Supernatural 15×03 Review: The Ghost Apocalypse Ends with a Fizzle, but Tragedy Lingers in “The Rupture”

Last week, Supernatural handled the tension of a quarantined town in “Raising Hell” quite well. Each significant party got screen time: the townspeople were justifiably questioning why they were holed up at the high school, Sam and Dean called in…

Supernatural Season 15 Premiere Review: The Beginning is the End in “Back and to the Future”

Perhaps the most obvious tell in this premiere episode that this is the end of Supernatural is the way “Back and to the Future” brings back those season one/season two horror elements. In a way, this could almost read as…

Supernatural, Death, and its Role in Season 15

On Supernatural, death isn’t the end. It’s a speed bump on the road to the next hunt, the next slice of pie, the next world-ending scenario. It also acts as a vicious cycle that brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean…

Supernatural 14×14-16 Review: Plot’s out, character-driven journeys in

It’s now impossible to talk about Supernatural without also talking about the end. For a show that seemed like it was going to last well beyond our years, last Friday’s announcement from stars Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, and Misha Collins…

Supernatural 14×13 Review: “Lebanon” Marks 300 With a Heartwarming Winchester Family Dinner

Landmark episodes of Supernatural are usually pretty meta. But hitting 300 is something special, so why not celebrate it by bringing back the character pretty much responsible for sending the Winchester brothers off on this 15-year-long hunt? John Winchester (Jeffery…

Supernatural’s Journey to 300: John Winchester’s 5 Best Moments

Jeffery Dean Morgan is only credited for 13 episodes on Supernatural, but there’s no denying the impact his character, John Winchester, has had on the show. John’s disappearance in the pilot episode is the inciting incident that sets the brothers…

Supernatural 14×10 Review: Dean’s the Cage Now in “Nihilism”

There’s something to say for longevity. When Dean is repossessed by Michael in  “Nihilism” and locked away in his own mind, I thought of Gadreel in season nine kidnapping Sam’s body and securing him in a corner of his mind.…