I’ve been watching the show Evil for the past few months. I think it’s quite good, but with only eight episodes left, I’m starting to worry it’s going to end up the way it’s predecessor, X-files, did, with no resolution to a bunch of plot threads that end up not hanging together. Are any of you all watching? Do you think most of the plot threads will be satisfactorily resolved?
In a sense, I think it’s easy enough for Leland to be brought to justice. As far as I can tell, he doesn’t personally have any kind of demonic powers. He doesn’t seem to even have any sort of relationship with the types of demons that Sister Andrea sees, as opposed to those like his therapist and his manager that seem to be humans that only look demonic to certain people. Once everyone finds out about everything he’s done, he probably won’t have any kind of threat to prevent the protagonists from bringing him to justice.
On the other hand, there seems to be too many other major threads to wrap up. What’s going to be the significance of David’s visions of the persecuted nuns and priests in Ethiopia? What about Grace and her prophecies? Ben and the djinn that’s been haunting him even before his mishap in the particle accelerator? What will become of Timothy, the supposed anti-Christ? All that is just for starters, there’s a lot of other unresolved plot threads. What do you all think?
Eight episodes left and this many loose ends? In my opinion the only way to tie it up with a bow would be for God Theirself to make an appearance and shout, “Enough of this shit!”.
I hadn’t really thought of how it would wrap up, to me it is an incredibly cheesy monster-of-the-week show. But having now thought about whether they will “stick the landing” in a meaningful way I’m doubtful.
There are only 8 episodes? So next week is the finale? I figured there would be 10. I can’t see how they can possibly wrap everything up in just one more episode.
Well, now it’s down to 7 more. And they keep adding rather than resolving storylines. This new thing with Ben seems like it has three realistic outcomes. His girlfriend could be gaslighting him. He could genuinely be having episodes of bizarre behavior with amnesia. He could have a doppelgänger Ben somewhere out there, in a nod to the many worlds theory of quantum mechanics, that is causing the mischief. I’m betting on the latter.
Oh good! I had searched the board for threads on Evil and thought this one was posted when the final season began. I see it was actually started last week instead. Oops
I’m planning to watch later today. My biggest disappointment would be if they go the X-files routes with the demons. By that I mean that if they leave it unexplained as to why there seems to be different varieties that have nothing to do with each other (the ones that wear a human suit, the kind that only Sister Andrea can see, and the ones like George and Ben’s djinn that seem to not fit into either group), I’d be disappointed.
That was just awful. One of the worst finales I’ve seen. This entire final season has just been terrible overall, the writing really went downhill. So many plot threads introduced and then completely forgotten about. They sure fucked over Andy’s character for no reason.
It felt to me like they had no plan for Andy. The plot was going in a direction where his character just wouldn’t fit in, so they had to figure out a way to write him out.
Overall I think it was a mixed bag. Having that mystery character Gray from the 60 seemed pointless. Having Ben’s sister on her deathbed during his VR trip also made no sense. It seemed like it was supposed to be a call back to something, but if it was I missed it.
On the other hand, I did like Kirsten and her family ending up in Rome with David. I also like how they ended Leland’s story line. And I really enjoyed how Sister Andrea stood up to the demon wearing the Mike Lindell looking human suit.
I’m fairly sure that was Ben hacking in - it’s how they knew Leland was coming for Kristin.
The VR sequences were the individual(s) fears - Ben’s was losing his sister.
I still don’t quite understand the ‘point’ they were trying to make - demons using technology to spread despair? The map of the 60 matched a map of the brain?
I didn’t much care for the finale - but there are 4 (or 5?) more episodes to come - so maybe that will finish it off properly.
February 15, 2024, it was announced that the fourth season was scheduled to premiere on May 23, 2024, and that it would be followed by a shortened, four-episode fifth and final season, which premiered the week after the end of season 4.[7][8][9][10]
That’s a really weird way they described it, but season four was originally supposed to be ten episodes but after cancelling they let them make an additional four. You have already watched the “mini season five”.
On February 15, 2024, it was announced that the fourth season will be the final season, that the producers were given four extra episodes to conclude the story and is set to premiere on May 23, 2024.[7][8] The extra four episodes started shooting at the end of March 2024 and wrapped at the end of May, and were later described by showrunners Robert and Michelle King, and star Katja Herbers as a mini-fifth season.
