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Tag Archives: Kim Manners
Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 17: “Heart”
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Sera Gamble “Heart” has an insistent rhythm, like a heartbeat: The moon rises, sets. The sun rises, sets. The cycle repeats. Despite the urban setting, the rhythm of the natural world is explicit. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Kim Manners, Sera Gamble, SPN Season 2, Supernatural
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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 13: “Houses of the Holy”
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Sera Gamble Faces. It’s all about the Faces. You know Kim Manners studied and knew his Cassavetes. On the one hand, “Houses of the Holy” is a very bizarre episode, undeniably powerful and yet … Continue reading
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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 6: “No Exit”
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Matt Witten “So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the “burning marl.” Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for … Continue reading
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Tagged Cary Grant, His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Kim Manners, Rosalind Russell, SPN Season 2, Supernatural
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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 4: “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things”
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Raelle Tucker While Sam is pretending to be a grief counselor, he says, “Grief makes people do crazy things.” Indeed. That’s what these early episodes of Season 2 are all about. Gordon blew the … Continue reading
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Tagged Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Kim Manners, Raelle Tucker, SPN Season 2, Supernatural
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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 1: “In My Time of Dying”
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Eric Kripke Season 2 starts “not with a bang, but a whimper.” “In My Time of Dying” is this perfect little snow globe world of an episode, which takes place mostly in one setting, … Continue reading
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Supernatural: Season 1, Episode 22: “Devil’s Trap”
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Eric Kripke For the finale, we get our first major loop-around. Sam, Dean, and, by extension, John, have spent their lives hunting the demon that killed Mom. Sam and Dean started the season by … Continue reading
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Supernatural: Season 1, Episode 11: “Scarecrow”
Directed by Kim Manners Story by Patrick Sean Smith Teleplay by John Shiban “Scarecrow”, Episode 11, is a stand-alone great piece of television. It’s essential to the overall mythology of the Arc of the series, but there’s so much more … Continue reading
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Supernatural: Season 1, Episode 8: “Bugs”
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Rachel Nave & Bill Coakley Firstly, neither of those two writers wrote for the show again (or anywhere else that I can discover). This is not a surprise. The problem with “Bugs” (outside my … Continue reading
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Tagged Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Kim Manners, SPN Season 1, Supernatural
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