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Ash vs. Evil Dead - The Mettle of Man

episode 3.10

USA 2018
produced by
Moira Grant, Luke Kalteux, Bruce Campbell (executive), Rick Jacobson (executive), Ivan Raimi (executive), Sam Raimi (executive), Rob Tapert (executive), Mark Verheiden (executive) for Renaissance Pictures/Starz!
directed by Rick Jacobson
starring Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, Arielle Carver-O'Neill, Lindsay Farris, Jessica Green, James Gaylyn, Reid McGowan, Colin Garlick, Paul Harrop, Antonio Marsh, Shayne Blaikie, Julia Croft, Kevin Keys, Arlo MacDiarmid, Paul MacDonald, Chris Stewart, Tyran Mirko
screenplay by Rick Jacobson, 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



It appears Ash's (Bruce Campbell) hometown is under attack of a giant monster now - and so is really the rest of the world -, and somehow Ash is the only one who can stop it. But first, he and Pablo (Ray Santiago) and Ash's daughter Brandy (Arielle Carver-O'Neill) have to get to the rift to get their dead friend Kelly's (Dana DeLorenzo) so they can bring her back to life - which despite a walk through the sewers and a deadite attack, proves to be only a minor inconvenience. In the meantime, the army have started to evacuate town as they want to nuke the monster - bad idea as this would only make it stronger. So Ash sends all his friends with the army and gives them a hero's farewell, then snatches a tank and drives it into the monster, to at the opportune time shoot the Kandarian dagger into its mouth - which blows up the monster and knocks out Ash ... who only awakens again decades into the future, when the world's a wasteland - but on the plus side, there are still Sumerian Knights around who worship him as the Chosen One ...

 

Now I'm always a sucker for giant monsters, and truth to be told, the creature shown here is pretty cool. The problem is, this is a season finale, yet giant monsters have never been set up and give a very "monster of the week" feel to it. Also, despite the monster being giant, the stakes don't seem all that high, as Ash really manages to kill the monster exactly like he knew he would at first try, and likewise other than a few deadite attacks, there's little challenge in bringing Kelly back. And Ash's hero's farewell comes off as totally cheesy, something the series would have made fun of in earlier seasons. And despite a spot of self-doubt that really feels fake, Ash once again is presented as the straight-as-an-arrow hero rather than the loveably fallible creature he once was. On the plus side there are some really good laughs in this one, it's just a shame the series as a whole didn't get a better finale than this one.

 

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