Stan Against Evil

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Season 1
  • Network: IFC
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 31, 2016
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
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Critic Reviews

  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    Oct 31, 2016
    70
    Stan Against Evil is a slight and silly horror comedy that knows what its limitations are and does its best to be amusing despite them.
  2. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    Nov 2, 2016
    67
    Stan Against Evil toys with horror cliches and assures you that whatever you fear, something worse--or funnier--is right around the corner.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ray Rahman
    Oct 31, 2016
    67
    [Stan] and his partner, played by Janet Varney, offer some amusing moments, but there's a snag: Stan is just barely funnier than the thing he's parodying. [4 Nov 2016, p.56]
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  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Nov 1, 2016
    60
    Stan Against Evil is light, if violent, entertainment. The jokes are moderately funny, the characters two-and-a-half dimensional.
  6. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Erik Adams
    Oct 31, 2016
    58
    Stan Against Evil isn’t quite there yet, and it’s early installments are still working out the finer points of its monster-of-the-week structure.
  7. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Nov 1, 2016
    50
    An inconsistent, but sporadically effective horror-comedy that often rises to the level of "just fine" and periodically even hits "pretty good," thanks in huge part to the central star turn by John C. McGinley.
  8. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Oct 31, 2016
    50
    It’s silly fun without breaking any new ground, although the show’s title is unfortunate because it unnecessarily evokes the funnier, bloodier “Ash vs Evil Dead” on Starz.
  9. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Aaron Riccio
    Oct 31, 2016
    12
    Whereas The Evil Dead‘s Ash was capable of change, Stan’s nothing more than an insufferably sexist and homophobic throwback, willing to risk everyone’s life in order to prove that Starsky and Hutch were secretly gay.

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User Score
6.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 32 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 32
  3. Negative: 7 out of 32
  1. miknwilkes
    Nov 3, 2016
    9
    Not as bad as some would have you believe. Yes, the hero is a sexist d-bag, but sometimes heroes don't fit perfectly in boxes of virtue andNot as bad as some would have you believe. Yes, the hero is a sexist d-bag, but sometimes heroes don't fit perfectly in boxes of virtue and political correctness. If your problem with the show is Stan's character flaws, then piss off, you are taking that social justice warrior thing WAY too seriously.… Full Review »
  2. bigbot70
    Nov 12, 2016
    9
    So we have a gruff anti-hero. A small town ravaged by evil/undead/supernatural type things. A small cast to support and provide exposition.So we have a gruff anti-hero. A small town ravaged by evil/undead/supernatural type things. A small cast to support and provide exposition. Lots of blood and gore.

    Is it Ash Vs Evil Dead? Well...no actually, while it might draw parallels, the show feels very different. The hero is brusque in a different way (and not as selfish as Ash) but it's great fun just the same.

    The humour works for the most part (as tired as sexist anti-heroes can be, John C makes it work well in a very sympathetic way). The plots are good and there are enough elements of horror and comedy without the over the top direction Ash Vs. Evil dead has gone in.

    Long may thing continue (though if producers want to make a Stan Vs Ash show, I would not complain at all.    … Full Review »
  3. jamess
    Nov 11, 2016
    5
    I know Bruce Campbell. I've enjoyed Bruce Campbell for decades. You, John C McGinley sir, are no Bruce Campbell. And I've enjoyed McGinley inI know Bruce Campbell. I've enjoyed Bruce Campbell for decades. You, John C McGinley sir, are no Bruce Campbell. And I've enjoyed McGinley in all his Oliver Stone supporting roles, and, of course Scrubs. But Stan Against Evil (a nice play on words of Stand Against Evil) is such a carbon copy of Evil Dead, and sp. Ash Vs Evil Dead, it barely "stans" a chance. The ghouls look like the Evil Dead ghouls. The skewed camera angles look like The Evil Dead. Even Stan's character, with his insults and attitude, is Ash-lite. So why even watch when Ash season 2 is currently on Starz? John C McGinley. Any good will I have for this show is entirely due to him. I'd say a definite watch if you don't have Starz. If you do, then why bother?… Full Review »
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