Something ‘Evil’ This Way Comes, ...EvilSEASON PREMIERE
Paramount Plus
Weird and witty, creepy and kooky, like a spiritual
X-Files with a demonic sense of humor, one of TV’s most original series returns, bypassing its original network—CBS, where it was always an odd fit—for streaming, after temporary exposure on Netflix between seasons revealed it had a better chance at a longer life in the digital world. Katja Herbers is perfectly prickly as Kristen, a skeptical forensic psychologist (who teams with tormented priest-in-training David (Mike Colter) to assess possible miracles or devilish possessions. Their mission is complicated when their psychopathic nemesis Leland Townsend (a gleefully perverse Michael Emerson) requests an exorcism. He’s obviously putting them on, but to what purpose? (SUNDAY)