TV-Reviewed

Supernatural once again diverted from the main storyline somewhat to give us an episode that had Dean and Sam investigating another unexplained murder. This episode could have been just another monster of the week type of episode, but with a great story and good acting, this episode ends up being a winner.

Dean’s usually the tough one out of the two, even though Sam has gotten pretty tough himself, but out of the two, Dean’s the one who doesn’t like to share his feelings. This episode gave Jensen Ackles a chance to show off the other side of Dean. Watching Dean as he’s scared to carry a gun or getting freaked out about posing as F.B.I. agents was something that has to be watched, because most likely it won’t happen ever again. Dean getting infected by a disease that makes the victim scared of everything ultimately killing them was a good thing to do. Monster of the week episodes aren’t necessarily bad, but they’re a lot better when the brothers have a personal reason for wanting to solve the murders.

Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester

The best part of this episode was when Dean’s biggest fears are realized and shown to us. The first one being when he see’s Sam turn into a demon; Sam ask a yellow eyes demon was a cool look actually, but still pretty scary. The second hallucination was when he see’s Lilith. We’re supposed to believe that this Lilith is a hallucination, but she brings up the fact that Dean does remember what happened in hell, even though up until now, Dean’s been denying that he remembers anything. It was good seeing Lilith again, but it’s still a bit creepy that she’s still in the body of the cute little girl. Dean’s biggest fear is that he doesn’t want to get sent to hell again because whatever happened down there must have been bad. It’s just too bad that Dean didn’t tell Sam that he actually saw Lilith in his hallucination; it’s just another sign that Dean’s biggest flaw could be his inability to open up.

There were very few annoying things in this episode. One being the sheriff of the town. At first, it seemed like he was the demon, but really he was affected by the same disease that Dean was. It just felt like it was unnecessary to even have this in the episode because he didn’t really give Dean or Sam any problems in the episode, so it all seemed a bit silly when he just drops dead in the middle of hotel living room.

Sam took somewhat of a backseat this episode compared to Dean, but it was once again cool to see Sam be able to handle everything by himself with Dean incapacitated. It’s amazing how much development Sam has made since season one. He’s really come into his own now.

Supernatural has really be on quite the high this season. This was quite a good episode, but it’s disappointing to be off track from the main story for so long. Supernatural has gotten so good this season that good episodes actually disappoint me a little. I’m hoping Supernatural’s episode is better and we start heading a little more back into Dean and Sam’s fighting for god mission.

Rating:8.0