As is well known, the creators of Evil - Robert King and Michelle King - achieved their greatest previous success with The Good Wife, which would be up there on any all-time Top 20 network television series list, maybe higher. For that matter, Mike Colter, who plays the leading role of David in Evil, played a leading role in The Good Wife, too. In episode 1.9 of Evil, we get the most explicitly legal episode. It had the least amount of logically inexplicable demons and supernatural about it - little more than a cat, and even that is debatable. That was one reason I liked it the best of any episode of Evil so far (though, actually, I admit to liking the supernatural at least a little).
David and the Church are being sued by the woman that David, against Kristen's best advice, performed an exorcism on a few episodes back. In 1.9, she must figure out a way to outwit the sharp attorney - Ms. Lemonhead - played by Jennifer Ferrin, a fine actress who had a great role in Hell on Wheels, in case you remember. (By the way, giving characters crazy but suitable names was another characteristic of The Good Wife.) Kristen succeeds (always well played by Katja Herbers, but I don't think she was in The Good Wife), with the help of the Church's attorney, Renée (played by Renée Elise Goldsberry, who also was in The Good Wife), who, guess what, has the hots for David (another characteristic of The Good Wife, but I'll stop doing this). But most of these scenes do take place in a series of legal depositions.
And, then, in a very nice wrap-up, Renée not only gets David and the Church off the hook, but her desire for David would have kept him from being killed. She seduces him when he has a meeting at his church. That meeting would've been shot up by the sicko that Leland has been training to do this. Fortunately for everyone - except Leland, who's infuriated by this result - the sicko kills himself rather than opening fire in the church.
This leaves open the question of who, exactly, is Leland? He has some connection to the 60 daemons - he gets one of them, apparently, to train the kid to kill. So this makes Leland, what? The Devil?
We'll just have to see. And now that I'm all caught up, I'll try to review each new episode of Evil on a more timely basis.
Well, The Girlfriend Experience has returned to Starz for its second season, and its very different from the first.
CBS teased with the pilot of The Good Fight tonight - and just for good measure, put up the second episode on CBS All Access, its new streaming service, that you pay for like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. My wife and I saw both hours and loved them.
The Good Wife concluded last night, and I was totally satisfied with the ending, ambiguous though it was.
If it had to pick the best new 2016 television series on any medium - network TV, cable, or streaming - it would be The Girlfriend Experience on Starz. And though it's hard to compare The Girlfriend Experience to the science fiction, crime, and historical drama I usually review here, it may well be the best series now on television, period.
The last two episodes of Masters of Sex have been pretty good, but there were at least two things that annoyed me.
