Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
Continued from # 5

The final scene begins with a shot of one of the “no trespassing” signs we saw at the start of the teaser but now, on reflection, it seems to have acquired different connotations . . .


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Some brief reference to mental health issues

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Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 9, “Home”
Written by Eric Kripke
Directed by Ken Girotti

Warning: image heavy post
Some brief reference to mental health issues
If I could pinpoint exactly when I ceased to be a casual viewer of Supernatural and became a full-on fan, “Home” would certainly be one of the major contributing episodes. The first Demon ( Read more... )

Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 6, “Skin”
Written by John Shiban
Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill.

WARNING: This is a very dark and confronting episode. It contains images of sexualized violence and deals with overt themes of misogyny and violence against women.
My review does the same.

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Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 5, “Bloody Mary”
Story by Eric Kripke
Teleplay by Ron Milbauer and Terri Hughes Burton
Directed by Peter Ellis.

A/N: Since I'm building up something of a collection of these now,
I thought it might be helpful to provide a masterpost.

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Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 4, “Phantom Traveler”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Robert Singer.

Warnings: Image heavy post. Also, contains reference to 9/11 and terrorism, and brief discussion of mental health, incest and familial abuse themes.( Read more... )

I’d like to thank everyone for all the positive feedback for my review of the Supernatural pilot. It’s encouraged me to continue with my ruminations on the early episodes, so this week I’ve been re-watching “Wendigo”.

Warning: image heavy post.

Apparently, Eric Kripke originally panned this episode because he didn’t think the monster was ( Read more... )