Season Six saw Sera Gamble assume the showrunner role, something that delighted me based on all the episodes she’d written since Season One. She was intimate with Eric Kripke’s vision and understood the brothers viscerally, and in my opinion – and Eric’s, evidently! – she came up with a very creative way to carry on…
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…
As we continue with our “Hiatus Hunting” for “The French Mistake”, we are thrilled to rerun two masterful reviews that look at the production and meta aspects of the episode. The nuances offered by these insightful examinations reveal the quality and depth of meaning that permeated so many levels of this episode, making it a…
Drama, Drama, Drama! Let’s take a look at two very different perspectives on a very intriguing episode from the season six trick bag – Unforgiven.
Season Six: Ups and downs, relationships new and old and full of unexpected appearances, trips and reveals. Let’s look at what worked and what should have been left alone…
If season five ended with loss and devastation, season six started with a bang and a brand new reality shift an entire year after overwhelming grief and destruction. Year Six brought family man Dean, the return of Sam and a whole new cast of characters in the Campbell clan. And that was all in the…
Season Six – Hits & Misses: Part One Season six – what a year it was. So much was left to clean up, emotionally and plotwise after Swan Song it was impossible to know what direction the sixth year of our beloved saga would take us. And on reflection, it’s still kind of interesting to…
Missed part one of the recap? It can be found here. Okay, get ready, for this is the absolute craziest, bat-shit, most absurd, ballsiest, funniest, shattering the fourth wall into tiny little dimensions scene that has EVER aired on network television. Hell, it beats just about anything ever shot. This is Mr. Edlund’s legacy right…
Oh boy, I’ve been dying to do a full, detailed recap of this episode for a long time. Actually, I started this last year and found it half finished in my WIP folder. This episode is too memorable to let it linger in WIP. This isn’t just another memorable Ben Edlund episode, no siree. …
In my recent letter to Jared about his outstanding performance in “Sacrifice”, I reminisced about how well Jared has been building the character of Sam over the past eight years. Jared offered a similar observation at the New Jersey convention when asked about Season 8 Sam. He observed, “Season 8 Sam is not season one…
We all know the last episode of the season is going to be extremely emotional. Luckily, I’ve got a handy guide of things you’ll need and things you’ll can do to help you get through them. 1. Kleenex. 2. Keep all throwable objects out of arm’s reach. 3. Chocolate. 4. If that…
Is Dean under a Djinn induced dream? Has he created an alternate reality in this dream world? First, I would like to point to the very first episode of Season 6, Exile On Main Street. While many have expressed that this is not one of their favorite episodes and have viewed only once or twice, I really…
