You might think that after three feature films, a handful of comics and video games and one season of a TV show that you know everything there is to know about Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell). But Season 2 of Ash vs Evil Dead is out to prove you don't know nothin' yet.
When Season 2 picks up in its October 2nd premiere, Ash has finally accomplished his life-long dream: going to Jacksonville. But evil doesn't stay tamed for long, and he soon finds himself and his partners, Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo) and Pablo (Ray Santiago), heading to his home town of Elk Grove, Mich. to find some answers.
There audiences will meet some new faces: Ash's father, played by Lee Majors, and Ash's childhood best friend Chet, played by Ted Raimi. Meeting these two will shine a light back on Ash vs Evil Dead's titular hero, particularly when people get a sense of the man his father is.
"You realize that Ash is true triumph of the human spirit with that kind of upbringing," Lucy Lawless, laughing told IGN during visit to the show's New Zealand set. "You get to respect Ash a lot more. He should have been a bigger dick!"
Ash isn't exactly a returning hero when he heads home, as his legacy from the Evil Dead films isn't something his Elk Grove neighbors think too highly of.
"Upon his return he finds out he's not a welcome figure, and he has to convince the town that he's the good guy and not the bad guy," said executive producer Rob Tapert. "That's kind of the arc going into Season 2. That said, a lot of things happen that cause trouble. We find out that past loves of his and friendships that he had with somewhat dubious characters from his past. So it's a wild ride."
Elk Grove becomes a battle ground for the forces of good and evil. Lawless's Ruby might have ended up being a villain in Season 1, but right from the premiere of Season 2 she finds herself coming to Ash for help. She joins Ash, Kelly and Pablo to form an unlikely quartet trying to defeat Ruby's demon spawn children.
Each of Season 2's 10 episodes will service the larger story -- one that Tapert teased will go in as many unexpected directions as it can pull off -- but also serve as little vignettes that are nods to the horror genre. One episode is set in an asylum, another in a morgue, all to give a different feel to each installment of Season 2.
"What was cool is you just explore all the different places in his town. What I like about this show is that it's not a morgue, it's an Evil Dead morgue," said Campbell. "It's not quite Harry Potter, but it's close. Like our libraries are almost Harry Potter, which is really stylized. Like, when we have a diner, it's like a log cabin diner. It's like the most American diner. If we have a farmhouse, there's American flags everywhere."
Throughout it all is Ash's "dysfunctional little family," as Lawless calls it, who have to band together to defeat the evil that is roaming the land.
"You'll get to see all of the characters a little bit more separately and how the evil force is going to affect them. ... This year you'll get to see how we will forever be changed by the things that have happened because of the evil force that we're fighting," said Santiago. "We are very ambitious this season, and we've been very ambitious with all of our setups and stunts and storylines. I feel a little bit like a circus monkey some days. I feel like they just say, 'Bring in the monkey,' and then I'm jumping through flaming hoops, but that is the world of Evil Dead, and I'll jump through as many flaming hoops as I have to to please the fans, because that is what this is ultimately about."
Also what it's about? Blood and gore, oftentimes buckets of it, always drenching Ash vs Evil Dead's series leads.
"Just when I thought there was no way we could top more blood and more gore, in the first five minutes of the first episode of Season 2, all I can say is, they don't waste any time," teased DeLorenzo. The scene in question resulted in 20 gallons of blood being dropped on her -- a necessary evil to make the premiere an epic episode, but also one with unintentionally funny results.
"I have a great photo I took of the showers on set," she recalled. "I was taking a shower for 45 minutes, and it looked like a scene out of a cop homicide show where it's just, 'Oh God, something was happening in here!' I don't even know how the blood got on the ceiling of the shower, but the shower looked worse than I did going into it."
Ash vs Evil Dead premieres Sunday, October 2nd at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Starz.
Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.
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