Let’s Speculate: Supernatural 11.12 “Don’t You Forget About Me”

“Don’t You Forget About Me” is the second episode written by Nancy Won. The episode begins with a classic cold opening set in Sioux Fall, South Dakota. Two teenagers are drinking in a car and start to make out. Claire Novak comes out of the wood and grabs the boy from the truck. She holds…

Auld Lang Syne: Bookdal’s Favorite Reflections on Supernatural

Singing the Sins of Creon: Supernatural’s Season Six and the Prohibition Against MourningOriginally Published: June 9, 2011 “You would rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror, and here are your stones.” -Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks    A Beautiful Labor: The Work of Mourning  “The person who grieves, suffers his passion to…

Let’s Speculate: Supernatural 11.08 “Just My Imagination”

The Jenny Klein penned and Dick Speight directed episode begins with a girl’s tea party. Her parents are waiting for her to finish her tea. We see that her imaginary friend, Sparkle, is in fact a man unicorn hybrid. Sparkle tells Maddie to go with her parents. While she’s away, Sparkle is murdered and poor…

Let’s Speculate: Supernatural 11.06 “Our Little World”

Let’s Speculate: Supernatural 11.06 “Our Little World”

Tonight’s episode, penned by Bob Berens and directed by John Showalter, focuses on several threads of the current season. The episode opens with a conversation between two girls on a porch and then Lolita, I mean Amara, shows up and soulgorges on student athlete number two. Older, still Lolita age, Amara goes back to Crowley’s…

Let’s Speculate: Supernatural 11.03 “The Bad Seed”

Let’s Speculate: Supernatural 11.03 “The Bad Seed”

Tonight’s episode, written by Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brad Buckner and directed by Jensen Ackles,begins with Rowena naming her new coven as “Mega Coven” with some witches. In a Macbeth nod we have a double, double, toil and trouble trio and they tell her that Crowley is not dead, as she claims. After they Mean Girl…