User Reviews

We have been promised that Supernatural is going back to its early season's basics, and what better way to do so than a simple old school ghost hunt, which has been always one of the strongest assets of the show. So we are having rock salt loaded shot guns, salt circles, iron, digging graves, burning bones, gory deaths and of course one of the boys having a spark with a nice girl.

This job also gave the boys a chance to deal with each other on a mature manner than their usual behaviour. Sam had to listen to his brother's reasons and learn why Dean had to lie to him about Amy. Sam had the right to be angry with Dean, not only for killing his friend but also for lying to him and for hiding things out. On the other hand, Dean had to see that he has to learn to trust someone again, he had to explain himself to his little brother, telling him exactly why he had been lying to him. Dean had to open up a little and tell his brother how concerned he is about Sam's state of mind and how hurt he is about Castiel's betrayal. He told Sam how hard it had been for him to have to lie so he is retreating to drinking.

I like the way the boys returned to work with each other, they had to be professional when peoples lives was at stake and this gave them time to accept being with each other and accept talking to each other. And I'm glad the Amy issue is finally water under the bridge.

It was clear from the middle of the episode that the story is about a good spirit holding back an evil one. Feels somehow inconsistent how heroes ignored that option once again.

Story of brothers! After last episode where the Winchester brothers split up, a case brings them back together. The Mentalist has a good story where the case they work on strengthens the brothers understanding of each other. The story had a moral judgement call where Sam kills and evil man and Sam now understands why Dean killed on of Sam's friends. Dean not want to take the chance Sam's friend killing another human. What Dean did wrong or right is debatable! I like the story! The fast pace directing , and strong acting creates a synergy for and exciting story. I give The Mentalist an eight out of ten. On another note, it was nice to see a story with just Sam and Dean again. Sometimes, all the sub-plots and other characters bogs done the viewers with information overload.

It's good to have a break from the leviathan, but why did it have to be such a mediocre episode using a twist you could see from miles away that they used before? Also this episode had some terrible jokes like the necrophilia ones.

But the worst crime of this episode is the infuriating way Sam and Dean "solve" the Amy conflict. Basically it boils down to Sam being reasonably angry for a while, Dean saying Sam is wrong, and Sam realizing that Dean was "right" to kill Amy and that's it. There is soooo much wrong with it. Killing Amy served no purpose for Dean's character other than making him a huge hypocrite yet again, he learnt no lesson from it and Sam was just forced to get over it randomly because the writers didn't knew what to do with it. I expected better after being showed before in this show that monsters can be good people. Amy only killing bad people to save her kid makes her a grey character so her killing being treated as just morally right was extremely infuriating and that's without even getting into the way Dean did that because he didn't trust Sam yet again and then hid it from his brother after complaining every time Sam hid something from him. Also Dean trying to act like everything is okay between them this episode doesn't help. Dean complaining about Sam being too much of a jerk to him and saying hurtful things regarding his mental state didn't help either.

The lessons Sam and Dean learn this episode don't stick either way. Shifting the narrative to Dean's suffering over lying to his brother and being betrayed by Castiel doesn't work considering that Dean has no problem lying to Sam in the rest of the series and that we don't see that torment over what Cas did afterwards more than once or twice. It's just an obvious attempt to distract us from Sam's reasonable feelings of hurt so we will buy him forgetting Dean despite Dean not even saying one genuine "sorry". The only good thing about it is that we can now get the misused Amy drama out of the way and try to forget about it, at least until another monster friend appears.