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Ash vs. Evil Dead - Ashy Slashy
episode 2.8
USA 2016
produced by Moira Grant, Aaron Lam, Bruce Campbell (executive), Craig DiGregorio (executive), Sam Raimi (executive), Rob Tapert (executive) for Renaissance Pictures/Starz!
directed by Tony Tilse
starring Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, Michelle Hurd, Pepi Sonuga, Lucy Lawless, Joel Tobeck, Stephen Lovatt, Jacqueline Lee Geurts, Ruth Dudding, Jatinder Singh, Jeremy Dillon (voice), Kelvin Taylor, Benjamin Teh
screenplay by Suzanne Keilly, Aaron Lam, developed for television by Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Tom Spezialy, based on characters and concepts created by Sam Raimi, music by Joseph LoDuca, special effects supervised by Brendon Durey
TV-series Ash vs. Evil Dead, Evil Dead, Ash
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Ash's (Bruce Campbell) friends Pablo (Ray Santiago), Kelly (Dana
DeLorenzo) and Ruby Knowby (Lucy Lawless) come looking for him and end up
at an abandoned insane asylum, the very place Ash has ended up as a
patient last episode.
Turns out the goings-on then weren't delusions after all but a play
carefully staged by Baal (Joel Tobeck), with the help of Sheriff Emery
(Stephen Lovatt) and his wife Linda (Michelle Hurd), whose daughter Lacey
(Pepi Sonuga) Baal has taken hostage in order to secure their cooperation.
Of course, what the Sheriff and Linda don't know is that Lacey has long
been turned into a deadite, and now she attacks Pablo, Kelly and Ruby, and
they have to kill her. Soon enough, Kelly is separated from the others and
has to face a therapeutic handpuppet, Ashy Slashy (voiced by Jeremy
Dillon), that tries to kill her. Meanwhile, Pablo and Ruby have to face
... Ash, who has been brainwashed by Baal and now is possessed by the urge
to destroy the Necronomicon - as it's the only thing that can send Baal
back to hell - and since that Pablo pretty much now is the
Necronomicon, he proves to be quite a threat, as it seems he'll stop at
nothing. Ultimately, Ash has Pablo cornered, with everybody from this
story who has made it through alive trying to talk sense into him,
everybody but Baal ... when it turns out that Ash isn't actually possessed
after all but only tried to lure Baal into the same room with Pablo, so
Pablo can work his Necronomicon magic to send Baal back to hell. And it
works even - well, apart from the fact that Pablo's cut in two in the
process ...
Ok, in relation to last
episode, there are a couple of leaps in logic in this one - like,
why did Baal need Linda to be in Ash's staged delusion, but not Pablo,
Kelly and Ruby, who were all in it as well -, but taken purely by its own
terms, this one's fun, and for a change an episode that gives the second
leads more space to come into their own, while Bruce Campbell is given the
chance to shine as the villain for a change, all of which allows the show
to stay fresh - and yet totally in line in terms of humour and gore.
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