Devil in Ohio

Netflix's new Emily Deschanel drama depicts the aftereffects of a cult — and the growing fear of the devil in a suburban town.

Which is not to say that “Devil in Ohio” is boring. What Suzanne has suffered exists only to make her story make sense, which isn’t novel, but “Devil in Ohio” feels so hastily written that the seams show too clearly. This theme song has a self-conscious ludicrousness that’s ultimately earned by the series it introduces — at least in one sense.

Devil in Ohio star Alisha Newton plays the eldest Mathis daughter Helen in the Netflix thriller series. Learn more about the actress here.

[Devil in Ohio](https://netflix.com/devilinohio) is now streaming on Netflix. In the Netflix mystery series, Alisha plays the eldest Mathis daughter, Helen. Alisha was born on July 22, 2001, in Vancouver, Canada, making her 21.

Devil in Ohio is based on the book of the same name by Daria Polatin and it is actually based on a true story, though Polatin won't reveal her sources.

However, that case doesn’t sound like a “satanic” cult, so it’s unclear if it’s the same one Polatin was inspired by for her story. The murder occurred in Lundgren’s farmhouse, which the cult had repurposed into a center of worship. “I will never reveal details about my source, but suffice it to say, it was quite horrifying to hear the details of how a young woman escaped from the satanic cult she’d grown up in. Yes, Devil in Ohio is inspired by real events. Suzanne Mathis, Devil in Ohio follows a young woman, Mae (Madeleine Arthur), who escapes from a satanic cult and desperately needs help keeping herself alive and free from their influence. Polatin also serves as a writer and executive producer on the show.

Spoiler Alert. Netflix. [Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for all of Devil in Ohio.] Netflix's new limited series thriller ends on a very ...

I like to call it the horror of the everyday, because it’s the horror of our own selves and our own parts of our selves we don’t want to deal with and when you don’t deal with things, it ends up causing behavior that is, on the surface, unintended and can cause a lot of problems, as it does for Suzanne. Then we also have the main title song by Bishop Briggs, who wrote the song for us as well, and our composer wrote that hymn for the cult. Oh, yay, that’s by Isabella Summers, who is the Machine of Florence and the Machine, and she wrote the song for us. She wrote this gorgeous song and it was so good that we put it in a couple of places and then over the credits at the end, but she knocked the song out of the park. She says “I want to help her get a job and get her GED and find a permanent place,” and for Peter, that’s just her still not fully accepting who Mae is. Is she going to pick up the phone and call Peter in the next moment? It’s that blind spot that we talk about, the difference between who you are and who you think you are, and that’s really the monster in this show. I like to write stories that people can engage with and talk about and discuss, and so it’s a good question and it’s something fun for the audience to engage with as well in conversation, like watercooler. Where did the cult go, and what’s going to happen with Mae and Suzanne? So I think from Mae’s perspective, and that’s how we approached it with Madeleine, she’s looking for a place for herself. Suzanne is kind of dealing with her own past and her own psychology and her own issues, something she’s kept very buried, even from her family and herself, really. (The psychiatrist rescued her.) [Daria Polatin](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/daria-polatin/), who wrote the book inspired by a true story and serves as creator, showrunner, and executive producer on the limited series, breaks down that ending and addresses if there will be a second season after that cliffhanger.

Episode 6 of Devil In Ohio starts with Suzanne at the hospital, questioning why Dani didn't get in touch. Well, given how Suzanne has been blowing her off ...

Episode 2 of Devil in Ohio begins with Suzanne checking up on Mae in the morning. She promises to get her a good home, bur for now she gets dressed up in ...

When he tries to bury the bird, Mae actually gets there first and takes the dead crow and serves it up as an offering, marking a familiar sigil we saw on that pig-head scarecrow on a tree stump she’s turned into a makeshift shrine. Peter is offered an extra six weeks to try and rustle up the funds he needs to prevent slipping further into debt. Mae decides to dip out and Suzanne asks Rhoda to reconsider the adoption. She agrees, and Mae is able to continue staying at Suzanne’s place for the time being. Suzanne drops off Mae at the family services center to get checked up before heading off to a foster home, while Peter is left with the unenviable task of taking the poor bird to the bird sanctuary. Episode 2 of Devil in Ohio begins with Suzanne checking up on Mae in the morning.

Renewed Or Cancelled? Devil In Ohio is the latest horror/thriller on Netflix, with a good deal of cultist action and character drama to boot. If you've finished ...

Sam Jaeger, Xaria Dotson and Madeleine Arthur also star in Daria Polatin's adaptation of her own novel.

Most Pilot-y Line: When Dani is introduced to Mae and is told that she’s staying until Suzanne finds her a foster home, Dani says, “I was a foster kid. But at times it feels like something that’s a bit too slick and a bit too uncomplicated for a show that’s about a cult victim that ruins lives, especially a show for Netflix. Temperance Brennan, but the way Deschanel portrays her still makes her look like she’s achieving the impossible dream of “having it all.” She has a high-stakes, demanding career, is a loving wife, can still make a family dinner after a busy day, give loving advice to Jules, and still have time to take in this strange girl and somehow convince her family that this is the right thing to do. She’s also not fallen in love with her own material when it came to adapting her novel; the first episode moves with the pacing of a quality network thriller (one of the reasons why we compared it to The Following) that doesn’t tend to dwell on things for too long before moving the story forward. Sleeper Star: Xaria Dotson is intriguing as Jules, who totes around her Pentax K1000 (which means a lot to film camera buffs like us) and has her own darkroom. And the buyer of the house that Peter was renovating suddenly backed out of the deal, leaving Peter deep in debt with a high-priced house he needs to unload. The only reason we can discern that Suzanne is set up in such an unrealistic way so that there’s a lot that gets torn away when things with Mae get complicated. When the hospital is about to discharge her, Suzanne decides to have her stay with her family until she can find Mae a foster home. It feels like the central story is Suzanne’s efforts to try to save Mae, who is on the run from a deadly cult. At first glance, it seems that the story asides Polatin indulges in during the first episode, like Jules’ inability to fit in at school or Peter’s business quickly sinking into debt. She and her family lead busy lives, and when she’s called in early one morning to see an unidentified patient who isn’t talking, she has to dash out in the morning. [Bones](https://decider.com/show/bones/) was on for a full generation, and it did have a good, long 12-year run.

The official logline for the show, via Netflix's Media Center, reads: “When hospital psychiatrist Dr. Suzanne Mathis shelters a mysterious cult escapee, her ...

You may recognize Ty Wood from some of his other roles, which include appearances in hit series such as Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Riverdale, The Order, ReBoot: The Guardian Code, and iZombie. The actor scored his first role in 2009 at just 14, when he appeared in The Battle of Mary Kay alongside Shirley MacLaine, Shannen Doherty, and R.H. To see his full filmography, The actor was born under the Virgo star sign. Here’s everything we know about the Devil in Ohio actor. The 26-year-old also often shares pictures with his gorgeous girlfriend, Canadian actress and model Karis Cameron.

From showrunner Daria Polatin, who also wrote the best-selling book of the same name, the Netflix drama series Devil in Ohio takes hospital psychiatrist Dr.

I thought it was a surprise, and I love a surprise. The motivations and the cult aspect was really fascinating to me. How quickly is she making excuses for Mae and trying to understand why Mae did that because of her own trauma? You have to check a lot of boxes for me to wanna do a job. It was a really interesting twist, and I liked that. What was such an amazing gift was that Daria Polatin, who created the show and was the showrunner and who wrote the book that it’s based on, and I went to college together. To dig into spoilers a bit with the ending, why do you think Suzanne gives up being with her own family to be with Mae? She tries to find a place for her to live. She had such a strong vision that was really helpful for all of us to lean on and help guide us while doing the show. It was exciting for me to work with someone that I knew well and could trust. I focus on the character and the psychology of the character and who they are and where they come from and why they do what they do. That was really nice.

Mae Louise Dodd, a potential victim of crime in the Netflix miniseries "Devil in Ohio," portrays all shades of gray through her mysterious persona.

Perhaps Mae arrived in Suzanne’s life to make her realize that she was still in denial of her traumatic past; hence, through Mae, she commenced a journey to face it. Suzanne was having Thanksgiving dinner with Mae when she received a call from Lopez, who informed her that it was Mae who set the white roses during the Harvest Dance and made it look like the cult triggered her to make her return to the family. In other words, she didn’t need a person like Mae to make her feel worthy or make her realize that she was trying to correct the mistakes of her mother. Mae even made Suzanne distant from her own children, as Suzanne was busy protecting Mae from the cult all the time and failed to attend to the needs of her own kids. Peter had already understood the fact that Mae was the root of all evil and thus gave Suzanne a choice to choose between Mae and her family, but Mae had designed such a fail-proof plan to manipulate Suzanne because of which she failed to see through her lies. She was in denial, but at the end of the series, she came to terms with the truth and saw a psychiatrist to help her overcome her fears of the traumatic past. Throughout the entire rescue, Mae wanted Suzanne to feel victorious over saving one victim of crime, but it was Mae who was pulling the strings from the beginning of affairs. For Mae’s mother, Abigail, throwing one’s own child into the flames in order to sacrifice her to the devil was “the normal” in which she was raised. Mae’s character had a duality that can be explained by the fact that she never ran away from the devil himself, but she only escaped the people who were trying to kill her. The character of Mae can be compared to an animal in a jungle that acts upon its survival instinct and struggles to keep itself alive. For a while, the narrative suggested that she ran away from the cult because she despised their dark traditions and the people who blindly followed them under the influence of which they even wanted to kill her. To understand this distinction better, it is important to look deeper into her motivations and the environment (or the cult, to be particular) in which she was raised.