{"id":301602,"date":"2021-07-17T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/evil-episode-4-leans-into-horror\/"},"modified":"2021-07-17T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T13:00:01","slug":"evil-episode-4-leans-into-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/evil-episode-4-leans-into-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Evil&#8217; Episode 4 Leans Into Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a292ed0ad7cd\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a292ed0ad7cd\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/evil-episode-4-leans-into-horror\/#Other_observations_that_we_thought_made_this_episode_stand_out\" >Other observations that we thought made this episode stand out:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Evil&#8217; Episode 4 Leans Into Horror<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div> <strong><em>Welcome to our weekly column<\/em><\/strong> <strong>Can\u2019t Miss Episode of the Week<\/strong><strong><em>! Every Saturday we\u2019ll be spotlighting a different episode of television from that week that we thought was exceptional and a must-see. Check back to see if your favorite show got the nod \u2014 or to learn about a new one!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who wants to take an elevator ride down to hell? Well, a lot of people do in this week\u2019s episode of Paramount Plus\u2019s acclaimed hit <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> <em>Evil<\/em> (which moved over from sister network CBS for its second season). The Sunday, July 11 episode, titled \u201cE is for Elevator,\u201d goes back to the show\u2019s horror roots with a chilling mystery that leaves one lead character afraid for his life.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing quite like <em>Evil<\/em> on television. A trio, composed of trained psychologist Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers), sceptic techie Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi), and priest-in-training David Acosta (<em>Luke Cage<\/em>\u2019s Mike Colter), is contracted by the Catholic church to investigate demonic possessions, possible miracles, and other supernatural phenomena. The series is a mix of allegory and actual magic: it\u2019s often unclear which cases will turn out to have a logical answer, and which ones will be left as unexplainable. In this episode, however, the practical explanation winds up being scarier than any demonic activity could.<\/p>\n<p>At first it\u2019s all fun and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s. Kristen, Ben, and Kristen\u2019s daughters, who are full of giggles, go to the elevator in which a teen boy was last seen entering, but never came out, and they play \u201cthe elevator game\u201d \u2013 a sequence of stops on different floors that if completed correctly will take you straight to hell. Unable to figure out how to complete the game, they leave. That might\u2019ve been that, but Kristen and Ben find that they just can\u2019t let it go, and each of them make solo <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s back to the elevator. While Kristen has a frightening experience courtesy of her ongoing hallucinations (are they hallucinations or is it demonic possession? Hmmmmm), it\u2019s Ben who makes the real discovery, and it\u2019s one he may just pay for with his life.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s not unusual for the show to delve into some scary situations, it\u2019s only once in a while that a character is actually in danger. In that way, this episode feels similar to the season 1 episode \u201cRoom 320,\u201d in which David found himself at the mercy of a nurse determined to kill her black patients. This one has that same high stakes as Ben, having figured out the elevator game, finds himself in a sub-basement with the bug-eaten corpses of the two teenagers the police dismissed as runaways. And that\u2019s when Ben has the same terrible realization that we do: he\u2019s now tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed there, too.<\/p>\n<p>Not having told anyone where he was going or what he was going to do, Ben faces the fate of a slow death. The show doesn\u2019t give any quick and easy resolution either, even going so far as having Ben use the last of his phone battery to type up heartfelt goodbyes to his friends and family, as the demon that has been plaguing Ben\u2019s nightmares mocks him. Salvation does come in the end, though, and like the aforementioned \u201cRoom 320,\u201d it\u2019s based on the strength of the bond between the three leads. Like how Kristen only needed the barest of hints that something was off to save David from that nurse, when Ben has been missing since the night before, Kristen and David don\u2019t just brush it off, they investigate what happened to their friend.<\/p>\n<p>To truly drive home the point of how scared Ben is, he starts to pray, which may not seem like a big deal, but considering he\u2019s an atheist who has consciously distanced himself from his Muslim upbringing, it is. It\u2019s as Ben prays that the elevator doors open, and Kristen and David appear and Ben runs into their arms.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1005032\" style=\"width: 865px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1005032\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1005032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/evil-203-ben-elevator-855x570.jpg\" alt=\"Aasif Mandvi Evil Season 2 Episode 3 Ben Shakir\" width=\"855\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/evil-203-ben-elevator-855x570.jpg 855w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/evil-203-ben-elevator-434x289.jpg 434w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/evil-203-ben-elevator-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/evil-203-ben-elevator-234x155.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/evil-203-ben-elevator-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/evil-203-ben-elevator.jpg 2028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1005032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Fisher\/CBS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cDoes prayer help?\u201d One of Kristen\u2019s daughters asks earlier in the episode about what to do if your plane is crashing. As usual, the show plays it coy. Maybe his friends would have found him anyway, but maybe it\u2019s no coincidence that it was only once Ben started to pray that he was saved.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Other_observations_that_we_thought_made_this_episode_stand_out\"><\/span><strong>Other observations that we thought made this episode stand out:<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>David is largely uninvolved in this week\u2019s case since he\u2019s dealing with more of his training to be a priest, which, in a thoughtful plotline, he starts to realize may be more complicated as a black man than he thought.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRoom 320\u201d is one of the show\u2019s very best episodes. With this one feeling so reminiscent of it, the show has once again achieved lightning in a bottle.<\/li>\n<li>When Ben makes it back to the elevator sobbing, Kristen comfortingly tells him that he\u2019s \u201cokay now,\u201d but as Ben looks up at the demon stalking him, we realize he may be alive, but he\u2019s not okay. And are any of them really?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"post-block\" data-skm-boomerang-el-0=\"processed\">\n<p><strong><em>Evil<\/em>, Sundays, Paramount+<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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