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.…
Supernatural 14×09 Review: “The Spear”
As far as midseason finales go, “The Spear” seems a little tame. There are great moments with Cas and Jack, plus the return of Garth, but it ultimately fails to capture the tension midseason finales should have. It doesn’t help…
Supernatural 14×08 Review: Something’s Still Hunting Jack in “Byzantium”
Death, no matter how fleeting on a show like Supernatural, will always be a lingering threat. What Supernatural is great at doing is creating new circumstances in which our characters have to deal with loss. There was a time when…
Supernatural 14×07 Review: “Unhuman Nature” Meditates on the Nature of Humanity, Doesn’t Go Deep Enough
Not much is solved in “Unhuman Nature,” but it’s still a decent story of making the small moments count. Jack’s lack of grace is causing his illness and instead of lying around in a hospital or the bunker for a…
Supernatural 14×06 Review: All It Takes is a Little “Optimism” and a Fly/Man Hybrid
“Optimism” is one of those stand alone episodes Supernatural does really well sometimes. In fact, it might be one of the show’s better ones. After some plot heavy previous episodes that never really managed to further the over-arching threat of…