Nate’s Episode Review – Supernatural 14.06 “Optimism”
Boy, is the show on a good streak right now.




Nate Winchester is an aspiring author, blogger, and strangely the only male writer for The Winchester Family Business.
Boy, is the show on a good streak right now.
Nate Winchester is an aspiring author, blogger, and strangely the only male writer for The Winchester Family Business.
“Croatoan” has always been an odd duck for me. The theme of this episode is “important for later.” This was a setup episode, one clearly designed to push events into motion for the next installment, “Hunted,” and beyond. Real action was sacrificed for a character story, namely Sam and Dean, and in reality, Dean. His…
It is hard to believe we are already on the threshold of the season nine finale. It feels like this season just began and I have to admit I’m feeling unprepared for the end. “Stairway to Heaven” didn’t feel like the second to last episode of a season. I’m not sure if that’s just denial…
All right, it’s time for a visual review of “You Can’t Handle the Truth.” I thought this was a pretty straightforward episode, directing-wise, which makes sense for an episode that focused on people telling the truth! That’s not to say there wasn’t a lot of great stuff to look at, more that there wasn’t a…
The Morning After Depressed. That’s how Supernatural’s “Funeralia” made me feel. Really. I can’t shake it. There were two concurrent plotlines in “Funeralia”. The first was Castiel’s story – Heaven, Naomi, 9 angels left in all of the universe and the brown outs of Heaven. This story was about hopelessness, giving up and death. It…
“Defend the Ranch”, Walker’s 13th episode of its first season, explores what happens when the place you think is safe and the people you want most to be safe suddenly aren’t. The guilt and sense of helplessness this creates is felt by all to varying degrees. No one feels those feelings more strongly than ……
Then Hello everyone! I’m back from my whirlwind month of cons! Anything happen while I was gone? There weren’t any significant announcements, or any important character changes, or anything like that, right? Geez! Can’t a girl go away for three weeks without the whole Supernatural world changing?? All I wanted to do was go to…
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