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“Ouroboros”
March 7, 2019
THEN: “Michael gets out, that’s it for this world.”
NOW
Team Free Will 2.0 is hunting a monster with a taste for human flesh, artfully prepared. Between popping eyeballs like they’re marinated olives and opening up a dude’s rib cage like it’s a crown roast, this may be the most gleefully gruesome episode of Show since the couple that ate each other to death in Season 5’s “My Bloody Valentine.”
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“Lebanon”
February 7, 2019
THEN: “Dad’s on a hunting trip. And he hasn’t been home in a few days.”
NOW
The boys pop in to Precious Pawn, but they’re not interested in what’s on public display. The wad of cash Dean flashes at the owner gains them access to the good stuff in the back. It’s a treasure trove of mystical objects. Your hands of glory, gris-gris bags, dragon’s breath, creepy dolls …
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“Prophet and Loss”
January 31, 2019
THEN: “Some people just can’t be saved.”
NOW
The Ma’lak Box rests on the bottom of the ocean. Droplets of water ooze through its seams. Dean tries to breathe through the rising panic, but he can’t ignore the groaning creak of the metal. I guess Billie’s instructions didn’t factor in the PSI of the Pacific Ocean.
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“Damaged Goods”
January 24, 2019
THEN: “They all end the same way now. Except one.”
NOW
Sam is in the library digging back through the angel lore looking for anything that might help them with Michael. He says he can use some help, but Dean thought he might take Baby out for a spin. Maybe swing by Donna’s cabin and visit Mary.
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“Nihilism”
January 17, 2019
THEN
“This time, he’ll be nice and quiet for a change—buried. And he is. He’s gone.”
NOW
“Now this … just feels right.”
So apparently Michael’s finger snap wasn’t just to activate his monsters. It was also to initiate a costume change. And it bears repeating—great day in the morning Jensen Ackles can wear a suit.
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“The Spear”
December 13, 2018
THEN: “I know what it’s like to see monsters. I know that when they’re gone, they never really go away.”
NOW
Jack is stress eating Cookie Crisp cereal in the middle of the night as one does. He’s worried about his mother in Heaven and fretful over Castiel’s deal with the Empty. He asks why Sam and Dean can’t know about it. WHY INDEED, CAS? WHY. IN. DEED.
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“Byzantium”
December 6, 2018
THEN: “Watch over him. Stay by his side as he dies.”
NOW
Sam, Dean, and Cas are all gathered in Jack’s room. The Boy of the Camellias tells them not to be sad. A coughing spell comes over him and he drags in a breath from the oxygen mask by his bed—which honestly just made me laugh, because I’m dead inside.
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“Unhuman Nature”
November 29, 2018
THEN: “I can’t go out. I’m sick.”
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“Optimism”
November 15, 2018
THEN: “Zombie ghost orgy huh? Well, that’s it, I’m torching everybody.”
NOW
Jack is sitting alone in the Bunker’s kitchen. He takes a sip of coffee, testing to see if it’s right. He picks up the sugar dispenser and holds it over his cup for an 8-count (as one does, if you’re me). Dean walks in and is like, simmer down with the diabeetus, Wilford. Jack explains that, without his powers, everything tastes different. He can’t get his coffee how he likes it, so.
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“Nightmare Logic”
November 8, 2018
THEN: “It was just a wish. I wished for Mom to live. That Mom never died, we never went hunting and you and me just never uh… you know.”
NOW
Dean pauses in the doorway of the Bunker library where Sam is holding a morning briefing with the AV Clubbers. Dean seems amused; Sam seems embarrassed and quickly breaks up the meeting. It feels at first like Dean is busting chops, but it’s not like he can just come right out and tell Sam that he’s proud of him. Approval is something they each got so rarely from John that they don’t know what to do with it. So Dean has to tease.