There are two kinds of exorcism-themed film and television dramas.
One is that the supernatural phenomenon itself is the source of terror.
"Summoning Spirits", "Exorcist", and "Ghost Guest" all belong to this list.
On the other hand, the human mind is far more terrifying than the spirit itself—
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This is a new drama from CBS, with a total of 10 episodes, each with an independent psychic case.
The poster is average, and the creator is not ordinary.
Director Ron Underwood, one of the directors of Grey's Anatomy.
Director Gloria Muzio, one of the directors of Criminal Minds.
Screenwriters Michelle King and Robert King, screenwriters of the "The Proud Wife" series.
The main actor of the "Suspect Tracking" series, "House Boss", played a super villain in this drama.
The creator is reliable, how about the story?
Kristen Bouchard, a young climber, conquered many famous mountains.
Her husband is a mountain guide who spends months out of the house.
After having children, Christine gave up climbing the mountain to become a court psychologist, employed by prosecutors.
Christine was an outright atheist until a case unfolded that she was shaken.
Orson, who killed three families totaling 7 people, was sentenced to life in prison.
He said he was completely unconscious at the time of the crime.
His wife took out a mobile phone recording, proving that Orson often talked to himself and that there was a special voice responding to him.
His defender, Townsend, said Orson was possessed by a demon named Roy.
Kristen discovers that Orson speaks Latin when provoked, and behaves violently, as if he had changed into a person.
Was Orson really possessed by a demon?
If a person is possessed by a demon, should he be held responsible for the crime?
At night, Christine developed night terrors.
Although her eyes were open, her whole body could not move.
She watched as a non-human creature approached her, a demon who called himself George.
George can see the human heart, see the weaknesses of people, and he knows all the secrets of Christine.
Was George a nightmare, or an illusion, or a real being?
After seeing Orson again, the possessed Orson actually mentioned George.
He knew what George looked like, and he knew secrets that Christine hadn't told anyone.
Like the style of her panties, the caesarean section scar on her stomach, her throbbing on her new boss...
How did Orson, who had never been out of prison, know what was happening at Christine's house?
Is there really a demon, and the demons communicate with each other?
Even stranger, Christine's youngest daughter, Laura, also met George in the middle of the night.
If it is a dream, can the mother and daughter really have the same dream?
If the first case is still suspicious,
That second case was simply bizarre.
Naomi Clark, an 18-year-old African-American teenage girl.
During a soccer match, she had a cardiac arrest and doctors pronounced her death.
Unexpectedly, three hours later, Naomi was resurrected on the operating table.
After that, the Naomi family took the hospital to court.
The emergency doctor said,
Naomi's appearance of corpse spots an hour after cardiac arrest and brain death at an hour and a half are all consistent with the characteristics of death.
But it is also an indisputable fact that Naomi has indeed been resurrected.
What's going on in between?
Was this a supernatural event or a medical malpractice?
While investigating Naomi's surveillance video at the time, Kristen and colleagues found that
A woman's white shadow floated across the screen.
How to explain such a supernatural picture?
It is understood that the shadow came from a patient who died an hour before Naomi's surgery.
How could a person who had been dead for an hour appear in surveillance video?
Could it be that the shadow is the soul of this patient?
"Evil" tells one supernatural story after another through detective methods.
It's both thrilling and suspenseful.
At the end of each case, it leads the answer to reality and the supernatural to the human heart.
Even the most supernatural case can be explained scientifically in the end.
In other words, it is not demons, but people, who create supernatural phenomena.
For example, orson's case.
Orson had a necrophilia, and Townsend used it to encourage Orson to kill.
Afterwards, the two men used demonic possession to exonerate themselves.
The strange voice recorded by his wife was forged with tools, and Orson spoke Latin that Townsend had taught him.
As for why Orson would know the details of Christine's nightmare,
And what happened to George who appeared in front of Kristin.
Shadow Girl is not a spoiler.
Let's talk about Naomi's case.
The survey found that hospitals varied widely in the timing of CPR for white patients and African-American patients.
The emergency time for white patients is 58 minutes, and for African-American patients is only 23 minutes.
That is, hospitals have implicit racial discrimination in first aid behavior.
Naomi already has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which causes cardiac arrest.
First responders only performed CPR for half an hour before announcing her death in advance.
"Evil" is not just about the thing itself, but also about people in the whirlpool.
In the play, Kristen and boss David Ackersta are the ones who answer the paranormal phenomenon.
Townsend was the one who stood in their way.
Those who represent science are not necessarily unshakable.
Christine is not a weakness without humanity.
She has to take care of her four children while working, and at some point, she also has terrible thoughts of her daughter disappearing.
Her husband has been absent from home for a long time, and in the face of the tacit understanding of David Axta, Christine's heart is not without waves.
But we can't say because of that she was a bad woman, a bad mother, a bad wife.
She was nothing more than an ordinary real person.
Those who represent God are not necessarily angels.
David Axta, Kristen's new boss, aspires to become a pastor and he is always praying.
But his heart is not completely open and selfless, and he is also a man with seven passions and six desires.
The one who represents the devil must be the devil.
Townsend, though not a demon, is more like a demon.
He does not do bad things, but he is good at seducing the weaknesses of others and encouraging others to do bad things.
He amplifies Orson's necrophilia and lures Orson to kill.
He could easily see the uneasiness and darkness in Christine and Axta's hearts.
He has been interfering in the cases of Christine and Axta in an attempt to lure them into the abyss and become demons.
While Christine and Axta are involved in and solving the supernatural case, they are also battling their own inner demons.
Will they fall into the abyss without knowing it?
Will they be lured into demons by fighting demons all the time?
This invisible evil exists in everyone's heart.
This evil, which can be seduced, is the most frightening.