Were two episodes into the twelfth season of Supernatural, and its never been more serialized. Its hard for any show with an episode order of 22 to really. Supernatural Season 1. Episode 2. Its hard for any show with an episode order of 2. Supernatural. So much of the charm and charisma of the show rests in those Monster Of The Week cases so much of it rests on the deep thematic exploration that comes along with the hyper focused nature of the episodic. One thing that can get lost in heavily serialized narrative is the breadth of thematic depth Supernatural, by the virtue of its heavily episodic nature, was able to tackle more topics and drill down on the same one from many, many different angles. WBZ NewsRadio 1030Todays Top Stories. Breaking News When It Happens. Soldiers Field Road. Episode 1. 5 Here Comes the Brood. WBBM NewsradioPark Ridge, Illinois Welcome to WBBM Newsradio 780 105. FM, The Home of Chicago Bears Radio, on CBSChicago. WBBM Newsradio 780 105. FM is. To put it another way shows like Breaking Bad go as deep as the Earths core, looking for gold and silver, but Supernatural digs more often in different places for the same thing. The serialization is neither good nor bad ultimately, I think. Its a necessary step towards ending the show, for one thing if they ever plan on marketing a final season, Supernatural is going to have to have something to end on. Even the most episodic of shows need an end point, and Supernatural has been searching for one for a long time, I think. Americans Season 3 Amazon Prime. Truthfully, its hard for Supernatural to not be serialized regardless they have so many characters and dangling plot threads to juggle that the episodic MOTW type episodes get put to the wayside. You cant be episodic with Crowley, Rowena, Lucifer, Sam, Dean, Mary, Castiel, and the British Men of Letters all demanding ample screen time. You cant hyper focus on, say, the irony of a monster being more compassionate than the human that hunts it, or the idea that hardcore violence isnt the answer, if you have to juggle an A, B, C, D, and E plot. One negative of this serialization god, I am tired of typing that word is that sometimes you have to do speed things up to get the information across. There are two instances in this episode where the pace goes from slow burn to frantic once, when Crowley comes back, and second, right after when Sam and Mary hug. The first instance was one of strange plotting we spend so much time in the A plot of Rescue Sam that we dont get to the rest of the episode for nearly twenty minutes. I/51RS4V1W7TL.jpg' alt='Newsradio Season 4 Episode 13' title='Newsradio Season 4 Episode 13' />We get, in quick succession, the Rowena Crowley scenes, and the Vince Rick Springfield introduction. Its a lot of plot and other information to convey in just a few quick scenes, and the otherwise enjoyable languid tension build pacing of the first twenty minutes gives way to rapid fire. The second instance wasnt so much strange as unnecessary. Why do we need to see a montage of Dean drinking on the floor, looking at pictures of his mother, or Mary looking through the journal, or Sam staring at ceiling fan None of this conveys information we didnt already kn. Dean struggling with his mothers return, Mary struggling with how far behind she is, Sam struggling with, well, literally everything its thirty seconds or so of time spent that we didnt need. Its frantic, but not in its need to give information, but to kill time. Having said that I think that The CW made a wise, wise decision in having Andrew Dabb and Robert Singer take over. Im not sure what it is about these two guys, but they have a better grasp on Supernatural than anyone since Eric Kripke, and if you catch me after a few cocktails, I might even put them above Kripke. One thing that Dabb and Singer seem to understand is the darkness of this world Sam being visibly tortured by a blow torch was a stunning change for basic cable. How many times have we seen shows walk right up to the edge of darkness, and have the victim be rescued Each time Toni Bevell went to torture him, I expected Dean to ride in and save the day and it never happened. Supernatural has a deep, deep foundation its set in concrete and stone, and one could dig for years and years without reaching the bottom. Dabb and Singer are veterans of the show, and the TV business in general, and after this first two episodes, I believe they are on the best track possible. I am fascinated by Mick and Toni as a pair. I dont know whos really in charge he calls her lady, and she appears to take orders from him, but has more influence than a typical foot soldier. I struggle, too, in finding the core of her character there is a real void likeness about hera sense of evergrowing sadism that burns brightest in the dark. She isnt a sociopath, or a psychopath, or any sort of unfeeling monster she feels fear acutely, maybe more than most. Her tangle with Sam shook her up, and when Mick told her she was going back to London for punishment, she looked at him like a cornered animal. Mick, for his part, seems like middle management. He has juice, but it isnt his to use. Hes a weapon, not the person wielding it. I find it difficult to locate his center, as well does he care about the possibility of every American hunter being killed Does he care about the lives affected, or the reasons why hunting in the States is so fractured and decentralized I find it hard to believe that anyone at all wouldnt have reservations, and I especially find it hard to believe that someone who spends every waking hour trying to stop monsters from killing humans would be 1. Watch Online Watch Bad Turn Worse Full Movie Online Film. I suppose I am being naive. You dont call in a hitter in the off chance youre planning on killing someone you call them in when its time to pull the trigger. Mick and Toni, and the rest of the British Men of Letters, appear to have made their decision a long time ago. Deans face when Mary called John a great father was perhaps the most telling moment of the entire series. How hard it must be to re litigate Deans breaking from Johns orthodoxy how hard it must be to have to be the one that says it out loud. Dean hasnt been a Johns Disciple in years and years, but its one thing to accept truth and make it a part of your foundation, and another to speak it to someone you care about. Dean breaks it to Mary as gently as he can, telling her that John changed, but even that isnt the whole truth. John didnt change as so much disappear, falling into a black hole so deep and dark that he became a part of it and by the time he climbed back out, nothing was left of the father that tucked them in at night. Sam may have given Mary Johns journal, but itll be up to Dean to explain who John was. Itll be up to Dean to parent her, to bring her along in a world she was never meant to be a part of. It certainly wont be Sam his mother may as well be a stranger, or an old friend from Kindergarten that moved away. John is dead, Samuel is dead Dean exists in her time and his, in the past and present, and he has to make sure that he doesnt leave her behind, or stop her from making her way forward. He has to, essentially, become a parent. How unfair life is, that Dean must do this again. Sam Winchester. I have always found his pain, and his guilt, and the deep insecurities to be similar to mine. If Dean is forced to be the adult, and bring along another child into adulthood, then Sam is the one stuck in perpetual childhood always missing a key piece of the puzzle, always taking the hits, and always being the first one to stick his hand out of the dirt and drag himself into the sun. Sam doesnt know his mother he doesnt know if she likes tea, or coffee, or if she has a peanut allergy. He doesnt know what her hands feel like, or how she smells when she carried him to bed, or the kind of movies she loves. She is a stranger a friend from long ago, or a figure in a dream that you cant get enough of. He is awkward around her unsure of how to communicate, how to make her laugh. But instead of running, or hanging back in fear of not being able to get through, he opens up. He offers her a place to talk, and experiences of his own, and makes sure that she knows, first and foremost, that he is willing to help her. In his greatest moment of vulnerability, only hours since he was brutally tortured and assaulted, Sam chooses kindness and empathy over fear and anger. CBS Boston. Phantom Eat With Jack ONeill. In the center of West Roxbury theres a restaurant, with a rather peculiar name.