Supernatural Review: Season 8 Episode 22 "Clip Show"

By: Andrew Dabb

**Spoilers**

If you have not yet seen this episode, please go and do so before proceeding.

"Honestly, um... My, uh, my whole body hurts. I feel nauseous and like I'm starving at the same time, and everything smells like rotting meat."

Sam is getting worse and Crowley is on the offensive in their great game of chess. He has got hold of the 'Supernatural' books and, starting at the beginning, is systematically backtracking through the Winchesters' adventures and using witchcraft to pick off everyone that they worked so hard to save. That slimy politician...

This week finds him all the way up to 'Provenance' and so brings about the return of Sarah Blake, Sam's sort-of flame from Season 1. The reunion between them was very bittersweet and sad. They're no longer the boy and girl who met and bonded and fell in love. Sam's a hell-scarred, weary hunter now and Sarah is both a wife and a mother. But even after all of these years, they still clearly felt a fondness for each other and I think they could have been good friends. If Crowley hadn't gotten to her first.

The second story line of this episode involves Castiel and Metatron. Castiel, in an effort to win back the good graces of the brothers, goes out to buy toilet paper, beer, and pie for them. He becomes quite upset with a hapless minimart clerk whenever the poor kid tells him that they're freshly out of pie. Metatron comes in to save the guy from an impromptu smiting and offers Castiel another way to fix his mistakes and help the Winchesters. Apparently, along with the Hellgate Trials, there are three trials that one can undergo to slam shut the pearly gates too. Metatron takes our favorite angel out for crepes to discuss this test.

Sam and Dean also discover that the Batcave has a dungeon and they start seeking a way to cure a demon (which is what Kevin says is the last Trial). After a bit of digging, they find a set of old film reels in the Men of Letters records and, with Castiel, sit down for a rather weird movie night. They are distracted from this, though, by the phone call from Crowley where he gleefully tells 'Moose' and 'Not Moose' about his dastardly plan.

Sarah returns, as lovely and kind as she ever was, and tells Sam that she's married now and has a daughter. Sam and Dean set about painting wards and spreading salt to protect her from Crowley's demons, but Crowley still manages to get through all of this by planting a hex bag in Sarah's phone. Apparently Crowley's 'dear old mum' was a witch. 

As Sarah lays gasping for breath in Sam's arms (Crowley has a very sick sense of humor. He chokes her to death because "...Sammy took that bird's breath away.") Dean ransacks the room in search of the hex bag that will turn out to be in the phone while Crowley gives probably his most hard-hitting and evil speech ever. 

Just ouch.

There may have been a few pacing issues with this episode here and there, as the multiple story lines do sometimes bog it down a bit, but the emotions rang true, I think, and the actors were as on-point as ever. I really enjoyed it.

4/5

Supernatural Review: Season 2 Episode 10 "Hunted"

By: Raelle Tucker

**Spoilers**

If you have not yet seen this episode, please go and do so before proceeding.

"He just said that I had to save you, that nothing else mattered; and that if I couldn't, I'd...I'd have to kill you. He said that I might have to kill you, Sammy." 

Gordon is a most irritating man. In fact, he's so irritating that it is quite difficult to describe him. Emily said he is like an insect that is eating through your best begonias or that itch between your shoulder blades that you can't quite scratch, no matter how much you contort.

'Hunted' picks up right where 'Croatoan' left off with Sam and Dean standing by a lake, discussing John's final words to Dean. Sam, reasonably upset that his father said his brother might have to execute him, takes off on his own and meets up with another young psychic named Ava. She has come to Sam because she's been having visions of a man (Gordon) stalking and killing him. Turns out, Gordon was angry enough at Sam and Dean for outwitting him on the vamp case that he did a bit of digging and found out about Sam's destiny. Basically, he's convinced that Sam is the antiChrist and that it is his job to take this new monster and his army of fellow psychics out. 

His plan involves everything from sniper rifles to elaborate tripwire bombs to actually kidnapping Dean to use as bait for Sam. Gordon has gone full kamikaze. Unfortunately, he forgets to factor in the little fact that he is going up against a Winchester. Sam manages to outsmart Gordon and places a 911 call to get the obsessed hunter picked up by the police, who conveniently discover the arsenal in his car. Unfortunately, while all this is going on, Ava has been taken by demons and her finance slaughtered.

4/5

Supernatural Review: Season 2 Episode 11 "Playthings"

By: Matt Witten

**Spoilers**

If you have not yet seen this episode, please go and do so before proceeding.

"I never get to work jobs like this; old school haunted houses, you know? Fog, and secret passageways...sissy British accents. Might even run into Fred and Daphne while we're inside. Mmm, Daphne. Love her. "

Sam and Dean are off to investigate an honest-to-god haunted hotel, complete with an old lady in an attic and a suspicious little girl named Maggie. I thought this episode was a lot of fun. There was a very 'Shining' feel to it, especially in the scenes with the bartender and with the inclusion of Tyler and Maggie.

Almost as soon as the episode began, I had the dollhouse pegged as the culprit in the killings. I thought that it was either haunted or that maybe the dolls inside were some kind of voodoo dolls. I wasn't too terribly off. While I'm still not certain what exactly the connection between the dolls and the murders was, the hotel was indeed haunted. As it turns out, Maggie was not so much a little girl as she was a ghost. To be exact, she was the ghost of Grandma Rose's baby sister who had died as a child and never moved on. Becoming lonely throughout the years, she latched onto Rose's granddaughter (Tyler) and became an imaginary friend. But when the hotel was going to close, Maggie started to become violent in a desperate attempt to save her home and keep her new playmate. Eventually, it goes so far that she almost drowns Tyler in the hotel pool.

Enter Sam and Dean who have heard about the killings and arrived to try and sort the ghost out. Sam is still feeling incredibly guilty about the loss of Ava last episode and is fearful about what this dark destiny everybody keeps on talking about might mean for him. The revelation that their father warned Dean that if he couldn't save Sam the best thing to do would be to kill him has deeply shaken the boys, but also in a way brought them closer together. They are determined to thwart Sam's destiny, but in this episode we see that Sam is starting to believe that maybe he can't change fate. He ends up getting drunk and telling Dean that Dean is "...bossy. And short..." before begging his brother to promise to do the deed and kill him if he should go dark side. Dean doesn't want to agree, but eventually does so just to shut Sam up and get him into bed so he can sleep the alcohol off.

The episode ends with a great climax. Tyler is drowning in the pool while Sam, Dean, and her mother desperately try to break down the locked doors to save her. While this is happening, Grandma Rose calls the spirit of her dead sister back to the attic and offers to give her life for her granddaughter's. She still loves her sister desperately and is willing to die and remain as a ghost forever, playing and jumping rope in the hallways of the old hotel together as sisters. Though it is not clear what is going to happen to these spirit sisters once the hotel they call home is sold and possibly demolished, the episode does end on a positive note with Tyler alive and well and the two sisters merrily giggling and jumping rope together.

4/5

Supernatural Review: Season 2 Episode 1 "In My Time Of Dying"

By: Eric Kripke

**Spoilers**

If you have not yet seen this episode, please go and do so before proceeding.

       "Why, John, you're a sentimentalist. If only your boys knew how much their daddy loved them." 

         

I was not prepared for this, really I wasn't. John's dead? John Winchester is DEAD?! WHAT? WHAT KIND OF A SEASON OPENER IS THAT????

After so much of last season was spent with Sam and Dean searching for their father, this episode could have really felt like a cheat and a let-down. We just found Daddy Winchester and now he's gone? What a scam! It could have been very disappointing. However, due to a clever piece of writing that sets Dean as an audience avatar and a disembodied spirit, the episode was both interesting and touching.

Tessa the Reaper was also quite interesting. I like that they're bringing back the Reapers from Faith and incorporating them into the recurring mythology of the show. The fact that at first she masqueraded as a fellow out-of-body patient in order to gain Dean's trust was interesting and certainly the scene where she is possessed (How does that even work if she's a spirit too?) and we see her yellow eyes was just chilling.

I really liked both Dean and then later Sam saying that all they have to do is "...find some witch doctor and lay some hoodoo on me/him" in order to cure Dean. Turns out, in the end, the Winchesters did have to resort to magic in order to save Dean from the Reaper sent to collect him...except it was John who ended up summoning the YED and trading his soul for Dean's. 

There actually wasn't a whole lot of action that happened in this episode. It really was just a whole lot of Sam and John looking sad/arguing and then Dean wandering around the halls, trying to figure out what was going on. I did like the scene where Dean and Sam talk through the board, but the rest of it has the family very much separated. John even goes off on his own little side quest where he summons the YED and demands that the demon cures Dean.

Of course, the feels really ramp up right at the end of the episode. Dean is mysteriously cured and he and Sam reunite happily, but then John returns and sends Sam off for some coffee so he can have some words with Dean. He whispers something in Dean's ear, tells him that he's so proud, and then leaves. We find out, mere moments later, that this was his last words to Dean because Sam, returning with the coffee, finds his father sprawled out on the floor. Dead.

5/5

Supernatural Review: Season 10 Episode 14 "The Executioner's Song"

By: Robert Berens

**Spoilers**
If you have not yet seen this episode, please go and do so before proceeding.

            I knew it, I knew it, I KNEW IT! And I'm not happy about being right.

        We are back to our season arc this week with the return of Cain as he picks off his descendants one-by-one as they're on death row, solely to get the attention of his two most famous descendants, Sam and Dean Winchester.


Favorite Moments & Random Thoughts:

- Are we ever going to get an explanation for the salmon-colored light that Cain uses to smite demons? Huh? Are we? Because, despite myself, I am quite curious.

- That guy in the prison looks very much like Sir Gwaine from Merlin. Please tell me I'm not the only one to see it.

- Love the visuals of Cain slowly stalking down the hall and turning the lights out as he goes. Whatever grievances I may have with the MoC story, I do honestly like Cain as a character. Maybe it's the charm of Timothy Omundson.

- Hmmm. Sam and Dean are breaking into a prison with fake badges? Risky, risky. I cringe every time they come in contact with law officials of this kind, even though they look little like the mugshots that are on file. Maybe it's a good thing that Sam has turned into Rapunzel over the course of this show...

- They had better be thanking their lucky stars that they evaded capture, seeing how death row of SuperMax would have been their destination at one point in their lives. Just sayin'

- "Bass fishing, needlepoint, that's a hobby. Collecting serial killer stats? That is an illness."

- Omundson still has the flowing locks and beard from Gallavant. I confess I kind of chortled whenever they zoomed in on his profile. It looked like it belonged on a medieval coin. About Billy Shakespeare.

- It's so good to see Castiel being a badass again with interrogating demons. He's been conspicuously absent thus far for much of the season, and it's really a delight to see him again, doing what he does best. I am a little bit miffed that Cain was able to fling him around like a ragdoll, though. C'mon! ABADDON, another totally awesome Knight, was scared to death at the thought that an angel might be hanging around with the Winchesters. What is this madness?!

- Crowley being bored to death by the political and business side of Hell will never not be funny to me. Neither will Rowena being a total helicopter smother mother (in the worst possible way) and attempting to manipulate Crowley. At least we now know that Crowley, sort of, knows that she is not at all on his side. I was getting worried for a bit there.

- Have I mentioned that I really love the relationship between Crowley and Rowena? I could watch these two all day. Give them a spin-off already, darn it!

- I'm pretty sure Rowena was making a reference to King Solomen with her 'split the baby' talk. "I'd cut this pulling, pathetic, greed-grubbing git in two." Charming, Rowena, charming. And somehow I think you missed the principle of catching more flies with honey than with vinegar. Darling, calling your son a 'chunky child' and 'a bit of a bloater' in front of his court isn't exactly a way to get in his good books.

- On a side note, why hasn't Crowley been assassinated yet? Are there really no demons powerful enough left after all the wars? Because, fun as he is, he's not exactly Azazel or Lilith. He's kind of a wimp now, actually. Is everybody really that afraid of him?

- I got chills whenever Castiel showed us the graveyard that Cain has been making. That looked like ash on the ground. It called back shades of Cas resurrecting Dean or the field where Adam was brought back to life. Only, instead of being a site of resurrection, it was a site of death.

- "This is a massacre!" "Yes. And soon it will be a genocide."

- Okay, so whenever Cain revealed that he was culling his descendants, I had a horrible thought (just about the same time that Cas expressed it). Cain is the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, the first two humans. That means that almost all of the people on earth are descended from him. Think about it! Abel was murdered. That means that Cain was the one to pass down the bloodline for many years. Adam and Eve did have a third son (Seth) but he was much younger and so wouldn't have started having children for years after Cain did.

- We at last know what Rowena is after. She wants Crowley to take out the head of the Grand Coven. Interesting...

- Is it wrong that I really WANT to see Rowena and Crowley go on a rampage together? They'd make a great team and be a lot of fun to watch. The only problem is, I'm pretty sure such an action would end with one or both of them dead. And I don't want that.

- Dean's wearing the red shirt that he favored as a demon again. This is not a good sign, methinks.

- I love how every time Dean calls Crowley the name on Crowley's phone is 'Not Moose'.

- "What the matter, Crowley? Suddenly grow a conscience? Don't want to put a minor in danger?"

- We got a few lovely (but heartbreaking...typical) broments in this episode. It seems like the writers are really making up for the abysmal lack of them in Season 9. This can't be anything but a good thing.

- I am still miffed that Cain (a demon) wasn't the slightest bit affected by Castiel's mojo.

- "I need you three out here to take out anything that comes out of there. I'm serious. Whatever. Comes. Out." Oh Dean...

- We really need to give a shout-out to Jensen Ackles. I don't like the MoC story line very much, but he just sells it...even to me. I'm always amazed by what these guys can do with the roles they are given. Wow. Just wow. Especially the scenes where Dean is using the Blade. It's Jensen Ackles' face...but it's not his eyes. And it's not Dean's eyes either.

- So after a frankly thrilling Darth Vader-esque execution scene (telling us that the title of this episode SHOULD have been 'The Executioner's Death Song') Dean walks out of the barn room again and coldly hands the Blade to Castiel. I have to say that this was an extremely electrified climax to the episode. It was exciting to see Cain back again and it was great to see he and Dean face off against each other. What made it so scary, though, was Jensen Ackles' performance. I'm telling you, he's been just amazing. He alternated between frenzied slashing and a cold, calm, controlled persona that was just eerie. You could SEE Dean fighting the effects of battle with the Blade.

         THIS episode should have been the mid-season finale. I liked the episode we got (though Claire is a bit grating on repeated views) but this just has the epic, end-all feel that I think they were trying to strike. Cain was a great addition to the episode and I love the way he kept goading Dean while they were fighting. We also ended this episode with the reveal that I have been dreading ever since Cain was introduced. In order for Dean to master control over the Mark and the Blade, he is going to have to kill Sam. I knew it, I KNEW IT! WHY COULDN'T I BE WRONG THIS TIME?! I have a bad feeling about the season finale. The Executioner's Song is a 5/5.

He sits there with you

All concern and love

When you look at him

You feel it should be enough

But still there's a thread

Of unrest in your heart

When you think of how

It all could fall apart

"We'll fix this." He says

And he means every word

Yet the love that he shows

Is a two-edged sword

"Cain found a way!"

But you wonder if he knows

What the price really was

For Cain's final blow

Cain killed his brother

He spilled Abel's blood

And with that one act

Managed to stem the Mark's flood

At the thought, your heart breaks

Your mouth's dry as a bone

You feel sick, your hands shake

You turn into stone

Your brother, your soulmate

For him you'd go to Hell

And you'll not drag him down

With you just 'cause you fell

"Like Cain did." He still says

And you bite your tongue

For when you think of that story

You want to scream at him to run

What did you think? Do you agree with my rating? If not - what would you say differently?

Supernatural Review: Season 1 Episode 13 "Route 666"

By: Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner

**Spoilers**

If you have not yet seen this episode, please go and do so before proceeding.

         Sammy is a brat. As all younger siblings tend to be whenever they feel they can get away with embarrassing the elders. And he had plenty of ammunition this week as we are taken to meet an old flame of Dean's, Cassie Robinson. 

         Turns out, while Sam was off at college with Jessica, Dean too met a girl and fell in love. He actually dated her for longer than a weekend too. In fact, he was so in love that he told her the family secret. She promptly dumped him, thinking that he was just crazy or that he was trying to end the relationship with this wild story. But, whenever her father is killed in a strange accident, she gives her old boyfriend a call, begging for his help. And Dean, being the knight Templar that he is, immediately takes Sam and hightails it to Cassie's side. Sam, after getting over his annoyance that Dean broke Winchester Family Rule #1, finds Dean's interactions with his former girlfriend to be a great source of mirth. It's okay, Sammy. I think it's hilarious too. The most fun out of any Winchester Romance is watching the reactions of the brother not involved. Always funny. In this case, this is probably the most awkwardly we've ever seen Dean behave. And Cassie's a pretty nice girl too. I like her. Shame it didn't work out between them.

           I really feel like the sensitive race issues were treated very well in this episode as well. It's good that they didn't go with the cliched 'evil white mayor' and that both sides of each argument were presented well. In the end of the day, the real villain was prejudice and hatred...very human emotions that we all have to struggle with at some point in our lives.

Favorite Moments & Random Thoughts:

        

- "By old friend you mean...?" "A friend that's not new." Gotta love Winchester Logic!

- Sam spent a year and a half lying to Jessica?! Whoa...NOT a good foundation for a relationship there. I know why he did it (she'd probably take him to see the campus shrink if he started telling her about wendigos) but still. The Winchesters really aren't cut out for long term relationships, are they?

- I absolutely love the visuals of the ghost truck with the bright headlights cutting through the mist. It really gives an ethereal, otherworldly quality to everything.

- The chase scenes involving this truck are very tense and full of action too. Great stuff. 

- It's also suitably spooky whenever they talk about how this truck is leaving no tire tracks behind at the sites of its kills.

- "What's interesting is you guys never really look at each other at the same time. You look at her when she's not looking, she checks you out when you look away. (Grinning) It's just a...just an interesting observation in a....you know...observationally interesting way." Sam just has WAY too much fun with this 'relationship' his brother keeps dancing around.

- I really find it interesting that a lot of emphasis is put in this episode about how all of the problems have come from hatred on both sides. How racism drove someone to do terrible things and then those who were being hurt finally had the upper hand and so struck out in anger and ended up doing something just as terrible.

- "I have heard of a truck like that....not where. When. Back in the '60s there was a string of deaths. Black men. Story goes, they disappeared in a big, nasty, black truck." 

- I really appreciate that they didn't go with stereotypical racist mayor. He was actually trying to protect Cassie and her mother and the memory of her father. 

- Cassie's mother's speech is just heartbreaking. It's such a tragic story of human evil to begin with, but the actress just sells it with so much raw grief and regret that it really is the high point of the episode. You can feel her pain and you can't help but empathize with her. What a terrible, terrible past.

- The scene where Sam and Dean dig Cyrus' corpse (mummy, actually) and truck out of the swamp is all manner of gross.

- Sam's method of getting rid of Cyrus' spirit is all manner of cool, though...

- This is a really great climax to the episode. By this point, we've seen the truck kill several people. We know that, no matter how skilled a driver Dean is, he's pretty much resigning himself to the same fate because the truck...so far...has always won. And now Dean is racing away to buy Sam some time to figure out how to lay the spirit to rest. It really gets your adrenaline pumping.

- Before he leaves, Dean tells Cassie that he'll call and come back and visit her. She sadly tells him that she knows he won't and they share one last kiss as Sam awkwardly coughs in the background.

            Route 666 is a lot of fun. It's hilarious to see Sam teasing Dean about actually dating someone and it's nice to get a bit of a look into Dean's past. But behind this lighthearted façade is a sad, tragic story of human prejudice and hatred that drove men to savagery. It's gritty, it's dark, and it handles some very sensitive ideas and issues with realistic, well-played characters and great storytelling. 4/5.

What did you think? Do you agree with my rating? If not - what would you say differently?

Supernatural Review: Season 10 Episode 13 "Halt & Catch Fire"

Eric Charmello & Nicole Snyder

**Spoilers**
If you have not yet seen this episode, please go and do so before proceeding.


       So we had an honest-to-Chuck ghost hunt this week and it started out with a pre-credits scene that reminded me very much of the opening to The Sontaran Stratagem. Except instead of ATMOS going rogue, it was apparently a ghost-influenced GPS system.

       This isn't the first truck they've had to burn, though. This episode called back shades of Route 666 in my mind...and a little bit of Mean Girls in places. Mean Girls: The College Years. Or maybe that new social media horror film that is coming out. Unfriended? I definitely felt a bit of the trailers for that whenever that one girl was on her computer and the unfriendly friend requests started popping up.

      Though technically this episode is a standalone adventure, Sam and Dean and the MoC was never far from our minds. And Dean, at the end, had a frankly beautiful speech about how he's going to deal with this curse he brought on himself. They're working together, come what may, and it's wonderful. I love the dynamic they're striking this season.


Favorite Moments & Random Thoughts:

- I love how Dean just found out how to poke on Facebook.

- "So are you saying that if you died and I drove your car, you'd kill me?" "If you stunk her up with taquitos, yes. Probably." Lies, Dean. We know that's all lies.You didn't even kill Sam when he put an iPod jack in Baby.

- I have to say that the scene where that girl's computer turned against her and then strangled her with the cord was incredibly creepy.

- Dean going gaga over the menu at the college cafeteria (and teasing Sam over his fondness for lattes) will never not be funny. But it is interesting that Dean has been eating a lot recently, going between health food binges and pizza. Is this one of his ways to help 'sate' the Mark?

- "Nothing ever really gets deleted from the Internet. You knew that, right?" *Dean looks uncomfortable* Okay, Dean. Cough up. What did you do?

- One of the clues to the mystery is 810 and, about the time that the third victim is killed (by an over-loud stereo, no less), we've figured out that SOMETHING happened at 8:10 that is seriously upsetting the ghost.

- I do think the stereo death scene was drawn out a bit too long, though.

- The bloody eyeballs reminded me of the corpse's from Bloody Mary. In fact, there are a LOT of Season 1-ish parallels in this episode. Hmmmm...

- Delilah (the red-headed girl) knows something, which takes us into the flashback of the episode. There's a lot of (mostly good-natured) ribbing of the selfie culture going on here. I really feel like this entire episode was a jab at the social media age a la Long Distance Call or #THINMAN. It was a lot of fun, though.

- I suspected that maybe the teens had something to do with the death of that young husband as soon as I heard the wife's story. But I didn't realize that they had ALL been in the wreck together!

- Haha! Dean took out an iron crowbar and then nonchalantly handed a tissue to Delilah. His talk with her was really sweet too. And sad. It's almost like we've got the old Dean back...all self-denial, junk food, and snarkiness.

- Okay...so the ghost was surfing through the wi-fi? You know, as soon as Sam said that, I cringed because he and Dean were talking on smart phones. Phones connected to wi-fi. Didn't they consider that possibly the ghost might be overhearing them?

- The burn make-up on Andrew's ghosts looked appropriately gross and painful.

- Moral of the story, boys and girls...Don't Text & Drive.

           If Supernatural has a stock episode, this would be it. We've got a complicated ghost story with unexpected twists and turns, a terrific climax, a sad story about humanity and grief, and a broment tying up the end of the episode. Ghosts on this show are fascinating spirits. Some of them (like the mother from Bad Boys or Bobby) stay behind because they honestly can't bear to leave their loved ones alone. They have unfinished business. They have people to protect and answers to seek out. So they run from their Reaper and they stay on earth as a spirit. But eventually this state of half-way living is too much for the ghosts and they're consumed by the need for revenge or to continue living out their lives again and again. It's really a tragic story and I like how this one was solved in the end by Andrew's wife convincing him that she still loved him but that it was time for him to move on. Halt & Catch Fire is a 4/5.




What did you think? Do you agree with my rating? If not - what would you say differently?

Supernatural Review: Season 10 Episode 12 "About A Boy"

By: Adam Glass

**Spoilers**
If you have not yet seen this episode, please go and do so before proceeding.

         So it looks like Rowena and her ilk are officially part of the Big Bad for this season. I'm so glad we're going with witches instead of JUST angels and demons this time. Makes things more interesting.

         And 'interesting' is definitely a good way to describe this episode. Dean got turned into a teenager (which meant we saw the wonderful return of Dylan Everett) and we learned that the Grand Coven of witches is after Rowena for something. Oh...and we met Hansel from the Hansel and Gretel stories. Pity he wasn't played by Jeremy Renner, but I guess we can't have everything.



Favorite Moments & Random Thoughts:

- WHAT happened to that guy in the pre-credits scene?!

- Loved, loved the fact that we are now getting more of the mythology concerning Cain. I wasn't a huge fan of the way they dealt with that last season because of the fact that messed with a story that didn't need to be changed, but I think another part of the problem was the lack of info we were given. It just felt like it was stapled in there.

- Sammy finally has a tablet. Did Charlie buy that for him or did Dean?

- "You smelled flowers? What kind of flowers?" "FLOWERY flowers!" 

- Their expressions whenever the homeless guy started going off about alien abductions! Haha! (Wonder if he was just crazy or if Gabriel had payed a visit to this place...)

- It's so great to see Dean getting back in the saddle, trying to believe in himself, and flirting with girls again. Sam gives good pep talks.

- "My dad was always working so I came up with about a hundred and fifty different ways of making macaroni and cheese. Add ketchup for spice. Tuna, hotdogs, fluff marshmallow mix. My brother thought it was exotic." Awwwww...

- I like that woman Dean meets in the bar. Tina, her name was, and I think that the partnership she strikes up with Dean is just too perfect. Wish she had stuck around at the end of the episode, to be honest.

- "...and, quote, the guy's bathroom was like staring into the Devil's butt." "Wow. That's vivid." "And accurate. I saw it." "Saw what, the bathroom or...?" "Don't start."

- Tina and Dean bonding over drinks and childhood stories is actually quite cute. I like her.

- Now I'm going to take a moment or two to squee over Dylan Everett, the kid they found to play young!Dean (hereafter referred to Deano because it's easier to type). THIS IS KID AWESOME! He impressed me quite a bit in Season 9's Bad Boys and he's only gotten better with time. Perfectly mimicking the mannerisms of Jensen Ackles and yet making the performance his own, it's almost like we're back with Season 1 Dean again. Wow. Just wow. Can we have him and Colin Ford in an episode together?

- I also love how Dean's reaction to being de-aged is just to roll his eyes and utter an incredulous "Seriously?!"

- Tween Tina called Deano a 1 Direction reject...

- Oooo...Sammy's getting all protective and angry in his search for Dean. Stuff is going to hit the fan. Sam's on the warpath.

- Still can't believe Deano was pigging out on that cake. Dude, don't you know that if there's nice cake like that in a cell, maybe you shouldn't be eating it? Or touching it? Or interacting with it in any way???

- "You know, before I thought you were just another drunk." "I prefer functioning alcoholic." No, Dean. Bad Dean!

- Have I mentioned that I love Tina? She really worked well with the brothers and I really hope she comes back at some point.

- For a moment I thought that SAM would get caught by the weird witch-y guy and I got rather excited because seeing Colin Ford as young!Sam is always a treat. Regrettably, this did not happen.

- Or not so regrettably, seeing how we saw Sam get to be the big brother for once...or the father figure, seeing how everybody assumed that Deano was his kid. He just looked SO nonplussed whenever Deano walked in through the door and started demanding whether or not they had any grenades left.

- "...I wake up looking like Bieber." "...this is bizarre, even for us, Dean!"

- I probably laughed harder than I should have whenever Dean jacked the seat forward so he could drive and Sam was immediately folded into an accordion.

- It was also hilarious that Dean accidentally started jamming to a Taylor Swift song. I wonder which one...?

- Yarrow is a flower that is used in a ton of spells and folklore. Witchy. So Sam and Dean are going to 'gank' Sabrina...does this mean they've been carrying chicken's feet around in the trunk of Baby all this time?

- I also love the way that Deano doesn't have the Mark and now they have to deal with the question of whether or not to risk changing him back.

- Sam doesn't waste the opportunity to have a field day at Deano's expense, though.

- Was it really Hansel and Gretel? Really? Interesting! (On a side note, I think my one complaint with this episode is that Hansel cracked and started telling his story far too early. It just felt off...even though he was lying.)

- The witch of this episode was a delightfully stereotypical, cackling, nasty witch. No Desperate Housewives just dabbling in witchcraft for personal gain here. This witch is the full-on, child-eating, bodily-fluid-spewing type that you read about in Grimm's Fairytales. Great stuff!

- Even thought her teeth are absolutely foul.

- I never knew how much I needed a witch ragging on about Amber Alerts and Milk Cartons until now. !

- So Dean burnt the witch to death, just like in the story. She had quite the over-the-top death scene, did she not?

- "This is my second chance. Everyone wants a second chance, right?" We'll miss you, Tina.

- Love how Dean thinks that The Grand Coven sounds like an 80's Hair Metal band with enough eye shadow and hairspray to be flammable.

           This episode was just a riot. I almost died whenever, at the end, Dean drove away jamming to 'Shake It Off'. Hahaha! It's also always great whenever we get a look back into the younger days of our two heroes, whether it be by flashback or - today - deaging and reminiscing. This episode was a fun romp that beautifully progressed both of the arcs for this season. I really, really enjoyed it. It was funny, it was touching, it has some great action...pretty much everything about it was great. Maybe the pacing was a little bit off in a place or two, but for the most part it flowed beautifully. About A Boy is a 4/5.




What did you think? Do you agree with my rating? If not - what would you say differently?

Supernatural Review: Season 10 Episode 11 "There's No Place Like Home"

By: Robbie Thompson

**Spoilers**
If you have not yet seen this episode, please go and do so before proceeding.

         CHAAAAAAAARLIE!

      She's got a nice little Smeagol-Gollum thing going in this episode. Or an The Enemy Within Kirk-trip. I wasn't sure how I would feel about dark!Charlie (sometimes taking beloved characters in angles like this doesn't pay off) but really I needn't have worried. Not only is the evil twin/good twin trope a staple of genre shows, but Charlie is back and more fun than ever. She's really developing into a delightful, three-dimensional character and I'm excited to see what they do with her in the future.


Favorite Moments & Random Thoughts:

- Dean made egg white omelets. His obsession with cooking will never not be endearing to me. I can just see him sitting with Sam's laptop, watching Julia Child and taking copious amounts of notes.

- "This is crap. As soon as we get rid of this demon tramp stamp, I'm back on the booze, burgers, and more booze." I just love that Dean is on a health-food kick. Did he make seaweed shakes for the two of them?!

- I really feel like they're handling Dean and the MoC better this season. It feels like more of a threat and Dean just feels more like Dean in that he's desperate to get rid of it and to fix his mistakes.

- I still don't understand why suddenly weapons other than the Blade are triggering the Mark, though. Explain, writers! EXPLAIN!

- "You mean our Charlie tortured someone? Yea high, wouldn't hurt a hobbit, practically sparkles?"

- Celeste Middleton. Well...looks like we know Charlie's real name now.

- Dean being grossed out over his kale sandwich just made me laugh, but that was quickly dampened by Sam reading Charlie's file. It just sort of drove home the idea that, while we may look at the Winchesters and even at Charlie and laugh at the bad glamour of their lives, it isn't all that glamorous. It's not all noble suffering or heroics. It seriously messes a person up.

- Felicia Day plays a deliciously bad dark!Charlie, though. I appreciate the fact that they're pushing her character in a whole new direction, what with her going Black Widow on Dean for a while there. It keeps things interesting. She still had the presence of mind to call Sam and Dean "Rocket and Groot" though and I'm not sure if Dean being taken down by dark!Charlie was a good choice, character-wise. Still...I guess we could make the argument that he was trying not to hurt her.

- evil!Charlie slashed Baby's tires. Dean is going to KILL her! On a side note, Baby is taking a lot of abuse this season, isn't she?

- So Charlie made a Deal with the Wizard of Oz. Charlie, Charlie, Charlie...you should know better than that. Deals NEVER turn out the way you want them to. I do find it interesting that the Deal resulted in a type of Extreme Jekyll and Hyde thing.

- At least Charlie is taking responsibility for her actions.

- And we get some Charlie & Sam bonding this episode. YAY! This has been sorely lacking for a while, but it's just too cute. Sam's already a pretty decent hacker, but Charlie giving him a lesson in the type of extreme hacking that she specializes in is just too adorable for words.

- Unfortunately, Dean's still trying to fight off both an alcohol addiction and the effects of the Mark. I was hoping to God that he wouldn't relapse whenever they were in that bar and, for once, my prayers were heard.

- "Hey, dudes? Secrets are bad..." Thank you, Charlie! It's about time somebody on this show started to come clean!

- Sam's incredibly understanding about dark!Charlie. I wonder if that is because he spent about a year without a soul and so he understands better about being separated from a part of yourself.

- I love Dean on a health food kick. Seriously. It's just too funny; probably the most fun I've had with Dean's character since the turned-into-a-dog episode. (It also reminds me of It's A Terrible Life where Dean Smith was a connoisseur of salads.) The scene where he's eating almonds and listening to a self-help relaxation tape was a nice touch too.

- Dean used the alias of 'Mr. Presley'. Hahahahaha!

- "You Winchester boys and your talk. Blah blah blah repressed feelings, blah blah blah passive aggression..."

- I knew. I KNEW whenever Dean agreed to let dark!Charlie talk to the man who killed her parents that it was a bad choice. This is the dark, bad side of Charlie. They've literally been split into a tangible dual personality. light!Charlie can't do anything bad without rationalizing it away and dark!Charlie can't do anything good that lasts.

- It's interesting that Sam was hanging out with light!Charlie while Dean was having talks with dark!Charlie. Intentional parallel to something or just a coincidence?

- "The six keys from Oz were forged from Oz steel. They can only be fixed in that magical realm." Oh...so we're getting a one ring to rule them all type of deal, are we? Okay. I can totally live with that.

- Sooo...the Wizard came through a portal and tied Sam up with glow-stick bracelets. Huh.

- This episode had a tremendous climax. The fight between Dean and dark!Charlie was electrified and the tension was really amped up by the fact that every blow Dean lands on her is also felt by her other half. Not to mention the fact that Sam is bound hand and foot and he and the other Charlie are being menaced by the Not-So-Wonderful Wizard of Oz who is trying to choke Sam using an Emperor Palpatine move.

- Though, I have to say, Emperor Palpatine was a better actor...

- And why is Sam always being strangled?!

- I was guessing that, maybe to put herself back together again, Charlie would have to pull an anti-horcrux type thing where both sides of her felt genuine remorse. I was wrong, but whatever. It was still pretty cool to see the two sides of Charlie's psyche talk face to face and then meld back together. I'm not entirely sure what caused it, but I'm pretty sure they're saying that because Charlie killed the Wizard, all of his spellwork was undone.

- And Charlie had her arm broken. Again.

         I'll admit that this episode made me cry a bit at the ending. I really have grown attached to Charlie and the relationship she shares with the Winchesters. It just breaks my heart to see the guilt that floods Dean every time he looks at her broken arm, though. Because this time, it really was his fault. He popped off that season and made a deal with a demon that now is making him hurt everybody that he loves. But now he's remorseful and he's working to fix it. And he's got Sam Winchester, expert hacker Charlie, AND Castiel the Angel of the Lord to help him if only he'll let them. This episode was great. It had fantasy elements and really delved into the psyche of Charlie while also showcasing both Sam and Dean. There was no angel melodrama, the story was feelsy and great, and the dialogue snapped with wit and emotion. There's No Place Like Home is a 5/5.




What did you think? Do you agree with my rating? If not - what would you say differently?

Supernatural Review: Season 1 Episode 14 "Nightmare"

By: Sera Gamble & Raelle Tucker

**Spoilers**

If you have not yet seen this episode, please go and do so before proceeding.

         I feel like there were some definite Carrie parallels drawn with this one with its abused, telekinetic adolescent murderer. I'm not going to call Max the villain of the episode, because he was every bit as much a victim as anybody. It's just a dark, tragic story that focuses more on the tragedy of fallen mankind rather than the spooks.

        I like this episode. It's kind of an uncomfortable one to watch because of some of the themes, but I think that is good because it gets us thinking. Who was in the right here? Who was in the wrong? Who was really to blame? Did anybody really win in the end? Complex and deep and it really makes you think all while continuing the story line of Sam's psychic powers and giving us Sam and Dean dressed up as priests. This episode is awesome!



Favorite Moments & Random Thoughts:

- So Sam's visions have moved from just being dreams to being visions that, quite frankly, look agonising to experience while awake.

Brothers...

- "I guess you never know what's going on behind closed doors." No. Nobody did. Poor Max...

- Dean just has a little bit TOO much fun playing priest. It's funny how he always teases Sam about being a dork but then he's the one who gets really into the cosplaying they do for reconnaissance.

- Why didn't we ever see them dress up as priests or use that cool little device (infra-red scanner) Dean had again?!

- "No grave yards, battle fields, tribal lands or any other kind of atrocity on or near the property."

- The scene where Max's uncle gets decapitated by the window frame STILL makes me kind of sick. But, seriously, if you stick your head out whenever the window keeps unlatching and opening itself...you're kind of asking for it. That's the sort of thing idiots in horror movies do.

- I absolutely love the scene where Sam is freaking out about his visions and Dean keeps trying to calm him down by being rational. They face the supernatural and weird every day...this is no different...they will get through this. Even though you can see Dean is scared and worried too, he's still trying to cheer Sam up. Good for him.

- Y'know...I really miss watching Sam and Dean climb up fire-escapes and slip through windows rather than trying to break down the same door forever. Going back and re-watching the first season is the best decision I ever made with this show.

- Dean was also smart and had them wipe down their fingerprints so that the cops wouldn't find them at the crime scene.

- "Our family isn't cursed!" Dean...Dean...you should have knocked on wood.

- Max's face and the slight sneer in his voice whenever he parroted the lines that they were normal and happy are downright chilling on a second watch.

- Every time we go into one of Sam's visions, it's almost like we're experiencing a bit of vertigo. I like the way we sort of get his POV in that way. We get to see through his eyes.

- Sam's vision of Max killing his stepmother is hard to watch if you have any kind of eye scream sensibilities at all. Just...ewwww. It's also very intense because of the subject matter. Max is angry and hurting because his step-mother never stopped his uncle and father from beating him. It's hard because, on the one hand, it's horrible that Max is going about murdering these people. He's gone from victim to perpetrator. But you can't help but feel sorry for him and to see it from his point of view.

- "I'm sorry!" "No you're not. You just don't want to die."

- I find Sam's whole talk with Max just fascinating. It really seemed for a moment there that Sam might be getting through. That he might be able to convince Max not to kill again. He may have gotten through if he hadn't admitted to Max that John never hurt him and Dean in the same way. Max just shut down after that, like he felt Sam could never understand him and therefore he didn't have to listen to anything Sam said or did.

- Sam. Moved. A. Cabinet. With. His. Mind.

- Another fascinating element in this all is the question of what good Sam's visions are. Can he actually change what he sees? Or are some things set in stone? Somebody did die, shot through the head. It was just Max instead of Dean.

- By the way, this episode has one of the best climaxes ever. Sam locked in the closet while Dean faces off against Max? TENSION OVERLOAD!

- "Well I'll tell you one thing. We're lucky we had Dad. It coulda gone a whole other way after Mom. I little more tequila and a little less demon hunting and we woulda had Max's childhood. All things considered, we turned out okay. Thanks to him." 

             This episode is one of the Supernatural greats. There is no clear villain or monster and it's really more about the atrocities of human nature with lots of complex twists and turns along the way. The special effects are pretty good and certainly the sheer mental tension of it stands out all on its own without any need for super flashy visuals. It's gritty and tragic and is just a reminder that sometimes the monsters are all too human. Nightmare is a 5/5.




What did you think? Do you agree with my rating? If not - what would you say differently?

Supernatural Review: Season 10 Episode 10 "The Hunter Games"

By: Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner

**Spoilers**

If you have not yet seen this episode, please go and do so before proceeding.

         Sooo...does Dean not need the Blade to trigger the Mark these days? Because I swear last season it was only set off whenever he actually touched the Blade. Is it different now because he was a demon? Are they ever going to explain? (Hint: probably not...)

               But that doesn't mean I didn't thoroughly enjoy this episode. Sam and Dean were wonderful, as always, and Crowley and Rowena are just the best. I hope Rowena stays around for a long, LONG time. Even Castiel, for all that his scenes were sort of dragged down by the re-appearance of Claire, was pretty much a lot of fun. I really did enjoy this episode and I happily boo'd at the return of Metatron. He's one of those characters that you really love to hate.

Favorite Moments & Random Thoughts:

- Loved the montage of Deanmon in 'The Road So Far'.

- This episode felt very much like a continuation of The Things We Left Behind. I'm not sure how to feel about that...

- Rowena gives a new meaning to the term 'helicopter mother'. I was SO confused whenever the episode started out with Crowley biting the dust. Fortunately, 'twas all a dream. A dream brought on by one of Rowena's hex bags. I like this dynamic. Certainly it's more interesting than Dean's over-hyped angst or Castiel's attempts at being a family man.

- "She's like a wounded animal, just watching me." Gee, Castiel, I wonder why. It couldn't be because you're still walking around wearing the face of the father that you stole away from her, could it? Or that you traumatized her at a young age? Or that you told her to her face that you heard and ignored her prayers? Nah...of course not.

- I also take issue with the fact that Cas says Claire has known so little love in her life. ROT! When Castiel came to Jimmy Novak, Claire was clearly around the age eleven. So that means for the first eleven years of her life she lived in a strong Christian family with parents devoted to each other and who obviously loved her. Look at those flashbacks in The Rapture! They were happy! And she felt that Randy loved her, so there's that too. Stop being over-dramatic just for the sake of trying to make me like a character that only becomes worse the longer I think about her.

- I still don't see how Dean killing those scumbags was any different from the meatsuits that he and Sam hack through on nearly a weekly basis. Are we doing a Merlin 'let's talk up the situation because if we say it's dire enough, somebody might actually believe us' type thing? 

- While I will forever be miffed that they have decided to actually SHOW us Hell, I have to admit that Rowena is fast becoming my favorite character ever. She's certainly the most interesting baddie since Meg. 

- And her squabbling with Crowley is a thing of beauty.

- I'm going to punch somebody for freeing Metatron. WHY didn't Castiel just go to Heaven to interrogate him? They should KNOW by now that irritating little snake of a librarian will find some way to muck things up.

- The scene where Sam interrogates Metatron was just wonderful. You could FEEL the hatred and the tension radiating off of Sam (kudos to Jared) and it's a wonder he didn't just stab Metatron through the face. I rather think that the old Sam may have. But Sam's older and wiser now. Let's just hope that somebody is wise enough to extract the info from Metatron and THEN stab him. Before he can cause any more trouble!

- At least they acknowledged that Castiel is still wearing Jimmy and how hard it must be for Claire to see his face. Shame they decided to have her go vengeful on Dean instead of Castiel like it would MAKE SENSE for her to do. I really don't like the way they've developed her character.

- Sam and Dean interrogating Metatron may just have been the best scene of the entire episode.

- "I would be tickled to help you pop this Biblical zit." I still can't believe this is actual dialogue.

- Ten seasons ago, Dean felt that demons weren't their gig. Now he has the King of Hell on speed-dial. Excuse me while I go laugh over that.

- Okay. So the scene where Rowena scrys on Crowley and the Winchesters is pretty cool. If having Rowena hang around means that we get to see some more magic, I am totally on board. 

- This episode would have been PERFECT if Claire did not exist. Her story only serves to divert attention away from the main focus (Dean and the MoC) and is neither interesting nor funny, like the saga of Crowley and his dear old Mum. I liked her in the last episode okay. She is, unfortunately, one of the characters who only gets worse the longer I think about her. Maybe she'll redeem herself one day...we can only hope.

- Metatron needs to die.

- The scene where Dean starts carving Metatron up...can we give Jensen Ackles an award of some kind? Because when I looked at him, I was reminded of some of the shots where Sam was high on demon blood. You look at his eyes and it's not Dean, but it sure as heck isn't Jensen either. 

- Gotta love how Sam figured out that Dean was snapping due to the unfinished sandwich in the kitchen.

- Metatron calling Dean out on his concept of the 'greater good' was something that needed to be done. I'm still kind of upset with him over the whole Gadreel Fiasco.

- I'm starting to think that Crowley calling the Blade Dean's 'precious' was all too apt of a comparison. Seems like a lot of the dialogue and descriptions of the effects of the Mark/Blade sound very much like the way the One Ring effects its bearers.

- The whole Metatron and Dean torture scene was very intense and really showcased both of the actors through Dean's calculated, desperate rage and Metatron's slippery tongue. It calls to mind the quieter but no less potent scenes between Sam and Crowley in Sacrifice. See, writers? Whenever you give these actors a chance to just go at it, they create some of the best drama in the world WITHOUT needed to have melodrama in the dialogue!

- I still don't know why the Mark was triggered by a weapon that wasn't the First Blade. Are we ever going to get an explanation for that?

- What...but...what...WHY IN THE NAME OF CHUCK DID THEY TAKE METATRON BACK TO HEAVEN?! Was this entire venture POINTLESS?!

- I do like that we actually got a broment at the end of this episode. (Now hug!)

        Basically, this episode just felt like more glorified filler. Entertaining filler, for the most part (minus the bits with Claire) but still filler. Reminds me of Reichenbach, actually. I guess we'll have to wait until next week to see if it's actually building up to something good or not. Rowena is officially the best thing since sliced bread. I love the way she's manipulating Crowley and I'm anxious to see where this goes. Sam and Dean were awesome, as usual. Though I do feel like Sam was a bit under-used in this episode. Hopefully that will get better. All-in-all, The Hunter Games is a 3/5.

What did you think? Do you agree with my rating? If not - what would you say differently?

Supernatural Review: Season 5 Episode 5 "Fallen Idols

By: Julie Siege

**Spoilers**

If you have not yet seen this episode, please go and do so before proceeding.

         I want to thank this episode for making me afraid of convertible cars. Did they really have to show us multiple close-ups of the guy's ruined face? Really?!

It's funny because Jared was in House of Wax.

        Sam and Dean take a break from cleaning up Zachariah's mess in order to go on a hunt where idols come to life and kill their worshipers. And we're not talking old god Dagon idols, no, we're talking James Dean's car and Abe Lincoln and Paris Hilton herself.

      You have to have a good sense of humor to be a celebrity and cameo on this show as yourself because they make fun of EVERYTHING. Hilton rose to the challenge, though, and - in the process - gave us a very funny, very interesting MotW. Nothing like Dean Winchester getting whaled on by Paris Hilton, after all.

      The rest of the episode was quite enjoyable too. There were some legitimate jump scares (not to mention the very tense scene where Dean is under what they think is James Dean's haunted car to check an engine number) and a lot of the angles and lighting gave it a really gloomy, surreal atmosphere that just added to the intrigue.

     But this episode wasn't all gloom and doom. Unlike last week's dive into Walking Dead territory, the story focuses a lot on black humor and some truly outrageous social commentary.

    
Favorite Moments & Random Thoughts:

- "I'm sure the Apocalpyse will still be there whenever we get back." Only on this show could a statement like that be made and be both entirely serious and a joke.

- I really love the way that the teaser for this episode was shot using 1st Person through the hand held camera. Obviously by this point on the show, we KNEW that something bad had happened to Cal...but that technique just added a bit of suspense and interest back in.

- And, again, that close-up of the guy's ruined face? SO unnecessary! I think they're trying to make me lose my lunch.

- "You think I need training wheels?" "No. 'We' need training wheels." Yes indeedy you do, Dean. Really the case in this episode played second fiddle to putting the shards of the Winchester brotherly relationship back together again. Sam is still feeling guilty and jumpy after the events of Lucifer Rising and all that has happened since then. And Dean is still touchy and feeling like he can't trust Sam. They're trying, but something is definitely broken between them and it's going to be a long road back.

-  Sam and Dean used the names 'Agents Bonham and Copeland' this time. Interesting...

- The sheriff that the boys encounter never fails to make me laugh. He's just so DESPERATELY trying to explain away the things he is seeing that I half wonder if it wouldn't be kinder to give him the old "The truth is out there!" speech and put him out of his misery.

- Dean talking to 'Little Bastard' and calling it 'baby' is hilarious. I wonder if Baby was jealous?

- Also? Whoa. Both of them were down to one layer in this episode. I usually don't make a point of pointing out objectification of hot male leads but, considering what show this is, that one deserves a mention. So...

- ONE LAYER ALERT! ONE LAYER ALERT!

- Dean accuses Sam of playing the world's smallest violin. Heh. Really, I think Sam had every reason to be irritated. Dean did sneak off to a bar and leave him with the work. Bad Dean!

- I still want to how how Abraham Lincoln strangling that professor would require a spurt of blood like that. Did he tear the guy's throat out with his teeth? Or was that all from the gunshot? And where on EARTH did ol' Abe get a gun? Was he carrying one? Questions, questions...

- Sam speaks rudimentary Spanish.

- "Actually, uh, there is a lot of lore on famous ghosts. More than, you know, the non-famous kinds. I'm actually surprised we haven't run into one before."

- I love how Sam Winchester, the Boy King, favored child of Azazel, destined bringer of the Apocalypse, and the vessel of the Devil considers Gandhi his personal hero. His idol, even, considering that Ghandi attacks him and tries to gnaw off his ear.

- Wax museums are just creepy anyway. Even with the 'I'm going to make wax museums hip again' guy standing about making things hilariously awkward.

- I choked with laughter whenever Sam and Dean were questioning those girls who said that Paris Hilton took their best friend. What even is this show?!

- Leshi is such an interesting villain (take note, current writers...THIS is the ONLY thing on SPN that shapeshifts without shedding its skin) and I really find it fascinating that she/he/whatever was going to turn into John. Even after all these years, it would seem that Dean's hero is his father.

- She also had an excellent point about celebrity culture being crazy.

- Sam almost looked offended whenever Dean said he hadn't seen House of Wax. Ha!

         This episode is a roller coaster of feels and laughs that ends with the brothers taking the first steps towards getting their relationship back on track. It's also an excellent example of how a MotW plot can drive the story line forward without overshadowing the main characters or feeling weak and underdone. Paris Hilton was a riot and a very good sport and the episode has good re-watchability factor. Fallen Idols is a 4/5.

What did you think? Do you agree with my rating? If not - what would you say differently?