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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 22: “All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2″

Posted on October 10, 2016 by sheila

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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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 21: “All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1″

Posted on June 21, 2016 by sheila

Written by Sera Gamble Directed by Robert Singer “Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.” — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 677-678 The writers’ staff for Supernatural are well-versed … Continue reading →

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Supernatural, Season 2, Episode 20: “What Is and What Should Never Be”

Posted on March 21, 2016 by sheila

Written by Raelle Tucker Directed by Eric Kripke I have been avoiding writing about this episode because writing sometimes has a way of boiling things down or reducing them. I am afraid that writing about this episode that means so … Continue reading →

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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 19: “Folsom Prison Blues”

Posted on January 13, 2016 by sheila

Directed by Mike Rohl Written by John Shiban You guys. This post is aggressively insane. But I will paraphrase James Joyce who said, in re: “Finnegans Wake”: “It took me 17 years to write it. It should take you 17 … Continue reading →

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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 18: “Hollywood Babylon”

Posted on September 29, 2015 by sheila

Directed by Philip Sgriccia Written by Ben Edlund Published in 1975, Kenneth Anger’s cult book Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood’s Darkest and Best Kept Secrets tells the dirty secrets of early Hollywood: scandals, suicides, rape convictions, drugs, … Continue reading →

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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 17: “Heart”

Posted on July 30, 2015 by sheila

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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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 16: “Roadkill”

Posted on June 14, 2015 by sheila

Directed by Charles Beeson Written by Raelle Tucker I’m going into the hospital this week, and then will have to go in again in the weeks after that. It’s going to be super-fun, but I did want to get this … Continue reading →

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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 15: “Tall Tales”

Posted on April 12, 2015 by sheila

Directed by Bradford May Written by John Shiban When something works, it just works. And when it works once, hopefully it works repeatedly. I’ve read Jane Eyre probably 20 times. It always works. I’ve seen What’s Up, Doc? probably 200 … Continue reading →

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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 14: “Born Under a Bad Sign”

Posted on March 19, 2015 by sheila

Directed by J. Miller Tobin Written by Cathryn Humphris “Born Under a Bad Sign” is a fake-out, a tricky “Gotcha!”, it leads you down the wrong path, giggling behind its hand, and then it laughs in your face when the … Continue reading →

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Supernatural: Season 2, Episode 13: “Houses of the Holy”

Posted on March 1, 2015 by sheila

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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