RE: Evil Dead Television Series
I loved the trailer!
I found the glass bottle stabbing scene rather... disturbing, although the exchange between Ash and Pablo in the car was amusing. (Strangely I can watch other over-the-top gore and vilence with exploding heads and decapitations with no problem. In fact I'll find it funny.) There's just something about repeated stabbings in the neck with a broken bottle that makes me go "Aiiicihe...."
The rest of it was fine though, although Ash did seem a little off. More Bruce Campble as he is now than Ash of the past, but to be fair this is NOT Ash of the past. This is Ash who has lived on and aged from then. (I found the aging jokes funny by the way.) He's kind of stuck in the past but that doesn't mean he is exactly the sae as he was then.
It's probably a bit too eary to judge yet, anyway.
I didn't find Pablo's mention of his father being a shaman as racist caricature at all. Shamanism, or like religions, do exist in South American countries although often blended with Catholicism. I've heard Africans and Asians speak about witchcraft practices too , and they'll talk about it like it's a real living thing back home. I've even spoken with individuals myself. Which isn't to say they all practice it themselves. Any more than Pablo does.
I particularly liked the fact Pablo speaks with (presmably the actor's own) American accent, as putting on a strong South/Mid American accent could easily lean into the world of racist carricature. Of course if the actor spoke with that accent for real, then it's just another accent. It's when people put it on it can get hokey.
I kind of like the idea there is another character who has had links with the supernatural world, even if only from his relative's hearsay.
And I found the joke at the end very funny.
I have good feelings about this show.
Incidentally, did Ash do a telekinetic thing with the flying chainsaw, or did I see that wrong? I.e. he gestures with his hand and the saw comes flying. I imagine it was just the way the footage was cut, or I missed the throw. Just wondered if he had learned any helpful magic tricks from the Necronimcion akin to the game A Fistful of Boomstick.
