We’d be lying if we said we didn’t avoid screening the Evil Season 4 episodes available for review for as long as possible. After all, if you never watch the final season, the series isn’t really over…is it? Eventually, of course, we had to face “The Demon of the End” (if you will) and dig into a new season of this series for the last time. Well, no surprise here: At least for the first four episodes provided to us so far, we can confirm viewers are in for a real treat. A bittersweet one, knowing that the end is nigh, sure…but a treat nonetheless.
As is usually the case, the second we pressed play on that first episode, we had a difficult time keeping up with everything we loved. While we won’t spoil anything directly, we have a few teases below. And, as a bottom line, we’ll just say this. It’s fitting that this season’s titles are of the “How to” variety — because this series has always been a “How to” for creating great TV that draws on the well-loved believer/skeptic dynamic, all while never, ever feeling like anything other than entirely its own.
Evil Season 4 teasers
- Make sure those canned margaritas are ready for the Evil Season 4 premiere. So much happens in that first episode that we well and truly can not wait to discuss.
- Ladies first: Katja Herbers and Christine Lahti have this one scene that just…wow. That’s all we’re going to say right now. But wow.
- Also: “Go off, evil grandma” is a thing that made its way into my notes quite a number of times. But not because of the aforementioned scene.
- Will never hear the phrase “glass ceiling” again without thinking of this show.
- Refuse to believe the kids are this grown. Also refuse to believe they’re not actually Herbers’ daughters. This family forever, actually.
- Mike Colter has this uncanny ability to completely change his presence, thus changing the tone of a scene, without seeming to actually change much of anything at all. That’s not new, but it’s worth pointing out as a way to explain just how meaningful it is every single time the camera focuses solely on him. Especially if it’s in a moment that’s all about the part of David’s journey that’s separate from Kristen and Ben.
- …but that also means his “angry driving,” as I called it in my notes, manages to be the most hilarious. Not because he has the typical road rage — but because his posture and facial expression are a lot. Give this man a comedy already, I beg.
- Ben’s latest investigation gives Aasif Mandvi some of the best, if not the best, material he’s had to work with in the whole series. And he absolutely delivers.
- Our trio, forever.
- Leland may have finally met his match.
- When you’re like, “wait a minute, wasn’t she…” the answer is yes. She was. In Season 1. This is what we call continuity and knowing your own story. Everyone else, take note.
- Sister Andrea and Father Ignatius have a really beautiful scene together. It’s simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting, which you probably have to see to believe. Let’s just say it’s picture perfect and an extraordinary example of what it is to just be human in this world. Placing Andrea in such a normal conversation, when she’s usually the one fighting all our demons, is genius. Because somehow, that just makes the normality of it all that much…more. (Don’t worry, though: Andrea Martin can still kick some major demon ass.)
- Just…brace yourselves for the performances in general. Which is probably a thing you think you don’t need to hear. But trust us: You do.
