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I watched it 5 times, the 1 times it was on when they sneak previewed it, the 2 times it premiered back to back, and the repeat back to back.

I can't wait for the next episode.

That ending with the chainsaw "Hey granny! I hope you took your Geritol!" priceless. But I really wish that the series had been a continuation of the Army of Darkness movie instead of the first Evil Dead. At the same time though it makes sense considering the First Evil Dead is the only one that I can think of that doesn't have a direct continuation already.

As I said, the series itself is a sequel to Evil Dead. Evil Dead 2 is more of a alternate universe and a reboot of Evil Dead, and then army of Darkness is a sequel to Evil Dead 2. Army of darkness also has its own comic series which is on sale on Humble bundle right now if you want to read them.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/morebooks

So you really only need to see Evil Dead to understand what is going on, but if you want to see where this series got its comedic routes you'll want to see Army of Darkness and Evil Dead 2, the much better films of the series.

You can also watch the reboot of Evil Dead that was recently made but it is completely different from its source material. Bruce Campbell actually said he wants to kind of do a crossover with the new Evil Dead he thinks it would be interesting to have Ash and Mia fighting the undead side by side, but that would get pretty meta and have one of them traveling to the other's universe since they are both sole survivors of pretty much the same exact event.

Once again I repeat myself, its not a continuation of Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, its a Continuation of the first Evil Dead, which isn't a part of that continuity. He acts like he never went through the portal because he never did.

No You're not understanding. Evil dead 2 was a reboot of the original evil dead, They couldn't get the rights to calling it Evil Dead so they called it Evil dead 2, yeah how that works I don't know, copyright law is weird.

Evil dead and Evil Dead 2 are literally different universes. Ash from Evil Dead is not the same ash from Evil Dead 2. Ash from Evil Dead never went into the portal to the past, never ran into the archaeologists daughter for her to open it and ran away from the cabin.

I actually have a theory I've only seen the first episode but I think that this series might actually be an attempt to connect all 3 movies.

Think about it this way, we already know that time travel is possible in the other movies, the book of the dead also has alot of spells that are unknown. One of them could easily be a spell that doesn't just send people back in time, but completely restarts the events of their life. But its a little to early to jump to that conclusion, I mean its only the first episode, but it would be a bit of a cool concept for Ash to have aged 30 years and then have to repeat what happened in the events in the cabin all over again.

The movies might not have been made to be connected but it can be tied together, plus if this is right Bruce can get his wish and do a crossover with Mia from the new movie.