Evil Lives Here (TV Series) He Kept Her In A Tree Stump (2022) User Reviews

Review reading shows the audience....

[smartinezmd · 10/10 · 10 January 2024]

...not the episode. It is interesting in this entire series to follow each episodes review because, basically, you can see how many-to-most people received the episodes. Often when there's a really whining, complacent woman, the star count goes down dramatically. Then when there's someone who is admirable or understandable or genuinely unfortunate, the rating goes up. 7/10 being the fulcrum in this IMDb star gauge. This episode was at 6.3 as I write my two-cents worth. A LOT of reviews for such a poorly rated episode. The audience has a lot to say and it is, basically, all the same thing: Sam sucks. He's a coward. But take a closer look and each review only has about half of the voters thinking that these reviews are "relevant." Uh-oh. We've got a somewhat silent minority that thinks that you reviewers are being a little hard on Sam. So, here I am playing "devil's advocate." Sam's advocate. Thus far not one review in his favor. I would like to preface my advocacy of Sam with the fact that I left home when I was 17-year old girl so I kinda wonder why he did not just leave. My family was dysfunctional but not violent. My father loved my mother in his own hapless way but, certainly never murdered her or touched her inappropriately. Sam lived with a KILLER. He was very young at the time and, definitely, subconsciously, he knew his dad killed her. His own life had been threatened multiple times when he was still very young. Bare with me, I trained in child psychiatry. There are many deeper factors that no one is considering in these anti-Sam reviews. At a minimum, we have some level of Stockholm syndrome here. Out on a limb here - but, none of you went through what Sam went through with his father who was a beast of a human being. Giving this episdoe a 10 star rating...not that it was that outstanding but rather to offset the heavy-handedness of the audience who are quick to judge Sam even though they have no experience of the oppressive early childhood he had.

What a Coward this boy is.

[bullshiz · 4/10 · 14 May 2022]

Sam aided & abetted his father's abuse & torture of women because he didn't have the spine & courage to help the women even when his father wouldn't know. I don't know if he thinks his litany of failed excuses absolves him; it doesn't. What a despicable coward.

Wow. I can't believe what Sam did..

[caroline_chupaa · 1/10 · 27 March 2022]

I can't believe that he didn't try to take on his dad sooner knowing how he was.. letting your father treat someone like that, the way I see it you're a coward and an accomplished. You might as well killed Sandy as well.

First of all your 16 or 17 years old, your almost 18 years old. And just choosing to turn the other cheek I'm sorry for what you had to go through as a kid, your entire childhood. But choosing to stay with him keeping his secrets after so many years. Sure trauma can do so much damage.

You should have fought him or at least escaped from how sooner, you weren't kept in chains.. for god sake. DO SOMETHING.. but no you were simply scared and traumatized which is understandable to a certain point, except referring to yourself as a kid and choosing to live with your father until your 23.

So many choices yet all you chose was the selfish ones. And those choices could have saved a life and perhaps more. Who knows what his father continues with...

Guess will never know.

I had so much empathy in the beginning of this story, but it all changed. Poor families for knowing you simply stood there feeling scared for yourself knowing someone was about to die.. and you said NOTHING.

Shame.

Total bull***t.

[seneta-41897 · 5/10 · 15 March 2022]

I don't understand how he isn't telling his story from a jail cell for being an accessory to murder. The son kept pressing hard on how he was a victim, but honestly it's those women who were victims. Not only did he not help them, he also did not allow for his dad to be brought to justice. Like wow you are a total failure.

Like Father, Like Son..

[My-Two-Cent · 5/10 · 24 July 2022]

I agree with what another reviewer saw when they watched this episode and that was the crocodile tears to go along with his crocoshyte story.. I saw an accomplice that feared the advances in DNA Technology and possibly the ghost of the victims he and his father shared and his only way forward was placing all the blame at the feet of his so-called "abuser" and somehow people bought into it.. Remorse is something this guy is incapable of feeling..

I'm not buying it

[rainaroberts · 26 August 2022]

There were multiple times that I felt off while watching this episode. But where it took a turn for me was him talking about hearing his dad kill Sandy and was told not to watch but then when they played the recording he admitted previously he was the one who lit the match. I understand burying memories but to remember doing it years late when talking to police, and then not remembering that part while not talking to police seems very odd.

Also, If he was this afraid of his father, why would he stay living with him in his later teen years. He stated he lived with him until he was about 23 and then moved out when he got married. Why was his father ok with him moving out at that point, he trusted him at this point? It all seems very suspicious, and to wait until dad passed away to tell this story. Seems like that's pretty convenient so that dad can't tell his side of what Sam willingly participated in.

There is something off about this guy!

[TheDyingGirl · 5/10 · 18 July 2022]

He might have been victim of physical violence when he was a child but I believe he grew to be a willing participant in these sick activities with his dad. They were in it together! It was their sick bonding experience like the " how to sexually assault women " bonding sessions he mentioned he used to have with his dad. My money is on the fact that, with the advancement in DNA he knew it was only a matter of time before the murder would tie back to him because he did participate in the killing of that women if not more. Over the last few years we have seen the apprehension of killers in their dotage years ,who had gotten comfortable and thought they had gotten away with murder. It is very suspicious that he only spoke up after the death of his father and decades and decades later after the father committed those crimes. Coupled with the fact that he never told a single living soul including his wife. Let that sink in. Dead men tell no tales and he knew this was his one and only opportunity to spin the tale the way he wanted. That was very clever of him to bring the crime to the police first before they themselves found her remains. In the police recordings he also confessed to have lit that woman of fire and yet in the episode he had initially stated that his father is the one who did everything and all he did was either watch or turn his head away. In one sentence he claimed his father was so cruel and wanted to kill him next and yet the father somehow cared enough not to make his son watch while he shot his Mrs and burned her. Like make it make sense. This dude can't even keep up with his lies. He did this crime with his dad. I have never seen someone who had that many chances to step up and be a decent human being and somehow squashed each and every opportunity. This whole "seeing her ghost" story is what made him finally call the police is absolute malarkey. That audio of the interview is chilling as hell. For someone who supposedly moved on to greener pastures and became a family man, he was awfully cold and cavalier about his role in the torture of those women. I would watch this one if I were you. Crocodile tears!