Should we change our podcast name to the Ghost Beaters?
This episode was directed again by Michael J Bassett and written by a different Workaholics writer Sean Clements. Sean Clements has also been working on The Grinder which is one of my favorite new comedies this year and is also known from the Hollywood Handbook podcast.
This episode deals more with the mythology. It’s first time we deal with more of a demon then a Deadite and I have to say the demon design using the shaky cam with the practical creature effect was amazing.
How Badass is the design of Eligos?
Evil Dead Recommendation:
The demon Eligos is played by Ben Fransham who killed it earlier in one of my favorite films of the year What we do in the shadows. He played Petyr who’s basically Nosferatu.
Favorite Ashism:
"At Heart, I'm an Alone Wolf" - Chase
"Pablo, You smooth brown Einstein" - Chris
"Maybe if we have time after we can get some Churros." - Adam
Best Kill:
Not too many options this week but we each found a different one.
Dagger liquefying Kelly's Dad's Face - Chase
Eligos gets smacked with a book - Chris
Lionel gets glass in the face - Adam
We also talk about Bruce Campbell's AMA this week and the flaw with the whole Reddit AMA structure. Bruce also compared the show to The Walking Dead during the AMA and we talk about the comparison's with Adam who actually worked on The Walking Dead.
Bruce Campbell and Lucy Lawless were on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert this week and it's the first time I realized how closely Bruce Campbell and Stephen Colbert resemble each other.
This is also the first episode to receive mixed reviews and while it's probably our least favorite of the three it is still a really solid episode that is elevated with the amazing demon effects and solid performance as always by Ray Santiago.
Love the show. My personal opinion, we're going to be with Ash and the aghast Beaters for a long time. We have to allow some breathing room. It's going to get "soapy". It's going to be slow. In this first season, the new cast members are still going to be settling into their comfort zones and the story is going to feel choppy at points. Once this completes and Raimi/Campbell are reflecting on what worked, they're going to come back next year and take the audience by storm. These guys know how to please an audience but what they didn't know was if this would be a one off or a complete series. Clearly, it's going to go on and on.
ReplyDelete*ghost (but, aghast beaters sounds cooler)
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