Ash vs Evil Dead

Premise

Cast

Main

• Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams: Ash has changed in the 30 years since Army of Darkness. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Campbell stated, "Ash has survivor's guilt. You could have a heyday with his PTSD. He's a war vet. He doesn't want to talk about it, and he'll lie about that stump on his hand to impress the ladies. This is a guy who's got some issues. He's emotionally stunted. But, he's the guy you want in the foxhole next to you." Over the course of season one, it is revealed that following the events of the film trilogy, Ash spent thirty years drifting from town to town, living in a mobile home trailer, with his pet lizard, Eli, and working a series of dead-end jobs at different branches of Value Stop. Ash has attempted to destroy the Necronomicon on multiple occasions. Unable to be rid of the book, he instead becomes its de facto caretaker. In season two, it is revealed that Ash had returned to his hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan, after the events of the films. The people of Elk Grove refused to believe his stories of Deadites, and instead accused him of murdering his friends and his sister in the cabin, shunned him, and dubbed him "Ashy Slashy".
• Ray Santiago as Pablo Simon Bolivar: A co-worker who became Ash's loyal sidekick. Pablo believed that Ash is a true hero, and called him "El Jefe" as a mark of respect. Santiago describes his character as an "El Jefe in-training". He was raised by his uncle,, a shaman, who told him stories of an evil power which can only be defeated by "El Jefe". He fights valiantly alongside Ash and Kelly before being torn to ribbons by the demon Baal, but was resurrected thereafter. Through a ritual in season 3, Pablo succeeds his uncle as a "brujo especial".
• Dana DeLorenzo as Kelly Maxwell/Sorceress Kaya: An occasionally moody and initially reluctant young woman, Kelly is dragged into the fight against evil with Ash and Pablo after she is orphaned. She and her family are Jewish, and she temporarily worked at the Value Stop with Ash and Pablo. Her mother died in a car accident some six months prior to the beginning of the series.
• Jill Marie Jones as Amanda Fisher A Michigan State Trooper who set out to find Ash following the death of her partner.
• Lucy Lawless as Ruby Knowby/Rebecca Prevett: A mysterious figure who is on a quest to hunt down the source of the recent evil outbreaks. She claims to be the daughter of Professor Raymond Knowby and sister of Annie Knowby from Evil Dead II. She is later revealed to be an immortal Dark One who wrote the Necronomicon.
• Michelle Hurd as Linda Bates-Emery : Ash's high school girlfriend who is now married to Emery, the sheriff of Elk Grove, and has a daughter, Lacey. She is one of the few people in Elk Grove happy to see Ash return.
• Ted Raimi as Chet Kaminski A hard-partying old childhood friend of Ash's who was secretly intimate with Ash's sister, Cheryl, thirty years prior, and pays the ultimate price for it. Raimi had previously appeared throughout the Evil Dead series in various cameo and stand-in roles.
• Pepi Sonuga as Lacey Emery Thomas' and Linda's 17-year-old daughter who becomes possessed by Kandarian spirits and is killed by Kelly.
• Arielle Carver-O'Neill as Brandy Barr Williams Ash's long-lost daughter, a smart middle-class American high school senior whose life is upended when she finds herself caught up in violent demonic events that result in her mother's death.
• Lindsay Farris as Dalton A member of the Knights of Sumeria, an ancient order dedicated to battling evil.

  Recurring

• Samara Weaving as Heather The sole survivor of a hiking group, she is rescued by Pablo and Kelly when they reach the cabin. She is later indirectly killed by Ruby when the evil is set loose.
• Hemky Madera as El Brujo Pablo's shaman uncle, Ash, Pablo and Kelly go to him for help against the Kandarian Demon. He is killed by the demon Eligos when he performs an exorcism on Kelly to release her from Eligos' thrall.
• Lee Majors as Brock Williams Ash's father, whom Ash has not seen in 30 or so years, since the events of Evil Dead. It is from his father that Ash got his bad habits, and it's hinted that he has stolen girls/women from Ash in the past. His day job is as a hardware store owner; his slogan is "Brock Williams - has wood - call me." He blames Ash for the death of his daughter, Cheryl, but then, minutes before being killed by his son's possessed Oldsmobile 88, comes to realize that his boy was actually a hero. He later appears as a spirit to help guide Ash on how the defeat the Deadites.
• Stephen Lovatt as Sheriff Thomas Emery The husband of Linda whom Ash used to pick on in highschool. He is now the strict sheriff of Elk Grove.
• Joel Tobeck as Baal A diabolical demon and Ruby's ex-husband who wants the Necronomicon for his own nefarious purposes. His abilities include using lust to manipulate others, possessing human bodies and the ability to slow down time near a target where he can converse with or injure said target. When Baal is using this power nobody seems to be able to see him besides the person he is interacting with. Ruby has also mentioned that he is impervious to physical attacks and can only be harmed through mystic or spiritual means.
• Emilia Burns as Zoë, a Knight of Sumeria who helps Ash in his crusade.
• Katrina Hobbs as Candace Barr, An ex-girlfriend of Ash's who is the mother of their daughter Brandy. Ash married Candace in Branson, Missouri when they were drunk. She was later killed by a deadite before becoming one herself at her own funeral.
• Samantha Young as Natalie, A woman who Ruby kidnaps and holds hostage to be a sort-of babysitter for her spawn. She is later killed by the demonic baby.

  Special guests

• Rebekkah Farrell as Linda
• Ellen Sandweiss returning as Cheryl Williams from the original Evil Dead movie.
• Nicholas Hope as Professor Raymond Knowby
• Alison Quigan and Ted Raimi as Henrietta Knowby
• Kelvin Taylor as an Orderly
• Jeffrey Thomas as Stanley Gibson

  Production

Cancellation

Episodes

Season 1 (2015–16)

Season 2 (2016)

Season 3 (2018)

Music

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