of “Evil’s” second season, particularly three, are less commendable, splitting up the lead trio for too long and sending characters on paths that lack clear motivation.
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Sep 26, 2019
Season 1 Review:
This is my way of saying that Evil is decent and, by whatever measuring stick I'm using on this fall's broadcast premieres, probably better than decent. It's a show with some tonal ambition, blending scares and laughs and occasional philosophical and spiritual investigation.
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Sep 25, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Some of the hallmarks of those [Robert and Michelle King] shows are present: crisp pace and fluent dialogue; a self-conscious focus on trendy tech; a female lead struggling with work-life balance (the psychologist, played by Katja Herbers); the pleasure of Mike Colter’s laid-back basso in the role of the team leader. ... The show drifts along in a nebulous and not very interesting middle ground. ... If the Kings commit to the horror — and give Emerson more to do — “Evil” might become a less refined but more entertaining show.
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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.
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