I’m really not afraid of the finished product. Despite this predictability, the script is never boring, thanks to the Kings' patented pacing and interactions between the characters that always work so well. The predictable thing is that it can only end one way: with Kristen deciding to continue working with David and their third partner Ben after their first investigation together. You need to give CBS’ viewers what they want before choosing a more deviant path. The Good Wife was like that in the beginning, and it may be a requirement if you want to survive on CBS. The script is well-crafted and smart, but it’s also very traditional and a bit mechanical at the start. To be fair, this may all be part of the plan. The best compliment I can give Evil is that’s it’s a boiling, riveting, bedazzling show hidden behind a stark, unimpressive, already-seen concept.
But while there are touches of brilliance in this script, it’s not everywhere on every page. As fan of the Kings, I've come to expect their work to be brilliant. Reading this pilot script gave me the same conflicting feeling I had when I read Braindead‘s. You have the thrills of the investigations combined with the psychological depth. I don’t know if that’s how it was conceived by the Kings, but once you’ve seen it, you can’t unsee it.
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Could LELAND TOWNSEND, the prosecution’s clinical psychologist, have played a part in the devilish scheme?ĬOMMENTS: It wouldn’t be far-fetched to bill Evil as a cross between cult series X-Files and David Fincher’s Netflix show MINDHUNTER. When Kristen interviews “Roy”, and he tells her details about her encounters with George, she comes to believe that someone has stolen her therapist’s notes and fed the information to Orson. As she dives deeper into the case, Kristen begins to see GEORGE, probably a night terror but possibly a ghost. Kristen is skeptical at first, but after EMILY LEROUX, Orson’s wife, plays a recording of whispers in her home, Kristen starts to wonder if Orson could indeed be possessed. After she's fired by the DA’s office, Kristen investigates the case with DAVID DACOSTA (37), an assessor for the Catholic church. Kristen testifies in court that Orson is sane, but the prosecution blindsides her on the stand when their expert witness claims Orson is possessed by a demon named Roy. SCRIPT SYNOPSIS: KRISTEN BOUCHARD (34), a criminal psychologist and mother of four, interviews ORSON LEROUX (38), who is accused of murdering seven people. It’s intriguing and worrying at the same time: is another Braindead-like ratings disaster coming? It might best be described as a religious-themed supernatural thriller. And Evil, which would mark their return to CBS with a show that is not a legal drama per se, although the law is one of its components.
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There’s also Girls with Guns which is currently at the script stage, produced with Scott Free Productions for CBS All Access. There's the upcoming Showtime legal thriller Your Honor, starring Bryan Cranston, which they're executive producing alongside writer Peter Moffat. Last fall, they inked a new overall deal with CBS Television Studios and now they're busy with multiple shows at different stages of development. It was a quirky and funny horror dramedy, but the ratings were horrendous and it was cancelled.
In the summer of 2016, they launched something different, both for CBS and for them, a little show called Braindead starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Together they created the 2006 ABC Kyle MacLachlan drama series In Justice, which lasted only a single short season, and the two brilliant shows mentioned above.
Married for over 30 years, the Kings have been creative collaborators for 20 years. If you’re not familiar with Michelle & Robert King’s work, it's time you binge-watched the popular and critically praised The Good Wife and its incredible spin-off The Good Fight.
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