'Stan Against Evil' Recap: 'Let Your Love Groan'

Written by Scott Edwards

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‘A bear fight, well that’s the stuff dreams are made of.’
- Stan

Sheriff Evie Barret is battling the realization that her ex-husband has moved on and she needs to find a way to get her mind off of it. Hearing from Deputy Leon that there is a speed dating event coming up, and since she needs to meet people, it might be the best opportunity to get to know someone new. Needing a dating partner to point out the crazies, Evie is able to convince Stan and his daughter Denise to join her on the adventure, but little does the group know that they will find much more than love on this fateful evening.

While getting to know a new person every couple of minutes, Denise does not shy away from any of the difficult conversations with the guys, but her heart is set on getting a baby pig and she makes sure that everyone knows it.  Stan gets paired up with a couple of women that flat out don't 'get' him, but when a dark beauty comes to his table with a cup of bourbon, he may have finally met his match.  After all of the losers that Evie has been dealing with, she is greeted by a handsome suitor named Sloan that is charming and is able to sweep her off of her feet. Leaving the dating event early with Sloan, Evie may have found a match that could last a life time.

Getting to the station and talking with Leon about how the night went, Evie notices that she looks a little worse for wear and does not understand why. With dates lined up with Sloan, she does not want to cancel, but every moment that she spends with the handsome devil, she feels older and weaker than before. Stan on the other hand is getting a new outlook on life when going out with Brenda who wants him to live forever. Taking away his joy of eating meat and replacing everything with vegetables, Stan has almost had reached his limit with the woman, but there is something about her that keeps him coming back for more. Denise finds love a little off of the beaten path as a baby pig is delivered to her door. Not knowing or caring where the truffle finder came from, she happily names it Murgatroyd and goes on with her merry days, but she is starting to feel the same effects as Evie is with her man.

Knowing that something strange is going on that she cannot explain, Evie returns to the Miller household to get Claire’s book on witchcraft and finds out what is eating at everyone. A Succubus has made its way into Willard’s Mill and has the three under its spell. The only way to end the curse without dying is to break up with the life feeding beast and Evie has found the spell to go along with it. With a date tonight with Sloan, nothing has to change with the exception of her intentions for the night. Reading the words and seeing Sloan explode in front of her eyes, she knows the trouble that Stan and Denise are in and rushes back to their house to help, but Denise is not willing to give up on Murgatroyd, because he is a pig and she loves him, yet the beast inside of him will not give up until everyone around Stan’s daughter is dead.

I had no idea where this episode would take us, but I was happy it gave us a story about the legendary Succubus, because it is always a fun demon to see in fiction and it proves that love can be a killer. It seems like Stan has come to terms that the new Sheriff will always be asking him for help in one way or another and he will not keep pushing her way, but he will will continue to take shots at her whenever the moment presents itself. Evie is still trying to figure out the town, but with all of the strange things going on directed towards her, along with her ex-husband getting remarried, she is going to need a ton of help to cope with her nasty feelings. Denise is just happy, like she is most of the time and is still winning everyone’s hearts over, even if she did not get a date, she was happy with the results. And we got a little bit more from Deputy Leon Drinkwater, who is also alone and looking for love and does not take any amount of strikeouts as a bad thing, he just sees them as a learning experience.  Stay Scared.

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