In the opening moments of Starz's "Ash vs. Evil Dead," director Sam Raimi presents the kind of rapidly-edited montages that became a signature part of the "Evil Dead" films, as demon-fighting hero Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) straps some kind of complicated device to his body. Is it another chainsaw to fit over the hand he chopped off in 1987's "Evil Dead II"? The mechanical metal hand he had forged in 1993's "Army of Darkness"? Nope. It's a corset, there to help Ash maintain the illusion that he's still as sleek as he was back in his glory days of battling the Deadites. It's the kind of self-deprecating joke that's defined Bruce Campbell's career — a career where, even when he's not playing Ash, the audience often winds up filtering the role he's playing through an Ash-colored prism — but also a smart move by the creative team (the first episode was written by Ivan Raimi,...
- 10/29/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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