Kristen struggles with her darker nature after killing a man, David suffers temptation as he gets closer to his ordination, and Ben is visited by night terrors that prey on his greatest fears.
Lost's Ben Linus walked so Leland Townsend could run. The actor revels in morphing his facial expressions and pacing his dialogue delivery to go from absurd to hilarious to scary.
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.
Evil season 2 succeeds best where it counts most. It is creepy, spooky and fun. The thrills are sometimes cut by the humor, and sometimes made more deliciously insidious because of it.
The show, created by Robert and Michelle King ("The Good Wife"), naturally levels up in the new episodes, deepening its characters and the big life questions the scripts routinely ask.
