El Jefe

I know I'm in the minority saying this, but I never really liked the humorous direction that Sam Raimi took with Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness: I wanted more gruelling horror, not slapstick. Unsurprisingly, I avoided Ash vs The Evil Dead for a while after hearing it was even more zany than the films. However, having finally succumbed and watched Episode One of Season One, I have to admit that the funny stuff actually works very well within the TV format - Sam Raimi delivers one hell of an entertaining pilot, serving up some genuinely hilarious silliness, while not forgetting to deliver on the outrageous splatter.

Bruce Campbell returns as scourge of all deadites, Ash Williams, who has spent 30 years in hiding, now living on a trailer park. But after Ash gets stoned with a hooker and reads from the Necronomicon, evil finds him once again. Meanwhile, cop Amanda (Jill Marie Jones) has her own run in with some deadites, including her partner, who she is forced to shoot. Can Ash, with help from co-workers Pablo (Ray Santiago) and Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo) triumph against the dark forces?

With some really cool effects (the deadites are great), including buckets of blood, this is a real crowd pleaser of a start to what I hope will be a consistently entertaining show.

The games kept the tradition of Ash being a regular guy but out of his depth and fed up with the deadites, necronomicon, and anyone who wants it. This pilot scrubs all that, makes him FAR more insipid than he EVER was and really shows that no one involves, especially Cambell himself, really doesn't care about these characters or the world they once created. It goes downhill from here.

I've watched the three original movies and i loved them, I wasn't aware there was a series based on them. well, I'm glad I found out.

this is as good as the movies. it got the same energy, humour, & gore that make the movies classic. Bruce Campbell is charismatic as ever. the vfx is not bad. I'll surely watch the rest.

So, waiting for the beginning of Season 3 I decide to write a technical review of the Pilot of the Series. It will be short and divided by categories.

DIRECTION It's pure Raimi at his best. Long sequences, slow motions, action, suspense and dosed humor. In the next 19 episodes rarely this timing has been respected (also because this Pilot is 40 minutes and episodes are 25-30 minutes).

SFX The only bad point of the Pilot are the special effects. The Post production work doesn't fit well and make the intense Fisher/Carson scene so lame. A cheaper and hasty work, but just for this episode because next episodes are truly better (just for example in 1x03 The Host). So AVED is a series that have both bad and good special effects at the same time. And this is wonderful

PLOT and PLOT EVOLUTION In this pilot Ash is serious, Ash is scared about what he avoid for 30 years. And at the same time he laugh and act to show that he can handle it.

The evil dead speaks to the characters has it know their victims creating a shadow of mystery behind what evil wants.

The Catchphrase "We know who you are" scared a lot and also the other things form the other Deadites. These demons know a mystery and the real origins of everyone fears. They scares people not with blood or bad words, but because they knew them.

During the series we didn't see the evolution of the Evil, because of a lazy scripts that prefers jokes to expand the mythology behind the book.

IN CONCLUSION This Pilot is what every pilots need to have.. and much more. I don't know why Raimi don't make at least an episode per season. Because the directors of the series (that are also into it and extremely masters) need to breathe more and focus on what this series can unleashed in history of television. Hope that the new Showrunner is better than DiGregorio that he just forgot what to do as Showrunner. Maybe he just needed to re-watch the Pilot overtime before wrote a new episode.

New times same guy, a fantastic new installation to the Evil Dead franchise it perfectly encaspsulates the feel of the old, no doubt in thanks to the direction of Raimi who picks the reigns back up for the 'pilot' episode of the show. Holding a new cast as well as blending the feel good factor of the original trilogy the show is currently off to a great start. Translates surprisingly well to a modern age and looks incredible! A great watch