document_title: Star Trek: Discovery (season 1)

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text: Star Trek: Discovery (season 1)

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1
"The Vulcan Hello"
David Semel
Story by : Bryan Fuller & Alex Kurtzman
Teleplay by : Akiva Goldsman & Bryan Fuller
September 24, 2017 (2017-09-24)[a]

Investigating a damaged satellite near a binary star system on the edge of Federation space, the crew members of the USS Shenzhou discover an object obscured from their sensors. After First Officer Michael Burnham volunteers to investigate the object, she finds an ancient, carved vessel. She is attacked by a Klingon, and when trying to escape, she accidentally kills him. A group of Klingons mourn the death of their soldier, dubbed the "Torchbearer", before the outcast Voq volunteers to take his place. The Klingons, led by T'Kuvma, reveal themselves in a cloakable ship. T'Kuvma preaches to his followers of the Federation's attempts to usurp the individuality of the Klingons and their culture, and plans to fulfill an ancient prophecy by uniting the 24 great Klingon houses as was once done by Kahless. Voq activates a beacon that summons the Klingon leaders. Burnham, desperate to prevent a war, attempts to fire on the Klingons first, against the wishes of Captain Philippa Georgiou. Burnham is arrested for mutiny.

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"Battle at the Binary Stars"
Adam Kane
Story by : Bryan Fuller
Teleplay by : Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts
September 24, 2017 (2017-09-24)

T'Kuvma convinces the majority of the Klingon leaders that he can lead them to victory over the Federation, as reinforcements for the Shenzhou arrive. Georgiou offers to resolve the situation peacefully, but the Klingons immediately open fire. Starfleet Admiral Anderson arrives and again offers peace to the Klingons, but his ship is rammed by another cloaked Klingon vessel. Anderson has his ship self-destruct, destroying the Klingon ship as well. Starfleet retreats, leaving the Klingons to collect their dead. In the remains of the Shenzhou, Burnham escapes her cell after encouragement from her guardian Sarek via a telepathic connection. She convinces Georgiou to try to take T'Kuvma prisoner, and they create a distraction by sending an explosive into his ship with a Klingon corpse. Boarding the vessel, Burnham overpowers Voq. Georgiou attempts to capture T'Kuvma, but is killed. T'Kuvma is fatally shot by Burnham, who is transported to safety. Voq promises that T'Kuvma's legacy will live on. Burnham is later sentenced to life in prison for her mutiny.

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"Context Is for Kings"
Akiva Goldsman
Story by : Bryan Fuller & Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts
Teleplay by : Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts & Craig Sweeny
October 1, 2017 (2017-10-01)

Six months into her sentence, Burnham is on an unexpected prison transfer when an emergency forces her shuttle to be rescued by the USS Discovery. Spending several days on the ship, Burnham is ordered by its captain, the mysterious Gabriel Lorca, to assist with a scientific assignment. Burnham overhears Lieutenant Paul Stamets, an astromycologist who is leading the assignment, discuss an upcoming experiment with a colleague serving on another starship; Lorca is soon informed of an incident on the Discovery's sister ship, the USS Glenn, that has killed the entire crew. Stamets leads a boarding party to investigate and finds the dead crew hideously twisted and malformed, as well as a group of Klingons killed by an unknown creature. Lorca later asks Burnham to work for him, despite her sentence, explaining that he organized the circumstances that led her to him so she could help develop a new spore-based propulsion system that could win the war she started by killing T'Kuvma. He also secretly has the creature transported aboard the Discovery.

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"The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"
Olatunde Osunsanmi
Jesse Alexander & Aron Eli Coleite
October 8, 2017 (2017-10-08)

Lorca assigns Burnham to study the creature from the Glenn, dubbed a Tardigrade, to find a way to use its biology as a weapon. Starfleet orders Discovery to the dilithium mining colony Corvan II, which is under Klingon attack. Stamets is reluctant to make such a long jump using the spores, and when the drive is activated the ship nearly collides with a star. Lorca sends Commander Landry to keep Burnham's research on track, and she attempts to sedate the Tardigrade (that she names Ripper) to cut off its claw; it kills her. Burnham believes that Ripper was acting in self-defense, and is drawn to the spores. Stamets and Burnham transport it to Engineering, where it connects to the spore drive and interfaces with the navigation system. The ship successfully makes the jump to Corvan II and saves the colony. On T'Kuvma's stranded ship, Klingon leader Kol earns the loyalty of T'Kuvma's desperate followers, and leaves Voq to die in the wreckage of the Shenzhou. L'Rell, secretly loyal to Voq, promises a way for them to win the war for the house of T'Kuvma.

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"Choose Your Pain"
Lee Rose
Story by : Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts & Kemp Powers
Teleplay by : Kemp Powers
October 15, 2017 (2017-10-15)

After a month of successful operations, Lorca is ordered to protect the spore drive until it can be replicated for other Starfleet ships. As he returns to the Discovery, Lorca is taken captive by the Klingons. Burnham has grown concerned with the toll that the drive has taken on Ripper. Along with Stamets' partner, medical officer Hugh Culber, Burnham convinces Stamets to find an alternative to run the drive. Lorca is imprisoned with captured Starfleet officer Ash Tyler and human criminal Harry Mudd, and in discussions Lorca reveals that he killed his entire crew during an earlier battle to spare them from the Klingons' torture, but escaped himself. Lorca is tortured by L'Rell, who wants the secret behind Discovery's new form of travel, but Lorca and Tyler escape before the Klingons learn anything. For the final jump needed to escape the Klingons, with Lorca and Tyler on-board, Stamets connects to the spore drive himself using Ripper's DNA. Later, Burnham frees Ripper, while Stamets' reflection does not walk away from a mirror when he does.

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"Lethe"
Douglas Aarniokoski
Joe Menosky & Ted Sullivan
October 22, 2017 (2017-10-22)

On his way to broker a peace deal with renegade Klingon houses, Sarek is injured when a "logic extremist" attempts to assassinate him. Burnham senses this, and Lorca agrees to rescue Sarek. Admiral Katrina Cornwell questions this decision and others that Lorca has been making. Burnham searches for Sarek in a shuttle with her roommate, Cadet Sylvia Tilly, and Tyler. Burnham attempts to connect with Sarek's mind, and finds him remembering the time that her application for the Vulcan Expeditionary Group was rejected. She learns that the VEG would only admit one of Sarek's children, and he chose Spock, his half-human son. Spock ultimately chose to join Starfleet, rendering Sarek's decision futile. Burnham helps him regain consciousness and activate a locator beacon. Lorca and Cornwell sleep together, but she is concerned by his paranoid behavior and plans to remove him from command of Discovery. With Sarek unable to meet the Klingons, Cornwell takes his place; however, the peace talks are actually a trap, and she is taken captive.

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"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"
David M. Barrett
Aron Eli Coleite & Jesse Alexander
October 29, 2017 (2017-10-29)

While attending a crew party, Burnham and Tyler are called to the bridge to deal with an endangered space creature that the Discovery has come across. When the creature is brought on board, it is revealed to be carrying a person: Harry Mudd. He plans to kill Lorca and sell the ship to the Klingons, but when he is caught he blows up the ship instead. Time returns to the party earlier, with Burnham and Tyler called to the bridge again. They are intercepted by Stamets, who is aware that they are in a time loop due to his interactions with Ripper. Over several time loops Stamets works with Burnham and Tyler to find a solution to the problem while Mudd gets further in his plan each time. They eventually convince Mudd that he has won, and he ends the time loop. Preparing to receive a boarding party of Klingons, Mudd is instead confronted by his "beloved" Stella and her father, from whom he had stolen her dowry. They take Mudd away. Stamets reveals to Burnham and Tyler that in one of the time loops they had danced together and kissed.

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"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
John S. Scott
Kirsten Beyer
November 5, 2017 (2017-11-05)

Coming to the aid of another Federation ship, the Discovery is unable to prevent its destruction from a Klingon ship with their cloaking technology. Desperate for a way to detect these ships even when they are cloaked, Burnham, Tyler, and Saru are sent to Pahvo, a seemingly uninhabited planet with a naturally occurring crystalline transmitter that broadcasts the planet's vibrational frequency into space. They hope to use the transmitter to create a sonar for the hidden Klingon ships. They discover that Pahvo is inhabited with indigenous life that introduce Saru to their higher understanding of peace, and he attempts to force Burnham and Tyler to remain with him on the planet forever. Burnham is able to fight off Saru and broadcast the new signal. However, the Pahvo lifeforms adjust the signal to contact the Klingons as well, hoping to end the war. Kol receives the signal, after sentencing L'Rell to death: she had tried to help Cornwell escape in exchange for protection from Kol, leading to L'Rell apparently killing Cornwell to try save face with Kol.

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"Into the Forest I Go"
Chris Byrne
Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt
November 12, 2017 (2017-11-12)

Lorca is ordered to flee before the Klingons arrive, but disobeys orders to protect the lifeforms on Pahvo and their chances of detecting the cloaked ships. When the Klingons arrive, Tyler and Burnham transport to their ship and plant sensors that will help create an algorithm for detecting the cloaked ships. They find an alive Cornwell hidden with L'Rell, but encountering the latter sends Tyler into shock due to PTSD from her torturing and raping him. Lorca has Stamets make 133 micro-jumps in order to provide a three-dimensional reading of the sensors, while Burnham distracts Kol by challenging him to a fight. The jumps are completed, though not without trauma to Stamets. When the algorithm is calculated, Burnham, Tyler, Cornwell, and L'Rell (who wishes to defect) are transported back to the Discovery and the Klingon ship is destroyed. Stamets volunteers to make one more jump to safety, but tells Lorca it will be his last. However, Lorca changes the coordinates and they jump to an unknown destination surrounded by debris from Klingon ships.

10
"Despite Yourself"
Jonathan Frakes
Sean Cochran
January 7, 2018 (2018-01-07)

Discovery's crew determines that they have arrived in a parallel Mirror Universe, with Stamets now unconscious and unable to power the spore drive. Tyler confronts L'Rell, and she attempts to use a verbal cue to trigger something within him, though he fights this off. From a data core from a wrecked Klingon ship, they learn that this universe is ruled by the human Terran Empire, who are fighting a resistance that includes species such as Klingons and Vulcans. Here, Burnham is the former captain of the ISS Shenzhou, presumed dead after an attack by the fugitive Lorca. The ISS Discovery is captained by Silvia Tilly's counterpart, so she and the crew pretend to be their Mirror selves. They deliver Burnham and Lorca to the Shenzhou, under the ruse that Burnham had been hunting Lorca since her presumed death and had now captured him. Tyler accompanies them, after first killing Culber when he informs Tyler that he appears to have undergone major surgical modifications. On the Shenzhou, Lorca is tortured while Burnham assumes command.

11
"The Wolf Inside"
TJ Scott
Lisa Randolph
January 14, 2018 (2018-01-14)

The ISS Shenzhou is given the coordinates of the resistance leadership, and ordered to kill them all. Burnham and Tyler travel as a landing party themselves and instead surrender to the resistance in hopes of learning how the Klingons of this universe have learned to work with other species; they find that the Mirror Voq is the leader. Burnham offers to give the group time to escape before their base is destroyed, and Mirror Sarek confirms she can be trusted after connecting to her mind. Listening to Voq triggers Tyler's programming, and he has to be restrained. Back on the ship, he reveals to Burnham that he now knows he was once Voq, and that he underwent surgery to appear human and infiltrate Starfleet. She has him beamed into space, where he is picked up by the USS Discovery. Saru and Tilly imprison him, having earlier found the body of Culber, and apparently failed to heal Stamets using spores. Burnham is reprimanded for not killing the resistance leaders immediately by the Emperor—the Mirror Georgiou.

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"Vaulting Ambition"
Hanelle M. Culpepper
Jordon Nardino
January 21, 2018 (2018-01-21)

Burnham and Lorca are summoned to the ISS Charon, the imperial flagship. Georgiou sends Lorca to a torturous agony booth, and has dinner with Burnham. Stamets finds himself within the mycelial network with the consciousness of his Mirror counterpart, learning that the network has been corrupted by the Mirror Stamets' experiments. Stamets encounters a representation of Culber and accepts his loss, before waking up to find his spore collection infected. Georgiou laments allowing Lorca to become a father figure for Burnham, only for the pair to fall in love and plot to overthrow her. She plans to execute Burnham, who reveals the truth about being from another universe. Explaining how they had crossed over, Georgiou trades the spore drive's schematics for information on alternative ways to cross between universes, which leads Burnham to realize that the Lorca she knows is actually from the Mirror Universe, and has been manipulating events to get close to her and back to the Mirror Universe. Lorca escapes from the agony booth.

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"What's Past is Prologue"[4]
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January 28, 2018 (2018-01-28)

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"The War Without, The War Within"[4]
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February 4, 2018 (2018-02-04)

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"Will You Take My Hand?"[4]
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February 11, 2018 (2018-02-11)

text: Chelsea Dowling will direct for the season.[5]

text: Jump up ^ The first episode had a special premiere on CBS alongside its release on CBS All Access.[2][3]

text: Cast and characters[edit]

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Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham[6][7]
Doug Jones as Saru[8]
Shazad Latif as Voq / Ash Tyler[9][10][11]
Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets[8][12]
Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly[13][14]
Jason Isaacs as Gabriel Lorca[15]

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Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou[16][17]
Mary Chieffo as L'Rell[18]
James Frain as Sarek[19][20]
Kenneth Mitchell as Kol[9]
Jayne Brook as Katrina Cornwell[21]
Wilson Cruz as Hugh Culber[22]

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Mia Kirshner as Amanda Grayson[23]
Rainn Wilson as Harry Mudd[24]
Katherine Barrell as Stella Mudd[25]

text: Production[edit]

text: Development[edit]

text: On November 2, 2015, CBS announced a new Star Trek television series to premiere in January 2017, "on the heels" of the original series' 50th anniversary in 2016, to be developed specifically for the CBS All Access on demand service. In February 2016, Bryan Fuller, who began his career writing for the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, was announced as the new series' showrunner.[26][27] Fuller had publicly called for Star Trek to return to television for years,[28] and when he first met with CBS about the series, the company did not have a plan for what the new show would be.[29] He proposed an anthology series with each season being a standalone, serialized show set in a different era, beginning with a prequel to the original series. CBS told Fuller to just start with a single serialized show and see how that performs first, and he began further developing the prequel concept.[28] In June, Fuller announced that the first season would consist of 13 episodes,[29] and a month later, at Star Trek's 50th anniversary San Diego Comic-Con panel, he revealed the series' title to be Star Trek: Discovery,[30] and confirmed that it would be set in the "Prime Timeline" of the previous Star Trek series.[31]

text: At the end of July, CBS hired David Semel, a veteran television procedural director who was under an overall deal with the studio, to direct the pilot for Discovery.[32][28] This was a decision that Fuller was not happy with, believing that Semel "was wrong for the job".[28] Fuller wanted a more visionary director, and had personally reached out to Edgar Wright to direct the pilot before CBS hired Semel.[33] As development and pre-production on the series continued, Fuller and Semel "clashed" on the direction of the show. The series was also starting to overrun its per-episode budget, while Fuller was attempting to both design new sets, costumes, and aliens as well as heading the series' writers and also spending considerable time addressing his commitments as showrunner of another new series, American Gods. This caused frustration among CBS executives that were pushing for a January 2017 debut, a date that others believed was unrealistic.[28] By August 2016, Fuller had hired Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts, who he had worked with on Pushing Daisies, to serve as co-showrunners with him.[7][34] A month later, Fuller and Kurtzman had asked CBS to delay the series' release so they could realistically meet the high expectations for the series, and the studio announced that the series premiere had been pushed back to May 2017. The pair said that "these extra few months will help us achieve a vision we can all be proud of."[35]

text: A few weeks after the delay, Fuller met with Sonequa Martin-Green about portraying the series' lead,[28] a character that had been surprisingly difficult for the production to cast.[34] Fuller "felt he found the crucial piece of the puzzle", but the actress would not be released from a contract at AMC until her character's death on The Walking Dead which was not set to air until April 2017, meaning Discovery would have to be delayed again if Martin-Green was cast. At the end of October, CBS asked Fuller to step down as showrunner.[28] They announced that the production was being restructured to keep Fuller actively involved with the series but not on a day-to-day production level as he shifted his focus fully to American Gods: Berg and Harberts were made sole showrunners, working off of a broad story arc and overall mythology established by Fuller; Kurtzman and Fuller would continue as executive producers, with Fuller still helping the writers break stories; and Akiva Goldsman would join the series in a supporting producer role, similar to the role he held on Fringe alongside Kurtzman, to help the showrunners and other producers "juggle the demands of the series". In a statement, CBS reiterated that they were "extremely happy with [Fuller's] creative direction" for the series, and were committed to "seeing this vision through".[34] However, some elements of the series that came directly from Fuller were dropped, including some "more heavily allegorical and complex story" points and some of his designs.[28] Fuller later confirmed that he was no longer involved in the series at all, which he said was "bittersweet ... I can only give them the material I've given them and hope that it is helpful for them."[36] By the end of the year, Martin-Green had indeed been cast as the series' lead,[37] and in May 2017, the episode order was expanded to 15.[38][39] That June, CBS announced a new premiere date of September 24.[2]

text: Writing[edit]

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"One of the driving forces of this war was to not vilify either side. The show is often told from both points of view ... there are significant sections of the narrative that are purely from the Klingon point of view and in Klingon. That allows the audience to participate in the debate of who is right and who is wrong."

—Executive producer Akiva Goldsman on approaching the Federation-Klingon war from both sides.[40]

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text: Fuller wanted to differentiate the series from the previous 700+ episodes of Star Trek by taking advantage of the streaming format of All Access and telling a single story arc across the entire first season. He and the writers had completed this arc by the end of June 2016.[29] The story arc revolves around "an event in Star Trek history that's been talked about but never been explored", 10 years before the events of the original series,[41] which was revealed to be the Federation-Klingon cold war.[42] Fuller elaborated that the original series episode "Balance of Terror", one of his favorites, would be "a touchstone" for the season's story arc.[43]

text: Because of the season's focus on Klingons and their culture, the producers decided that members of the species would speak their own language with subtitles throughout the show, which Berg said was "very important for us ... They have their own pride. They have their own interests and talent. It's a very fascinating culture."[20] Noting that the Klingons historically represented the Soviet Union, becoming friendlier with the protagonists of Star Trek as the Cold War ended, Harberts stated that in Discovery they and Starfleet would represent different factions within the modern United States, explaining that "what we really wanted to do too is understand two differing points of view and really explore it ... making sure they aren't just the enemy. And then finding a way to come together. How do we bring everyone back together? [That] is what season one is all about."[44] Berg elaborated that "one of the themes we are exploring is universal and is a lesson I feel like as human beings we have to learn over and over again—is you think you know ‘the other,' but you really don't. You have to sort of cognitively re-frame or break or deviate from your own point of view to really understand. You have to forget what you knew before. One of the big steps in that journey is how to understand yourself. You have to understand yourself before you can better see others. The show is called Discovery and it is called Discovery for a reason, because our characters are on a journey."[44]

text: Goldsman said the story of the Klingon War would cover only the first season of the series, ending with the creation of the Neutral Zone, something Goldsman said is "sufficiently inexact that we can now fill in how we got there." He noted that the season is set in a time period that has been mentioned a lot in Star Trek previously, and that has been widely covered by previous Star Trek novels, and explained that the writers considered those novels to be non-canon, "but we are aware of them. And, we are going to cross paths with components that Trek fans are familiar with".[45] Discussing some of the characters' relationships, the showrunners noted that previous Star Trek series revolved around the relationships between central male characters, but Discovery focuses more on female characters with a "friendship structure" that goes from Captain Georgiou to First Officer Burnham, and from Burnham to Cadet Tilly. They also explained that the two main Starfleet captains in the series, Georgiou and Lorca, are "metaphors for how people and institutions act in times of conflict and desperation", with Georgiou responding to war as would be expected of a Starfleet officer from previous series, but Lorca "represents a more mysterious, complicated version of a Starfleet captain who can almost only exist during a time of war".[46]

text: Rather than begin the season with Burnham boarding the USS Discovery and revealing her backstory through flashbacks, which a more traditional series may have done, the writers wanted to have a prologue that explored Burnham initial actions and her relationship to Georgiou. Feeling that at least "two hours" were needed to convey this, the first two episodes of the season (released as the two-part premiere of the series) cover this prologue, with the season's main story beginning with the third episode, which was considered to be the series' equivalent of a pilot episode.[47] It begins six months after the prologue episodes, which was inspired by film sequels that begin with significant events having transpired since the previous installment such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day.[48] The third episode reveals that the season's story involves the development of a new form of space travel that could win the war for the Federation. When it was noted that this form of travel is not known in the previous Star Trek series (set later in the canon), actor Jason Isaacs stated that the writers were aware of this, and were "very clear, in not a cop-out way, to both incorporate this stuff which is exciting and very visual, to make sure that it didn’t rankle canon."[49] The season's story is split into two "micro-arcs", covering the first nine episodes and then the rest of the season, with a break in airing between the two.[50]

text: Casting[edit]

text: In addition to Martin-Green as Michael Burnham, the series also stars Doug Jones as Saru, an alien lieutenant commander;[8] Shazad Latif as Ash Tyler, a former prisoner of war;[9][10] Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets, an astromycologist;[8][12] Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly, a cadet;[13][14] and Jason Isaacs as Gabriel Lorca, captain of the USS Discovery.[15] Not all of the show's characters are introduced immediately, with the writers taking advantage of the streaming, serialized format to take their time introducing each character and spend time with them as they are introduced.[51] Tyler is revealed to actually be the Klingon Voq disguised as a human; Voq was initially credited as being portrayed by the invented actor Javid Iqbal, named for Latif's father, to hide the fact that Latif was portraying both Voq and Tyler.[11]

text: In November 2016, series' writer and consulting producer Nicholas Meyer mentioned that Michelle Yeoh had been cast in Discovery,[52] and she was soon confirmed to be portraying Captain Georgiou of the USS Shenzhou.[16][8] With Latif's initial casting in December 2016, Mary Chieffo was cast as the Klingon L'Rell.[18] In April 2017, Kenneth Mitchell was cast as Kol, the character that Latif was originally cast to play before he was given the role of Tyler.[9] That July, Rapp revealed that Wilson Cruz, whom Rapp had previously worked with on the musical Rent, would portray Stamets' love interest Hugh Culber.[22] Jayne Brook also has a recurring role in the season, as Admiral Katrina Cornwell.[21] Additionally, appearing throughout the season are Emily Coutts as Keyla Detmer,[53] Sara Mitich as Airiam,[54] and Ali Momen as Kamran Gant,[53] Chris Violette as Britch Weeton,[53] Romain Waite as Troy Januzzi,[53] Oyin Oladejo as Joann Owosekun,[54] Conrad Coates as Terral,[55] Patrick Kwok-Choon as Rhys,[55] as well as Tasia Valenza and Julianne Grossman as the computer voices for the Shenzhou and the Discovery, respectively.[53][54]

text: Fuller said in August 2016 that "once we get through this first season and establish our own Star Trek universe" and characters, the series could look "to open up to more familiar characters and how they can feed into the [show]." He did express interest in including the character Amanda Grayson, saying, "there's much to be told about that".[41] She was later confirmed to be appearing in the season.[48] By January 2017, James Frain was cast as Grayson's husband Sarek.[19] Rainn Wilson was cast as another original series character, Harry Mudd, that March.[24] In September, Harberts revealed that Mia Kirshner had been cast as Grayson.[23] Katherine Barrell portrays Mudd's wife Stella.[25]

text: Design[edit]

text: The design of the USS Discovery is based on an unused Ralph McQuarrie design for the USS Enterprise from the unproduced film Star Trek: Planet of the Titans.[31] The USS Shenzhou was designed to look older than the Discovery,[56][57] and was described as being closer to a submarine from The Hunt for Red October than previously seen Star Trek spaceships.[58] The Shenzhou is a Walker-class starship, a new designation created for the series that is named for test pilot Joe Walker.[59] Sets for the Shenzhou and the Discovery's interiors were built for the series,[56] described as a "tangle of corridors and rooms".[60] Because the bridge of the Shenzhou is on the bottom of that ship, the "massive" set for that room was built 12 feet (3.7 m) off the ground and upside down, and became a challenge for the crew to work in.[57][61] In some cases, such as the transporter rooms and corridors, the same sets were used for both ships, though dressed differently with alternate lighting, graphics, and paint.[57] The "turn over" process took up to a week.[58]

text: Fabric for the Starfleet uniforms seen in the series were custom-dyed in Switzerland; the costumes were cut and assembled in Toronto by costume designer Gersha Phillips and her department. For officers in combat situations or hazardous away missions, jumpsuit-versions of the main uniform are paired with armored vests. Also designed for the series was a Starfleet long haul space suit, which was built in the United Kingdom from sections of high-density foam that were then covered in fiberglass.[62] Phillips designed traditional Vulcan robes for Sarek which were meant to reflect his devotion to logic and "serious intellectual pursuits". Vulcan pendants celebrating "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" were 3D printed and hand painted. For Harry Mudd's costume, primarily made of leather, Phillips was inspired by Adam Ant.[62][63]

text: Klingons[edit]

text: Fuller had "really, really wanted" to redesign the Klingons, which he felt had inconsistent designs throughout the franchise's history. He wanted to portray the race as "sexy and vital and different" rather than "the thugs of the universe", and spent months working with prosthetics designer Neville Page and production designer Mark Worthington on the new look.[42][64][65] Page noted that changing the look of the Klingons would be controversial with Star Trek fans.[66] The idea was to "create a high level of sophisticated detail—for a race that had long been perceived as brutal, one-minded, and simplistic—in order to breathe new life into the Klingon race".[57]

text: They first designed a generic, realistic Klingon skull,[66][67] based on real biology.[65] The different Klingons were developed from that base in a "practical evolutionary" way.[67] The skull design assumed that the Klingons are "an apex predator" and have heightened senses, "specifically extra sensory receptors running from the top of their heads to their backs." Page explained that because of this, it made more sense for the Klingons to be bald "because of these heightened senses on the top of their heads." He added that the Klingons being bald was a "mandate" from Fuller.[66] Different designs for the Klingons clothing, weapons, and armor were then created for the 24 different Klingon houses.[42][68] It was important to the producers to show diversity within the Klingons as well, so the series depicts both light and dark skinned members of the species.[65] Elaborating on the differences between the houses, Glenn Hetrick, co-founder of Alchemy Studios with Page, said, "The [Klingon] empire is very big. They don't all grow up on Qo'noS. They don't all live on the same planets and certainly those different planets would have different environments. So how would the cultures have evolved differently?"[66] Armor and weapons were created by Hetrick and Page using 3D printing, as well as hand carving models of weapons to then be cast from aluminum. Some props, such as helmets, were also designed to be augmented with CGI. Weapons like Klingon ceremonial blades and gun-like "disruptors" were reimagined versions of props from The Next Generation and other Star Trek films and series, with the overall design for weapons, helmets, and armor being based on the culture notes created for the Klingons in the original series, which included influences from Middle Eastern, Mongolian, and Byzantine culture.[69] Recurring design elements for the Klingons' weapons and armor include their skull and vertebrae, "Klingons poised to thrust themselves into the honor of battle", and "a Klingon sacrificing himself for the honor of battle" which harkens to the emblem of the Klingon Empire.[66]

text: Phillips and Larlarb created the clothing worn by the Klingon T'Kuvma and his followers, inspired more by "ancient Klingon ways" than the costumes seen previously in Star Trek. T'Kuvma's wears a tunic created from three different types of leather and a chest plate made with 3D printed beads, decorated with Swarovski crystals. Costumes for his followers were created with individually stained, painted, modelled, and hand-pressed pieces of leather, with each suit taking ten costumers 110 hours to complete. Different colored leather was used to differentiate males and females.[69][63] A notable set of armor created for the season is the Torchbearer armor, which is part of a sacred ritual to unite the Klingon houses, and consists of a hundred individually 3D printed pieces.[63] When first describing the Torchbearer armor, Fuller referred to baroque and samurai styles.[66] For Kol, a member of the house of Kor that previously appeared in the original series, his look is much closer to that of previously seen Klingons, wearing "more leather and a different set of armor".[68] US$3 million was spent on a "massive" ship set for T'Kuvma's house,[60][42] designed as an alien cathedral.[42] Known as the "Klingon sarcophagus ship", it had "to be a church, a ritual space, and a functioning bridge for the Klingon Empire."[57] The outside of the ship is covered in coffins, "some are 300 years old, some are just two days old. Downstairs is the death room, where they prepare their dead; then the coffins get raised up and put on the outside."[70] The set is 40 feet (12 m) tall, 100 feet (30 m) long, and 50 feet (15 m) wide, and includes multiple levels, mezzanines, and cantilevers. The set also includes Klingon text and glyphs inspired by the novel The Final Reflection, from which the designers also took details such as the strategy game Klin zha and Klingon bloodwine cups.[57] Research was done on how written languages evolve to accurately depict the ancient form of Klingon written on the ship. Instead of physical displays like the Federation ships, the sarcophagus ship uses holographic displays created with visual effects.[61]

text: Filming[edit]

text: Filming for the season began at Pinewood Toronto Studios on January 24, 2017,[71][5] with cinematographers including Guillermo Navarro, working on the pilot, and Colin Hoult.[5][72] Set construction had initially been set to begin within a month of June 2016, for a filming period of that September to around March 2017,[29] but by that September, production was not expected to begin until November.[35] After Fuller stepped down as showrunner, set construction was expected to be completed by the end of 2016, with filming to begin "shortly thereafter".[73] By mid-May 2017, filming for scenes set on an unidentified planet had taken place on location in Jordan.[17] Some of the series' sets took over six weeks to create,[56] and new sets were being built up until the end of production on the season.[58] Some episodes for the season were filmed solely on existing sets, making them bottle episodes, though Harberts said the series would not do anything "as bottle-y as 'everyone is stuck in the mess hall!'"[58] Filming for the season concluded on October 11, 2017.[74]

text: Robyn Stewart, an expert in the Klingon language, and linguist Rea Nolan worked closely with the Klingon actors to ensure they could both speak and understand their lines in the language, having the actors practice while their makeup and prosthetics were being applied, which took three hours each day.[68][67] They would first rehearse their lines in English, and worked to "inhabit [the lines] emotionally".[75] Chieffo felt that "it makes sense that when we are speaking to each other we are speaking in our native tongue and really adding a fluidity and nuance", while Mitchell said, "It's an incredibly complex language ... it feels alien. Because it is incredibly difficult and I don't speak the language it takes a lot of muscle memory to memorize each separate syllable over and over and over."[68]

text: Release[edit]

text: Star Trek: Discovery premiered at the ArcLight Hollywood on September 19, 2017.[76] The first episode aired in a "preview broadcast" on CBS in the United States on September 24, and was made available with the second episode on CBS All Access. Subsequent first-run episodes, making up the first chapter of the season, will be streamed weekly on All Access through November 5. The second chapter began streaming in January 2018.[2][3]

text: CBS Studios International licensed the series to Bell Media for broadcast in Canada, and to Netflix for another 188 countries. In Canada, the premiere was broadcast on September 24, 2017, on both the CTV Television Network and on the specialty channels Space (English) and Z (French) before being streamed on CraveTV, with subsequent episodes just broadcast or streamed through Space, Z, and CraveTV. In the other countries, Netflix will release each episode of the series for streaming within 24 hours of its U.S. debut. This agreement also saw Bell and Netflix acquire all previous Star Trek series to stream in their entirety.[27]

text: Marketing[edit]

text: With the announcement of the series' title in July 2016 came a promotional video giving a first look at the USS Discovery. The video did not feature final designs, as the producers had "three weeks to throw that together. We wanted to show fans ... The concepts of the ship are totally what we're going for and they'll be honed up until, I think, the day we deliver".[77] In January 2017, a YouTube video presented by Alcatel was released, using 360° technology to showcase digital models of previous Star Trek ships.[78] The first full trailer for the series was released in May 2017.[79] Chris Harnick of E! News described the trailer as "gorgeous" and "truly cinematic", and because of the appearances of Sarek and the Klingons in the footage, "this is the Star Trek you know and love."[80] Aja Romano at Vox called the trailer's visuals "sumptuous" and "modern, but still very much in keeping with the aesthetic of previous Trek series". She continued, "What gets short shrift in this trailer is the series' overarching plot".[81]

text: In July 2017, Discovery had an "extensive" presence at San Diego Comic-Con, including a panel featuring Martin-Green, Isaacs, Jones, Latif, Wiseman, Rapp, Frain, Kurtzman, Berg, Kadin, Harberts, and Goldsman, and moderated by Wilson.[82] Footage from the series was screened at the panel, with a new trailer released online soon afterwards.[20] CBS also created a "fully immersive" art experience at the Michael J. Wolf Fine Arts Gallery, featuring the USS Discovery's captain's chair and other props, costumes, and sketches from the series, as well as limited edition posters for the show and a shop selling item exclusive to Comic-Con. Pedicabs inspired by the series will give free rides through the Gaslamp District, while a '#TrekDiscovery Challenge' competition will see fans have to take pictures with "authentically costumed Trek ambassadors", one each representing the crews of the five previous Star Trek series, as well as the captain's chair at the art gallery, and post them online with the hashtag #TrekDiscovery to be eligible to win a Roku streaming stick and a subscription to CBS All Access.[82] At the convention, Gentle Giant Studios revealed that they had just picked up the license to create mini-busts and statues based on the series, and planned to particularly focus on the series' Klingons.[83] At the beginning of August, an afternoon of four panels at the Star Trek Las Vegas event was dedicated to the series, featuring producers and writers, actors who were not present at Comic-Con, creature designers, and writers involved with related books and comics.[67]

text: By the beginning of September, promotion for the series was taking place around the world: Isaacs was involved in the launch of the Blackpool Illuminations festival in the UK to promote Discovery; cast and crew promoted the series at the Fan Expo Canada; a USS Shenzhou-themed photobooth, that took pictures of fans as Klingons, was in operation at the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin; and an outdoor campaign of posters and billboards was underway for the show, including a large billboard on the roof of an LAX Airport building.[84] The night before the series premiered on CBS, a model of the USS Discovery was flown above the Hudson River on Manhattan's west side. Created by Remarkable Media, the 50 feet (15 m) rig consisted of a truss skeleton covered in LEDs, and was suspended from a Black Hawk helicopter.[85] On October 7, panels for the series were held at both the PaleyFest television festival and at New York Comic Con.[86]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Ratings and viewership[edit]

text: According to Nielsen Media Research, the CBS broadcast of the first episode was watched by a "decent" audience of 9.5 million viewers.[87][88] The premiere of the series led to record subscriptions for All Access, with the service having its biggest day of signups, as well as its biggest week and month of signups thanks to the series.[89] According to "app analytics specialist" App Annie, the premiere of the series also caused the number of downloads of the All Access mobile app to more than double, with revenue from the app for CBS doubling compared to the average in-app revenue during the previous 30 days.[90]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 82% approval rating with an average rating of 7.14/10 based on 57 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Although it takes an episode to achieve liftoff, Star Trek: Discovery delivers a solid franchise installment for the next generation—boldly led by the charismatic Sonequa Martin-Green." The average rating for each of the series' individual episodes is 89%.[91] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 72 out of 100 based on reviews from 20 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[92]

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Star Trek: Discovery (season 1): Critical reception by episode

Season 1 (2017): Percentage of positive reviews tracked by the website Rotten Tomatoes[93]

text: Matt Zoller Seitz of Vulture praised the series' premiere, feeling it "stands tall alongside the best-regarded incarnations of the Trek franchise... with an almost entirely new slate of characters... and casts them with actors you can't help but like even when they're getting on your last nerve."[94] Writing for Vox, Todd VanDerWerff noted "the best thing about Discovery is that Michael Burnham, played beautifully by Martin-Green, does stuff. She gets in trouble. She breaks rules. She violates Starfleet protocol. She has emotions that get the best of her, even as she knows they shouldn't. She is, in other words, very human". Overall, he declared that "Star Trek is best when it's hopeful, but hope shines brightest amid horror. On some level, Discovery knows both of those things, and that's why it's a show I'm eager to keep watching."[95]

text: Writing for TVLine, Dave Nemetz graded the episode a B+, saying, "the nail-bitingly tense premiere delivered a cracking good action story, eye-popping special effects and a number of gasp-worthy twists" that was worth the wait.[96] Maureen Ryan of Variety, after watching the first two episodes, said the series "has yet to prove itself a worthy successor to The Next Generation or Deep Space Nine. But there are reasons to hope that Discovery will be a promising addition to the Trek canon".[97] Chaim Gartenberg for The Verge also criticized the "extended prologue", but called the two-part premiere "surprisingly satisfying". He praised the uniqueness of Burnham in comparison to previous Trek protagonists, saying, "She's a far more rounded, human character than any of the previous captains, with some serious trauma from a Klingon attack in her youth that's left her predisposed to hate the warrior race. And while Star Trek has plumbed the 'main character has demons' well in the past—most notably with Sisko in Deep Space Nine, and Picard in the later films, when it comes to the Borg—Burnham feels far more compelling for not being a flawless human being in other respects, as her series-protagonist predecessors were."[98]

text: Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Darren Franich gave the two-part premiere a B grade, praising Martin-Green's performance as the lead and the production design as well as commenting on the "undeniable appeal" of the "introduction of a new ship, the revelation that we're watching that ship's final voyage, the cliffhanger possibility that our new hero is a fallen angel." However, he felt that the series third episode retroactively made the two episode prologue "feel even more overextended".[99] Patrick Cooley of cleveland.com criticized the first two episodes for having "bad dialogue, poor storytelling and wooden, bewilderingly stupid characters."[100] Brian Lowry from CNN called the first three episodes "Star Trek Lite", missing the interplay between characters, criticizing the bridge crew and lore, and further calling them an "unspectacular addition to the existing fleet of Trek-branded series [that] makes for an awkward liftoff, one perhaps most notable for its commercial mission, which is to entice new subscribers to CBS All Access."[101]

text: Accolades[edit]

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Year
Award
Category
Recipient
Result
Ref.

2018
TVLine's Performer of the Week
Performance in "The Wolf Inside"
Sonequa Martin-Green
Nominated
[102]

Costume Designers Guild Awards
Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Television
Gersha Phillips
Pending
[103]

Visual Effects Society Awards
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode
Jason Michael Zimmerman, Aleksandra Kochoska, Ante Dekovic and Mahmoud Rahnama for "The Vulcan Hello"
Pending
[104]

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode
Phil Prates, Rex Alerta, John Dinh and Karen Cheng
Pending

Empire Awards
Best TV Actor
Jason Isaacs
Pending
[105]

GLAAD Media Awards
Outstanding Drama Series
Star Trek: Discovery
Pending
[106]


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question_text: how many episodes is ash vs evil dead season 3

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text: Ash vs Evil Dead

text: Premise[edit]

text: The series is set approximately 30 years after the first three Evil Dead films, and serves as a sequel to that trilogy. Ash Williams works at the "Value Stop" as a simple stock boy. Also working at the store is his friend Pablo and the object of Pablo's affections, Kelly. Ash has seemingly done very little with his life since returning from 1300 AD at the end of Army of Darkness, and the beginning of the series sees him living in a trailer and drinking alone in bars. However, Ash must soon renounce his routine existence and become a hero once more by taking up arms and facing the titular Evil Dead. Pablo and Kelly decide to join him on his quest to save humanity.

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text: Cast[edit]

text: Main cast[edit]

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Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams: Ash has changed in the 30 years since Army of Darkness. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Campbell stated, "Ash has survivor's guilt. You could have a heyday with his PTSD. He's a war vet. He doesn't want to talk about it, and he'll lie about that stump on his hand to impress the ladies. This is a guy who's got some issues. He's emotionally stunted. But, he's the guy you want in the foxhole next to you."[7] Over the course of season one, it is revealed that following the events of the film trilogy, Ash spent thirty years drifting from town to town, living in a mobile home trailer, with his pet lizard, Eli, and working a series of dead-end jobs at different branches of Value Stop. Ash has attempted to destroy the Necronomicon on multiple occasions. Unable to be rid of the book, he instead becomes its de facto caretaker. In season two, it is revealed that Ash had returned to his hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan, after the events of the films. The people of Elk Grove refused to believe his stories of Deadites, and instead accused him of murdering his friends and his sister in the cabin, shunned him, and dubbed him "Ashy Slashy".
Ray Santiago as Pablo Simon Bolivar:[8] A co-worker who became Ash's loyal sidekick. Pablo believed that Ash is a true hero, and called him "El Jefe" ("The Boss") as a mark of respect. Santiago describes his character as an "El Jefe in-training". He was raised by his uncle, a shaman, who told him stories of an evil power which can only be defeated by "El Jefe". He fights valiantly alongside Ash and Kelly before being torn to ribbons by the demon Baal, but was resurrected thereafter.
Dana DeLorenzo as Kelly Maxwell/Sorceress Kaya:[9] An occasionally moody and initially reluctant young woman, Kelly is dragged into the fight against evil with Ash and Pablo after she is orphaned. She and her family are Jewish, and she temporarily worked at the Value Stop with Ash and Pablo. Her mother died in a car accident some six months prior to the beginning of the series.
Jill Marie Jones as Amanda Fisher (season 1)[10] A Michigan State Trooper who set out to find Ash following the death of her partner.
Lucy Lawless as Ruby Knowby/Rebecca Prevett:[11] A mysterious figure who is on a quest to hunt down the source of the recent evil outbreaks. She claims to be the daughter of Professor Raymond Knowby and sister of Annie Knowby from Evil Dead II.[12] She is later revealed to be an immortal being who wrote the Necronomicon.
Michelle Hurd as Linda Bates-Emery (season 2): Ash's high school girlfriend who is now married to Emery, the sheriff of Elk Grove, and has a daughter, Lacey. She is one of the few people in Elk Grove happy to see Ash return.
Ted Raimi as Chet Kaminski (season 2) A hard-partying old childhood friend of Ash's who was secretly intimate with Ash's sister, Cheryl, thirty years prior, and pays the ultimate price for it.
Pepi Sonuga as Lacey Emery (season 2) Thomas' and Linda's 17-year-old daughter who becomes possessed by Kandarian spirits and is killed by Kelly.
Arielle Carver-O'Neill as Brandy Barr (season 3) Ash's long-lost daughter, a smart middle-class American high school senior whose life is upended when she finds herself caught up in violent demonic events that result in her mother's death.
Lindsay Farris as Dalton (season 3) A member of the Knights of Sumeria, an ancient order dedicated to battling evil.

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text: Recurring cast[edit]

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Samara Weaving as Heather (season 1) The sole survivor of a hiking group, she is rescued by Pablo and Kelly when they reach the cabin. She is later indirectly killed by Ruby when the evil is set loose.
Hemky Madera as El Brujo (season 1, 3) Pablo's shaman uncle, Ash, Pablo and Kelly go to him for help against the Kandarian Demon. He is killed by the demon Eligos when he performs an exorcism on Kelly to release her from Eligos' thrall.
Lee Majors as Brock Williams (season 2, 3) Ash's father, whom Ash has not seen in 30 or so years, since the events of Evil Dead.[13][14] It is from his father that Ash got his bad habits (debauchery, etc.), and it's hinted that he has stolen girls/women from Ash in the past (i.e. his son's old high school P.E. teacher, Lillian Pendergrast). His day job is as a hardware store owner; his slogan is "Brock Williams - has wood - call me." He blames Ash for the death of his daughter, Cheryl, but then, minutes before being killed by his son's possessed Oldsmobile 88, comes to realize that his boy was actually a hero.
Stephen Lovatt as Sheriff Thomas Emery (season 2) The husband of Linda whom Ash used to pick on in highschool. He is now the strict sheriff of Elk Grove.
Joel Tobeck as Baal (season 2) A diabolical demon and Ruby's ex-husband who wants the Necronomicon for his own nefarious purposes. His abilities include using lust to manipulate others, possessing human bodies and the ability to slow down time near a target where he can converse with or injure said target. When Baal is using this power nobody seems to be able to see him besides the person he is interacting with. Ruby has also mentioned that he is impervious to physical attacks and can only be harmed through mystic or spiritual means.
Emilia Burns as Zoë (Season 3), a Knight of Sumeria who helps Ash in his crusade. She ends up being the sole survivor of her knight squadron.
Katrina Hobbs as Candace Barr (Season 3), An ex-girlfriend of Ash's who is the mother of their daughter Brandy. Ash married Candace in Las Vegas when they were drunk. She was later killed by a deadite before becoming one herself at her own funeral.
Samantha Young as Natalie (Season 3), A woman who Ruby kidnaps and hold hostage be a sort-of babysitter for her spawn. She is later killed by the demonic baby.

text: Special guests[edit]

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Rebekkah Farrell as Linda (season 1)
Ellen Sandweiss returning as Cheryl Williams (season 2) from the original Evil Dead movie.
Nicholas Hope as Professor Raymond Knowby (season 2)
Alison Quigan (normal form) and Ted Raimi (Deadite form) as Henrietta Knowby (season 2)
Kelvin Taylor as an Orderly

text: Production[edit]

text: The series first started life as two competing ideas for a fourth Evil Dead film.[15] However at the time the Raimi brothers did not know how to get funding for the film and so it was instead written as a TV show. Writing for the medium presented new challenges for Sam as he had to make the series accessible to new viewers as well as create new characters to "bounce off of".[15] The project was first officially revealed by Raimi at a surprise appearance at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con[16] That November Starz announced that they officially put an order in for the series.[17] Campbell said the channel was the only network that would give them the ability to be unrated and unrestricted; Campbell has stated that Starz does not require the crew to create alternate, "wimpy" versions for television.[18]

text: The pilot episode of the series was written by Sam Raimi (who also directed), Ivan Raimi and Tom Spezialy.[19] In February 2015, original film series producer Robert Tapert returned to produce along with Raimi, Campbell and Craig DiGregorio. Ray Santiago and Dana DeLorenzo were cast in the lead roles of Pablo Simon Bolivar and Kelly Maxwell, and Jill Marie Jones was cast as Amanda Fisher, a Michigan State Trooper.[19][10] In March 2015, Lucy Lawless was cast as Ruby, a mysterious figure who's on a quest to stop the evil outbreak and believes that Ash is the one who's the cause of it.[11] In April 2015, Starz released a new graphic teaser advertising the TV show is coming in the fall of 2015, along with a new poster for the series.[20] Filming commenced in Auckland, New Zealand later that month.[21]

text: Due to legal issues with Universal Pictures, the events from Army of Darkness could not specifically be mentioned in the first season.[22] In April 2015, the producers made it clear that they wanted to resolve the issue,[23][24][25] and in mid-2016, producer Robert Tapert stated that the rights issue had been solved and that references to Army of Darkness would appear from season two onward.[26]

text: Episodes[edit]

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Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
10
October 31, 2015 (2015-10-31)
January 2, 2016 (2016-01-02)

2
10
October 2, 2016 (2016-10-02)
December 11, 2016 (2016-12-11)

3
10
February 25, 2018 (2018-02-25)
April 29, 2018 (2018-04-29)[27]

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text: Season 1 (2015–16)[edit]

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No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
U.S. viewers
(millions)

1
1
"El Jefe"
Sam Raimi
Sam Raimi & Ivan Raimi and Tom Spezialy
October 31, 2015 (2015-10-31)
0.437[28]

Thirty years after his epic battle against the evil Deadites, Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) is living in a trailer park, working in a Value Stop department store, and spending his evenings womanizing in dive bars. After seeing a demonic visage appear on a woman's face, Ash recalls having a recent Marijuana-addled "poetry read" with a young prostitute, from the Necronomicon, which he still keeps locked in a trunk. Elsewhere in town, Michigan state police detective Amanda Fisher, (Jill Marie Jones), investigates a disturbance at an abandoned house and encounters Ash's demon-possessed friend who kills her partner. After defeating the possessed woman, she is then forced to put down her undead partner who attacks her. Later, Amanda meets the mysterious Ruby Knowby, (Lucy Lawless), who seems almost too understanding about the horrors Amanda has witnessed. As more evil happenings occur around him, Ash realizes he unwittingly reawakened the horrible curse again and decides to slip out of town, but he is stopped by his co-workers, Pablo (Ray Santiago) and Kelly, (Dana DeLorenzo), who realize he's to blame for what is going on. After having to kill his possessed neighbor, Ash reluctantly decides to resume his old chainsaw-wielding persona once again.

2
2
"Bait"
Michael J. Bassett
Dominic Dierkes
November 7, 2015 (2015-11-07)
0.276[29]

Pablo and Ash help Kelly who is worried about a strange call from her father and the sudden return of her lost mother, (Mimi Rogers), who was feared dead months ago. Ash remains suspicious of the mother, believing she's a Deadite impostor. Meanwhile Amanda follows leads that Ash Williams is behind the recent deaths and strange happenings around town, and decides to track him down. Ash and Pablo arrive at Kelly's father's house to find Kelly's mother acting normal. However, after being provoked at the dinner table by Ash, Kelly's mother reveals herself as a Deadite and kills Kelly's father with a fork. After a madcap fight between her and Ash, the Deadite tries to convince Kelly that she's fine now, but shows herself again and Ash kills her. After burying the two bodies, Kelly agrees to accompany Ash and Pablo, and the three drive away.

3
3
"Books from Beyond"
Michael J. Bassett
Sean Clements
November 14, 2015 (2015-11-14)
0.383[30]

With the mysterious Ruby one step behind them, Ash and his friends seek out Lionel, the owner of an occult bookstore, "Books from Beyond," to find a way to undo the evil curse. Lionel uses the Necronomicon to summon the demon Eligos in hopes of compelling it to give the answers Ash seeks. The ceremony goes awry when Amanda arrives to arrest Ash and Eligos escapes the summoning circle. In all the chaos, Ash does manage to get a cryptic response that the solution to his predicament resides within him.

4
4
"Brujo"
David Frazee
James E. Eagan
November 21, 2015 (2015-11-21)
0.448[31]

After dealing with the demon, Ash leaves the uncooperative Amanda handcuffed in the bookstore and trapped with a Deadite Lionel. She is saved however by Ruby, and after learning of her interest in Ash, the two join forces in hunting him down. Meanwhile Pablo takes Ash to meet his shaman uncle, a "Brujo", who may be able to help. Along the way, Kelly gets sick and acts strangely, having been unknowingly possessed by Eligos. Eventually the Brujo gives Ash a drug-induced vision of himself relaxing on a pier in Jacksonville, Florida, (Ash's idealized vacation spot), where his pet lizard Eli appears and tells him he must bury the Necronomicon deep in the place where everything started – the cabin in the woods. During the trip, a possessed Kelly attacks Ash.

5
5
"The Host"
David Frazee
Zoë Green
November 28, 2015 (2015-11-28)
0.430[32]

The Eligos-possessed Kelly convinces Pablo and his uncle that Ash is the one possessed. Elsewhere, Amanda and Ruby close in on Ash by using Ash's severed undead hand to guide them. The Brujo prepares for an exorcism while, back in Ash's trailer, Kelly tries to seduce Pablo and later kill him. Once the demon reveals himself the Brujo performs the exorcism on Kelly, forcing Eligos to leave, but not before the Brujo is killed. During a funeral for the Brujo, Pablo takes his uncle's sacred medallion. Back at the trailer, Pablo gives Ash a new mechanical hand that he had been working on.

6
6
"The Killer of Killers"
Michael Hurst
Nate Crocker
December 5, 2015 (2015-12-05)
0.402[33]

Ruby and Amanda arrive at the Brujo's ranch just having missed Ash, but the charred skeleton of the Brujo emerges from the funeral pyre and confronts Ruby telling her that she'll never have the book for herself. The two fall into the pyre which then explodes. Amanda leaves in Ruby's car but notices Ash's hand has disappeared. On their way to the cabin, Ash, Pablo and Kelly stop at a roadside diner to meet Lem, a old militia friend of Ash, and ask for help in acquiring some weapons. While Ash tries to scam his way out of paying the diner check, Pablo and Kelly return to the trailer and deal with the Necronomicon which comes alive and reacts to the Brujo's medallion. Meanwhile, Amanda confronts Ash and arrests him, just as her police chief arrives. Soon, however, the evil Kandarian force attacks the diner, spontaneously turning the police chief and a waitress into Deadites. Having barely escaped the horror, Lem calls his militia buddies to "arm up" but he is soon attacked by the force himself. Back at the smoldering diner, Amanda agrees to join up with Ash's group.

7
7
"Fire in the Hole"
Michael Hurst
Sean Clements, Dominic Dierkes and Ivan Raimi
December 12, 2015 (2015-12-12)
0.452[34]

Ash and his group go to meet the militiamen but find they have been attacked by a demon-possessed Lem. Lem attacks again, and Ash and Amanda become trapped in the militia's bunker with him. Meanwhile, Kelly and Pablo escape to the woods but the militiamen, (thinking the two are government agents and their friend Lem is infected with a government virus), hunt them down. Back at the Brujo's ranch, Ruby emerges from the funeral pyre unharmed; she goes to the diner and resumes her search for Ash. Eventually Pablo and Kelly rescue Ash and Amanda and get the weapons from the militia. Ash then unexpectedly vanishes. A closing scene shows Ash's severed hand crawling through the woods toward the cabin.

8
8
"Ashes to Ashes"
Tony Tilse
Michael J. Bassett
December 19, 2015 (2015-12-19)
0.465[35]

Armed with his chainsaw, shotgun and the Necronomicon, Ash returns to the sinister cabin after 30 years. He finds Amanda behind him who convinces him that he shouldn't face the evil alone. Meanwhile Kelly and Pablo are lost in the woods but find a group of hikers consisting of Brad, his fiancée and Heather, who lead them toward the cabin. At the cabin, Ash is taunted by the severed head of his old girlfriend Linda that he left in the work shed three decades ago. In the cabin, Amanda listens to the old tape recorder about the Necronomicon. Ash suddenly appears and tells her that they should just leave and be together, but Amanda notices his putrid hand and he attacks her. She manages to cut off and destroy the hand, but imposter-Ash impales her on the antlers of the deer head in the living room. The real Ash then finds Amanda just before she dies. Pablo and Kelly return and Ash tells them that she was killed by another Evil Ash that is running around somewhere.

9
9
"Bound in Flesh"
Tony Tilse
Rob Wright
December 26, 2015 (2015-12-26)
0.343[36]

Pablo and Kelly confront the two Ashes and, once they realize who the impostor is, they kill him. Ash decides to chop up the bodies of the impostor and Amanda before they turn into Deadites, but the hikers return. Pablo and Kelly lead them away while Ash dismembers his clone. Suddenly the Necronomicon starts talking to him, trying to convince him not to bury it. He throws the book in the refrigerator then notices Amanda has disappeared. Amanda, now a Deadite, attacks Pablo, Kelly and the hikers. She kills Brad and his fiancée and Heather breaks her leg. Ruby arrives and Amanda runs off. Returning to the cabin, Ruby confronts Ash, introducing herself as the one who's been cleaning up his mess. She explains that the book cannot be simply buried but needs to be dismantled. Ash agrees to destroy the book and cuts off its face, but once he hands it over Ruby begins a ritual to unleash the evil upon the entire world. Ruby claims to have written the Necronomicon and the face of the book animates and attaches itself to Pablo.

10
10
"The Dark One"
Rick Jacobson
Craig DiGregorio
January 2, 2016 (2016-01-02)
0.508[37]

Before Ash can react to what is going on, Amanda returns and attacks him. He manages to defeat her but notices Ruby and Pablo have disappeared into the cellar. He goes down to find them but the Kandarian force pounds the cabin and Ash falls down the steps. He suddenly finds himself back in his trailer with the Necronomicon. Ruby appears and tells him that he was destined to stand against her, and then tries to broker a truce by offering him what he desires the most – a peaceful retirement in Jacksonville. Refusing the offer, Ash finds himself back in the cellar and under attack by a demonic child that was belched up by Pablo who is under the control of the Necronomicon. Meanwhile, Kelly and Heather attempt to survive a demonic onslaught. Heather is killed while Kelly is locked out of the cabin. Ash again confronts Ruby, who promises to leave Ash and his friends alone in exchange for allowing her to release evil spirits (which she claims she can control) from the Necronomicon. Ash accepts the deal and starts driving to Jacksonville with Kelly and Pablo, while sinkholes begin to open up around the world.

text: Season 2 (2016)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
U.S. viewers
(millions)

11
1
"Home"
Rick Jacobson
Craig DiGregorio
September 27, 2016 (2016-09-27) (online)[38]
October 2, 2016 (2016-10-02) (broadcast)
0.436[39]

While enjoying his time at Jacksonville, Ash is forced to come out of retirement after being attacked by Deadites summoned by Ruby. Ash (still in possession of the Kandarian Dagger), Pablo and Kelly return to Ash's hometown in Michigan, Elk Grove, where they meet up with his father, Brock (Lee Majors), who criticizes him for running away from the town after the events that transpired 30 years ago. While searching around town for Ruby, Ash encounters his former love, Linda Bates, who is married to the town's sheriff, Thomas Emery. Emery mocks Ash, and promises to take him in when he can. Pablo receives a vision, prompting the gang to head to the town's crematorium, where Ash finds an injured Ruby, claiming that her children have betrayed her, forcing her to hide the Necronomicon. After saving her from her three demon children, Ash and Ruby form a temporary alliance.

12
2
"The Morgue"
Tony Tilse
Cameron Welsh
October 9, 2016 (2016-10-09)
0.333[40]

Ruby reveals to the group that she hid the Necronomicon inside a corpse at the town morgue, which prompts Ash and Kelly to go retrieve it, while Pablo stays with her at Brock's house in order to find out about his visions. While attempting to get the book, Ash discovers that his old high school P.E. teacher, who is dating Brock, turns out to have been dead and is now a Deadite. Ash returns home just in time to stop the Deadite from raising hell. Meanwhile, Pablo's grasp on reality is tested when Ruby reveals that the Necronomicon has gifted him with premonitions, a detail seen in one from which Ruby deduces that her ex-husband, Baal, is the reason behind why all of her children have turned on her. At the end, Ash's car, the Delta, is stolen by two teenagers, while still carrying the Necronomicon in it.

13
3
"Last Call"
Tony Tilse
Noelle Valdivia
October 16, 2016 (2016-10-16)
0.321[41]

In an attempt to lure the teenagers who stole his car to his place, Ash and his best buddy, Chet, devise a plan to throw a party at the bar, lure the thieves in, and get the Delta and the Necronomicon back. The plan backfires, however, as one of the teenagers' friends accidentally reads from the Necronomicon, allowing evil to possess her as well as the Delta, leading to a mass killing spree. The possessed teenager, Amber, heads to Ash's party, where she almost kills Brock before Ash intervenes. Brock realizes the truth about his son and shows his pride, but before he could reveal a secret to Ash, he is run over by the Delta. Meanwhile, Ruby attempts to convince Kelly that she is the one Ruby was supposed to be looking for.

14
4
"DUI"
Michael J. Bassett
Ivan Raimi
October 23, 2016 (2016-10-23)
0.274[42]

The possessed Delta continues its rampage holding one of the teenagers, Lacey, hostage. It comes back and kidnaps Pablo as well. Ash takes Chet in tow, driving his car and pursues the Delta. Meanwhile, Ruby and Kelly head back to Ash's trailer to pick up weapons, where Ruby reveals that Baal can get into an individual's mind and manipulate them, and that she has been manipulated before. While they go back to the crematorium and kill the rest of her spawn, Ash continues chasing down Pablo, and Chet drops him off at an abandoned Demolition derby park. The Delta lets go of Pablo and Lacey, facing Ash by itself. While Pablo tries to deface the book, it tells him to read a passage. Ash stops the Delta, and they throw the book into the trunk of the car, a portal to hell, seemingly destroying it. Ruby, sensing the book's disappearance, runs back along with Kelly. A demon jumps out of the trunk at the end.

15
5
"Confinement"
Michael J. Bassett
William Bromell
October 30, 2016 (2016-10-30)
0.274[43]

Baal arrives on Earth and seduces a police officer before killing her and removing her skin. Ash is arrested for Amber's murder but is freed from his cell by Baal, disguised as the police officer. Pablo, Kelly and Ruby arrive at the police station to free Ash, while Lacey and Linda come looking for Sheriff Emery. Before going to look for the Kandarian Dagger, Ruby warns the group of Baal's ability to disguise himself by wearing peoples' skin, which sets the group on edge as they come to realise that any one of them could be Baal. Pablo reveals a strange rash to Ash and Kelly. Seeing Pablo's condition worsen, Emery believes that he is Baal, leading him to pull out his gun and threaten the group. Ruby returns with Ash's weapons and Ash defeats the reanimated flesh of a fallen police officer. On examining Pablo's rash, Ruby declares that he might be their only chance to stop Baal.

16
6
"Trapped Inside"
Mark Beesley
James E. Eagan
November 6, 2016 (2016-11-06)
0.330[44]

Ash, Kelly, Ruby, Linda and Lacey take Pablo back to Ash's house, where Ruby reveals that if they wait long enough, the required spell to send Baal back to hell will emerge on Pablo's skin. Baal uses his powers to convince Emery to lead a mob of Elk Grove townspeople to capture Ash. As the townspeople surround Ash's house, Ash hears a noise coming from Cheryl's room. Inside he sees Chet, who had come to warn him about the mob. The required spell emerges from Pablo's skin, while Ruby reveals to Kelly that birthing her demon "children" cost her her immortality. A Deadite Cheryl appears and fights Ash, killing Chet in the process. The fight is taken outside, where the townspeople are surprised to see Cheryl, seemingly alive. Ash kills her and reveals her to be a Deadite, thus convincing the people that he is not a murderer. Ash is then knocked out by Baal.

17
7
"Delusion"
Mark Beesley
Hank Chilton
November 13, 2016 (2016-11-13)
0.337[45]

Ash wakes up from a nightmare only to find himself in an asylum, where a man calling himself Doctor Peacock claims that Ash has been locked up since the murder of his friends at the cabin, and that everything about the Necronomicon was a delusion he made up to deny responsibility for his actions. Ash realizes that Peacock is none other than Baal, who is trying to break his mind through an illusion. Within the illusion he sees Ruby, as a nurse, Kelly as a fellow inmate, and Pablo as an orderly. Ash attempts to fight through the illusions, but fails time after time. After meeting with Linda, and seeing Ruby, Pablo and Kelly arrive outside the asylum, Ash then seemingly agrees to follow Baal's command to destroy the Necronomicon.

18
8
"Ashy Slashy"
Tony Tilse
Suzanne Keilly and Aaron Lam
November 20, 2016 (2016-11-20)
0.237[46]

Ruby, Pablo and Kelly enter the asylum and encounter Sheriff Emery, who got Linda to help him capture Ash in exchange for Lacey's freedom from Baal. Lacey, however, turns up as a Deadite and murders Emery, and is later killed by Kelly. Ruby and Pablo encounter Ash, who then tracks them down and takes Pablo to Baal. Kelly later meets up with Linda, who learns about the deaths of both her husband and daughter. She then resolves to take down Baal for good. They reach Pablo, where Ash reveals that he was never broken by Baal, and it was all part of his plan to get Pablo and Baal in the same room. Pablo then recites the incantation to send Baal back to Hell, but before disappearing, Baal slashes Pablo in the stomach, cutting him in half.

19
9
"Home Again"
Rick Jacobson
Jennifer Ames & Steve Turner
December 4, 2016 (2016-12-04)
0.266[47]

Distraught over the loss of Pablo, Ash and the gang attempt to travel back in time to ensure that young Ash will never see the Necronomicon. They return to the year 1982, before young Ash went to the cabin. As they travel to the woods, the gang is chased down by the Kandarian Demon, and Ruby and Kelly are separated from Ash, who run into the cabin. After a brief altercation with an evil foetus that attempts to infect Ash from his leg, Ash hears a faint voice crying for help from the cellar. He finds the voice to be coming from Henrietta Knowby, who claims to have been trapped and tortured here by her husband. While initially not believing her, Ash eventually discovers as Professor Knowby returns with one of his students, Tanya, who he plans to use to transfer the Kandarian Demon from within Henrietta onto her. Ash then frees Henrietta, just as he realizes he's been tricked, allowing her to run amok. In the midst of the chaos, Professor Knowby escapes with the Necronomicon and locks Ash and Tanya down in the cellar with Henrietta. Meanwhile, Ruby and Kelly are attacked by possessed trees, as well as being followed by a mysterious being.

20
10
"Second Coming"
Rick Jacobson
Luke Kalteux
December 11, 2016 (2016-12-11)
0.269[48]

As Professor Knowby attempts to escape the cabin, he is killed by the Ruby of year 1982, who then retrieves the Necronomicon. Henrietta murders Tanya, and battles Ash, but is ultimately defeated. As Ash reunites with present-day Ruby and Kelly, past Ruby learns of their involvement and then kills present-day Ruby, while Ash and Kelly attempt to escape. The effects of the timeline alteration take place as Ash notices the return of his missing right hand, and Pablo seemingly returning to life. However, he turns out to be Baal, who has secretly taken over Pablo's corpse rather than being banished. Baal and the alternate Ruby take Ash and Kelly back to the cabin, where they begin to perform rituals to give birth to their spawns. Ash proposes a fair fight between him and Baal, without the use of any magic or weapon. Baal gains the upper hand by using his powers to change form into Chet, Cheryl and Brock, tricking Ash and removing his right hand once more. As Baal prepares to execute Ash, however, he is outwitted and defeated. As the cabin begins to burn down and crumble, Baal, Ruby, their spawns, and the Necronomicon are seemingly banished to the underworld as part of the deal, while Pablo is brought back to life. Ash returns to his time, where Elk Grove reveres him as a hero, while the alternate Ruby watches him from afar. In a post-credit scene, the Necronomicon is picked up by an unknown traveler from the remains of the cabin.

text: Season 3 (2018)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title [49]
Directed by [50]
Written by [50]
Original air date [27]
U.S. viewers
(millions)

21
1
"Family"
Mark Beesley
Mark Verheiden
February 25, 2018 (2018-02-25)
0.225[51]

After the Necronomicon is once again found and read, evil makes a return to Elk Grove. Ash reunites with Candace Barr, a former lover with whom he had a daughter, Brandy. Ash, Pablo and Candace rush to Kenward County High School in search of Brandy, who is being hunted down by evil. They find Brandy and her friend Rachel in the music classroom, but a possessed Rachel then attacks and manages to decapitate Candace. Ash kills Rachel and then battles the possessed school mascot, Cougie, but Kelly, along with Dalton, a Knight of Sumeria, arrive and save Ash. Ruby, after retrieving the Necronomicon, performs a ritual, smearing her blood over a drawing of Ash and drinking it, causing her to be impregnated.

22
2
"Booth Three"
Mark Beesley
Rob Fresco
March 4, 2018 (2018-03-04)
0.171[52]

While driving on the road, Ruby is forced to stop to give birth to her new demonic spawn, which she claims to be modeled after Ash's image. She kidnaps Natalie, a Norwegian woman and uses her partner's corpse as food to feed the spawn. Ash takes Brandy to school, where she meets up with Ruby, who is disguised as the school's guidance counselor, Ms. Prevett. Ruby attempts to persuade her in distrusting Ash. Pablo is visited by a female spirit who warns him of evil taking over his body, and that he must embrace his destiny as the next Brujo. Dalton notices the Sumerian writing on Pablo's body, and attempts to convince Kelly that he must be killed to prevent future risks. Ash later goes to the local sperm bank to investigate whether his sperm had been used, but Ruby summons evil to the bank to destroy his seeds. Ash manages to prevail, but realizes that he must now protect Brandy at all cost.

23
3
"Apparently Dead"
Diego & Andres Meza-Valdes
Ivan Raimi
March 11, 2018 (2018-03-11)
0.160[53]

While Ash is attending Candace's funeral, she becomes possessed and fights him. Brandy's distrust for Ash grows further. Ash, upon discovering Ruby's involvement, informs the gang to find the Kandarian dagger. Pablo receives another vision from the female spirit, pointing them toward the cabin. Pablo, Kelly and Dalton return to the cabin and start digging through the remains; eventually Kelly finds the knife, but evil then comes after them and impales Dalton through a tree branch. He quickly turns Deadite and demands the knife, but Pablo attempts to run him over with a truck. Ruby goes to the cemetery and resurrects Brock, who then returns to his home and meets Brandy. Later, Ash returns and has a fight with Brock, ending with the latter being killed right in front of Brandy.

24
4
"Unfinished Business"
Daniel Nettheim
Nicki Paluga
March 18, 2018 (2018-03-18)
0.176[54]

Ash is visited by the ghost of the real Brock, who shows him a vision of the past in 2012 when he was visited by a Knight of Sumeria, who carried the missing pages of the Necronomicon. Brock incapacitated the knight and locked him under the hardware store's cellar after thinking he was dead. Back in present day, Ash enters the cellar and finds the knight's skeleton, as well as Sumerian writing on the wall. Ruby is contacted by the sorceress Kaya, who is imprisoned in the Netherworld; the latter warns her of the inevitable prophecy and the opening of the Rift. She travels to the cabin and finds Dalton, who she temporarily revives in order to learn of what he knew. Dalton reveals to Ruby of their finding of the dagger, but then shoots himself in the head to prevent himself from turning once more. Kelly returns to Ash's home and finds Brandy, who she attempts to convince to stay. They are however attacked by Pablo, who has been possessed; in the ensuing struggle, Pablo bites Kelly in her leg and infects her. The two girls retreat to Ash's trailer and barricade themselves in, but Kelly's infection worsens and mutates further. Ash arrives at Ruby's hideout, where he finds Natalie and Ruby's spawn, who has grown considerably. Ash tries to break Natalie free, but ends up waking the spawn from his sleep.

25
5
"Baby Proof"
Daniel Nettheim
Luke Kalteaux
March 25, 2018 (2018-03-25)
0.179[55]

Pablo manages to enter the trailer, but Brandy stabs him with the Kandarian dagger. He then finds himself in a realm between life and death, where he meets the Brujo, who explains that Pablo must now perform a ritual to return to life and succeed him. He successfully completes the ritual and comes back to life, but then runs off to find Ash. Kelly determines to make Ruby pay for what she's done. Meanwhile, at Ruby's hideout, Ash realizes that her spawn is made in his image, and attempts to capture him to prove his story to Brandy. The spawn goes on the loose, and kills Natalie. It attempts to manipulate her corpse to fight Ash but eventually Ash traps it inside. He then takes the spawn to the hardware store, but it manages to consume Natalie's corpse and free himself. He attempts to explain the situation to Brandy and a local police officer, but fails. However, Brandy chooses to believe her father and runs off together with him, leaving the spawn in Ruby's possession once more.

26
6
"Tales from the Rift"
Regan Hall
Aaron Lam
April 1, 2018 (2018-04-01)
0.196[56]

Ash is contacted by a group of Knights of Sumeria, who he then takes to his hardware store to investigate the Sumerian writing. They deduce that the Knight who died in the cellar, Gary, had figured out a way to open the gateway to the Rift, a dimension between the human world and Hell. Pablo arrives at the store and is able to decipher the text, opening the portal. One of the Knights, Marcus, travels through the portal to scout ahead, but comes back a Deadite and slaughters the rest of the Knights except one. Ash manages to take down the Deadite, then instructs Pablo to find out how to close down the rift for good. Kelly goes to Ruby's hideout with the dagger, intending to kill her; Ruby overpowers Kelly, however, and kills her with the Kandarian dagger. She then uses Kelly's body as a vessel for Kaya. Ash returns home later that night and receives the dagger from Kaya, who now poses as Kelly in order to sabotage Ash's plan.

27
7
"Twist and Shout"
Mark Beesley
Caitlin Meares
April 8, 2018 (2018-04-08)
0.136[57]

Back at the hardware store, Pablo sees the real Kelly in the Rift through an opening in the Sumerian writing and learns of her death. He rushes to find Ash to break the news. Ash and Kaya take Brandy to the school dance, in hope of confronting Ruby. Unbeknownst to them, Ruby also takes her spawn, now having fully grown into a clone of Ash, to the school in an attempt to break Brandy's trust in her father. The Ash clone terrorizes the school and murders many students, fooling Brandy into believing that her father is a demon. When Ash finally gets to Brandy, Ruby provokes her by plunging herself into Ash's chainsaw and faking her death. However, Brandy can't bring herself to kill Ash. Pablo arrives at the school and encounters Kaya, but manages to escape. He and the Ash clone fight momentarily, before the real Ash kills the clone. Ruby, frustrated at Ash's continuous streak of victory, wakes up and throws the Kandarian dagger at him, but Brandy blocks the attack by jumping in front of him and dies instead. She then wakes up in the Rift, and runs away from a lurking threat.

28
8
"Rifting Apart"
Mark Beesley
Bryan Hill
April 15, 2018 (2018-04-15)
0.175[58]

Ash and Pablo hijack the coroner's van to steal Brandy's body and make it back to the hardware store, where they then use the Kandarian dagger to kill Ash and send him to the Rift, in hope of rescuing Brandy and Kelly. At the Rift, Brandy finds Kelly and Dalton, who have been evading a shadow creature lurking the dimension and consuming any spirit it comes across. Ash arrives in the Rift with both of his hands intact, and finds the other three. They attempt to run for the hardware store, but with the shadow creature blocking their path, Dalton volunteers to sacrifice himself as a distraction. Back at the hardware store, Pablo struggles with one of the possessed corpses from the coroner's van, whom Ash accidentally retrieved instead of Brandy's corpse. Pablo manages to open the portal in time, but Kelly is unable to make it back due to her body still being used by Kaya. Meanwhile, Kaya captures the surviving Knight, Zoe, who Ruby attempts to use in order to help both her and Kaya survive the forthcoming wrath of the Dark Ones.

29
9
"Judgement Day"
Rick Jacobson
Rick Jacobson
April 22, 2018 (2018-04-22)
0.130[59]

Ruby and Kaya use Zoe's body to make a new page for the Necronomicon, in order to hide their presence from the Dark Ones. Pablo discovers a connection between him and the Necronomicon, allowing him to see through its eyes. Ash determines to go back to their hideout and end Ruby's life. Pablo goes back to the hardware store only to find the Rift already open. The Dark Ones then come through and take the lost Necronomicon pages from Pablo, but spare his life. Back at Ash's house, Brandy fends off against the invading evil, but in the process, her phone is possessed and bites off her left thumb. Ash arrives at Ruby's place and attempts to fight them, but is quickly overpowered. Ruby destroys Ash's chainsaw and demands the location of the Rift, but the Dark Ones arrive and claim their souls, allowing Ash to retreat with the Necronomicon and Kelly's body. Ash returns to town, only to find that evil has terrorized it. The Dark Ones reclaim the Necronomicon, and begin chanting a spell, summoning a gigantic creature from the underground.

30
10
"The Mettle of Man"
Rick Jacobson
Rick Jacobson
April 29, 2018 (2018-04-29)
TBD

text: Music[edit]

text: Joseph LoDuca, a frequent Sam Raimi collaborator who composed the scores for the Evil Dead films, contributes the original music for Ash vs Evil Dead. The series also leverages excerpts from various 1970s and '80s popular songs, particularly featuring artists (e.g., Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent and Frijid Pink) from the greater Detroit area where Season One's action is based (and where Raimi, Campbell and Tapert grew up). In an interview, Sam Raimi states that the music selected for the series is based on the lack of growth the Ash character has progressed over the past 30–35 years, and that, "the music should reflect the last time he was engaged in society, and living".[60]

text: On November 11, 2015, it was announced that the Joseph LoDuca music score entitled Ash vs Evil Dead: Music from the STARZ Original Series would be released by Varèse Sarabande digitally on December 11, 2015 and via audio CD on December 18, 2015.[61][62] The following are the tracks that are on that album:[61]

text: Further more, in the season two finale, a marching band plays Victory for MSU, the official fight song of Michigan State University, where Raimi and Tapert attended college.

text:
[show]Track listing

No.
Title
Length

1.
"Sheet Show / Main Title"
4:25

2.
"Ain't for Shabbas"
3:22

3.
"Linda / Where It Began"
2:20

4.
"Ash's Trip"
2:49

5.
"It Did Happen / Outta Here"
2:50

6.
"A Foul Wind Bloweth / Mom Returns"
2:47

7.
"Deer Amanda / Shut Up Linda"
3:50

8.
"The Handyman Can't"
0:46

9.
"Adios, Tio Brujo"
2:28

10.
"Soave Pablo / She Got Him"
2:34

11.
"Offer to Fisher / Handy Escape / She Was Ruby"
2:18

12.
"Let’s Start Over / Pablo's Process"
2:06

13.
"Kill Me Now / Perp's Getting Away"
2:07

14.
"No Accident"
1:59

15.
"Evil Catches Up"
1:11

16.
"Missed Ya'"
1:38

17.
"Amanda Returns"
2:38

18.
"Ritual"
2:17

19.
"Not My Boyfriend / Burn the Cabin"
1:22

20.
"Burn Baby / Mortal Toys"
3:52

21.
"Without Evil There Is No Good"
2:37

22.
"Ash's Theme"
1:35

Total length:
53:51

text: Reception[edit]

text: Critical[edit]

text: The first season of Ash vs Evil Dead has received critical acclaim. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the season a 98% "Certified Fresh" rating based on 49 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10. The site's critical consensus reading: "True to the movies that spawned it, Ash vs Evil Dead is a gory, hilarious, and audacious resurrection of Sam Raimi's beloved horror franchise."[63] Metacritic gave the season a rating of 75 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[64]

text: The second season has received critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has a score of 100%, based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10. The site's critical consensus currently reads, "Ash vs. Evil Dead's sophomore season proves the show is in command of its characters and tone, turning up the gore, fun, and energy to deliver even more grisly, action-packed thrills and laughs."[65] On Metacritic, the season has a rating of 82 out of 100, based on 5 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim."[66]

text: Accolades[edit]

text:
Year
Association
Category
Nominee(s)
Result

2016
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards[67]
Best Television Series
Ash vs Evil Dead
Won

Best Actor on Television
Bruce Campbell
Won

Best Supporting Actress on Television
Dana DeLorenzo
Nominated

Saturn Awards
Best Horror Television Series
Ash vs Evil Dead
Nominated

Best Actor on Television
Bruce Campbell
Won

Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards
Best TV Presentation
Ash vs Evil Dead (Episode: "Brujo")
Won[68]

2017
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards[69]
Best TV Series
Ash vs Evil Dead
Nominated

Best TV Actor
Bruce Campbell
Won

Best TV Supporting Actor
Ray Santiago
Nominated

Best TV Supporting Actress
Dana DeLorenzo
Nominated

Best TV SFX
Roger Murray
Won

Saturn Awards[70][71]
Best Horror Television Series
Ash vs Evil Dead
Nominated

Best Actor on a Television Series
Bruce Campbell
Nominated

Best Supporting Actor on a Television Series
Lee Majors
Nominated

2018
Best Horror Television Series
Ash vs Evil Dead
Pending

Best Actor on a Television Series
Bruce Campbell
Pending

text: Media releases[edit]

text: Subscribers to Starz can stream episodes of the show on Amazon Video. Season two is not yet available for purchase or rental on Amazon without a Starz account.[72] On August 23, 2016, Anchor Bay Entertainment released the first season of the series on Blu-ray and DVD.[73] The second season hit home media in the fall of 2017.[74] On December 11, 2017, seasons one and two were made available to stream in certain regions on Netflix.[75]