With the sequel to the original
Evil Dead trilogy completely confirmed, now’s the time to start asking the
important questions. We’ll have a full
year to wait and get a complete glimpse of the soon-to-be-seen pilot, but in
the meantime there’s room to speculate.
1: What’s Ash Been Up to For the
Past Twenty Years?: The press release
tied to the show says that Ash has been avoiding maturity and responsibility. Further news informs us that he's got PTSD, lives in a trailer park (in a detail that feels like a winceworthy callback to My Name is Bruce), works at a big box store and has been lying to women about how he lost his hand for sympathy. Combine that
with his description as a lothario and it gives a portrait of a man who’s
unable to establish emotional connections, though he can apparently still talk
a good game. Has he managed to find any
sort of friendship or warmth at all? Or will he only establish those roots in this
series? Will the tone feel sitcomish due to episode length or
will it stoke the deeper currents of darkness in the Evil Dead/AOD bloodline?
2: More importantly: What have the
Evil Dead been up to?: Since it's canonically been years since Ash has seen a Deadite, we have no idea what Ash is
coming up against. Are their powers the
same? Or have they grown mightier in
their absence and will strike back stronger than ever?
3: Is Ted Raimi’s character now working with Ash at the big box store?: Is he Ash’s supervisor?
Or are they still on the same level and is he stuck listening to Ash
tell the same story every single day of his life?
4: What’s happening back in the 1300s?: How are
Arthur and Sheila faring? Did either of
them raise a family? Did the Deadites
cease to plague them after Ash’s labors?
5: Will we see the cabin again?: Of course, both exteriors are long gone thanks
to the ravages of age, but they could be replicated on the Renaissance Picture’s
backlot. Could Ash meet with the skeletal form of his
chittering hand? Or see the ghosts of
his loved ones?
We'll get these answers and likely much more when Ash vs Evil Dead airs in the
fall of 2015.
