A priest-in-training and two skeptics walk into a bar. The wannabe priest says, “Wanna join my mission?” The two skeptics say, “Sure, why not?” as shadowy figures zoom into focus in the background. A solid joke? No. The premise of the crime procedural Evil? Yes, yes it is.

From The Good Wife and The Good Fight creators Michelle and Robert King, Evil follows a priest-in-training, a forensic psychologist, and contractor who investigate unexplained phenomena for the Catholic Church.     

When will Evil be released?

Stream Seasons 1 and 2 now. 

How many seasons of Evil are there?

There are four seasons of the supernatural series.

Where can I watch Evil Season 3?

Stream Evil Season 3 on Netflix starting December 31.

Who’s in the cast of Evil?

• Katja Herbers (Westworld) as Kristen Bouchard, a forensic psychologist who loves canned margaritas
• Mike Colter (Marvel’s Luke Cage) as David Acosta, a priest-in-training facing a looming deadline: his ordination
• Aasif Mandvi (This Way Up) as Ben Shakir, a sarcastic tech expert and investigator
• Michael Emerson (Lost) as Dr. Leland Townsend, a forensic psychologist and chaos agent
• Kurt Fuller (The Good Wife) as Dr. Kurt Boggs, Kristen’s longtime therapist
• Brooklyn Shuck (Rise) as Lynn Bouchard, Kristen’s oldest daughter
• Skylar Gray (Married) as Lila Bouchard, Kristen’s second-oldest daughter
• Maddy Crocco as Lexis Bouchard, Kristen’s second-youngest daughter
• Dalya Knapp (She Said) as Laura Bouchard, Kristen’s youngest daughter
• Christine Lahti (The Blacklist) as Sheryl Luria, Kristen’s audacious mom
• Andrea Martin (Only Murders in the Building) as Sister Andrea, a nun who can see demons

Katja Herbers, Mike Colter, and Gus Halper in Evil

Christine Lahti in Evil

What happens in Evil?

A skeptical forensic psychologist and mother of four, Kristen Bouchard (Herbers) is seemingly always downtown at the courthouse serving as an expert witness. That is, until she’s hired by priest-in-training David Acosta (Colter) to become an assessor for the Catholic Church. An assessor, you say? As assessor of what? Well, turns out the Church has a backlog of 500,000 exorcisms and miracle appraisals that they need to get to the bottom of … and David’s helping suss out if these bizarre occurrences are truly supernatural or if there’s a logical explanation. So Kristen, formerly a thrill-seeking mountain climber before life got in the way, leaves her job with the DA’s office to join David and tech expert Ben Shakir (Mandvi). But as the trio work through the cases, there are sinister forces at play … and they all seem to point to rival forensic psychologist Dr. Leland Townsend (Emerson) — who has major diabolical vibes, and seems hell-bent on sowing chaos.

Is Evil based on a book?

No, it’s not based on a book. 

Where does Evil take place?

Evil takes place in New York City. 

How does Evil Season 2 end?

With one hell of an episode, pun very much intended. It’s getting closer and closer to David’s ordination as a Catholic priest, but our favorite demon-hunting trio isn’t getting any time off for the occasion.

Their latest case revolves around a med student named Mitch (Taylor Trensch), who’s understandably distressed by some bizarre urges he’s having. First, the longtime vegetarian devoured a whole steak at a family barbecue — raw — and now seeing a cadaver in the dissection lab is making him salivate. He’s even zip-tying himself to his bed at night, so he doesn’t turn his roommate into a late-night snack. So, yeah, you can see why the season finale is called “C is for Cannibal.” 

The team is initially skeptical that there’s demonic activity at play, but they do see a sign in the school about a “3 a.m. haunt.” So after throwing David a little surprise “pre-ordination bachelor party” — where he admits to running through the usual doubts, but doesn’t tell anyone about the sexual fantasies he’s been having of late — they go back to the school to check things out. Turns out the haunt is an end-of-year prank where students sleep in the cadaver cabinets. Nothing spooky there, right? Well, not at first. But when David goes off on his own to look around, he comes face-to-face with a gigantic winged demon that chases him down the halls. By the time he gets back to Kristen and Ben, it’s gone.

Mike Colter and Katja Herbers in Evil

When David tells Sister Andrea (Martin) what he saw and how real it seemed, she believes him — because those visions are real for her too. She shows him the scar she got from one of her own recent encounters and tells him they have a rare “one in a million” ability to see the world as it really is: because the closer you are to God, the more good and evil has a corporeal presence. 

Despite those last lingering doubts, David is ordained into the priesthood, and now that he’s officially a man of the cloth, he wants to perform an exorcism on Mitch. The poor guy chewed through his zip ties and Ben and David found him screaming over a cadaver — a man with a mysterious symbol tattooed on his head — saying the man wants Mitch to eat him. But before any divine intervention can take place, the always meddling Leland Townsend (Emerson) uses his position with the church to take over Mitch’s case. He wins this round, but we all get the gift of Kristen beating Leland with one of her high heels before he speaks with Mitch alone.

And about that symbol: it’s a sigil from the Demonic Codex. As Sister Andrea explains, they’re “family crests” of sorts for 60 different demonic houses, and each house must guarantee a successor for when its current master dies. To do this, the former master “must be consumed,” she tells them. “Eaten.” Which is why Leland invites Mitch to a little dinner party at his home, where the main course is the cadaver we saw back at the school. He cuts the sigil from the man’s head and, after holding it up for everyone to see, gives it over to the guest of honor to eat. C is for cannibal, indeed.

Michael Emerson, Taylor Trensch, and Christine Lahti in Evil

The episode doesn’t end there, though. Kristen, furious with Leland from their earlier altercation and the discovery that he’s been secretly talking with her daughter Lexis (Crocco), heads out with a pickax. But instead of going to kill him, she heads to David and begs him to hear her confession. She breaks down and admits she killed Orson LeRoux (Darren Pettie) last season and got away with it, and never wants to do anything like that again. The newly minted priest consoles her and offers penance — and then they start passionately kissing. It’s a huge moment that answers the long-running will they/won’t they between these two characters, but also opens up many more questions about broken vows (David’s priestly ones, Kristen’s marriage ones), temptation, and what could happen next. 

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