Bev Keane - Underestimating Pure Evil

• Understanding Evil
Beverly Keane is a religious woman is a character on the Netflix series; Midnight Mass, created and directed by Mike Flanagan. She is played by Samantha Sloyan. On the show, Bev Keane's evil actions slowly escalate until everyone and everything around her is uterly destroyed. Let's analyze the nightmare that unfolds around such a terrible character

[@mariam2964]

I just want to say what an incredible actor Samantha Sloyan is. Just the way she stands and holds herself as Bev Keane is so repulsive, and so accurate.

[@Hotelyorba]

I was thinking that too! Samantha Sloyan is a beautiful woman, but Bev Keane is just wretched. Just her physicality and smug demeanor totally change how she looked.

[@lhadzyan7300]

@@Hotelyorba she is very much as Imelda Staunton made Dolores Umbridge, both are great actresses and very nice people contrasting so high with the roles they both made! (Tilda Swinton is also the same as when she has been doing Jadis at the Narnia Chronicles but she is the very opposite of her in real life.)

[@Caerdrys]

She reminds me of

[@IrisGlowingBlue]

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[@willcunt2670]

But totally wood though! Stay away from crazy kids

[@frunk5593]

The sad thing is, there are people who are literally like her. Living among us.

[@jupiterhimself]

YEP! I showcased some of them toward the end of the video.

[@Christrulesall2]

Yes they are called covert psychopaths and are very successful people and pillars of society because the have no moral compass therefore are able to climb the societal ladder by stepping on anyone to get with they want without any emotional consequence.

[@Baronnax]

AMOGUS?!?! 😮

[@t0dd000]

Go to any fundamentalist church. She's the norm.

[@RachelAnnPotter]

She reminds me of some of the members of the church I grew up in. I was confirmed Catholic (for my grandma), but I will never practice again. Humanity pollutes organized religion.

[@dra2521]

Bev Keane is the most realistic villain for our given time. There are real people just like her, committing equally evil atrocities using the name of their deities to justify it all.

[@jupiterhimself]

Even when the last thing they said contradicts their new decision

[@bernadetteobaglietto5923]

There are too many people too powerful, just like her.

[@onyourself3369]

Just look at Republicans.

[@Hotelyorba]

She’s one of the most terrifying villains in all of fiction. Most serial killers, cult leaders and mass murderers don’t know their victims. Bev knew every single one of hers. Crockett is so small and isolated, everyone there is someone she grew up with, knew their families, saw every Sunday in church. Even Monsignor Pruitt who she idolized, was not safe from her. She wasn’t even safe from herself and died the most satisfying coward’s death ever. Bravo Mike Flanagan and BRAVO to Samantha Sloyan. I had no idea who she was (even though I watched Hill House her role was pretty small and kind of forgettable) and her performance blew my mind.

[@jupiterhimself]

She also plays a crazy religious nutjob in "The Mist".

[@Hotelyorba]

@@jupiterhimself I saw that when it came out (I think I was a senior in high school) but I don’t remember her character. I will have to rewatch it!

[@kristatrescott358]

@@Hotelyorbashe’s in the supermarket if that helps and gives sending ppl outside as sacrifice basically

[@Hotelyorba]

@@kristatrescott358 thank you for telling me!! I’ll keep an eye for her.

[@theus810]

​@@jupiterhimself what lol, she wasn't in The Mist, it was a different actress 😂

[@KurtisC93]

Bev Keane reminds me of Dolores Umbridge from the Harry Potter series. Like Umbridge, Bev views herself as having the moral high ground, and takes it upon herself to impose her will upon everyone else. Both characters are sanctimonious, passive-aggressive, prejudicial, sadistic, cruel, and bereft of genuine warmth or empathy. Bev elicits the same visceral revulsion and horror that one derives from Umbridge whilst reading Order of the Phoenix or watching its film adaptation.

[@evangelionl0vr857]

Now that you mention it I think the last time I hated a character as much as I hated Bev was Dolores.

[@guitarhero8110]

Umbridge is a good comparison. i was reminded of Mrs. Carmody from The Mist.

[@lhadzyan7300]

they´re very alike and that´s why people hate and feared Umbridge more than the proper main villain of HP series, besides though Dolores uses magic, everyone also does, so she kinda doesn´t make a big difference by their power so the realism is keep well even at a fantasy domain. Of course as Beverly Keen is most of all the series without any extra power - just on the very last episodes when she fully became vampire but even then... she barely uses capacities on that in all - so she has even more realism on the same-issue that Umbridge previously did.

[@redbluebae4397]

Great comparison

[@ytfsic]

Yes! She has big Umbridge energy

[@geeker6350]

There's only one true bloodsucking monster in this show, and it's not the angel.

[@jupiterhimself]

LOL! Yep! More terrifying that any "angel" or "vampire".

[@malta5800]

It's not even an angel either :(

[@psychedeliccarrie5921]

The angel was basically an animal acting on instincts, Bev was human and still did all that she did.

[@jerikaljgdk]

The scene of the sheriff and his son praying together at the end before they die is still one of the saddest things I've ever seen. When I first watched that episode, I sobbed for ages. I wish they had been the ones to survive.

[@natatatm]

I hate that the real ppl who are like this rarely ever face consequences because of their master manipulation. Almost every church, school, or office has a Beverly. However they're almost never fired or disciplined because they've been able to manipulate ppl to believe that their controlling nature is more or less well intentioned. It's maddening seeing everyone else turn a blind eye and, in some cases, that keeps happening till it's too late...

[@jupiterhimself]

That's why I put the "terrifying Evil" in the thumbnail. Thanos and General Zod are all Fake, this shit's real!

[@nettewilson5926]

Yup

[@sparkfadingspark]

Totally spot on as to why Bev is so terrifying and one of the reasons why I loved Midnight Mass (and Flanagan's Netflix shows in general) - all of her manipulations and crimes hit so close to home and she is just a human woman, the sort of person you could imagine living next door. She is the monster that people can't see coming because real monsters look like you and me, not like in the movies. Real life is always scarier than fiction.

[@jupiterhimself]

Couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks for watching!

[@stogz284]

The way that Bev actually made me boil in anger while watching this show is a testament to her acting and how well written her character is

[@Ciara1594]

She kinda reminds me of my mother. To her it was "my way or the highway" mentality. She would go around and tell people "May God rebuke you" while pointing a finger in their face. It was extremely embarrassing. The poor people didn't know how to respond except with confusion. Finally she did that to one woman who cut in front of her when we were leaving a store and the woman looked her up and down and asked, "Why should He? Just because YOU say so?" And she leaves. Mom just stood there stunned. And she never rebuked anyone again. 😂

[@violetcrumble512]

Wow. I actually really didn’t notice that Bev killed Monsinour Pruitt until you pointed it out and I’ve genuinely watched it about 5/6 times. That’s an amazing detail, thank you for bringing light to it!

[@jupiterhimself]

No problem! I'd like to take credit and pretend to be all smart, but I watched it a second time, suspected then looked online and confirmed it.

[@adityashrestha2774]

@@jupiterhimself what are you on about? Mike Flanagan himself has said that bev didn;t poison the monsignor

[@jupiterhimself]

@@adityashrestha2774 Yeah, I know that now! But I already put the video up. I think he deliberately put that there to wrong foot us. Dude's a genius...

[@lhadzyan7300]

@@jupiterhimself I hadn´t noticed that - of course I knew she reckognized the younger version of the priest as the same old-one, but didn´t knew she actually attempted to murder him - and succeded though then he came back from death as vampire - because of covering herself after the church finance oddyties runed by her, and well.. she recovered so fast when he returned back taking some power over him by keeping his secret but that was unnplaned. I thought that the priest just died from a continual overuse of the vampire blood on him, to fully became vampire over time.

[@jupiterhimself]

@@lhadzyan7300 Yeah, we were deliberately wrongfooted by the director Mike Flanagan is an awesome treasure we must protect at all cost! LOL

[@LadyCay129]

It’s very telling how horrifying Christianity can be when the most evil and terrifying villain is just a middle-aged preacher

[@jupiterhimself]

Yep! The "angel" wasn't even close to causing that level of death and carnage as this woman.

[@Baronnax]

She misuses and misinterprets Christian scripture to justify her horrible actions, but that isn't something exclusive to Christianity. We've witnessed Muslim, Jewish, and even Buddhist preachers call for genocide and ethnic-cleansing in the name of faith.

[@jupiterhimself]

@@Baronnax This show lays it out so beautifully. Riley's parents for example were good Christians to the very end. The Muslim sheriff was also a good man of faith to the very end. The story is about how anyone from any religion can abuse religion and manipulate the faithful.

[@paulipaz]

Yup. The scariest things are reflective or real life like people like her who justify horrors with religion.

[@jupiterhimself]

@@paulipaz Even when it's a 180 degrees from whatever they justified just a few seconds before.

[@Akron162]

She was a narcissist with a massive superiority complex who found religion was the perfect excuse to indulge in her worst impulses. She is not that complex of a villain, but certainly a very memorable one.

[@redbluebae4397]

Most definitely!!

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

You chose the right character, she is really the worst of the worst...

[@lightknight876]

I agree. The fact she is just a regular person truly makes her terrifying. Because it makes her real

[@warriorbard]

This character was so vile and reprehensible that it almost put me off watching the show. I truly could barely tolerate the scenes that she was in without wanting to put my fist through the TV, I was so seething mad. It's been a long while since a fictional character got such a rise out of me but boy, did this abhorrent character rub me the wrong way and then some.

[@jupiterhimself]

Just a testament to Samantha Sloyan's extraordinary acting skills

[@joecastle288]

I don't know if this was intentional or not, but Bev digging down into the sand to escape the light in her last moments I feel can be interpreted as foreshadowing her inevitably being sent to Hell, her true allegiance all along being to Hellish evil, and her frantically attempting to turn away from God's light (the sun)

[@jupiterhimself]

OMG!! Good catch! LOL

[@solidghost1337]

I keep having this image of bev successfully digging her hole, burying herself, then realizing she has to sit there and wait for the whole day to pass. She waits and waits and finally, thinking it must have been long enough, she arises. But it's only been like 45 minutes and she burns immediately.

[@jupiterhimself]

@@solidghost1337 Alright, that was pretty funny. LOL. It would have been fun to watch. Unfortunately, it would also break the flow of the show.

[@notdeadjustyet8136]

Bev was truly terrifying in her belief that she was good and right and her lack of empathy for anyone who doesn't think like her. However, Father Paul was actually much more terrifying, although he was a truly good man at heart, simply bcs he was so charismatic & persuasive. He also was too quick to allow Bev to feed his messiah complex, which speaks of his covert pride. Bevs of the world could never do much on their own. Also, I reckon every Paul needs a Bev and vice versa. Frankenstein and his monster. The show is a masterpiece, especially as it shows how well-meaning ppl, like Paul can do horrible things. And how most horrible ppl believe they're the good guys, like Bev.

[@jupiterhimself]

Excellent summary. I would have made a video about father Paul, but I chose to concentrate on Bev Keane, because of the characteristics I put in the video. But yeah, I agree with you. Paul wasn't a saint. To be fair to him, he actually admitted that he was a bad person who did it out of selfishness and lied to himself it was for the greater good. He felt remorse and tried to fix it. The simple ability to feel remorse and accept he was in the wrong, makes him a thousand times better than Bev...in my opinion.

[@dantespimp]

Even as a kid, I ended up finding people like Beverly the scariest monsters. There is nothing more terrifying than encountering an ordinary person who feels completely justified in inflicting pain on others; to become so absorbed in their ideology they develop the conviction and fortitude to actually THRIVE and successfully taint and bring others down to their level. Rosemary's Baby is one of my favorite horror films. And it had nothing to do with the devil (who barely makes an appearance). Rather, it's the nosy neighbors that terrified me. They looked like everyday quirky people. None of them came off as explicitly evil or powerful or intimidating. It was just the way they subtly gaslighted/manipulated Rosemary and steadily controlled her environment until she eventually discovered she was trapped. And this wasn't happening at some secluded island or dark castle; it was in a big city full of people in broad daylight. It's sad, then, that a majority of today's horrors stems from real-life people like Beverly.

[@bdlaac]

Actually, I haven’t confirmed this but I saw many Reddit post about it. She didn’t poison the priest, or at least poison wasn’t the reason he’s sick. Mike Flanagan himself said that he died of an overdose caused by consuming a lot of vampire blood in a short period of time, his mortal body couldn’t take it anymore, so he ended collapsing. I guess this means that she actually ended up using poison to deal with the cats or rats or whatever. I would’ve preferred if she had actually poisoned him, it seemed fitting, but it apparently isn’t the case. Another thing I saw on Reddit was that (differently from what I said before, this is only a theory) he might have been slowly poisoned by drinking the vampire’s blood, since the vampire had been drinking blood from many animals who could have poison in their bloodstream because Bev was poisoning the grounds to kill them, so the vampire drank blood which contained poison, then gave his blood (which now was poisoned) to the Monsenhor, and he ended up dying because of that

[@jupiterhimself]

Yes! I saw that too, unfortunately, I had already made the video. LOL! I think Flanagan wanted to deliberately wrongfoot us.

[@lhadzyan7300]

@@jupiterhimself I guess it´s left ambiguosly to never trully know if she did killed him as the dog to cover herself for the church financial personal emblessement of it, or was indeed as I guessed an eventual self-poisoning for ingesting the vampire blood over time, it could be both actually too. Anyways indeed the real central villain of the story is Beverly besides the "Angel".

[@jupiterhimself]

@@lhadzyan7300 Yeah, she's so evil, we immediately assume she's behind all the bad stuff that happens. The dog was, like you said left ambiguous, but we she did it. Amazing directing by Mike Flanagan. Keep us thinking, long after we turn it off!

[@lhadzyan7300]

@@jupiterhimself no the dog was very obvious she killed him, what was left ambiguous was if she actually killed the priest or he died because of overusing the vampire blood in himself.

[@EmyN]

Oh so it was confirmed? Although, I’m sure Bev manipulated the old man since she was his caretaker and he was drifting into dementia, like covering up her embezzlement and I’m willing to bet she speared his pilgrimage knowing he was unfit to go

[@BobbyMucka]

I have two dogs. If someone so much as hit my dog let alone poison them, they're going to have a horrible time. I was extremely upset by the dog's death. It was senseless. It definitely showed her character though.

[@ozziethefool691]

The moment she killed that dog, she went to the top five most evil villains for me

[@jupiterhimself]

Yeah, don't you touch no animals! That was completely unfair! And it wasn't even like the dog bit her or anything. Just because he was loud and excited.

[@hdervish2497]

She was so unforgivably evil in that role that I have trouble liking/trusting her in other roles. From her toxic self righteousness, to her unwarranted attack on that sweet innocent creature, she is unredeemable

[@jupiterhimself]

Samantha Sloyan couldn't have done it better! She should win awards for how she portrayed this character

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

In my country in schools, 2 things are strictly forbidden, drugs and religion. In secular countries, religion has no place in schools, especially because there might be students who are of different religious backgrounds. Even the proposition for a subject as an introduction to religions was refused because the teacher might be religious and there might be favoritism of a certain religion over others.

[@jupiterhimself]

Yep! Best option. If you introduce religion, then it quickly deteriorates. People who don't believe the earth is several millions of years old or think evolution is a "sin". All kinds of nonsense comes out. School should deal with science and facts!

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

@@jupiterhimself Yes, science and facts, I agree, religion is an ideology of sorts so that does not belong in school. At university, I had subjects like philosophy of religion, and psychology of religion, but my professors were agnostics or agnostic atheists.

[@DeidresStuff]

Teachers managed to deal with it academically in the 90s. What happened?

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

@@DeidresStuff I don't understand your question completely, but I will answer about my subject. I was studying philosophy and logic at university, and I had subjects connected with religion, like the philosophy of religion or from a sociological aspect because we had sociology as a subject for a few semesters. But that is the university level of education and those professors were atheists. But we don't have anything connected with religion in basic and secondary education because people and government consider that as a danger and an obvious breach of secularism, which is very important.

[@zitronentee]

In my country, despite Catholic School, also have some non-Christian students. We don't speak about religion that much. It's just common sense. None of us are that obsessed with religion. Being mean is very discouraged. Sure, we still have masses, and non-Christian students can opt out not to participate.

[@Ciara1594]

I remember something Charlotte Bronte once said. She said that she knew people who could quote the Bible chapter and verse but it didn't make them better Christians for all that. Inevitably she discovered that these bible quoters were hypocrites.

[@daniellebyers352]

FINALLY. Thank you for speaking so eloquently on a subject I've been trying to bring to light for YEARS. The other character representing this concept is Professor Umbridge from Harry Potter. The Banality of Evil.

[@jupiterhimself]

No problem! Thanks for watching and commenting! It was hard work to put the video together and I enjoyed the process. Please, stick around for the next video on Sunday.

[@keshca]

I forgot about the dog part... You could feel Joe's despair and sadness, it was gut wrenching 😭

[@t0dd000]

She represents pretty much the norm for the more conservative fundamentalist women out there.

[@skshore338]

I was going to say I have several Bev's in my family.

[@siege824s8]

MTG is who i think of when i see Bev

[@Azulakayes]

True...I think she is even worse than Serena Joy in A Handmaid's Tale.

[@Nattyplatinum]

What a disgusting, snobby, intentionally malicious thing to say.

[@Sleepingwei]

After this role, I’ve never been able to watch this actress the same way. It just shows how well she played it

[@julioaugusto1529]

She was just diabolical

[@courtneybrock1]

In Bev, Flanagan is commenting on Hannah Arendt’s Banality of Evil. And he does it really well.

[@user-qk2pb8om2k]

I have a lot of bev's in my life god help me

[@jupiterhimself]

Me too, man...me too. Scary times are upon us!

[@Azulakayes]

I agree. Self-righteousness is pride. Once you are prideful, you can justify any evil. She was worse than the actual vampire.

[@savvysearch]

She was singularly the best creation in any Mike Flanagan film.

[@jupiterhimself]

I know! She was so convincing...I couldn't shake her character off the actress Samantha Sloyan while watching "The fall of the house of Usher".

[@akshitgupta729]

Bev and Umbridge are two characters I can’t even stand for 1 minute

[@Ladyofdeath777Weaversoftheweb]

Bev Keane was horrifying to me. She reminds me of so many people.

[@jupiterhimself]

That's what makes her truly scary. The villains with superpowers aren't real. Bev Keane is. Fortunately they rarely have the power and resources to spread their suffering. But the few who do, often cause indescribable misery

[@Ladyofdeath777Weaversoftheweb]

It's what makes Midnight Mass one of my favorites. It's so well written. Mike Flanagan always pairs his horror with depth, beauty, and sorrow. There's always a deep yet hopeful melancholy to his work. Often when the characters come to terms with death or the reality of their situation. @@jupiterhimself

[@LegPressWhizzer]

I hated her as much as I hated Mrs Carmody from The Mist with Thomas Jane. They were different chars bc Bev is a lot more quietly seething while Carmody, once ppl started getting scared, got really loud and screamed incessantly but they're joined in the way they use faith and punishment to try and manipulate those around them in order to gain power. Massive kudos to both actors for just nailing their roles so perfectly

[@ThomasKent963]

Very well articulated and founded argument. I appreciate you and your creation here. Well done! And, thank you!

[@jupiterhimself]

Thank you so much!! Thanks for watching and the sub

[@curiousworld7912]

And, it's not just religion those with bad intention have to manipulate others. Utopianism was used throughout the 20th century, from Cambodia to Rwanda, centering on the idea of 'This would be a perfect society, if not for these ___.' . It's dehumanization or 'othering', however it's framed.

[@carlycrays2831]

I believe that it was confirmed that Bev didn't kill Pruitt, rather, it was the vampire blood. I alwahs thought this was a mistake since it makes so much more sense that it was Bev

[@KurtisC93]

I mean, you even see her holding the rat poison in the episode where Pruitt drops dead, and his symptoms bore an uncanny resemblance to poor Pike after he had been poisoned.

[@lightknight876]

@@KurtisC93 I agree with you. He looked hella poisoned

[@leonchristou1702]

@@KurtisC93it was confirmed by the creator it the blood not the poison

[@KurtisC93]

@@leonchristou1702 I'm aware. I just thought that poisoning would have made even more sense, given the build-up to Pruitt's first death.

[@leonchristou1702]

@@KurtisC93mb but yeah it did look like it

[@winter97hmmm39]

The actress who played Bev Keane on Midnight Mass is a superb actress. She embodied the perfect villain.

[@0ri0nssuspenders]

Well done! You have a new subscriber 😊 I'm honestly surprised you don't have more subs already! The algo put you in my feed, so hopefully more people see your channel soon 🙏

[@kittenburger_prime]

The real villains are the idiots who didn't call her out.

[@jupiterhimself]

That's a huge problem in our society...especially when it comes to religion. Once someone is viewed as the "moral arbiter", then alarming things they do can somehow be justified...

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

Yes, such characters are especially evil, pompous, and full of hybris so typical for religious zealots... In some manner, she is similar to the woman in the movie "Mist" which was made on the basis of Stephen King's novel. Those are really the worst, and I am glad that I live in a secular country where those who are religious are just nominally religious, we have a very small percentage of people who go to churches every Sunday, which is very uncommon here, I bet that it is one of the countries where atheism and agnosticism are very spread and common.

[@jupiterhimself]

Lucky lucky you!!

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

@@jupiterhimself The whole of Europe and the Western civilization is lucky that we had the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment, and the power of the church was taken, and secularity became the norm in every civilized country. As far as I know, only Greece is not secular because the Greek government gives money to their Orthodox church, but it is far from Islamic theocracies, both de jure and de facto theocracies where people live under religious darkness and people live in fear, have no right of free speech and free expression. Rivers of blood were spilled in the name of those imaginary characters, so, yes I consider myself lucky and all who are free of religious indoctrination and brainwashing are lucky.

[@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim]

where do you live?

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

@@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim Central Europe... I can't tell you exactly where I live because I have personal reasons why I am uncomfortable saying my country's name, but I gave enough info.

[@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim]

@@ozymandiasultor9480 ummm okay then

[@IrisGlowingBlue]

I really liked this series but somehow 200% missed that Bev had killed Paul until now?? I thought the, like, micro-doses of vampire blood was just finally hitting him.

[@countblacke]

Fantastic video man. I was surprised when I saw your sub-count!

[@jupiterhimself]

Thank you, friend! I am just starting out. But bigger, better and more ambitious videos to come. Hope I get more subs along the way

[@SecularMentat]

I've never seen this movie. But it seems like it's written around the single premise of Voltaires statement "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." Once you give up your ability to think rationally for dogmatic thought it doesn't take much to push you to this point.

[@miranda13c]

She does such a good job at portraying characters that I hate. Like Perfect Penny for example who is partially responsible for killing Derek Shepard. 😢 I cheered when her character left lmao although I was sad to see Callie go (but the writers ruined her character’s storyline long ago anyways).

[@kkat42069]

She is so well written. The scene where Sherif Hassan stands up to her about the Bible she completely turns it around by being like “it makes me sad that you think that of me…” like she was so conniving and evil. Also I didn’t put 2 and 2 together that she absolutely killed Father Paul with rat poison the first time he died. Basically every monologue she did had by jaw on the floor because she was such a master manipulator and SO SCARY

[@jupiterhimself]

That's precisely my point. All the other supervillains in form of aliens, ghosts, super soldiers or even the angel/vampire are all fake. This character dwarfs them all because she's very much real. We know at least one person like this. Politician, neighbor, pastor, teacher...you name it!

[@AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc]

There is no hatred, no cruelty like christian love.

[@kariscrimson]

I’m genuinely in awe of Samantha Sloyan. One of the best in the game.

[@illusiveman8027]

“The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.” -Julius Caesar, 75 BC

[@ghost.and.gills.]

Holy shit I never realized she was the one that poisoned Paul. I have watched this show 4 times now.

[@artofsam]

I agree with every word you said and glad somebody made a video on it, just like the examples you gave at the end that included the likes of the Manson Family and Jim Jones the most frightening thing in this world is those who prey on the weak and are able to use religion and other means to manipulate what could have been good people to do utterly unspeakable things. I believe they took great influence from the Jones town massacre for this show, ignoring the supernatural aspect of the show it is almost exactly what happened in Jones town in that many good people and families (from religious backgrounds) went out in the middle of nowhere under the belief they were in some new free utopia that was all about love and peace but what they found was a cult that essentially turned them into slaves having them work none stop in building houses and infrastructure for nothing in return barely even food to feed their families but they had them believe it was all in the name of the divine and to serve "gods new holy place" the infamous leader who started it all Jim Jones EXACTLY like Beverly Keane was a spineless coward who killed himself with a gun when he was the one responsible for brainwashing people to drink cool aid laced with poison, some willingly did it but many were forced to drink at gun point and anybody who tried to leave were also shot and killed. The most disturbing of it all is how many were children and the parents that made them drink it. So yes, I couldn't agree more. Beverly Keane is the most evil character I have come across in film and tv simply because she is real and many people like her not only live among us but they are in positions of high power.

[@blackcirclepolkadot2618]

She really was the ultimate kind of villain. Living with us..

[@AuntieLux]

Ive met so many people like Bev Keane. All were religious, not all Catholics but all well versed in their hatred. All religions are cults. Not all religious people are good or bad. Some are Bev Keans though. Some like Bev are hungy for a righteousness that will never be satiated. No sin isnt justifiable to them as long as they are the ones committing it. God gave us free will and allowed us to question. I personally believe its because we shouldn't follow others and place ourselves in religion, but so we can find it on our own. If you follow the sheep you will find yourself lost, no man is anyrhing other than a sheep. Even Jesus. Thats why he was man. Take the good parts of

[@donalvarez4006]

My only complaint is the CSI they used on the monster. Would have been awesome if they used real effects, Van Helsing style

[@lhadzyan7300]

Beverly Keen is pretty much alike Dolores Umbridge from the Harry Potter universe but without any magic in all - untill the very last time when she fully becames a vampire - and well even her when not using magic is very much alike her as magic doesn´t make much difference in a world setting where everyone is mostly magical anyways, so Umbridge is pretty much as Beverly, though this lady is far more realistic and then scarier than even the most hated character on the HP franchise (even more proper classical mighty villains as Voldemort or Bellatrix aren´t so much feared or hated as Dolores because of how real she actually is as evil!!) This lady of this series is very much alike her and far more realistic than Umbridge indeed!

[@wpp7562]

Interesting that you think that Bev poisoned Father Paul after learning he was Pruitt. I didn't see it that way, but it is a very interesting take. I assumed he became ill from drinking too much of the angel (aka vampire) blood and eventually died from ingesting too much of it like Dr. Sarah Gunning talks about in her speech to Erin and her mom in episode 6. Bev looked quite shocked when Pruitt came into his home and dropped dead in front of her and Wade and Dolly (before he came back to life as a vampire). Great video!

[@jupiterhimself]

Thanks for watching!

[@cosmic-fortytwo]

Hell is other people.

[@jupiterhimself]

Yep!

[@gatheringleaves]

Bev Keane is a perfect example of the worst aspects of religious indoctrination

[@MucusArt]

This is completely true. The most terrifying monster is that which lurks among us, hidden in plain sight.

[@jupiterhimself]

So true! And unlike all the alien supervillains, with flying skills or super strength. These ones are real!!

[@MucusArt]

@@jupiterhimself Shakespeare once wrote: "Hell is empty and all the devils are here!" Sure enough, the bard was right on the money.

[@kgrimes4934]

Have you seen One flew over the cuckoo’s nest? Nurse racket is the Same but way more manipulative. Great video btw.

[@jupiterhimself]

LOL! Upcoming video, which I am working on! Thanks for watching!

[@jayanti2371]

would love to agree with you on this, but i personally found Bev to be a caricature that almost ruined the show for me. it's just my opinion obviously, but i thought the writing for her character (unlike everyone else's character, except maybe prodigal son's mom) to lack believable layering.

[@BloodylocksBathory]

This kind of villain makes me not want to watch the series. I already deal with people like this all the time. She's very well written, too accurate.

[@jupiterhimself]

I know, that's why she tops my list of "most terrifying supervillains". The other ones who have superpowers or whatever, aren't real. She is. Scary stuff

[@BloodylocksBathory]

@@jupiterhimself Definitely a vibe like Mrs. Carmody from The Mist.

[@kevinspilker6622]

That poor actress is so good that I feel a sense of dread whenever I see her face. Which isn't fair, because she seems like an awesome, joyful, carefree person. But I've seen what she's capable of.

[@Alicia_1970]

Yes she is the worst! Samantha Sloyan is such a great actress.

[@WildHorizon]

Just wanted to correct a minor detail, it wasn’t a cat infestation @ 2:42, a bunch of cats had been killed and strung along the shore and she deduced it as a “rat problem” and she had some kind of high grade rat poison

[@jupiterhimself]

Yeah, thanks for that! Really appreciate it.

[@fabiovranes3168]

Exactly Like Disney's Judge Claude Frollo, More Terrifying than Monsters or even aliens.

[@HorizonTide]

Such a good character and great actress

[@Yatukih_001]

To me the most terrifying supervillain is Judge Toon from Cool World. He represents the human desire to abuse capitalism and free markets at the expense of others. Thanks for your excellent analysis. Warm regards from Iceland!!

[@earlygenesistherevealedcos1982]

Sounds very heavy-handed.

[@efnissien]

Beverly is so wonderfully evil - but I've actually met people like her who can (literally) cite chapter and verse of anything to the advantage of their self serving agenda.

[@jupiterhimself]

Really scary stuff. That's what I was trying to explain. The scariest part is how realistic her character is.

[@efnissien]

@@jupiterhimself yeah - it's easy to say it's the actions of a 'Karen' - but she's far, far more insidious. She's so self righteous, I'm not even sure if she's aware that she's in the wrong, which is even more frightening, as at least if someone knows they're wrong there is some point of reference to refer to when trying to correct their behaviour.

[@jamesthomison4356]

damn. I never pieced together her killing Paul for fear of exposure of financial fraud. So her jumping onboard his misguided vampire scheme was just her being an opportunist.

[@mattmcnicholas2452]

The Judge from Blood Meridian

[@coyoteclockworkstudios3140]

I don't think I could watch this cause of the dog being poisoned, but I think it's very alienating and chilling to see someone be cruel to an animal. That's pretty much when the audience stops being with you emotionally, and you occupy villain space in the story. It's a great way to see her as a psychopath. She becomes fascinating and frightening. Who wants to like hurting animals?

[@laurakeylon778]

This is SO similar to Bentley's "The Influence" I'm surprised.

[@grizzlymelon8376]

Yeah, imma go with The Thing by far still. But this lady is pretty up on the list of "rather have at least two countries in between her and me"

[@marcellinodadon1103]

_...it's people like Beverly Keane that keeps me away from the church..._ 😒...

[@mtan1293]

Did Bev poisoned Pruitt with rat poison thats why he died and became a vampire?

[@jupiterhimself]

That was my theory!

[@akelly4207]

I was brought up by religious parents and now don’t follow any religion. One thing my parents taught me that I agree with 100% is that taking away other people’s right to choose is evil. If you force someone to follow your religion regardless of their opinion or lack of faith you are doing something wicked. We have social laws we live by for safety and to prevent harm and chaos but freedom is the greatest thing people have. Whether it’s over your life, your thoughts, your actions, your body. Every person deserves freedom which is why a punishment in society for breaking our strongest rules results in physical freedom being removed but even then we don’t cruelly remove other freedoms as it’s a right. The people who do, like the character Bev are evil.

[@Oraclestwin]

It’s the difference between true righteousness and self righteousness. The self righteous are able to manipulate and bully to suit an end by any means - losing their soul in the process with virtually every sin in action.

[@annwilliams6438]

This is like a fictional version of Illuminaughtii.

[@notbill08]

You have a new channel. You start over analyzing Bev Keene in detail before giving examples. It's more interesting and more entertaining if you "tell and show". For example: Bev poisons Joe's dog. In her eyes she is morally superior to drunk Joe, because he accidentally shot Leeza and crippled her.

[@jcesar2]

she gives Gemma teller a run for her money.

[@user-nl9lf5bu2x]

She's the best part of the show.

[@redbluebae4397]

Oh man she was awful skin crawling, bravo to the actress

[@issyismusic]

She was such a repulsive character.

[@toohardtothink1113]

Isnt that the lady from Greys Anatomy that the one character blamed for killing her husband?

[@liv3vilkei409]

That title is misleading! I see people calling her evil and stuff, BUT you gotta try to see things from her perspective. At the first glance, everyone would recognize the Vampire as a demon. But imagine this: your belief is unshaken, you've read of all the wonders of the Lord. Someone shows up and make those wonders happen in front of your eyes. a cripple can walk again. an incurable illness gets cured etc. With your belief, seeing those wonders, wouldn't you be faithful in whoever manages to present those wonders??

[@jupiterhimself]

There was no wonder when she poisoned the dog. She was already a sinister character, long before the "angel" showed up. But I get your point.

[@javvieh]

Y'all need to Google Blanche Taylor Moore

[@Jankyessays]

She’s female frollo from hunchback of Norte Dame

[@Dan-ud8hz]

"What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity." - Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

[@ellisduckworth4413]

first perfect Penny kills Derek then goes on to be a supervillain >:(

[@illones2196]

Homelander

[@bogyel3308]

It would definitely be Anton Chigurh.

[@jupiterhimself]

Oh man! I'm currently making a video about him!!! Ha! Thanks for watching. Check back in when it's done

[@bogyel3308]

@@jupiterhimself no problem,

[@tj3603]

Oh yes, nobody as scary, as real life fanatic sure in their own righteousness.

[@irawangani1]

Kathy Bates

[@jupiterhimself]

The actress in which role did she scare you the most?

[@MonsieurSansHonte]

Anton Chigurh

[@jupiterhimself]

I'M MAKING A VIDEO ON HIM!!! GREAT MINDS!

[@doriancoreyscloset421]

Ooh i could not stand this lady. She's up there with Rose the Hat for me