When the first season of CBS' "Evil" arrived on Netflix last month a year after it first aired, it made it onto the streaming giant's daily top 10 lists of popular titles.
that didn't originate on the service but have otherwise benefited from it, from AMC's "Breaking Bad" to this year's Emmys champion, Pop TV's "Schitt's Creek." In both cases, the creators have credited Netflix for introducing the shows to a wider audience.In a review for, Joshua Rivera wrote last month: "It arrived after what had felt for me like a listless few months; very little pop culture could hold my attention.
Robert noted that "Evil" is broader than their other shows like "The Good Wife" and "The Good Fight," which he said cater to a more niche audience. "Evil" at its core is a network procedural, but he said they wanted to infuse that traditional idea with a "genre hook" that interested them; in this case, the theme of science versus religion.
"That was our attitude throughout writing the season and I think it improved," Robert said. "Now it relies on [intimate] shocks instead of spectacle. Features and VFX heavy shows can do spectacle, but there's a big lack of reality when there's so much CGI.
Before we got off the phone, I told the Kings that I found the series oddly comforting, in that it's about seemingly good people looking for and even finding answers in some cases to the chaos around them.