Okay: I was spoiled for this episode of Supernatural. I knew that Madison was going to be a werewolf. I knew that Sam was going to fall in love with her, and have to kill her. And I knew nothing. Not about the way things would truly happen, or what they would really mean.

How strong is your heart?

Will you save me from myself,

A fate worse than death ( Read more... )

Spirit or angel?

When death stops evil people,

What clues to Sam’s fate?

Houses of the Holy was a high concept story, something Supernatural does better than any other current show that I can name. Is there a God, and does He influence what happens to people on Earth? How can you know? How do you live, in the absence of proof? How do you explain ( Read more... )

You might not think that Supernatural is the right show to watch on Thanksgiving night, but let me tell you:  this week’s episode, In My Time Of Dying, is the perfect choice. Why? Because this is a family love story among three men - a father and his two grown sons - who will literally live and die for each other, and who are running out of time to ( Read more... )

We all knew that Dean wasn’t stupid; we all knew that Dean had to be thinking that his Dad’s death, matched against his own miraculous recovery, added up to something ugly and unreal. Now it’s finally out in the open - but no one can make it all right. And it was eerily disturbing that Dean, in describing the zombie revenant Angela brought back to ( Read more... )

Seeing this episode, which charted the continuing impact of John’s death on Sam and especially Dean, I truly do trust how the rest of the season will unfold. Sera Gamble’s script and Robert Singer’s direction kept the brothers’ relationship battered but essentially intact even as Dean in particular was falling apart, to the point where he actually ( Read more... )