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Warning: This post contains major spoilers from Evil‘s Season 2 finale. Those who have not watched, get thee behind me! (But bookmark the recap and come back when you’ve seen the episode.)
Evil‘s Season 2 finale ends with a development the show has been building toward since its very first episode, an event so charged and game-changing that fans have been split on when — or even if! — it should ever happen.
Yep… I’m talking about David’s ordination. After all this time and a whole lot of healthy doubt, Mike Colter’s character takes his holy orders and becomes a fully fledged priest in Sunday’s hour.
And in case you were reading along and thinking that maybe I meant David and Kristen actually got together in this week’s episode after two seasons of flirting, deep affection and one flat-out conversation of how they’d be together in a different universe? Yeah, that happens, too. THAT HAPPENS, TOO.
Read on for the highlights of “C Is for Cannibal” (and make sure to check out my post mortem chat with showrunners Michelle and Robert King and series star Katja Herbers).
‘THE LIFE IS TOO HARD’ | We come in on the last step before David is ordained: his questioning by various representatives of the Catholic Church. Sample question: “Can temptation always be resisted?” (Um, dude, did you see the previous episode?) After Monsignor Korecki brings up David’s sermon on race, which David corrects as to being “on God’s love,” the older priest says there’s just one more interrogator to go: Renee, who is there via videoconference.
He’s surprised to see her; she seems a little flustered as she says it was a last-minute request from the Church, who wants her to interview prospective priests for any liabilities they might present. Sexual indiscretions, financial indiscretions, all the fun stuff. Renee very clearly states that she’s only interested in hearing about past “oopsies!” that might place the Church in a potentially litigious position (subtext: Don’t say anything about our romp in the rectory!), and he answers that he has nothing to declare. Things relax a little; they both are happy to see each other. But she’s got one more inquiry: “Are you doing this for yourself? Or for my sister?” The answer is both, and he’s honest about it. “Make sure you’re doing it for yourself, only yourself,” she counsels. “The life is too hard.”
MEAT MITCH | Know what else is tough? Not thinking about sex when all everyone does is remind you how you’re never going to have any, ever again. So naturally, thoughts/memories/fantasies of being with Renee float through David’s mind as he, Ben and Kristen kick off their next case. They meet with Mitch, a college student who thinks he’s under demonic attack because he’s a vegetarian who suddenly started craving raw meat and now kinda wants to eat human flesh.
Mitch assures them he hasn’t acted on the urge, but it’s getting harder to ignore — particularly when he’s dissecting a human cadaver in class. Also, he’s started dreaming that he’s being chased through the halls of the campus building that contains the cadaver lab. He’s not sure what’s after him, but he knows that if it catches him, “I’ll give in to it,” he tells the trio.
When Ben and David check out the building, they find an older, out-of-use section with fresh blood on the floor and graffiti that reads “3 am haunt.” Ben posits that it’s just some Hell Week nonsense, but they decide to return later that evening to investigate. Because first: It’s time for David’s ordination bachelor party!
IN WHICH SISTER ANDREA IS, AGAIN, A BADASS | With thoughts of naked funtimes with Renee — and Kristen? — still strobing through his brain, David makes his way to Ben’s that night… and realizes that what he thought was going to be a tiny thing with his immediate co-workers actually is a big surprise party with pretty much everyone in his orbit. Kurt, Sister Andrea, Sheryl, Kristen’s daughters? They’re all there! Highlights include Lexis telling Kristen that she smells “like a dead body,” Sheryl and Monsignor Korecki discussing Leland and Kurt confessing his demon-boop!ing to Sister Andrea, who advises him to get baptized before the malevolent being drags him to Hell. Y’know, typical party chat.
At 3 am, David, Kristen and Ben return to the school building. They quickly realize that the aforementioned “haunt” is just a challenge for idiots who want to spend a night sleeping in a morgue drawer. So they quickly leave, but David lags behind to check out a lecture hall. Inside, he finds what appears to be a giant, pulsating, Venus flytrap-looking entity, but which turns out to be a winged beast snacking on a corpse.
The thing chases David as he runs away, and it is truly terrifying. But David makes it back to the modern section of the building, and his co-workers, safely. When he turns around, the creature is gone. Sister Andrea later advises him that now that he’s closer to God, his spooky visions are going to become much more corporeal — and therefore deadly. In fact, she shows him, she’s got a mark on her arm from battling something with a tail the week before. David laments that he just wanted a normal life. “This is how things really are,” she says flatly.
Later that night, the same demon that chased David attacks Sister Andrea in her sleep. It descends from her ceiling, straddles her and licks her with its forked tongue. But the nun Is. Not. Having. Any. Of. That. Thank. You. She manages to grab a crucifix on her bedside table, stab the demon and then prevent it from immediately escaping by grabbing its foot and holding on tight. “You will not hurt David!” she cries. I love this woman.
WHAT A HEEL! | What about wannabe cannibal Mitch, though? Thanks to a call from his roommate, we learn that he chewed through the zip ties with which he voluntarily lashed himself to the bed and is headed to the cadaver lab building. So Kristen, Ben and David run there and find the young man yelling about how he doesn’t want to eat the dead body in front of him, but “he” wants him to. That’s when our trio notices that the corpse, a bald man, has a demonic sigil tattooed on his scalp.
Kristen’s psychological assessment of Mitch is interrupted by Leland, who is officially on board as a representative of the Church. She flies into a rage and calls David. Leland counters by calling Monsignor Korecki. After Leland makes it seem like she’s throwing her shoes at him, the monsignor gives Leland the win and lets him proceed with Mitch. So after they both hang up, Kristen very calmly removes one of her high heels and repeatedly slaps Leland upside the head with it. (Side note: This is a very satisfying scene.) Her last blow makes him bleed. “Go get yourself help, Kristen!” he shouts. “This is me with help, Leland,” she replies (ha!), then takes her time putting her foot back into the shoe before she slowly walks away.
‘THE PRIME CUT’ | Let’s wrap up this plot before we get to the rest: So what’s up with Mitch and the sigil? After consulting Sister Andrea, David and Ben learn that in order for the leader of a the demonic house to guarantee his successor, “he needs to be consumed. Eaten.” This comes into play when Mitch shows up at Leland’s place saying, “Something’s wrong with me.” Quite the contrary!, Leland assures him, ushering him into a party where the corpse he wanted to nosh on is laid out on the dinner table like the main course. Other people — including Sheryl — are there, cheering Mitch on. “The prime cut, all for you,” Leland says, carving off the man’s sigil and serving it to the college student on a plate.
Also of note: Sheryl approaches Leland at the party with a knife in her hand. “If you ever hurt one of my granddaughters, I’ll cut off your d—k,” she promises, patting his crotch with the blade a couple of times to drive home her point. To what does she refer? Read on.
KRISTEN CONFESSES | David’s ordination day arrives, with Kristen and her girls and Ben in the pews to witness it. David’s sex thoughts are there, too, popping up during the part of the ceremony in which the new priests lie prostrate on the ground. But it all goes as planned, and in the end, David becomes Father Acosta.
Leland stops by Kristen’s pew afterward to give Lexis a piece of paper that simply says “daffodil.” Kristen is incensed that he’d go anywhere near her kids, and questions Lexis about how well she knows him. Lexis admits that he’s been coming by her school, and they’ve been chatting, because he was so lonely after breaking up with Sheryl.
Kristen drops the girls at home (where Lexis opens the pop-up book we saw Sheryl put in the closet weeks ago, and we see it has “daffodil” written in the back cover — eep). Then Mama Bouchard grabs her ice pick and plans to go do some more evil-eradication.
But she doesn’t. Instead, she winds up at David’s room, where she shakily explains everything that happened and how “earlier tonight, I was on my way to kill him.” David doesn’t believe her… until she pulls out the ice pick right and shows him. He’s (naturally) concerned, but then she asks if he’s allowed to hear confession, now that he’s ordained. He says yes, so she wants to confess right then and there.
So she kneels on a pillow while he sits in a chair, and they begin. She starts to cry right away, talking about how she’s trying to be a good mother and wife. Then she starts full-on sobbing as she tells him about how she killed Orson LeRoux and got away with it. “The cops, they knew me, and they just let me go!” she wails, gasping for air as she tells David that she’s truly sorry and doesn’t want to kill anyone else.
David holds her to him — of course he does, they’re good friends and she is IN CRISIS — and he’s on the verge of crying, too, as he leads her through the Act of Contrition. He absolves her of her sins, and she sags against him, still weeping so hard. “I can’t show my face,” she says. “I’m ashamed.” But eventually, she is able to meet his eyes, and they hug, still overcome.
But then sometime ineffable changes between them. She stills. They pull back and look at each other, then they both start moving their faces infinitesimally closer together. They kiss, pull back to make eye contact, then kiss again. And they don’t stop as we go to black and the episode ends.
Now it’s your turn. What did you think of the finale? Grade it and the season as a whole via the polls below, then hit the Comments with your thoughts!
I just want to know what’s going on.. I don’t need every single answer to all of the mythology of the show but I think it’s fair to request the audience has some idea what is going on with its characters. SO MANY plots are just left dangling and now for a whole hiatus. Not a great way to treat your fan base in my opinion
Omg right? The biting the Dentist, the tail, the sex goo, the dolls and the one thing I just don’t get why is Sheryl going along with Leland????
Yes, it’s becoming a little bit of a problem. It’s not out of hand yet, but the show needs to be very careful moving forward. Don’t open more plotlines before wrapping some up (and wrapping them up doesn’t mean we get answers, just that we understand they’re over and won’t be revisited).
Liked LOST at first but when they posed puzzles and questions and no solutions I quit the series. If I see EVIL going the same way I will quit the series since I know there won’t be any answers forthcoming, ever.
Maybe it’s better for you to accept that this might not be the right show for you Everyone has their own preferences..Lost set up that viewers would eventually find the answers to what seemed like “clues” that lead to nowhere.EVIL is not promising that—it ,IMHO, fits the pattern of many of my personal favorites both in TV and movies that bring up more intriguing questions than answers and asks the viewers to ride along with the journey.
I wholeheartedly agree. Life presents many questions, and many of those never receive an answer. I feel this show reflects that, and I’m happy to ride along with the journey.
The premise of this show was great. The acting is very good. The writing not so much. I feel like the writers may be laughing behind the scenes. This is the worst season finale I’ve ever seen, particularly when it followed an intense episode of “dolls”, the episode before. So many people commented they couldn’t wait for the season finale to see what happens to Cheryl praying before the dolls etc. Spoiler alert; there’s not only no follow through, as usual, they even introduced a new case based on cannibalism. They’ve never followed up on anything. Why Kristen, a mother of 2 ended up using a fertility clinic is inconceivable to begin with, but then she has an egg stolen, never to be spoken about again.
I was proud of D and K not giving into “lust or love”, the episode before, and felt it was a turning point in the show.
Only to have David, a known sex addict, who they both know addiction can be in remission while in recovery, but never cured…. so with David being the believer he is, and the nun telling him a war with satan is coming, I’m paraphrasing….. the big cliff hanger is whether David and Kristen’s kiss will turn into more, the day he’s ordained?
Really?
I accidentally wrote a more thorough review on the interview with the writers site if anyone cares to read it.
Like you, I’m so tired of watching a “next episode”, only to never find any mention of what happened the episode before? Does anyone really believe they’re going to find out why Cheryl drew those lines on the floor? I doubt the writers even know.
Cheryl threatens Leland about hurting her grandchild yet only earlier in the season she chose to marry that beady eyed twerp Leland over her own family!
This show had such potential. The original premise was excellent. How could the writers take it from an eventual known war between GOOD vs EVIL, and turn the cliffhanger into whether a kiss will turn into something more.
Maybe I didn’t pay close enough attention because I was too distracted by a hoof sticking out of a large stockpot during an earlier episode….
so, no explanation for dolls, for Lexi’s fangs, or Kristen’s missing egg etc?
Nobody cares that Kristen’s husband is selling their business to hurry home to his family. No follow up to Ben’s girlfriend being taken over by her sister who was apparently grafted on to her arm? What about the VR game, or even the elevator game Ben almost died playing? What about the girl wearing the mask showing up on Halloween, taking Kritens kids to the cemetery? Please forgive me if they did follow up on these and I didn’t catch it. Really.
To ignore the dolls from last episode is just unfair of the writers.
And to turn the 3 main likable characters into very questionable, or at least selfish, is even more disappointing.
The original creator of show had GREAT IDEA, unfortunately very little follow through.
This season finale would’ve been fine if they’d learned they had been canceled. Only my opinion but very unsatisfying having possibility of sex, when Satan is supposedly waging war. Thanks.
Thank you for that, such a spot on review. All these good reviews this show is getting is beyond me. I have stuck in there with the show so far because I did like the potential in the first season, but this season has been a letdown for me. Like you said they literally ended an episode with her daughter growing a tail and having fangs and by the next episode she is normal and it’s never brought up again. Then you going to end a season with someone who was just ordained a priest looking like one of the holiest characters on the show possibly having sex with a married woman who is a proclaimed non believer, confessed murderer, huh? And where the hell are they going with the fertility clinic, smh.
A well thought out review. I loved the first season but also am unhappy with all the loose ends. The Musical Guy they were helping who jumped off the building. What happened to the Chinese lady who could hear God? So many loose ends. Also not to happy with the way Kirsten started bar hopping. I’m sorry to say that I think the writers have lost the plot. I will watch season 3. Hopefully they will wrap up some of the plot lines.
What a Season!!! KUDOs to all cast and crew! So much going on–to address some highlights—I liked the way the episode dealt with David’s ordination from the perspectives from others to his own thoughts making clear that the ordination is not going to be a magical ritual that will automatically make him immune to temptations ,struggles and conflicts with the Church establishment . Sister Andrea’s blunt talk with David let’s him know he has opened a door to contact with supernatural forces (both for good and evil) that he can’t close no matter what he decides. Love how the show brings in subtle touches of humor such as the demon getting his wings stuck in the door while trying to pursue David.Kristen getting payback for Leland’s framing her for attacking him was such fun to watch!! As to why Kristen would keep her ice pick murder weapon hanging right alongside her daughters’ umbrellas–have no idea.Lexi’s definitely being the tqarget for indoctrination -but for what end? So very much looking forward to Season 3 of EVIL!!
On a side note–I was very excited to see the pop-up book when Lexi pulled it out near the end since it means it will be continuing to be weaved into the storyline in Season 3 (instead of just a motif for this Season’s intros). Admittedly, there’s some CGI work involved also but those are actually real handmade pop-ups created by artist/master illustrator Balvis Rubess.
Did anyone else notice that when Lexis was just about to climb into the bunkbed with the book, the screen flashed the name “Lexington” where the letters spelled her name? Is this some kind of foreshadowing of what she is to become? I do love this show. I just wish there were more reveals about what us truly going on.
I did not… I think I need to rewatch.
I am seeing it now. It is at 37:23 in the upper bunk bed. I don’t know what it means. Also, if you don’t reply to this thread, we will assume that you didn’t see it. Like there are no need for Amazon answers to customer questions that just say “I don’t know.” There is really no need. We’ll assume you don’t know if you don’t reply.
i saw it too 😊 … but i don’t know what it means … maybe a city … but i have no idea why they want to make us aware of a city … maybe it has something to do with the plot maybe something that will happen in a third season … or maybe someone just made a joke while editing …
Boo @ the kiss. Isn’t it enough that we understand from that moment that they WANT to kiss? They’ve already sinned and cheated by the emotional connection and their mutual acknowledgement of it. That’s the part that really matters and the part that’s really hard to actively control. It’s easier to control the physical part of it. We have two characters here who have just made some very adult life decisions. They should be adults and be able to stick with them. They can’t have that much self-control? Grow up. This is reflective of the present doctrine of our society: no one REALLY believes in anything–god, religion, a principle, a cause, a calling–higher than their personal desires. The highest operating principle of a person’s behavior is, fundamentally and beneath all else, it can never truly be wrong to indulge your true impulses. On some level, so long as those impulses are understandable, they’re okay. :(
I couldn’t agree with you more. I was fine last episode with them essentially admitting to one another that in another time and place they might have been a couple. But he was literally just ordained a priest. She just came in to give a grieving confession not solely about the guilt of having committed murder, but also talking about how she wants to be a good mother and wife. Minutes later after this confession, she’s now cheating on her husband, and he’s equally guilty in helping her do so. I like both characters and still love the show, but that ending was disappointing no matter how good the chemistry between the two.
This was a terribly emotional moment for both. In that heightened state, I can see that their conviction to stay apart would be tested. The kiss will certainly make it harder for them to keep to their conviction, but we don’t know what the outcome of the kiss will be.
Exactly!
Exactly that was such a copout on the writer part for me. Her finally telling him she murder someone should have been the revelation, but that mess was such a turnoff.
I can’t believe the season is over and I still don’t know what’s going on… so many questions. I hope we get season 3 a bit faster.
Couldn’t they faded out, oh I don’t know, about five minutes later? Give us the pay-off people.
Hah!! But you might not have been given the pay-off you think you would’ve gotten. If you read the episode Q & A with the Kings (showrunners) and Katja (Kristen) the Kings state that Kristen’s confessing was not really looking for forgiveness,acceptance,and absolution from God as it was looking for it from David himself–including the mutual attraction.but ,per Robert King,”it’s not necessarily a good thing.It’s not the right moment.It really is not.You know,if you commit to something (the ordination),you should commit to it”.
So much to process here, wow.
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First off, Sister Andrea is a treasure and I’m glad she’s still around to fight the good fight. It seems her words have had an impact on Kurt, too – I wonder what all will become of his time away (and that book he keeps talking about wanting to write). Kristen looked genuinely upset at the thought of him being gone, understandably so – he knows so many of her secrets, it’s scary for her to think of who else she could trust on that level for however long Kurt’s gone.
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Pleasantly surprised they actually went through with David becoming a priest, I thought for sure they’d delay it or something would happen that would stop it altogether or something. But yes, that does indeed make that moment between him and Kristen at the end all the more awkward :p. I’m wondering, too, how Ben will deal with this – David now knows about Kristen killing LeRoux, and they’ve also got this secret kiss they’ve shared. Ben’s had his suspicions about Kristen’s role in LeRoux’s death, but no official confirmation. So that’s two secrets he’s not in on. How will he, as well as David and Kristen, handle that? And now David’s a priest, what does that mean for the team’s work? Will he even stay a priest for long?
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That confession scene was so well done, though. Very cathartic and emotional.
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Everything with Sheryl and Leland and that party for Mitch is so freaking creepy and weird and I’m still sorting through the details of all of that. I do like Sheryl being super protective of her daughters, though – I’ve seen some suggestion she might be a double agent of sorts and I’m really hoping that’s the case. Knowing Leland has been in contact with Lexis is so disturbing, and yet explains an awful lot.
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Everything with that freaky demon chasing David, and the exploration of that old building, was super creepy (and those kids lying in the drawers, hahahaha, NOPE).
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Still wanting to know more about this fertility clinic business, and the whole Vanessa/Maggie thing, and Ben’s prior work, so I’m hoping and trusting we’ll delve further into those aspects next season. In the meantime, will be sitting here mulling over all that’s happened and putting the pieces together. Truly wild, crazy season, this was – on to season 3, then!
Yes! Agree – so much is here. I wonder why Kurt is taking 2 months off to write his book NOW. I thought he just started shadowing our friends recently. I don’t know how he would have enough material for a book yet. And when Sister Andrea told him that demon would come for him & drag him to hell, you know she loved the heck out of scaring him like that. Hearing that would certainly put the fear of God in you!
Also, daffodil was the word Edward used to activate Sheryl’s ‘hypnotic trance’. Now Leland gives the same word to Lex. Wow.
I’ve talked about David/Kristen in other comments, so I won’t go in to that again here. Holy cow, I can’t wait for Season 3
Still confused about this show and the ending didn’t help, sigh.
I have no idea how this isn’t being watched by everyone. Evil is absolutely fantastic and that finale was icing on the cake. BUT ARE WE JUST GOING TO FORGET THAT LEXIS HAS A TAIL???
Brooke, I don’t think anybody but Lexis can see her tail.
She did have abnormally long incisors, (fangs), like another child who’s parents also used the same fertility clinic Kirsten used for Lexis. Lexis had dental surgery on them.
If I’m mistaken, hopefully other viewers can correct me, and update you. Thanks.
I agree with your comments. But wouldn’t Lexis freak out if she saw a tail in the mirror and did she really bite the finger off the dentist?
I am glad that I am not the only one who is frustrated by the last episode. Just so many unanswered questions and plot lines. I am not sure I would describe the final scene as a cliffhanger – it seemed almost predictable when Kristen turned up at David’s door.
The one big question I have has already been asked – what is Sheryl doing with Leland? More particularly what is happening regarding Kristen’s missing egg which it was inferred was implanted in Sheryl by Leland and Mr Tergoren (Tim Mathieson) in that weird scene that took place where Sheryl was drugged and is later going out with Tregoren as if nothing had happened.
And that scene in the last episode where Sheryl threatens Leland with a knife re harming her family whilst attending the birthday party and then parties on like it didn’t happen!!!
I know this is meant to be supernatural – some of this season was well-explained to a point, but other parts feel like it is being made up as they go along !
The whole final arc was great, but I couldn’t help but hate the final 10 seconds. Even if that was the direction they were going I would have much rather have them stop right before acting on it.
Sheryl is with Leland bc he chose her to introduce to Edward to be his successor, which Edward did make her his successor when he gave her the head of his great grandfather. She is now one of the 60 or so houses of Satan. The Eddie dolls are Edward’s dolls. He said he was an “influencer.” Well, he uses the dolls. The college guy will consume the corpse bc he was chosen as the corpse’s successor. We don’t know yet who he was. Very disappointed they kissed at the end. Lexi’s tail could be her imagination or could be an exaggeration of a real tail. Read an article this week how they amputated a tail from a baby. Apparently, in the womb, we all have tails that turn into our coaxial bone/ tail bone. The baby’s didn’t and had surgery. Crazy but could be a side effect of the fertility clinic like the teeth. Can’t wait for season 3!!