Spoilers for Evil season four, episode ten, “How to Survive a Storm.” Sheryl Luria has been dancing with the devil, literally and metaphorically, since the very beginning of Evil . After the Satan-worshiping Leland Townsend (Michael Emerson) got her addicted to his youth-serum injections in season one, she began working alongside him at DF, a real-estate, social-media, and cryptocurrency corporation where she takes orders from actual demons.
But this four-season arc came to a messy and heartbreaking end in this week’s episode. As she predicted two episodes ago , Sheryl meets her death at Leland’s hand, surviving long enough to say good-bye to her granddaughters and make amends with her daughter, Kristen (Katja Herbers). In her final days, Sheryl, played by the fiery Christine Lahti, attempts to redeem herself.
Despite her disdain for religion — as she told priest David Acosta (Mike Colter) in a recent episode, “Your church is such a fucking patriarchy” — she has her grandson, Timothy, who is theoretically the Antichrist, baptized to protect him from Leland and others who want to exploit him. She warns Kristen to protect her daughters from Leland. Just before she dies, she even asks David to give her last rites, a remarkable pivot considering she also recently told David, “I don’t want your forgiveness.
I hate you fucking guys.” Lahti hated saying good-bye to Sheryl and her castmates, but she understood why it had to end like this. “It’s a show called.