Supernatural Haiku Episode Guide: Season Six
Season Six saw Sera Gamble assume the showrunner role, something that delighted me based on all the episodes she’d written since Season One. She was intimate with Eric Kripke’s vision and understood the brothers viscerally, and in my opinion – and Eric’s, evidently! – she came up with a very creative way to carry on the series in the aftermath of “Swan Song.” This became their experimental noir season, one in which we viewers didn’t understand what was actually going on – why and how it was “all about the souls” – until late in the season, because our narrative viewpoint was deliberately, carefully restricted to preserve the mystery until it was time for everything to be revealed, with that reveal changing everything we thought we knew. My episode haiku were written contemporaneously with my viewing of each individual episode on its initial airing, so they reflected only my understanding at the time; not my subsequent reconsideration of the action in each episode once I knew what had really been going on.
Knowing now what we do about the reality behind each episode, how would you rewrite these haiku to reveal the hidden truths in each episode?

Breaks Dean’s “normal” world.

Who’s your family?

Angels deal in souls.

To regain his soul.

Kills,but stops nothing.

Only Sam can lie.

Home of monster souls.

Pretend to be pets.

Stealing first-born sons.

To demand Sam’s soul.

He loses – but wins.
Teamed, they hunt dragons.

Memories surface.

Dean gets parent-trapped.

Acting out their lives.

Hunters’ families die.

But Fate still prevails.

For phoenix ashes.

All about the souls.
Pave his road to Hell.

Dean’s Achilles heel.

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