Four Days Later Following on the heels of a fabulous season 13 premiere episode, “The Rising Son” was a tense, suspenseful, thoughtful second chapter in the story of Jack, the misunderstood all-powerful-being child. Once again, Alexander Calvert’s nuanced portrayal of the most powerful creature on earth housed inside a naïve, well-intentioned 3 day, 17 hours…
Flair, drama and sense of fashion. Supernatural has a new leader in Hell and he promises to add another dash of villainy and colour to an already bubbling season. “The Rising Son” was a study of characters and plot, ebbing onward from the sadness of the premiere to introduce some of the major players…
Last week, I embraced my inner Chuck and pronounced the premiere episode of Supernatural to be “not bad.” This week, I’m going to have to go with “not terrible.” I really hope this trend doesn’t continue and the episodes get better, but for now…there’s some enjoyment to be had. I did laugh a few times…
This second episode of Supernatural’s season thirteen, called “The Rising Son,” begins with a scene in the hell throne room with two minions waiting for Lucifer to save them. A bright light appears through a door and Asmodeus appears, the Fourth Prince of Hell, who promises to purge hell of the corporate lackeys and bring…
I’m happy to be reviewing this first episode of Supernatural Season 13. I’ve tried to have few expectations about the awesomeness (or not) of this new season, but to just let the story wash over me and see how it made me feel. The verdict: In the immortal words of Chuck, who didn’t deign to…
Welcome back to Supernatural! In its thirteenth season premiere called “Lost and Found,” the show picks up where it ended in the May season finale. Sam is in the bedroom with the newborn yet adolescent Jack while Dean is still outside near Castiel’s dead body. Dean gets up and rushes into the house and interrupts…
Welcome back to the “Memorable Moments” series! For 12.22 “Who We Are”, I have once again put together a list of what I felt were the best and most memorable moments from this episode. The list varies from episode to episode depending on what has transpired. I hope you enjoy it and share what your…
Welcome back to the Memorable Moments series! For 12.21 “There’s Something About Mary”, I once again put together a list of what I felt were the best and most memorable moments from the episode. The list varies from episode to episode depending on what has transpired. I hope you enjoy it and share what your…
Rich, riveting, complex and so full of story details and character threads that it’s impossible to make anything of Supernatural’s “Stuck in the Middle (With You)” in just one viewing. Consequently, my review offers observations from two separate viewings: My original reactions when the episode first aired plus additional thoughts from my hiatus rewatch. These “retrospectives”…
Part 1 of “Defense of Supernatural Season 12” makes the case that the return of Sam and Dean’s loving relationship and the harmonious blending of the season’s arcs added up to one of the best years in the Supernatural series. In Part 2, Samandean addresses the other major characters and storylines, and how they contributed,…
The 250th episode! Who knew way back when the mission was searching for John and mourning Jess that this is where we’d end up all these years later? First Blood was a bit of a different flavor for Supernatural – but then a lot of season twelve has been about changing it up in that…
A Powerful, Deadly Delivery with Open Doors that Diminish Dangerous Distractions.
