Supernatural 15×10 Review: Redefining heroes in “The Heroes’ Journey”

Supernatural has been doing meta commentary for years now. As a way to poke fun at some of their more ridiculous plot lines, the show turned its main characters into main characters — that is, in season four’s “The Monster…

Supernatural 15×09 Review: “The Trap” sets up multiple ends; Sam loses hope

There are a lot of ideas swirling around in Supernatural‘s return this week. Most of these ideas revolve around the show’s end, with Chuck showing Sam multiple endings to his and Dean’s journeys. Presumably, these are the same endings he…

Supernatural 15×04 Review: Chuck and Sam Unravel in “Atomic Monsters”

There are two major moments in “Atomic Monsters,” the fourth episode of Supernatural season 15, that redefine the season’s trajectory. Neither of them have to do with the episode case, which is more problematic in the larger canon of the…

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…