PREMIERES SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9th at 8:00pm ET/PT

Official Synopsis: Pablo's grasp on reality is tested when Ruby reveals the Necronomicon has gifted him with premonitions. Meanwhile, in the morgue, Ash and Kelly discover Brock's date might not be the warm body he's banking on.

Good: Everything that was great about episode one remains - the sets, the lighting, the score, the performances, the practical effects etc.

Bad: The writing in this episode is the biggest problem. The one liners and back 'n' forth aren't great, the fundamental changing of Ash's background and history is problematic and there's one particular scene that you definitely have never seen before and I am not really sure belongs in the Evil Dead franchise.

Episode two starts right where episode one finished, another thing that makes Season Two already feel like an epic movie chopped into 10 parts. It is an episode, however, that I think is going to divide people.

All the plus points of episode one are still, obviously, intact. You get the scares, the funnies, the gore, the atmospheric lighting, the great looking sets and the cast who are all stepping up to meet the breakneck speed and lunacy of it all. It's one of the first episodes, though, where I felt the writing doesn't quite fit with the characters or the series as well as it has in previous episodes.

The first episode felt perfectly right on the edge of all the stuff we love about the show without falling over it. Episode two, in parts, plunges, gleefully, right over the edge and, in other parts, it just doesn't feel as satisfying or as sharp and, I feel, lacks that essential Evil Dead vibe. There's plenty about all of Ash Vs Evil Dead that I have had to accept isn't the Evil Dead that I grew up with and love dearly. Most of the time I am able to put that thought to one side and embrace the new but I found that very hard during this episode.

If I said Re-Animator and Evil Dead 2 (for example), you probably love both of those films (I do too) but you'd also probably recognise that, although they both feature plenty of weird, wonderful, crazy shit, there's a fundamental difference in tone between the two. Right?

Well episode two sort of enters Re-Animator territory, runs right through that territory and pokes its rancid head out to see if there's something even more gross on the other side!