Reviews That I Missed:  “Supernatural” 2.08 – “Crossroad Blues”

Reviews That I Missed: “Supernatural” 2.08 – “Crossroad Blues”

So yeah, you knew that they were eventually going to get back to the whole Dean guilt over John thing, weren’t you?  “Crossroad Blues” did so in quite a spectacular way.  It introduced some very vital lore in the show’s history while digging that knife deep into Dean Winchester’s very fragile psyche, setting him up…

Reviews I Missed:  “Supernatural” 2.07, “The Usual Suspects”

Reviews I Missed: “Supernatural” 2.07, “The Usual Suspects”

Ah, “The Usual Suspects.”  This is one of my happy episodes.  This is “Supernatural” at it’s finest.  An opener that caught our attention from the word go, Smart Sam, cocky Dean, a brisk plot, a mystery that kept us guessing until the end, just so much goodness.  It was a standalone, having little relevance to…

Reviews I Missed:  “Supernatural” 2.06 “No Exit”

Reviews I Missed: “Supernatural” 2.06 “No Exit”

“No Exit” isn’t one of my favorites.  I’m putting that out there right now.  This episode was so…off.  I think it’s because season two was on such a roll.  The previous episode revisited Sam’s arc, and it’s not pretty.  I mean, he is, but the situation isn’t.  Couple that with the exciting premiere, then John…

Reviews I Missed:  Supernatural 2.05 – “Simon Said”

Reviews I Missed: Supernatural 2.05 – “Simon Said”

Simon says, love this episode.  Sure, no problem!  This is still one of those episodes I always go back to.  It’s epic!  It’s a cavalcade of fan favorite characters featuring actors that have become legendary to the SPNFamily.  It goes back to something that had been dropped since late season one, Sam’s visions, and boy…

Picking Supernatural’s 75 Essential Episodes – Season 2

Picking Supernatural’s 75 Essential Episodes – Season 2

As I was looking for a way to pass the quarantine summer doldrums, I saw Entertainment Weekly’s list of what it considered to be the 75 most ‘essential’ episodes of Supernatural, leading up to Season 15. Since any excuse for a rewatch is a good excuse, I figured I’d not only invite my Supernatural “Team Free Will…

Supernatural’s Agent Henriksen – A Formidable Foe

Supernatural’s Agent Henriksen – A Formidable Foe

In the premiere episode of Supernatural, Dean taunts some local police officers. When rebuked by Sam, Dean says, “They don’t really know what’s going on. We’re all alone on this.”  It is thus with a bit of poetic irony that when special agent Victor Henriksen first confronts Dean on the phone in episode 2.12, “Nightshifter”…

Reviews I Missed: Supernatural 2.04 – “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things”

Just the title alone tells you a breakdown is coming.  Children, aka Sam and Dean, playing with dead things, aka Angela the zombie, who is going to open up a whole mess of wounds that were already festering.  Bringing back someone from the dead? Of course, that was going to unravel a tightly wound Dean. …

Reviews I Missed:  Supernatural 2.03 – “Bloodlust”

Reviews I Missed: Supernatural 2.03 – “Bloodlust”

You know how a couple of reviews back I ranted about how I hate vampire stories in Supernatural?  Well, “Bloodlust” is the exception.  This is an artfully crafted episode from the most epic Supernatural writer, Sera Gamble.  There are so many layers in this latest Winchester brothers’ adventure, aka storytelling at it’s finest.  It reminds me…