Ash vs Evil Dead
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Our Review
The sequel nobody expected: Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell returning to the Evil Dead universe, 30 years later, with Ash Williams. S-Mart stock boy, chainsaw handed relic of the ’80s, dragged back into demon fighting when his stoned poetry reading wakes the Deadites again. The show is the movie trilogy’s DNA at TV scale: Raimi directs the pilot (the POV-cam demon rush is intact), the gore is operatic and practical, and Campbell’s aging loser charm is the engine, a coward who became a legend mostly by surviving.
The additions work: Pablo and Kelly as his protégés give the show its heart and its future (Kelly becomes the franchise’s best new character), Lucy Lawless’s Ruby gives it a nemesis mythology, and the season arcs escalate with movie quality set pieces. Three seasons of exactly what Evil Dead fans wanted, horror comedy with actual horror, canceled on a cliffhanger that still stings. Hail to the king, baby.
Verdict: Watch it. Groovy.
