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Supernatural: season 5, episode 14
"My Bloody Valentine"
February 11, 2010 - 09:02p.m.
Every year, there's Valentine's Day, and every Valentine's Day, I try and figure out how to deal with my life. Because the worst thing about V-Day isn't the crap candy or the constant social reminders that ...
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Supernatural: season 5, episode 13
"The Song Remains The Same"
February 4, 2010 - 10:02p.m.
Hello, Anna. Goodbye, Anna.
I've got nothing against shifting a show's format from standalone episodes to longer, more serialized storytelling. One of the reasons I dig the later seasons of Angel is, as goofy and awkward as the ...
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Supernatural: season 5, episode 12
"Swap Meat"
January 28, 2010 - 10:01p.m.
The shocking-cold-open-then-time-jump has become a tried-and-true Supernatural tradition, and while I'd hate to see the device over-used (I hate to see any device over-used, really), it still works. For instance, seeing a dorky Sam over-emphasizing his age before hooking ...
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Supernatural: season 5, episode 11
"Sam, Interrupted"
January 21, 2010 - 10:01p.m.
Just in case anyone spent the break forgetting that Sam and Dean Winchester are officially the Unhappiest Sonsofbitches In The World, "Sam, Interrupted" makes the case one more time. Ever since Supernatural got past it's way too formulaic first ...
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Supernatural: season 5, episode 10
"Abandon All Hope"
November 19, 2009 - 10:11p.m.
Hey, remember Ellen and Jo, the only two non-dead recurring non-evil female characters on the show? Remember how they disappeared for a while, but then came back for this season, and it was like, we're gonna be fighting against ... -
Supernatural: season 5, episode 9
"The Real Ghostbusters"
November 12, 2009 - 10:11p.m.
Self-awareness in fiction is a bit of a cheat. Referencing the cliches in a story that the audience has already recognized makes the audience feel smarter, and makes those cliches seem fresh, but if that's all you're bringing ...
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Supernatural: season 5, episode 8
"Changing Channels"
November 5, 2009 - 10:11p.m.
Before we get into anything here, I just have to say, this one had me at "Supernatural is filmed before a live studio audience." The show owned my ass from that point on. If it had been just a bunch ...
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Supernatural: season 5, episode 7
"The Curious Case Of Dean Winchester"
October 29, 2009 - 09:10p.m.
There are rules, you know. It's one of the reasons that Sam and Dean Winchester can do what they do, one of the reasons why they aren't both dead in a ditch somewhere, torn to shreds by an ...
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Supernatural: season 5, episode 6
"I Believe The Children Are Our Future"
October 15, 2009 - 11:10p.m.
You ever see "It's A Good Life"? It's one of the bleakest episodes of the Twilight Zone, and Joe Dante even did a version of it for Twilight Zone: The Movie. Much as I love Dante, though, it ...
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Supernatural: season 5, episode 5
"Fallen Idol"
October 8, 2009 - 10:10p.m.
Confession time: I used to have a crush on a certain young adult, girl-next-door-type actress. Yeah, I know. I know. I'm not going to tell you how old I was at the time, and I'm not going to ...
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Supernatural: season 5, episode 4
"The End"
October 1, 2009 - 09:10p.m.
Man, I love alternate-reality stories. Who doesn't? Whether it's Jimmy Stewart discovering how his hometown turns into the ninth circle without him to save everybody from everything, or the X-Men finding out that the future actually sucks even ...
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Supernatural: season 5, episode 3
"Free To Be You And Me"
September 24, 2009 - 09:09p.m.
So Sam and Dean have broken up. Cue the waterworks. (As perhaps a gesture of apology to the female fans, "Free To Be You And Me" starts with Sam shirtless in bed. You can almost hear the fan fic typing ...
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Supernatural: season 5, episode 2
"Good God, Y'all!"
September 17, 2009 - 10:09p.m.
"You never called."Hey, not a bad title fake-out this week. What with the all the talk lately of the Lord Almighty, including a conversation with Cass at the open of the episode that had me thinking about Preacher, of ...
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Supernatural: season 5, episode 1
"Sympathy For The Devil"
September 10, 2009 - 10:09p.m.
You ever hear of Dark Shadows? Of course you have--I mean, Tim Burton's doing a big screen version with Johnny Depp, and everything. But even past that, the hook of it, an ongoing horror soap opera with vampires and ...
