Supernatural season 10 episode 15 series#

Of course, it did allow his friend to provide some disgusting mouth to mouth transfer of the parasite and spin the situation for Sam and Dean. Maybe if he didnвЂ™t know Sam and Dean were hunting his friend, OK, but knowing they suspected something, he chose to just head straight to the danger almost blindly? It just felt somewhat off for his character. So I understood his reasoning in wanting to see his friend without Sam and Dean in tow (even though they knew he would ignore their warning).Д«ut I was also surprised that with Cole knowing about demons (even heading to a library after his beatdown in Supernatural Season 10 Episode 2 to learn everything he could about them) and being much more aware that there are monsters out there, that he would so casually head to his friendвЂ™s cabin without even so much as a gun drawn. You know, sort of like Sam in trying to help Dean. The personal approach has really strengthened the opening to theВ tenth season and despite my issues with how quickly Dean returned to being human, the quality of the episodes since has been excellent.And I liked how despite the very real threat of his best friend being a monster, that personal connection made Cole want to do what he could to help save him rather than swing a machete at his head to end him. Now Dean has crossed to the other side and returned, that line gets a whole lot blurrier and the show is playing with some interesting personal dynamics as we progress further into its tenth season. Throughout the series, his definition of вЂmonsterвЂ™ has been pretty clear cut and has often been a source of conflict with Sam when the pair fight over saving or killing someone (Jewel StaiteвЂ™s Amy for example).

Supernatural season 10 episode 15 series#

The monsters weвЂ™ve seen so far this series have been victims of circumstance rather than choice from DeanВ himself to Kate the werewolf and Olivia the shapeshifter this week and its muddying the waters somewhat for Dean. Sam points to it again here when he pleads with Olivia, stating that вЂbeing a monster is a choice.вЂ™ Dean established that himself when Sam was attempting to cure him, pointing out that his brotherвЂ™s methods to save him werenвЂ™t all that heroic. Dean turning into a demon set the tone for a recurring theme across the season, questioning the differences between heroes and monsters. When killing the shapeshifter, Dean doesnвЂ™t stop with the one bullet, emptying more rounds into the dead body without really needing to andВ stopping Sam dead before another heartfelt conversation. However, Ask Jeeves is not without its connection to the wider story of whatвЂ™s happening with Dean since his return from the demonic brink. ItвЂ™s what Dean has been wanting to get back too as well вЂ“ вЂsaving people, hunting thingsвЂ™ вЂ“ and the show feels all the better for returning to that. It helps that the episode sees Dean fixing his car and ends on another classic song with Bob SegerвЂ™s TravelinвЂ™ Man.

Though monsters-of-the-week have featured in the later seasons too, itвЂ™s the first time for a while that a recent episode captured the atmosphere of the early seasons when the show was more defined by those individual episodes than its mythology. A shapeshifter seemed the most obvious given the style of the murders. The opening вЂThenвЂ™ scenes of the more eclectic monsters that the boys have faced over the seasons, as well as clueing us in to the more comedic atmosphere, also allowed the audience to start guessing which one would feature. ItвЂ™s easily the best moment in the episode and the supporting cast shine as Sam and Dean attempt to go about their investigation without actually telling them a shapeshifter is involved. Naturally, it wouldnвЂ™t be a complete homage without the scene where everyone gathers together and tries to suss out the killer and their motive. The script afforded them some brilliant lines and they seize it with relish, sending up the kind of WASPish families that so often appeared in programmes like Murder She Wrote (also referenced here).

It also helped that the supporting cast of BunnyвЂ™s money-grabbing family were all excellent, especially Gillian Vigman and Debra McCabe as the gruesome twosome of Heddy and Beverly, keen to get their claws into Sam or Dean. Here, the score takes on the jazzy, playful stylings of murder mystery shows (particularly the clarinet of Diagnosis Murder) that works well with regards to the upper class setting as well as being suitably discordant for the presence of the Winchesters within in it. Jay Gruska has worked on just over half of SupernaturalвЂ™s episodes during its time on air and heвЂ™s adept at transforming his work to fit the various styles non-mytharc episodes often embody, including fan favourite Monster Movie. The score also worked particularly well this week, given the murder mystery homage that characterised Ask Jeeves.