"Science vs. Faith, Week by Week"
Evil asks questions The Good Wife couldn't: Is evil real? Kristen Bouchard is a forensic psychologist investigating strange phenomena for the Catholic Church. Some cases are hoaxes. Some are mental illness. Some... are something else.
The King siblings perfected the case-of-the-week format. Each episode presents genuine ambiguity about what's happening. The show never commits to whether demons exist, which makes it more terrifying.
Katja Herbers and Mike Colter have magnetic chemistry. Michael Emerson's Leland Townsend is nightmare fuel: pure, gleeful malevolence.
Characters & Acting (8.5): Michael Emerson's Leland is terrifying and hilarious. Katja Herbers brings steel to Kristen's skepticism.
Conceptual Density (8.5): The show interrogates evil in a networked age. Is it demons? Algorithms? The ambiguity is deliberate.
Resolution (7): Cancelled before its time. Some threads left dangling.
"Book 27" (S1E1) — The pilot. A serial killer case introduces the pattern: science vs. faith.
"Fear of the End" (S4E14) — The finale. An exorcism and questions left unanswered.