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Ash vs. Evil Dead - Second Coming
episode 2.10
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 Rick Jacobson
starring Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, Michelle Hurd, Ted Raimi, Lucy Lawless, Lee Majors, Ellen Sandweiss, Joel Tobeck, Nicholas Hope, Vin Dizair, Sara West
screenplay by Luke Kalteux, 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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Initially, fighting deadites in the past doesn't go too well for Ash (Bruce Campbell)
when both professor Knowby (Nicholas Hope) and his assistant Tanya (Sara
West) are killed off, and Ruby Knowby (Lucy Lawless) meets the (evil)
1980s version of herself - who kills her. But he must have done something
right, as Ash's severed hand grows back on, and Pablo (Ray Santiago) has
come back to life - and he might be the only way for himself, Ash and
Kelly (Dana
DeLorenzo) to return to their own time, as parts of the Necronomicon are
still imprinted on his body ... only that Pablo turns out to be Baal (Joel
Tobeck) in disguise - after all, since they have killed Baal only in the
future [click here],
he's still alive in the 1980s. And Baal of course wants to create an army
of the undead with 1980s Ruby - but Ash challenges him to a no-tricks mano
a mano fight and Baal cannot refuse as his male pride's at stake. And thus
they duke it out, much to the bewilderment of both Kelly and Ruby, and
just when Ash is about to win the upper hand, Baal uses all sorts of
trickery after all, never wanting to adhere to the "fair fight"
rule anyways - and thus he plays exactly into Ash's hands (even if he
loses his new hand in the fight), who uses Baal's trickery against
himself, ultimately killing him while the cabin bursts into flames and the
Necronomicon is sucked to hell. However, Ash and Kelly escape, and somehow
Pablo, the real one, emerges from the flames.
And in the final scene, Ash, inexplicably back in his own time, is
finally celebrated as hero in his hometown.
Now I have to say, the last scene where Ash is celebrated as a hero
somehow rubs me the wrong way, not only because we're neglected an
explanation as to Ash and friends did get back to their own time, but also
because the whole series was about an accidental hero who makes as many
bad decisions as good ones, gets by mostly by dumb luck, but often with
making things worse in the process. That said, the story preceding the
celebration is good fun, again a well-balanced mix of splatter and
slapstick, with good horror and (intentionally) bad jokes to boot, and
makes for a good season finale with a pretty cool end fight, so despite
the anachronistic ending a good watch for sure.
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