TV Review: Supernatural - "The Curious Case of Dean Winchester"

I still think that Supernatural is the best TV show currently being aired. The entire team, from the writers to the producers to the actors, have set the bar extremely high. Episodes are filled with humour, drama, and action, and missing one episode is akin to missing one or more vital links to understanding the story.

Or so it usually is.

Don’t get me wrong here, I do not want to seem like I think Supernatural isn’t great or has jumped the shark or anything, but this episode was, in my opinion, the worse one of this season.

And yes, I realise that I am probably going to be attacked by hate mail and hate comments. But if that’s the cost of reviewing honestly, then so be it.

But before you condemn me, dear fan, please consider the following. This episode was good, but in all fairness, after the first amazing six out-of-this-world ones season five started with, it wasn’t at par. It was less fast, less funny, and less interesting than the episodes it was preceded by.

This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t watch it, nor does it mean I didn’t enjoy doing so. From the opening scene, where we see a woman reading Weekly World News! (hello Men in Black!) to Dean struggling to adapt to his newfound (and thankfully temporary) old age to the intense scene between Dean and Bobby to the one-liners, this was a great episode.

Just not an amazing one.

There were also some pretty interesting topics to cover in this review. For one, our monster-of-the-week was delightfully grey-toned; he wasn’t all bad, as his two kind acts of the episode clearly showed, nor was he all good, as the ghosts of the numerous people he killed can testify.

In all honesty, can Patrick really be considered a villain? After all, he is clearly setting the rules of the game for his opponents, and doesn’t cheat – he’s just a master at poker. If he truly was evil, he would have taken advantage of the older man’s terrible game of poker to win 13 years, and yet he folded, knowing he had the better hand, to give the old man the chance to attend his granddaughter’s bat mitzvah.

Article Author: Sahar

The author of The Spirit Within Club, Sahar was born the first of three siblings and the first of eight cousins. Thrust in the role of head of the brood at a very early age, she honed her imagination by creating stories and plotlines the eight of them could play to all summer long. …

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