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Oct 26, 2018
83
The campy horror-comedy delivers back-to-back episodes with refreshingly real emotions and routine not-so-real-blood. [2 Nov 2018, p.45]
Oct 27, 2017
75
If the budget doesn't stretch to an excess of eye-popping CG, it is more than made up for by the walking special effect that is John C. McGinley, whose beleaguered, boozy ex-cop Stan is an enduring treat. [3 Nov 2017, p.56]
Oct 31, 2016
70
Stan Against Evil is a slight and silly horror comedy that knows what its limitations are and does its best to be amusing despite them.
Oct 31, 2016
67
[Stan] and his partner, played by Janet Varney, offer some amusing moments, but there's a snag: Stan is just barely funnier than the thing he's parodying. [4 Nov 2016, p.56]
Nov 2, 2016
67
Stan Against Evil toys with horror cliches and assures you that whatever you fear, something worse--or funnier--is right around the corner.
Nov 1, 2016
60
Stan Against Evil is light, if violent, entertainment. The jokes are moderately funny, the characters two-and-a-half dimensional.
Oct 31, 2016
58
Stan Against Evil isn’t quite there yet, and it’s early installments are still working out the finer points of its monster-of-the-week structure.
Oct 31, 2016
50
It’s silly fun without breaking any new ground, although the show’s title is unfortunate because it unnecessarily evokes the funnier, bloodier “Ash vs Evil Dead” on Starz.
Nov 1, 2016
50
An inconsistent, but sporadically effective horror-comedy that often rises to the level of "just fine" and periodically even hits "pretty good," thanks in huge part to the central star turn by John C. McGinley.
Oct 31, 2016
12
Whereas The Evil Dead‘s Ash was capable of change, Stan’s nothing more than an insufferably sexist and homophobic throwback, willing to risk everyone’s life in order to prove that Starsky and Hutch were secretly gay.
