TV Discussion : Evil - new supernatural series on CBS starring Mike "Luke Cage" Colter UPDATE: 4TH & FINAL SEASON!
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Evil Season 2: EPs Tease That a Main Character Will Seek Exorcism — But Maybe Not the One You Think
'Evil' Season 2 premiere: Robert and Michelle King talk about which character will seek an exorcism in Episode 1.
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‘Evil’ Nears Move From CBS To Paramount+ For Season 2
Robert and Michelle King’s dark and compelling CBS drama Evil is on the move. According to sources, negotiations are underway for the serialized show to relocate from the linear network to ViacomCBS streamer Paramount+. Primetime-Panic Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders...
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‘Evil’ Nears Move From CBS To Paramount+ For Season 2
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Robert and Michelle King’s dark and compelling CBS drama Evil is on the move. According to sources, negotiations are underway for the serialized show to relocate from the linear network to ViacomCBS streamer Paramount+.
It is one of three CBS dramas that are expected to move to Paramount+ for their upcoming seasons, including SEAL Team and Clarice. Reps for Paramount+ and CBS Studios declined comment.
Evil, one of the best reviewed new broadcast series of the 2019-20 season, has a lot in common with Clarice. Both are serialized and have failed to draw strong linear ratings in the Thursday 10 PM hour (Evil averaged 6.29 total million viewers on CBS last season) but have done well on digital. And both come from top producers on the CBS Studios roster that helped launch Paramount+ predecessor CBS All Access, the Kings with The Good Fight and Clarice‘s Alex Kurtzman with the Star Trek universe.
CBS Studios already has a good idea how Evil would do on streaming with a one-year deal the studio made last year with Netflix for Evil and The Unicorn. Evil did very well during its promotional window on Netflix, sources said.
The three pending moves from CBS to Paramount+ should be encouraging news for creators whose shows don’t necessarily get traction in linear ratings but are liked creatively by the network, as is the case with Evil, Clarice and SEAL Team.
They would follow recently announced shifts of CBS Studios’ upcoming series Halo, from Showtime to Paramount+, and Man Who Fell to Earth, from Paramount+ to Showtime.
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'Evil' trailer: Watch the first scenes from Season 2, plus find out when the show will premiere on Paramount+.
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Evil’s superb 2nd season is worth signing up for yet another streaming service
Evil’s superb 2nd season is worth signing up for yet another streaming service
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'Evil' stars Katja Herbers and Mike Colter tease that season 2 is even more 'bonkers'
You've been warned: Katja Herbers and Mike Colter say 'Evil' season 2 is even wilder than the first.
Evil stars Katja Herbers and Mike Colter tease that season 2 is even more 'bonkers'
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Katja Herbers and Mike Colter are both excited about Evil moving from CBS to Paramount+ for season 2.
"It really makes sense," says Colter, who plays priest-in-training David Acosta. "We have a little more creative freedom there. We'll be able to reach a bigger audience."
Even though the duo didn't find out about the platform change until near the end of production on the horror drama's sophomore season - meaning a week or so before the public found out - they've already started to reap the benefits. "I went back and added a bunch f---s and s---s, and things," says Herbers with a laugh. "I feel like the show is more fit for streaming. We had our Netflix run last year, which was so successful. And I'm excited about, in anticipation of [a] season 3, that we get to be even more out there."
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Katja Herbers and Mike Colter on 'Evil'
| CREDIT: ELIZABETH FISHER/CBS
Evil's "out there" tendencies are what made it a hit when it premiered on CBS in fall 2019. Created by The Good Wife and The Good Fight's Michelle and Robert King, the series follows Herbers' Kristen Bouchard, a skeptical forensic psychologist who teams up with David and also skeptical handyman Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi) to investigate potential supernatural phenomena for the Catholic church. But that X-Files-like premise led to some truly wild scenarios, from parents who may have murdered their sociopathic (or demonically possessed) son to a demon baby birth and a group of sociopaths trying to corrupt children before they're even born. Along the way, Evil remained rather agnostic, living in the ambiguous middle ground between offering supernatural or scientific explanations for everything the team encountered. And season 2 will be push the show's limits even more.
"[With] the first season, what I really enjoy about the show is that it's so bonkers, for lack of a better word," says Herbers. "And I think the second season is going to be even more that. The Kings, they just write such crazy, interesting, fun story lines for all of us. I think it's going to be a pretty wild ride."
That journey includes episodes about a creepy angel, a jinn, a hellish elevator game, and a predominantly silent hour directed by Robert King. ("That episode was so also fun for me because I got to get very drunk again, which is one of my favorite things [to portray]," Herbers says of the dialogue-free episode.) According to Colter, season 2 builds more steadily than the first.
"I think the difference between the first season and the second season [is that in the] first season there are these points like episode 4, episode 8, episode 10 or 11, episode 12 and then we have this finale in 13 that leaves you like, 'Well, what's going to happen next?'" Colter says. "Now we're going in a very methodical path of 1, 2, 3, 4… I feel like we're shifting a little smoother. I feel like we're accelerating a little smoother. It's just a subtle shift every episode."
Herbers is especially excited about Kristen's arc. The first season ended with a truly shocking twist: Kristen murdered a serial killer who was threatening her family. Afterward a cross burned her hand, implying that she's been corrupted. Is she actually possessed by a demon, or is this just a physical reaction from her guilty conscience? That's one of the main questions driving the second season.
"She's not lying awake thinking that she did the wrong thing. I think she thinks she made the right decision, but I do think that it's haunting her, the act itself," Herbers says. "It's going to develop over the course of the season. At the beginning she might seem a little more stressed or timid or something's not quite right with her. But I think it's going to start come out in different ways."
Katja Herbers on 'Evil'
| CREDIT: ELIZABETH FISHER/CBS
Herbers isn't approaching her performance from the perspective that Kristen is possessed. "Just as a person but also as Kristen, I just really do not believe in possession," she says. "So I just tried to never play that, but I was asked to play that. But I would always approach it from a psychological standpoint. Where I understood that somebody who has just murdered someone is obviously going to have some problems, and that's going to manifest itself in many different ways that could maybe be interpreted as her having gone to the dark side or being possessed. I tried to always explain it scientifically, while maybe keeping my cards close to my chest sometimes so the viewer could think whatever they needed to think."
David is already starting to suspect something is up with Kristen because he had a vision of her walking toward the Devil in the season 1 finale. That has implications for their relationship because the two characters are clearly attracted to each other.
"David and Kristen are playing with fire," Colter says. "I think David and Kristen are both adventure seekers. They both like to have each other around because it is a certain forbidden fruit that we have to deal with on a regular basis. How close can they get to the flame? We go into a very slow burn into how she is being affected by what is happening to her and what is causing it, and what are we going to do to address it. And then when David finds out, that was a whole other thing."
Mike Colter, Aasif Mandvi, Katja Herbers on 'Evil'
| CREDIT: ELIZABETH FISHER/CBS
David's ordination is also approaching quickly, which further complicates matters. "I think David wanting to be a priest is like wanting to jump out of a plane: It sounds great until you get up in the air and you turn the engines off and you open the doors. So you're standing on the edge and you just wonder, 'It should be all right, right?' David is not certain," says the Luke Cage alum, referencing David's rowdy past. "I think if he doesn't do it this way, if he doesn't go all in [on the priesthood], he knows that he will slip back into his old habits again."
The show's trio will also be tested because the Church orders to them to assess their chaotic foe Leland Townsend (Michael Emerson). Leland claims he's possessed, but they aren't sure whether they believe him. "Nothing about Leland makes sense, and so he's always look at him side-eye," says Colter. "It's very confusing to me from my experience, from David's perspective, watching this happen and unfold, because it's like, 'Is this really happening? Is this what's really going on? And what does it mean?'"
Looking ahead to the end of the season, Colter believes it will leave the audience praying for a third one: "The finale will be something where people go, 'Well, Jesus, now I got to find out what's going to happen."
Evil season 2 premieres Sunday on Paramount+.
Evil’s Katja Herbers Is Exploring a Darker Side of Kristen in Season Two
Plus, on Paramount+, she can say “f*ck” now.
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Improv king Stephen Colbert commits to a bit, but Evil's Katja Herbers one-upped him by stabbing a guy
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This one single line right here?
Brilliant
The delivery reaction physical acting
Could be a throwaway or a complete game changer
When you have 2 amazing veteran actors that what happens
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Why not?
It's been moved to Paramount+ and the flow of the show seems like it's tripping over it's own dyck. I don't remember a single nun at all in the first season, this season I have seen two and now one of them is a mainstay character all of a sudden.
We only 2 episodes in and they world building.
They want to show more of the 2 male leads lives. They did last season too.
I wanted to see where he lives outside just the loft and getting high.
And female George attacking the other guys dreams and the video camera hack 2 way
now we see work effecting the skeptic.
They expanding we seeing more of Leland life and later the mother...
The last 2 episodes were great. We gotta give them a minute to cook.
Good, not great. I am still a fan, I hope they don't keep attacking the skeptic, I would rather him stay the hard line skeptic that can explain everything away.
They had a whole season to cook, we should be eating by now. But the fact they moved it to Paramount+ makes me think this will be its last season.
They actually need THE SHOW TO SAVE THE APP.
Evil is giving it the most positive buzz its ever gotten.
We been eating bro...and its delicious
The skeptic ain't changing anytime soon.
If the show continues everyone gonna switch up roles but for now rest assured it's gonna be Mulder skully and the priest for the foreseeable future.
But we need this conflict we need this flip they NEED to be tested challenged shaken to their core.
Sidebar...
The biggest skeptic I know when faced with a very very dire situation with a child switched up albeit briefly. I think we may see the same here.
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I know for the longest I was torrenting the show and also watching on cable so that they got rating. That's how much I am into the show, I just don't see many people getting the CBS or Paramount+ apps
Oh you 100% on that...
That's why they put Evil there and adding 1000s of movies every month.
After the merger? It's gonna rival netflix
Amazon Prime about to make a big splash soon too.
Picard opened on CBS All Access and that targeted crowd went and got the service. The audience that was watching Evil I don't know if they know if it is on Paramount+.
CBS is hoping they do know. They put a lot of money behind marketing and promotion.
Loved the latest episode
Her mother was insane
She evil. possessed or something
The RED all over
the Islam Catholic team up
Ben sister>>>>
Jinn >>>>>
The retainer
That ending
Wtf is up with Kristen being an evil magnet?
Next week they about to go in on David and race in the priesthood.
Her mother was insane
She evil. possessed or something
The RED all over
the Islam Catholic team up
Ben sister>>>>
Jinn >>>>>
The retainer
That ending
Wtf is up with Kristen being an evil magnet?
Next week they about to go in on David and race in the priesthood.
Ben's sister could get EVERYDAY and twice on Ramadan!
I think the mother is just fed up with men and has no fcuks to give, BUT if she is "something" then that would explain Kristens attraction to "evil".
I am not caught up on the latest episode, so I'll be back!
I heard some folk don't like Ben been shaken in the new episode...
Or speaking on Islam in such a positive light
Gotta chill
Human beings are curious suspicious shaken doubtful and in the most stressful moments run to the familiar
Islam is a beautiful complicated faith like all the others
Also finally insomniac sleep demon wet dream blow job will do that to you.
Or speaking on Islam in such a positive light
Gotta chill
Human beings are curious suspicious shaken doubtful and in the most stressful moments run to the familiar
Islam is a beautiful complicated faith like all the others
Also finally insomniac sleep demon wet dream blow job will do that to you.
Haha