Episode Guide
It’s already here, people! Who are you? Between good and evil?
The series is set over a period of 3 days in the life of a young woman who is accused of being possessed by an evil spirit. She tells her story, in her own words, to a team of experts from the FBI and other law enforcement agencies who are tasked with investigating the case. The series follows her as she goes through her day, telling her story to different people, including an FBI agent who is assigned to help her case. The series also features interviews with people who have been affected by possession and those who have fought against it.
The first episode of the new series tells the story of four women who were sexually assaulted by a priest. The women and their families have told their stories to various media outlets in an attempt to bring attention to the issue. The show has been met with mixed reactions, with some people believing the stories and others sceptical about them. Despite this, I found the show to be engaging and well-written.
The show runs for 4 episodes and each interweave the stories for these women, playing out like an actual narrative with a big dramatic pay-off during the climactic chapter. These three women in question are Sully Urbina, Florencia Macías and Andrea Viridiana Rostro Olvera. Each are given an introduction in episode 1, including an extensive history of their family and their experiences with demonic entities.
The first episode introduces the characters and their individual stories. The second episode jumps back and forth between the first and second story, while the third episode concludes both stories. ..
Despite the strengths of this approach, it can also be difficult to keep track of who’s talking and what’s happening. This makes it difficult to follow the story as a whole, which can lead to feeling lost and frustrated.
The biggest problem with My Encounter With Evil is its reliance on dramatization. I enjoy spooky stories as much as the next horror enthusiast, but the way this show abuses its dramatic musical stings, extreme close-up shots and horror imagery becomes tiresome after a while. Almost the entirety of this show is taken up with those re-enactments, and there’s not an objective perspective in place. ..
The woman in the story admits that she has had an abusive past and has been suffering with trauma for a while. Her daughter – the one possessed – finds herself a loner at school and depressed. When she’s found with bruises over her knees in the middle of the night, the family immediately jump at the idea of being attacked by a ghost. An old man wearing a palm hat to be precise. Now, this may be the case but at no point does the show look at alternate reasons for this. For example, an iron deficiency can cause you to bruise easily.
These issues crop up right through the four episodes and it ties back to that idea of not being objective and relying heavily on eye-witness accounts. You may find yourself enjoying this but unlike something like 28 Days Haunted, which is genuinely funny and has some merit to watching, My Encounter With Evil does not, which is a real shame. You’ll find no scares here; the only horror is the horrific way this show abuses its dramatized segments.
