Sister Andrea gives Kristen a hand assisting David, while Ben has questions…

This is one of the most fun episodes of Evil across the show’s entire run, with Aasif Mandvi and Christine Lahti getting a moment each that will have you grinning broadly (OK, with Sheryl’s scene, this might be a generational thing…) and an alliance formed at the end of the episode that bodes well for the future.

There’s a good organic thread in the main plot, as David’s marriage counselling skills are bolstered by Sister Andrea’s presence and she continues to help when Kirsten takes over the sessions. There’s a very good reason the couple are having issues – there’s a big-ass demon who really doesn’t want to be removed from proceedings,,, and the end of the episode suggests that not everything is going to go our team’s way (even if the couple have found a way of communicating sexually).

A long running thread in the show is finally addressed. The show has an element of “evil of the week” and these aren’t always wrapped up before we, and the team, move on. That clearly has preyed on Ben’s mind for some time – we go back to virtually the opening instalment of the first series – and he finds an unusual way of addressing it, meeting a group of like-minded people whose audition piece gives his moment.

Leland is a little more in the background – but no less lethally insidious – but we see Sheryl in her new workplace, given a considerable lack of respect by her millennial staff. That’s not going to last long, and, as she warned Andy back in the opener, you do not want to be on her bad side…

There’s plenty more going on with the Bouchard family, which I suspect is going to play through the season, but returning Kristen to single mom status does give the scenes with the girls a little more edge. Not to say we don’t want Andy back, but there’s a lot to be dealt with first…

Verdict: Once again, a lot going on making the episode race by. 8/10

Paul Simpson