Supernatural: Episode 8: 'Bugs' (2005) - TV Episode Review

Sam & Dean are looking to squash some bugs in this episode!

So I have to say that Supernatural season 1 has been a lot of fun, with thrills, chills, fighting urban legends, ghosties, and all sorts of creepy crawleys! So of course I come up against the one dud of the season so far... And you know what? That is a good thing!

Now that maybe a weird thing... but if you think about it, it makes a sort of sense to it... If you make the first season an absolute smashing success... Then the production team, and the actor/actresses will have to work harder to meet and beat the smashingly amazing season! (That is generally part of the reason why movie sequels rarely surpass the first movie...)

And the dud episode for this season being: Season 1 - Episode 8: 'Bugs' (2005)!

These are just some of the bugs in this dull episode!

 Written by: Rachel Nave (The Shark Tank Redemption), Bill Coakley & Directed by: Kim Manners (The X-Files). Starring: Jensen Ackles (My Bloody Valentine), Jared Padalecki (House Of Fears), Andrew Airlie (Apollo 18), Tyler Johnston (The Phantoms) & Carrie Genzel (Watchmen).

"The manicured lawns. 'How was your day, Honey'. I'd blow my brains out!"

- Dean Winchester (A quote from Supernatural episode: Bugs.)

This episode tells the story of how over 100 years ago, the military massacred a group of Indians that had been living there at that time... Now during this time an Indian Witch Doctor curses the land, so that when an equinox happens, bugs in the land will go through and clean out the area of invading mankind...

In the present time, a family has moved in and started a housing development... And well with it has come the latest equinox, and the bugs start acting weird, and killing the people that are living/working there!

It looks like the bugs are looking to squash some humans!

The only way to save these people is Sam (Jared Padalecki) & Dean (Jensen Ackles) to rescue the unsuspecting people that are living there before the centuries old curse takes out these developers!

In the end... This episode was well acted, and the vision of Kim Manners is as awesome as the other stuff that he has done... The problem that I had with this episode was the story... It just didn't appeal to me as all the other episodes story lines have done so, so far... Anyway, check it out.. The episode is not great, but it is one to check out if you are going through the show religiously...

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Supernatural: Season 1 – Episode: 7: ‘Hook Man’ (2005) – TV EpisodeReview

Official Score = 3 1/2 Devils

Man am I glad I got back in to Supernatural! I mean the first season keeps getting better and better!

The comedy is getting more and more refined (by that I mean even funnier!) The scares are scarier, and the cheesey moments that wrecked parts of the earlier part of this season are all but gone!

And I have to say that season: 1 - Episode: 7, 'Hook Man', maybe one of the best episodes of the first season!

It looks like Sam is going to get caught when the, 'Hook Man' tries to hook himself a, 'Hunter' of the creepy crawly!

Written by: John Shiban (The X-Files) & Directed by: David Jackson (Atomic Train). Starring: Jensen Ackles (Smallville), Jared Padalecki (House Of Wax), Jane McGregor (Almost Human), Dan Butler (Fraiser) & Alf Humphreys (The Uninvited)

"Me be quiet? You be quiet!" - Dean Winchester (A quote from Supernatural, season: 1 - Episode 7: Hook Man)

This episode tells the story of an urban legend that has surfaced in a small Iowa College town, to make the legend a reality!

You see there is a ghost that seems to have latched on to a college girl, and is killing people around her in the same style as the urban legend of, 'The Hook Man'!

 A note the Hook Man was so gracious to leave!

And if Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) don't stop this vengeful spirit soon, the college girl could be next!

I have to be honest with you guys and say that I would have given it 4 devils... I mean this episode is just plain awesome!

The only reason why I did not is because this episode maybe one of my favorites of the season, but it just didn't quite hit that 4 devil Mark because it just wasn't a favorite over all!

Supernatural: Season 1 - Episode: 6: 'Skin' (2005) - TV Episode Review

Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils

Alright guys, so I know that it has been awhile, but I thought it was time we checked in with the latest episode of, 'Supernatural', and catch up with Sam & Dean as they work their way through the Demon population...

And I have to say...  This episode... Definitely an interesting take on the evil doppelganger concept that is real popular in horror and sci-fi tv shows!

By the way, the episode that I am talking about is episode 6 of season 1, 'Skin'!

Sam & Dean are working out some sibling rivalry issues... Or are they?

 Written by: John Shiban (Breaking Bad) & Directed by: Robert Duncan McNeill (Star Trek: Voyager). Starring: Jared Padalecki (Friday The 13th), Jensen Ackles (Dark Angel) & Amy Grabow (Cyberslut Killers In The Hollywood Hills).

"That better be you Sam and not that freak of nature!"

- Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) - Quote from, 'Supernatural' episode: Skin!

This episode tells the story of how while Dean (Jensen Ackles) & Sam (Jared Padalecki) are on the road to their next destination, Sam gets an email from an old friend from school that has to do with the fact that her brother (another friend of Sam's) has seemingly killed his girl friend... While not actually being their to do so...

This convinces Sam to get Dean and take off for Sam's friends, and to find out what is going on... Also how it is possible that it can be proven that Sam's friend did kill his girlfriend, while not having actually been there to do so!

It's like looking in a weird mirror right?

 Now I am going to hold off on the doppelganger part of this episode... I don't want to give to much away... But the truth is, is this episode is fun... The only problem with this episode is that it doesn't have the same flair that alot of the other episodes seem to have... The flair that makes Supernatural both fun and on the edge of your seat...

Still in the end, if you get a chance, you might want to check this episode out, it is an interesting one!

Supernaturtal: Season 1 - Episode 5: 'Bloody Mary' (2005) - TV Episode Review

[caption id="attachment_557" align="alignright" width="307"] Official Score = 3 1/2 Devils[/caption]

So I have to say something about Supernatural... So far this show, despite being plagued by the utter stupidity that the entertainment industry has been injecting (albeit a lot less fortunately in the last few years), in to it's shows and movies over the last few years is really freaking awesome!

I mean they do an awesome job of bringing to life or bringing back to life urban legends, folklore & myths that have lasted for centuries... Let's just put it this way, I have heard that the show in recent years has taken a turn for the worse... (kind of like what, 'The X-Files' did at the tale end of it's run...) But if this show continues on the way it has so far, then I imagine there is still a lot of fun to be had here with this one folks!

And Episode 5: 'Boody Mary' is no different!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Sam & Dean are about to call forth the legend of, 'Bloody Mary' and stop her from terrorizing a small town![/caption]

Written by: Ron Milbauer (Alphas), Terri Hughes (Eureka) & Directed by: Peter Ellis (Numb3ers). Starring: Jared Padalecki (Friday The 13th), Jensen Ackles (Dark Angel), Adrianne Palicki (Legion), Marnette Patterson (Starship Troopers 3: Marauders) & Genevieve Buechner (The Final Cut).

This episode tells the story of how during a sleep over Lily Shoemaker (Genevieve Buechner) and her friends decide to play the, 'Bloody Mary' game and say her name in to the mirror 3 times...

Well unsuspecting Lily's father ends up dying that night, but not just dying... He ends up dying in the same gruesome way that is mentioned in the legend of, 'Bloody Mary' in which his eyes are essentially liquefied!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="535"] She is about to learn the truth of, 'Bloody Mary!'[/caption]

Is Bloody Mary real? Did she do it, or is it something more mundane? Well in comes Sam (Jared Padalecki) & Dean (Jensen Ackles) to find out!

And in the end, these brothers will not only find out the truth about what is haunting this small group of friends, but Sam may actually be able to finally get peace after the death of the woman he loved!

In the end I could tell you a lot of reasons why this episode is great, but I will simplify it and say that this episode had a very, 'horror movie' feel to it, and I thought that was a lot of fun!

Other then that... Well I really can't say that there was to much wrong with it... It is not the best episode I have seen of the series, but it definitely rates close to it! Check it out... I think you might like it!

http://youtu.be/ksLDiAEugNM

Supernatural. Season 1 - Episode 4: 'Phantom Traveler' (2005) - TV Episode Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

So far I have to say that I am pretty pleased with, 'Supernatural'... Unfortunately I have not been able to follow this series from the beginning... But I have seen all of season 1 and I have to say that I am very impressed with the first season of this show... I mean it does have some truly awesome stories, some great special effects, and even though they are lesser known in the earlier seasons, the guest stars are generally pretty awesome... I would even go so far as to say that these episodes really remind me of what made, 'The X-Files' so great!

And, Episode 4: 'Phantom Traveler' really exemplifies this point real nicely!

Written by: Richard Hatem (The Mothman Prophecies) & Directed by: Robert Singer (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman). Starring: Jensen Ackles (Dark Angel), Jared Padalecki (Friday The 13th), Jaime Ray Newman (Made Of Honor) & Brian Markinson (Apollo 13).

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370"] The Phantom Traveler as he is about take over his first victim![/caption]

A plane crash in Pennsylvania ends up being brought to the attention of Sam (Jared Padalecki) & Dean (Jensen Ackles) by a former client of the family who also works for the airline that the plane that crashed was owned by... This guys name is, 'Jerry Panowski' (Brian Markinson).

Now the reason why he called Sam & Dean in, is that there is something otherworldly on the Plane's cockpit flight recorder...

Well as they begin to investigate, Sam & Dean will find that the reasons for these planes crashing is something more then, 'mechanical failure', and if they can't do something to stop this, then that crash may not be the last ones for the survivors of that trip!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Sam & Dean, as they begin work on their latest case...[/caption]

Besides what I mentioned above, the other thing that I wanted to say, is that I found that I liked in this episode, is that there was a humorous side note that was a lot of fun!

In the end, this is a great episode, and if you are starting from the beginning of this series, then this one I think you guys will have a lot of fun with this episode... I know I did!

http://youtu.be/CM4QbSJRnDo

Friday The 13th (2009) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_385" align="alignright" width="353"] Official Score = 2 Devils[/caption]

Remakes are an interesting can of worms, you see, you would think that they would use some bit of technology that when the original movie did not have, or would add something that the original filmmakers forgot to put in, and that would make it better, right?

Well sadly, it usually doesn't, I mean for me it doesn't make the movie better, but actually worse, just worse in a way where if the movie was a stand alone it could be good, but as a connected film to a masterpiece it usually sucks.

The reason that I mention this is because, Friday The 13th (2009), as a stand alone would have been fun! A great example of this is, 'Jason Voorhees', as the killer in the original Friday The 13th movies, he is almost more of a supernatural monster then a regular killer... In the remake he is this weird sort of maniac animal that is always wearing a hockey mask...

Another great example of all of this is the fact that they still never really explain why after Jason some how ends up making it out of the lake, why he is still obsessed with his mother, but never ends up making it back to her, I mean in the original I always assumed that there was some sort of supernatural reason why he came back to life and never ended up coming back to his mother... But in the remake they pretty much openly admit that he is still alive but is living out his life as weird sort of hermit!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="524"] The new face of evil at, 'Camp Crystal Lake'[/caption]

Also, in the remake movie, it seems like the entire town of, 'Crystal Lake' knows about Jason and his killing spree, but are not interested in doing anything about it... Weird huh?

But that is the bad stuff, the truth is, is there is some good stuff to, I liked the cast, and how they had the classic group of friends who came to Crystal Lake for the weekend and end up all getting killed off... I liked Jared Padalecki (Supernatural) and the work that he did as the concerned brother who is just trying to rescue his sister, and ends up along with Danielle Panabaker (Mr. Brooks) fighting against the big bad monster in the final battle...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki) and Jenna (Danielle Panabaker), as they are being pursued by, 'Jason Voorhees'.[/caption]

And in all truth you guys, this movie is not the greatest movie I have ever seen, and as a connected movie to the, 'Friday The 13th' series this movie is not one of the best of the lot...  But in all truth, the direction that the series was taking had this movie really going the only way that it could... I wish that they did better, but they didn't, so fair enough, if you are a fan of the series you may not love this movie, but I do think it will keep you interested in the series, and if you are new to it, well... Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/fpKdXnXl93s

Supernatural: Season 1 - Episode 3: 'Dead in the Water' - TV Episode Review

[caption id="attachment_330" align="alignright" width="220"] Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]

Alright so, so far I have to admit something to you guys, the problem with those TV channels that we all grew up with really enjoying, is that they have up until recently, but since the beginning of the new millennium have all been dominated by piece of shit reality shows that in all truth and honesty I think have been killing network TV in the whole!

I mean be honest and ask yourself, ask your friends, 'Do you primarily watch network TV, or do you watch, 'Netflix', or, 'Hulu' or even, 'satellite TV'?' And then find out how much truly watch more of these mediums then network TV anymore... I mean for myself, almost everyone I know watches these mediums more often then they do watch network TV, and I would go so far as to say that some people have done away with access to network television in the whole! But that is not what I wanted to admit to...

No... You see, even though network TV has been horrible for most of the new millennium, it has not been all bad! I mean quality programming is just starting to come back in a major way, but during what I would call, 'the dark times', I would go on to say that there has been such awesome programming as, 'The Office', 'Monk' and, 'Supernatural'!

And this latest episode is an interesting one... You see, this episode is one that could be said to be one for the movies... Yet just was not done quite right!

You see, this episode, which was written by: Sera Gamble (The Clay Man), Raelle Tucker (True Blood), & Directed by: Kim Manners (The X-Files). Starring: Jensen Ackles (Smallville), Jared Padalecki (House Of Wax), Amy Acker (Angel), Daniel Hugh Kelly (Cujo). Bruce Dawson (White Noise) & Nico McEown (Personal Effects).

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Sam & Dean as they meet one of the earlier victims wives (Andrea) in this strange, 'Supernatural occurrence![/caption]

This episode tells the story about how in a small town that has been doomed to loose it's main attraction, and probably the rest of the town, when it gets drained out, has started to loose people like crazy in a series of bizarre drowning incidence... In comes Dean (Jensen Ackles), & Sam (Jared Padalecki)... You see, while searching for their missing father, they have decided to help the poor bewildered inhabitants of the town...

In then end though, Sam and Dean, along with the help with the help of  Andrea (Acker) & Lucas (McEwon) Barr, will find a truth about these drownings that will shake all of them to their very core!

Now to be honest with you, the reason that I gave this episode such a low mark is the plan and simple fact that about the first half of this episode just kind of drags on, but it has some great guest stars on it as mentioned above, and the ending was so well made that I think honestly that the ending of this episode is one that you would normally see at the end of a movie!

http://youtu.be/t-775JyzDTk

Supernatural: Season 1 - Episode 2: 'Wendigo' - TV Episode Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

Written by: Eric Kripke (Revolution), Ron Milbauer (Alphas), Terri Hughes (Idle Hands) & Directed by: David Nutter (The X-Files). Starring: Jensen Ackles (Dark Angel), Jared Padalecki (Friday The 13th), Gina Holden (Fantastic Four), Alden Ehrenreich (Stoker) & Graham Wardle (Mon Ami).

This episode of Supernatural, as it happens, takes place only a short time after the events that took place in the pilot episode, Sam (Jared Padalecki) & Dean (Jensen Ackles), are now hunting regularly together, with Sam still having some gruesome nightmares about the aftermath of the death of the love of his life in the same gruesome fashion that ended up killing his mother, and has left School!

During this time they are heading to a really small town in Colorado, a town called, 'Black Water Ridge', because that is where the coordinates that their father had sent them to... In the process they come to discover that a woman by the name of, 'Haley Collins' (Gina Holden) and her little brother, 'Ben' (Ehrenreich) are looking for their brother, who had disappeared recently in the woods that surround the town...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Sam (Jared Padalecki) with Dean (Jensen Ackles), Haley Collins (Gina Holden) and her little brother, Ben (Alden Ehrenreich) as they are loking for Haley and Ben's brother in the woods![/caption]

Well since they can't find their father, Sam (reluctantly) and Dean (happily) decide to start investigating and notice that there have been tons of disappearing campers/hikers and the like that have disappeared in the woods in this area... And so despite Sam's protests, Dean assumes that this is why his father sent the 2 brothers to this small town and decides to have the two of them start investigating, so that they could find out, 'what goes bump in the night' that they are going to have to kill to be able to stop the threat to the town, and also hopefully to help Haley and her brother and get him to safety!

In the end, I found this episode to be dramatically more satisfying... I mean the pilot had a lot of hope for it and it was alright but it had that, (Jersey Shore) mentality to it, (and what I mean by this is that it felt like to me like the first episode was overcompensating when trying to be a cool episode... And this episode rested on the laurels of being a naturally good, if not, (dare I say, 'organic'... And yes I am little scared myself right now), episode, utilizing everything that just makes a good episode of a TV show a good episode of a TV show, and in my opinion (albeit not the greatest episode of the series), was the episode that help set the tone, and quality of the series!

http://youtu.be/t-775JyzDTk

Supernatural: Season 1 - Episode 1: 'Pilot' TV Episode Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

One of my favorite shows that I really enjoyed watching when I was a kid was, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'... Now I will admit that being apparently one of the few fans of the original movie, that I had not initially got in to the show, but, ultimately I really was glad that I did, because that show besides the awesome effects, talent and the like, also had a truly awesome story line that expanded well beyond just the basic story line of a woman that had been chosen to fight the forces of darkness on her own...

I mean don't get me wrong, all of that was there but that show also dealt with a lot complex social issues that people of that day and age had to deal with... And where as the concept behind Supernatural is inherently different then Buffy was, it was also similar in that instead of a group of people dealing with complex social issues while fighting the forces of Darkness, Supernatural, had more to deal with the issues of how 2 lone hunters of the forces of Darkness and how they survive in a world that requires people essentially to conform to survive!

And that is just one of many reasons why this show really was a lot of fun!

Now as for the Pilot episode. This episode was written by: Eric Kripke (Revolution) and Directed by: David Nutter (The X-Files). Starring: Jared Padalecki (Friday The 13th), Jensen Ackles (Dark Angel), Sarah Shahi (Life). Adrianne Palicki (Red Dawn), Samantha Smith (Transformers), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen), and Steve Railsback (The Stunt Man).

This episode starts off 22 years earlier in the small town of Lawrence Kansas...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A young, 'Winchester' family before they knew what was about to happen...[/caption]

You see during this time the Winchester family is your average every day family... A husband and wife couple with 2 sons... All of this changes in the blink of an eye during one night that none of them will ever forget!

You see after putting young Sam and Dean to sleep, their mother. 'Mary' (Samantha Smith) looks in on her baby and sees a man that she mistakes for her husband standing by the crib... Once she realizes that the man in her baby boy's room is not their father, Mary runs up to his room to confront him and screams out!

John (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Mary's husband, and the kids father was fast asleep during all of this in front of the TV, but when he hears Mary scream out, he runs up stairs and notices something in Sam's room... Mary is hanging suspended from the ceiling, when all of a sudden the fire consumes the room, and the Winchester boys have to escape!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="452"] Sam (Jared Padalecki) & Dean (Jensen Ackles) as they are working on their first case together years after the fateful incident in Lawrence![/caption]

Years later, Sam (Padalecki) and Dean (Ackles) have grown up with their father giving them para-military training so that all 3 of them can go out and get the son of a bitch that killed his wife and their mother so many years ago!

The only problem is that Sam has left the  family business to pursue a legal career and is currently in college at Stanford, and Dean and their father have essentially disconnected from Sam... That is until John disappears and Dean enlists Sam's help in finding him!

In the end this series is an awful lot of fun... This episode had a lot of potential, but was not the best of the series... Don't get me wrong, it truly was a fun episode, and I thought the struggle for Sam between going after his father Vs. staying at School was quite fascinating... And the special effects when it came to the pyrotechnics in the first scene when Mary is burned up was really well made... But the truth is, is that I didn't like the way this episode ended... And I know that with the only problem I have being the ending shouldn't be a huge issue, but it is!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="624"] This episode has some truly awesome special effects![/caption]

You see I am not a fan of the cheap way of doing things... the almost, 'Jersey Shore' way of doing things... What I mean is, is that I liked the fact that ultimately Sam made the decision, but this whole change thing, I don't believe it, and I am also convinced that if it were me and my girlfriend died that I would not be one of the most happiest people in the world... Angry, Sad, whatever, in some way you would see it on my face... But Sam on the other just kind of jumped back in to his career... And all that I just am not convinced would have went down the way it did!

In the end this show is a lot of fun, and even this episode is pretty solid, and I suspect that if you keep up with the series that you might find this show to be a lot of fun... I did, and you might to!

http://youtu.be/t-775JyzDTk