Nate’s Episode Review – Supernatural 13.18 “Bring ’em Back Alive”

Nate Winchester is an aspiring author, blogger, and strangely the only male writer for The Winchester Family Business.
Nate Winchester is an aspiring author, blogger, and strangely the only male writer for The Winchester Family Business.
What a fascinating episode. For me, Supernatural episodes fall into one of the following three categories: 1. Essential to the arc of the season 2. Monster of the week 3. Comedy/One-offs (ala “The French Mistake”) This episode was kind of, sort of, all three mixed up into one. It’s thrown me for a loop a little. Share…
They covered a lot of ground in this episode, with the emphasis on interpersonal issues (although we did get one very enjoyable fight scene). The title ‘Torn’ is certainly apt! I think of this kind of episode as a ‘repositioning’ segment, where the writers move the characters around like pieces on a game board to…
The Morning After Would someone please buy both the Walkers and the Davidsons battery powered, modern flashlights! They come in many different sizes and styles. For families so attached to the past, may I suggest a lantern light? That’s twice now that their kerosene lanterns burned down the barn and killed or nearly killed a…
Wednesday night the mid season finale aired and quite a bit is out in the open! After seeing how civil the brothers have been to each other the last couple of episodes, we see a bit of that eruption we have been expecting! Daniel Loflin wrote this one alone. Andrew Dabb wrote Hunteri Heroici. Since…
The Morning After I’m excited to explore the implications of Supernatural’s 15th mid-season premiere, “The Trap”! It answered many questions, but the pursuit of those answers raised many intriguing issues – philosophical, mythological and logical in nature. The episode was also an emotional ringer. Brilliantly acted by all involved (need I mention Jared, Jensen, Misha…
Thoughts on “The Devil You Know” Season five of Supernatural has been quite a mixed bag of episodes ranging from the phenomenal to the low-level mediocre and everything in between. For me, The Devil You Know fell about smack dab in the middle of those two, perhaps a little closer to the phenomenal than…
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