You know those jaw-drop emojis like 😱 or 😨? You use them when you see or hear something that makes you excited, shocked, afraid or completely awestruck. It may seem corny — yet entirely appropriate — to express your emotional reaction to a TV show or movie with an emoji, but you’ll do it when you watch Evil on Paramount Plus.
It’s horror and drama mixed with campy humor in a way that’s not always predictable. Evil is, at times, violent, scary, bloody, hilarious and cerebral, yet it’s consistently philosophical and disturbing. At first, the show feels like a mystery-of-the-week procedural in the vein of The X-Files or Grimm, and it sticks to that format — with a larger overarching conspiracy looming in the background. It’s a show where demon encounters can play out like frightening life-or-death situations or as amusing exchanges with smart-mouthed jerks. Humans aren’t…
