Kristen isn’t wrong when she comments that the gang’s last case as assessors for the church is an “anticlimactic” one. It’s not that I don’t enjoy seeing Evil use Kristen as a way to point out how rampant misogyny is in the Catholic Church — while looking into a renowned theoretical physicist who the Vatican is interested in having join their Council, it turns out the guy is both a genius and an absolute creep, but they don’t really care about the latter (not even David or Ben!). It’s not that Christian Borle, who plays Professor Toppin’s personal secretary, Neil, doesn’t make an excellent about-face when Sister Andrea discovers him to be a demon.
It’s just that aside from that curious scene with Ben when Toppin tells him that he, too, could get a brain implant and upload it to the cloud so he can technically live forever, and Ben looks interested, maybe (?), there’s not much to this whole thing. We are barreling toward the series finale here people, we shouldn’t be dealing with filler! Perhaps I’ll regret complaining next week when this case plays a major part in Evil ’s conclusion. But until then, I’ll just focus on the best parts of this episode, including some great David/Leland scenes and the gift of another Sister Andrea and Father Ignatius one-on-one.
Poor Father Acosta. The guy is trying to mentally grapple with the closing of St. Joseph’s — he says his final mass and residents are being moved out with haste — and then he also h.