Macabre…ish Horror Review: EVIL

 

EVIL, 2019/ 4 Seasons

 

The church is busy sending out investigators to check into cases of possible possessions, miracles and suspected prophets. And they are sending out Priest-in-Training, David Acosta (Mike Colter). He does interviews, goes to court, he talks to everyone to get the facts.

 

 

And at the same time, there’s Dr. Kristen Brouchard who is a contract therapist. She works in the same circles as David but for different reasons, she does interviews with people with suspected mental illness. Mostly people who are going on trial, so she’s contracted as an expert and testifies about their mental state.

 

 

The church wants to hire an outsider, a skeptic to help them prove or disprove instances of possession, etc. And because Kristen is known to David, he puts in a good word for her. So she is contracted by the church. Now both she and David investigate their cases together, him from the spiritual/biblical point of view and she from the medical/scientific pov.

 

The minute Dr. Broushard is hired she starts getting night terrors and visited by a demon named George (Marti Matulis).

 

 

Kristen can’t tell if George is real or just a character in her dreams. The way he shows up in her life, he seems to be real. Her runs through her house, her daughters have seen him and he urinates in the corner of her bedroom as proof of his existence. But on the other hand, he disappears once she’s awake and he looks exactly like a character in a tv show. That she hasn’t seen.

 

David and Kristen also have the technical help of Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi). His job is to make sure any recorded evidence hasn’t been manufactured or a glitch that can be explained  with technology like artifacts that exist because of a video taped over other videos.

 

 

 

This show has some great characters and interesting story lines from potentially possessed murders and house wives, potentially possessed and possibly evil minor son who wants his little sister to not exist, potential prophet who’s prophesies have so far all come true. Potential spirits in video games and a demon that can only come out of Halloween. A ghost hunting show that might have actually interacted with real spirits and so on.

 

There are a lot of mights and maybes in that last paragraph because every episode ends on a cliff hanger. I haven’t finished the series yet but so far, every case is left unresolved and they move on to the next. And that is the one thing I do not like about this show.