The series is set 30 years after the events of the Evil Dead trilogy, and follows Ash Williams, who now works at the "Value Stop" as a simple stock boy.
Having spent his life not doing anything remarkable since the events of the trilogy, Ash will have to renounce his routine existence and become a hero once more by taking up arms and facing the titular Evil Dead.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.337 million household viewers and gained a 0.18 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
Ash starts seeing other people in his state, such as Ruby (Lucy Lawless) as a nurse, Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo) as a fellow inmate, and Pablo (Ray Santiago) as an orderly.
[1] In its original American broadcast, "Delusion" was seen by an estimated 0.337 million household viewers and gained a 0.18 ratings share among adults aged 18–49, according to Nielsen Media Research.
His defeat at the hands of Baal's carefully crafted asylum nightmare showed us Ash succumbing, for the first time, to something other than his own stupidity.
Granted, the series came close last season with 'Brujo', when they dipped into a little psychedelia, but that was more of a spiritual high, one that happened to celebrate the boozy mind of Ashley Williams rather than condemn it.
Baal opts for the latter in the remarkably disturbing 'Delusion', which finds our foul-mouthed hero locked up in a nightmarish insane asylum for all the evil deeds he's done.
It's a smart, deceitful half-hour of Ken Kesey-inspired storytelling and arguably the first time we've seen the guy forced to question his own sanity since, oh, the opening act of Evil Dead 2.