"I'm not drunk enough to know if this is good weird or bad weird." Foreshadowing words uttered by our reluctant hero, Ash Williams, when he returns this fall in the second season of the critically acclaimed "Ash vs Evil Dead," based on the classic Evil Dead film series.

The 10-episode half-hour series picks up in Jacksonville, Florida with Ash and his Deadite-fighting compadres Pablo and Kelly, enjoying retirement after making a truce with Ruby at the end of Season One. But like most things in Ash's life, this retirement is short-lived. The team is summoned back to his hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan by an unlikely ally to lead the charge against evil once again!

Campbell says, "Season Two is going to throw some ringer-dingers in there. It's not the same old, same old. We're going to find out that Pablo is more than a typical sidekick, and Kelly is more like Ash than she realizes. There's more to Ruby than she is letting on." Also planned for Season Two is a dive into where Ash came from, why he left and why he stayed away.

"This particular season, Ash is returning to his hometown, where he hasn't been for 30 years," explains Rob Tapert. "One of the great characteristics about Ash is he doesn't grow up. He makes very small, incremental changes and has accepted these two other people into his group of friends. Ash's dream of retiring in Jacksonville and just hanging out in bars on spring break, doing shooters, and playing with his chainsaw to impress girls is ruined by Ruby. She calls him back. She needs his help back in his hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan and she sends a calling card." That calling card is in the form of Deadites.

Campbell says of Season Two, "We find Ash having a pretty darn good time in the amazing city of Jacksonville, Florida. Wearing Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops, he's effectively retired. I couldn't tell you why it's his favorite place. He's there because he's just seen postcards and has passed the baton to Ruby in order to save his friends." But Ruby sends a pair of Deadites to Jacksonville and, "Ash has to go home. The Deadites are very clever, very tricky. They're thinking creatures, they're not shufflers. They're like the mafia and go after Ash's family. He was doing just fine in Jacksonville, but now he has to get serious again and go back to his hometown, which is not necessarily a good thing because he has a bit of a reputation in that particular town."

Campbell says, "Ash is a reluctant hero. He doesn't want to go to Elk Grove, but he knows he has to because it's his dumb fault there's evil running wild in the first place. So it's not like a college football hero going back, they have an urban myth about him." That urban myth has left a casualty in its wake: Ash's father, Brock.

"When Ash returns to Elk Grove, only Chet and Linda B. are happy to see him. Everybody else, his father, the whole town, really do not like Ash," says Tapert.

Campbell explains the origin of the urban legend: "Many years ago Ash had an incident at a cabin in the woods and it's been horribly misinterpreted. He's Ashy Slashy, the boomstick butcher with the chainsaw hand."