With Evil’s third season now in its second half, members of the cast assembled at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to chat about the current state of our favourite spooky spiritual investigators — plus offer a sneak peek at what’s to come as we slither toward the season finale on Paramount+.
Taking the stage in San Diego were Katja Herbers (Dr. Kristen Bouchard, agnostic/mum of four very chatty daughters/margarita fan); Aasif Mandvi (Ben Shakir, tech expert/computer whiz/master of snark); and Christine Lahti (Sheryl Luria, Kristen’s mum/worshiper of creepy dolls/fashionista). Before the panel, attendees got an advance screening of Sunday night’s “The Demon of Cults” — a ripping episode that touches on several of season three’s ongoing storylines, and also sees Kristen, Ben, and Father David (Mike Colter) investigating a back-to-the-land cult when one of its members appears to become possessed.
Speaking about her character’s evolution from season one until now, Herbers had obviously given it a lot of thought. “I’m just very excited about how she’s transformed. I started off quite innocent in the first season. Then in the second season, I morphed into this sort of maybe-possessed evil, dark person. I killed someone at the end of the first season and I was carrying all that guilt over having done that — also I did think that guy deserved to die,” she added. “It’s been wild, it’s been strange for me, actually, in the third season to go back a little bit where I am now no longer on the dark side. I’m trying to navigate still being this person who takes someone out in the supermarket with a bag of frozen French fries [as we saw earlier in season three; pro-tip: never cut the line on Kristen Bouchard].”
Herbers continued by saying that Kristen’s growth is “really fun, now that she’s doing it in a controlled way. In the second season, she was doing it in a bit more unhinged way, although I have to say chaotic, unhinged Kristen is my favourite,” she laughed. “And I think she’s a feminist hero in a way. She doesn’t take any shit from men, and she’ll do anything to protect her children — the way we just saw [in “The Demon of Cults”] and my missing egg [possibly stolen by a demonic fertility clinic, in one of the series’ ongoing storylines], we’re going to get into that in the rest of the season.”
New episodes of Evil stream Sundays on Paramount+.
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