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Tag Archives: Eric Kripke
Supernatural re-watch, Season 1
I watched Season 1 in reverse order, last to pilot. I am sorry to have come to the end. I don’t know that I’ll watch Seasons 12-15 again but the rest I will revisit again and again. If you’re following … Continue reading
Supernatural re-watch, Season 2
If you’re following along: Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7 Season 8 Season 9 Season 10 Season 11 Season 12-15 Plus: my season recaps from back in the day: Season 1 Season … Continue reading
Supernatural re-watch, Season 3
If you’re following along: Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7 Season 8 Season 9 Season 10 Season 11 Season 12-15 Plus: my season recaps from back in the day: Season 1 Season 2 Season … Continue reading
Supernatural re-watch, Season 4
If you’re following along: Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7 Season 8 Season 9 Season 10 Season 11 Season 12-15 Plus: my season recaps from back in the day: Season 1 Season 2 Season … Continue reading
Supernatural re-watch, Season 5
If you’re following along: Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7 Season 8 Season 9 Season 10 Season 11 Season 12-15 Plus: my season recaps from back in the day: Season 1 Season 2 Season … Continue reading
Supernatural: Season 1, Episode 1: “The Pilot”
Re-post for Sheltering-in-Place Re-watch Directed by David Nutter Written by Eric Kripke There are a couple of story formats set up in Supernatural‘s pilot. There will be the “Monster of the Week” story (which sometimes, in later episodes, doesn’t come … Continue reading
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Tagged David Nutter, Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, SPN Season 1, Supernatural
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For Rogerebert.com: Supernatural is coming to a close. My thoughts.
It’s Women Writers Week over on Ebert – 5th year in a row! All content on the front page – reviews – interviews – articles – are written by women. Quite a sight! We all pitched stuff for this special … Continue reading
Supernatural: Season 3, Episode 1: “The Magnificent Seven”
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Eric Kripke The title of the episode tells us it’s a straight-up Western: villains riding into town, so-called good guys in their holdout, knowing they might die that night, and maybe one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, John Sturges, Kim Manners, SPN Season 3, Supernatural
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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 22: “All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2″
Directed by Kim Manners Written by Eric Kripke “There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” – Francis Bacon For this episode, I’ll be going over ground I’ve covered – extensively? – in two other … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Kim Manners, SPN Season 2, Supernatural
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March 2016 Viewing Diary
Supernatural, Season 2, Episode 20: “What Is and What Should Never Be” (2007; d. Eric Kripke) My 300-page re-cap here. At Any Price (2012; d. Ramin Bahrani) Inspired by the recent conversation Mitchell and I had about Zac Efron (Part … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Pitt, Charles Beeson, David Lynch, England, Eric Kripke, France, Fritz Lang, Harriet Andersson, Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Thulin, Ireland, Jensen Ackles, Jeremy Carver, Kim Manners, Liv Ullmann, Martin Scorsese, New Zealand, Ramin Bahrani, Richard Linklater, Ridley Scott, Robert Singer, Supernatural, Sweden, Thomas J. Wright, X-Files, Zac Efron
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